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Remote, New Haven, Ct

Orchestrate recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and offboarding for all Cogstate roles within the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Conduct background checks on all new hires. Manage benefits enrollment and work with benefits brokers to ensure all employees receive timely benefits implementation and assistance. Maintain company HRIS, employee files, and internal company tools with accurate employee information. Focus on obtaining data to create an action plan in order to improve employee retention rates. Coordinate Cogstate’s performance evaluation program and ensure all employees receive proper evaluations on a bi-annual schedule. Administer company-wide surveys to receive data on employee engagement as well as the employee onboarding & offboarding experience. Analyze Cogstate’s training needs to ensure corporate-level training opportunities are in-line with the business strategy and individual development needs. Work with the People & Culture team to coordinate events including recruitment fairs and networking events.

Remote

New York, New York

As a key leader, I led, motivated, and supported five full-time employees and 150+ part-time employees in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. I setup and implemented career development plans for all direct reports and orchestrated recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and offboarding for operations roles across New York and New Jersey markets. I administered payroll in ADP and PlanDay, supervised teams tasked with staffing, customer success, and league logistics, and oversaw timely data collection to evaluate progress toward daily/weekly/monthly business targets. I coordinated back-end operations for 50+ sports leagues and 3,500 customers per quarter. I controlled the budget and operational expenses. Selected Contributions:• Conceptualized and launched an enhanced recruiting and interview program to quickly fill full-time operations positions; also created the ZogSports internship program and customer success department.• Pivoted focus to profit generation by introducing effective process improvements in the operations department. • Utilized enhanced performance improvement plans and weekly check-ins to coach and mentor team members.

New York, New York

In this position, I monitored all on-going maintenance/construction projects performed by external contractors. I collaborated with vendors and contractors, with tenant coordination, to expedite the completion of work. I filed paperwork for construction projects, including activity reports, variance reports, and property inspection documents. I also fostered professional relationships with vendors and responded to inquiries regarding property issues.Selected Contributions:• Improved customer relationships by working closely with contractors, vendors, residents, agencies, and authorities; related well to people from diverse backgrounds.

Manage and keep inventory of 300+ keys for the Thomas Mckeen dormitory. Provide information and packages to students who reside on the University of Delaware campus.

Newark, De

Extensively researched the Populist regime of Alberto Fujimori in Peru from 1990-2000.

Master Of Science (Ms), Human Resource Management

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations And Affairs

Bachelor'S Degree, Foreign Languages And Literatures, Spanish Language And Culture