Generalist, Human Resources

Job Description

Responsibilities
About Us:
CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business content consumed by more than 355 million people per month across all platforms. The network's 14 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 5:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
CNBC also offers content through its vast portfolio of digital products such as: CNBC.com, which provides real-time financial market news and information to CNBC's investor audience; CNBC Make It, a digital destination focused on making you smarter about how you earn, save and spend your money; CNBC PRO, a premium service that provides in-depth access to Wall Street; a suite of CNBC mobile apps for iOS and Android devices; Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri voice interfaces; and streaming services including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TVs. To learn more, visit https://www.cnbc.com/digital-products/.

Role Summary
The role of HR Generalist is an exciting opportunity to provide human resources support for clients within CNBC. Reporting into the VP, HR, the HR Generalist would provide full life-cycle HR support for the CNBC client group within NBC News Group. In addition, this role will be responsible for partnering with the wider CNBC HR team on managing cross-portfolio initiatives and special projects along with employee engagement activities.

Responsibilities
• Serve as an HR contact, and partner with HRBPs and functional leaders, on all matters regarding CNBC Business News, Digital, Prime and Marketing departments at CNBC throughout the employee life-cycle.
• Support and execute day-to-day HR responsibilities, including: staffing, on-boarding and off-boarding, performance management, reporting/analytics, etc.
• Partner closely with HR Team and functional leaders to manage strategic initiatives for CNBC, including employee engagement, retention, compensation/title analyses, employee relations matters, organizational structuring, career development & DEI programs in addition to other special projects.
• Provide HR counsel to clients and their teams on employee relations issues, ensuring fair and consistent enforcement of policies and practices.
• Mentor and provide guidance to employees related to their career goals, assist with career pathing and employee development.
• Advocate and offer guidance to employees concerning work-related issues and work to resolve issues in a proactive and positive manner.
• Interpret and implement HR policies, practices and procedures when questions arise (vacation, parental leave, compensatory days etc.).
• Act as liaison between clients and functional partners, such as payroll and benefits, to manage and resolve day to day employee issues.
• Act as a partner in the staffing process, working with hiring managers and talent acquisition team to identify objective recruitment strategies, as well as ensure diverse candidate slates and top-quality candidate selection.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of relevant HR experience including supporting an active and fast paced employee population
• 3+ years supporting a variety of HR functions, including, but not limited to, recruitment, performance management, compensation planning and organizational development

Additional Job Requirements
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• Must submit an attestation disclosing your COVID-19 vaccination status and, if partially or fully vaccinated, submitting your vaccination record no later than 7 days following commencement of employment.
• Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the commencement of employment or adhere to enhanced protocols if Company determines your job position requires accessing an NBCUniversal worksite.
• Must be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19 workplace safety policies and protocols.

Desired Characteristics

Desired Characteristics
• Experience working in a news, media, broadcast, or other like industry.
• Prior experience in large scale project management.
• Experience working at a digital start-up (experience in union environment).
• Strong business acumen, analytical and project management skills.
• Demonstrated coaching/mentoring/leadership skills; change agent; results orientation; high energy; comfortable handling multiple tasks and competing priorities.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the professional savvy of communicating effectively with all levels of employees, managers and executives.
• Innovation-style mind set to find better ways of working, collaborating and finding efficiencies.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxv1ez-18-224-39-32-42 in your application.