Human Resources Generalist & Recruitment Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Ready to Make a Difference?

The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, a nonprofit civil legal services program, is seeking a HR Generalist. Legal Aid's mission is to fight for fairness, dignity, and justice for those living in poverty and for a society that is inclusive and equitable for all. We transform lives, build communities, and empower people by using the law to address individual and systemic wrongs and inequities. Our service area spans sixteen counties, in upstate New York, encompassing six regional offices. For more information about our work, our staff, and our clients, visit

We are a unionized program with excellent benefits, offering generous time off, excellent health insurance coverage with premiums primarily paid by LASNNY, health and long-term disability insurance, retirement contributions, tuition reimbursement, qualifying moving expenses, and flexible hybrid -remote and alternative work schedules.

About the Role

We are looking for someone to join our HR Department at LASNNY! The Human Resources Generalist & Recruitment Specialist supports the employee lifecycle with a strong focus on proactive recruitment and outreach, onboarding and offboarding, HR operations, training and travel coordination, and employee engagement.

The successful candidate will be proactive, highly organized, approachable, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities while maintaining confidentiality and providing excellent service to employees and candidates. This is a great job for someone who enjoys cross departmental collaboration while advancing LASNNY's mission and values.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Collaboration

• Engage with other members of the HR team and management team to carry out and build strong alignment around all aspects of the tasks below.

• Take responsibility for delivering results that are built by the Specialist's own work and that of colleagues.

Recruitment & Hiring

• Proactively build diverse candidate pipelines through professional associations, affinity groups, community organizations, schools, social media, and other recruitment networks.

• Represent LASNNY at career fairs, networking events, and on-campus recruitment and outreach activities.

• Develop relationships with colleges, universities, law schools, and community and professional organizations.

• Identify new recruitment sources and post openings across targeted job boards and platforms.

• Screen applications, coordinate interviews, communicate with candidates, and support a positive candidate experience.

• Prepare offer letters and maintain recruitment and hiring records.

Onboarding & HR Operations

• Coordinate new hire onboarding, orientation, offboarding, and 90-day check-ins.

• Maintain accurate employee information and records across HR, benefits, payroll, timekeeping, and other systems.

• Coordinate new hire materials, announcements, systems access, and other onboarding needs.

• Prepare HR correspondence, reports, and employee documentation.

• Assist with payroll time-entry collection and other HR administrative functions.