HR Generalist - Recruiting & Planning

Avanath is proud to be named one of the top property management companies to provide affordable housing for the workforce.
Whether it is helping residents call one of our communities home, providing excellence in customer service, or championing our workforce, we are committed to creating an unforgettable experience as a great place to live, work, and be.
The HR Generalist is a strategic and hands-on partner to business unit leaders, aligning people strategies with business goals while ensuring legal compliance and a high-quality employee experience. This role balances strategic workforce planning and organizational effectiveness with deeper, day-to-day involvement in employee relations, investigations, coaching, and policy application.
Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience with significant hands-on employee relations, training, and workplace investigations or mediations.
• Proven experience coaching managers, leading performance processes, and driving impactful organizational change initiatives.
• Demonstrated skill in applying insights, thorough documentation, and structured case management to resolve complex employee matters and support sound HR decisions.
• Experience providing HR support to multi-state operations and navigating both unionized and non-union settings.
• Previous experience with ADP (HRIS) and Greenhouse (ATS) is highly desired.

Strategic Partnership & Workforce Planning
Translate business objectives into people's plans covering org design, capability building, succession, and headcount planning.
Use talent analytics and labor market insights to inform decisions on hiring, retention, and mobility.

Employee Relations, Investigations & Compliance
Lead and resolve complex employee relations matters (performance, conduct, accommodations, complaints), ensuring fair, consistent, and timely outcomes.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local laws and company policy (e.g., Partner with Legal/Compliance on risk mitigation, corrective actions, and documentation standards.

Coaching, Counseling & Performance Enablement
guide performance improvement plans and corrective actions.
Advise employees on conflict resolution, career development, and policy interpretation with a focus on early resolution.

Collaborate with Learning and Development to create and implement targeted training initiatives that strengthen leadership capabilities, employee relations skills, and workplace culture.

Lead change plans (stakeholder analysis, comms, training, adoption) for org restructures, integrations, and process changes.
Facilitate team health diagnostics and action planning to improve engagement, trust, and inclusion.

Total Rewards & HR Operations
Advise compensation, job architecture, and pay equity; support annual merit/bonus cycles and promotion governance.
Partner with HR Operations on HRIS data integrity, audits, and process efficiency; Culture, Wellbeing & Inclusion
Champion inclusive practices in hiring, development, and performance; Data, Insights & Reporting
measure the impact of HR initiatives.

Frequent travel to other business offices, communities, and events via airline, train, and automobile.
Repetitive use of the computer, keyboard, mouse, and phone
Reading, comprehending, writing, performing calculations, and communicating verbally.
May work in an elevated site, may walk on uneven ground.
Comprehensive Benefits – health, dental & vision, 401(k), personal time off, paid holidays and more!
Development – a commitment to creating opportunities to learn and expand your knowledge in the industry, from online training platforms to training classes to one-on-one coaching.
Diversity & Inclusion
Avanath Capital is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have, and Diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) are at the very core of Avanath’s operating and investment philosophy. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
Our organization’s diversity initiatives include—but are not limited to—our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; professional development and training; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:

• Work/life balance through flexible work schedules to accommodate employees’ varying needs.
• Employer and employee contributions to the communities we serve to promote a greater understanding and respect for diversity.

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