Payroll and Benefits Coordinator

Description

Book Harvest, an award-winning children’s literacy nonprofit scaling nationally, is seeking a Payroll & Benefits Coordinator to serve as our team’s day-to-day payroll and benefits resource and a hands‑on partner in building simpler, smarter systems. In this hybrid role, you will pair a sharp eye for detail with genuine warmth to make sure our staff is paid accurately, understands their benefits, and feels supported through transitions.

This is a full‑time, hybrid role based in Durham, NC. We prefer a locally based candidate who can work from our Durham office about 40–60% of the week. However, we are open to regional candidates within a 200‑mile radius who can commute to Durham several times a month for core meetings and team connection. Dependable availability during payroll processing and other critical periods is essential.

Book Harvest is a nationally recognized nonprofit organization based in Durham, NC, with an ambitious mission: books for every child, support for every parent, and literacy for every community. Since 2011, Book Harvest has placed more than three million books in the hands of children and families, grounded in the belief that literacy starts at birth, in the home, powered by parents, and nourished with books.

With more than a decade of experience testing and refining models that bring books and reading into homes, pediatric clinics, schools, and communities, we are currently scaling nationally and building internal infrastructure designed to match the reach of our vision. Over the next three years, we will refine our systems – payroll being just one example – to support a larger, potentially more distributed organization, and codify our program models into replicable playbooks ready for expansion.

Joining Book Harvest means helping shape a pivotal chapter in the organization’s growth and contributing to a lasting foundation for early literacy.

You are a detail-loving, tech‑curious problem solver who believes that getting someone’s paycheck and benefits right is one of the most deeply human things a People team can do. Bringing warmth and accuracy in equal measure, you can walk an employee through a confusing pay stub with patience and kindness, then turn around and reconcile a payroll register line by line.

You get genuinely excited about making complicated processes simpler, smarter, and more automated. Organized, proactive, and dependable, you are equally at home in a spreadsheet as you are answering a nervous new hire’s benefits questions. If you have ever looked at a repetitive administrative task or a confusing system and thought, “There has to be a better way to do this,” we would love to meet you.

You are a detail-loving, tech‑curious problem solver who believes that getting someone’s paycheck and benefits right is one of the most deeply human things a People team can do. Bringing warmth and accuracy in equal measure, you can walk an employee through a confusing pay stub with patience and kindness, then turn around and reconcile a payroll register line by line.

You get genuinely excited about making complicated processes simpler, smarter, and more automated. Organized, proactive, and dependable, you are equally at home in a spreadsheet as you are answering a nervous new hire’s benefits questions. If you have ever looked at a repetitive administrative task or a confusing system and thought, “There has to be a better way to do this,” we would love to meet you.

You are a detail-loving, tech‑curious problem solver who believes that getting someone’s paycheck and benefits right is one of the most deeply human things a People team can do. Bringing warmth and accuracy in equal measure, you can walk an employee through a…