Human Resources; HR) Coordinator

Human Resources (HR) Coordinator

Department: Mission Edge - Human Resources

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: San Diego, CA

Compensation: $24.00 - $28.00 / hour

Join our dynamic Human Resources Team! At Mission Edge, our mission is to help nonprofits and small businesses maximize their social impact. By keeping our clients’ Human Resources practices sound and compliant, our HR Coordinator delivers the high-touch, strategic, and tailored support that helps our projects scale and make a real, lasting difference in the community—while giving our internal HR team that same care and attention.

As a hybrid employee, you’ll enjoy the flexibility to work from home or our office, with a schedule that fits your lifestyle. We believe in creating a work environment that supports you as much as you support our clients. We’re changing the way nonprofits and small businesses do HR, offering “white-glove” support from a team of experts across the country.

Our approach is cutting-edge, impactful, and rooted in making a difference—and we want YOU to be part of it! Our HR Coordinator is an agile, customer-focused, compliance-oriented professional who brings creative energy and fresh ideas to everything we do. Consistently recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in San Diego, Southern California, and the nonprofit sector, Mission Edge is looking for like-minded individuals to join our incredible team and amazing culture.

Due to increased demand for our services, we’re excited to grow our HR team! Reporting to the HR Operations Manager, the HR Coordinator provides hands‑on HR support to our fiscally sponsored projects and internal team across onboarding, recruitment support, staff training coordination, compliance, payroll support, benefits administration, and other high‑touch HR projects. Just as importantly, this role is the heartbeat of our culture—keeping the energy high and our nationwide, largely remote team connected, celebrated, and engaged.

This is a hybrid role that combines remote work, time at our office, and occasional onsite visits to client offices. Candidates should be based in San Diego, CA, able to commute within San Diego County, with reliable transportation.

• Enjoy the Journey
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  We know that lasting social impact doesn’t happen overnight, so we value the journey as much as the destination.
• Be Transparent
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  We know that an honest and open culture is fundamental, so we share information and feedback early and often.
• Never Settle
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  Our entrepreneurial culture means we just don’t settle for the present state of things when we know there is a better way.
• Leverage Our Circle
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  We’re humble and know we aren’t experts at everything, so we foster and leverage relationships in our network.
• Teach By Doing
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  We believe actions speak louder than words, so we are models through our behavior, both for our clients and with our coworkers.

• Own the administrative side of onboarding for new hires—preparing offer letters, new‑hire documents, I‑9s, and Paylocity setup ahead of time, and handling filing and recap emails afterward—while HR leadership leads the day‑of onboarding.
• Prepare, send, and file Change of Status forms, routing them to the HR Operations for Paylocity updates.
• Support the HR Operations Manager with day‑to‑day administrative tasks for internal and fiscally sponsored employees, such as filings, audits, monthly checks, etc.

• Help HR leadership process bi‑weekly payroll—preparing the payroll package for internal and fiscally sponsored employees and presenting it for review and final processing.
• Coordinate payroll deadline reminders with our fiscal sponsorship team, ensuring all timesheets are submitted by the…