HR Generalist / Recruiting Manager

Mi Casita Preschool offers a hybrid role with regular school visits across the Philadelphia metro area, plus occasional travel to Fort Worth, Texas. In this position, you will own day-to-day people operations, keep centralized HR data and reporting strong, and lead the front end of recruiting across all schools. The work is mission-driven, built on collaboration with school leaders, and grounded in continuous improvement.

What you’ll do

• Maintain clean, centralized, and accurate employee data across all schools.
• Own recurring reporting on key people metrics, including turnover, time-to-fill, training completion, and more.
• Lead the digitization of paper-based HR processes and records to create a single reliable line of sight into HR data across the school network.
• Create straightforward financial models and cost analyses to support HR decisions such as staffing changes, role movements, and compensation adjustments.
• Support compliance recordkeeping and help ensure documentation is audit-ready across all locations.
• Assist with day-to-day administration of the PEO and other HR vendor relationships, escalating larger issues or negotiations to the COO or other senior leaders.
• Contribute input to broader HR strategy conversations with the COO and senior leaders.
• Run the front end of hiring across all schools by reviewing resumes and applications and conducting or coordinating initial phone screens before qualified candidates are handed off to hiring managers.
• Act as the connector across schools by matching candidates to the role and location where they will be the strongest fit, based on network-wide openings and needs.
• Build and maintain centralized, cross-school candidate visibility so strong candidates are recognized, matched well, and patterns across candidates and locations are understood.
• Support and standardize recruiting workflows, interview guides, and screening criteria across schools.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for school leaders regarding open roles and hiring needs.
• Manage compliance and reporting for hiring-related grant programs to help meet program requirements and capture available funding.
• Take on operational support responsibilities outside of core HR work from time to time, as capacity and organizational needs allow.
• Be the responsive, everyday point of contact for routine HR and people questions, escalating complex employee relations matters to the COO.
• Support network-wide consistency in onboarding and offboarding for new and departing staff.
• Assist with employee engagement survey administration and help track follow-through on what is heard.
• Partner with the Regional Director of Academics and the COO to support teacher performance management, including calibration across evaluators and tying outcomes to compensation.
• Support the build-out of performance management practices for other roles across the network, including School Directors and other school-based staff.

What you’ll bring

• 1 to 3 years of relevant experience in HR, recruiting, operations, or administration, or equivalent experience demonstrating strong judgment, drive, and organizational capability.
• Bilingual fluency in Spanish and English.
• Based in or near the Philadelphia metro area with reliable transportation for regular school visits.
• Strong spreadsheets and data skills, including comfort building and maintaining trackers, reports, and organized systems.
• Excellent organizational and project management ability to juggle multiple schools, candidates, and workstreams without dropping details.
• A relationship-builder who earns trust quickly and can partner effectively with school leaders on challenging HR issues.
• High energy, initiative, and strong follow-through, with comfort figuring things out and improving processes as you go.
• Comfort with ambiguity as the people-ops structure matures.
• Comfort using AI tools to support research, organization, and communication.
• Authorized to work in the United States. Employment is contingent on successful completion of a background check and all clearances required for regular presence in Pennsylvania early childhood settings, including a PA Child Abuse History Clearance, PA State Police Criminal Record Check (Act 34), and FBI fingerprint-based criminal history clearance (Act 114), plus equivalent clearances required for the Fort Worth, Texas location.
• Alignment with Mi Casita’s core values: Entrepreneurial Spirit, Continuous Improvement, Motivation, Passion, and Integrity.

Hybrid work and travel

• Hybrid role with regular on-site time at schools across the network, balanced with remote work for data, reporting, and administrative tasks.
• Regular travel to Mi Casita schools across Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs to support school leaders in person and build relationships.
• Occasional travel to Mi Casita’s Fort Worth, Texas location.
• Reliable personal transportation is essential.

Compensation and employment

• Full-time, Exempt, At-Will
• Salary range: $55,000 to $65,000 per year, commensurate with experience
• Pay: $55,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year
• Reports to: Chief Operating Officer (COO)
• Work location: Hybrid remote in Ardmore, PA 19003

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Paid time off and holidays
• 401(k)
• Company-issued laptop and phone
• 50% tuition discount for dependent children (including after-school and summer programs)
• Employee discount
• Opportunities for professional development and growth within a mission-driven organization