Senior HR Generalist - HR Operations & Employee Experience Leader

Senior Hr Generalist Hr Operations & Employee Experience Leader

At The River (Indian River State College), we are more than an academic institution we are a force for transformation in education, work, and community prosperity. As a nationally recognized leader and recipient of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, we are shaping the future of learning while driving innovation in how colleges serve students, employees, and society.

Our HR transformation is central to this journey. We are :

• Building a future-ready HR function
• Elevating HR into a strategic driver of growth, culture, and performance.
• Reimagining how we attract, engage, and grow talent at every level.
• Redesigning the employee experience
• Creating seamless, digital-first HR services that empower employees and managers.
• Ensuring every interaction with HR reflects fairness, clarity, and belonging.
• Scaling with purpose
• Implementing modern systems (Workday, ADP) and shared services infrastructure to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
• Aligning HR with world-class benchmarks from Fortune 500 enterprises to award-winning cultures while staying true to our mission-driven values.
• Driving cultural renewal
• Embedding leadership principles and accountability.
• Making The River a place where employees are inspired to perform, belong, and grow.

As a Senior HR Generalist, you will be at the center of this transformation turning our strategy into reality by building operational excellence and shaping the everyday experience of our people.

Why join us?

Joining The River as a Senior HR Generalist offers a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact while building something from the ground up. Here's what makes this role compelling :

We value the well-being and professional growth of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits package includes :

At The River, you will not just process HR tasks you will help design and deliver the employee experience of the future, ensuring our people have the clarity, support, and culture they need to thrive.

Purpose of the role

At The River, the Senior HR Generalist role is not an administrative back-office function it is a front-line leadership position that connects employees, managers, and HR strategy in meaningful ways. This role blends operational excellence with a relentless focus on the employee experience, ensuring that every interaction with HR reinforces our values, strengthens our culture, and drives organizational performance.

The Senior HR Generalist will serve as both a builder and operator :

This role requires someone who is energized by both big-picture transformation and day-to-day execution, who thrives in ambiguity, and who is motivated by the opportunity to shape an HR function into a modern, employee-centered, and high-performing engine.

What you will build & lead

As a Senior HR Generalist, you will :

Measures of success

Your success in this role will be measured not only by how well you manage compliance or transactions, but by the quality, consistency, and humanity of the HR experience you create. You will know you are succeeding when :

Experience & qualifications

We are seeking an HR professional who blends operational mastery with people-centered leadership. Ideal candidates will demonstrate :