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Oregon Health & Science University

HR Coordinator

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Portland, OR

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $22 - $34 per Hour

💻 Human Resources

🗓️ August 20th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Oregon Health & Science University is hiring an HR Coordinator. The role involves providing human resources support including assisting new hires with paperwork, responding to employee questions, supporting Oracle system usage, and managing HR service center tasks to ensure accurate and timely completion of HR-related activities.

Highlights
  • Serve as primary contact for general HR questions and provide sensitive support to employees and managers.
  • Process HR transactions, maintain employee data in Oracle, and assist with benefits education and enrollment.
  • Track and ensure compliance with new hire paperwork, including I-9s and federal/state forms.
  • Perform administrative duties such as scanning, filing, and front desk coverage.
  • Participate in special projects to enhance HR program knowledge.
  • Required skills: intermediate MS Office Suite (especially Excel) and customer service abilities.
  • Preferred experience includes HR department support, Oracle, and OnBase knowledge.
  • Minimum qualifications: high school diploma and one year of office or secretarial experience.
  • Position type: full-time, regular, Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm schedule.
  • Job category: Human Resources within Oregon Health & Science University.

HR Coordinator Full Description

Department Overview: 
This position provides a range of human resources support to OHSU employees and HR Centers of Excellence to ensure consistent, timely and accurate completion of assignments and excellent customer service.  The position is responsible for a variety of HR Service Center related tasks such: assisting New Hires with I-9 completion and new hire paperwork requirements, responding to verification of employments, supporting departments with Oracle questions, assisting employees with tier 1 and 2 HR customer service questions, providing education for benefits enrollment and annual activities.  HR Service Center Coordinators are expected to answer basic questions and requests and defer complex issues to the specialized COEs.  This position is required to be on campus part time.

Function/Duties of Position: 
Key Responsibilities & Performance Standards
  • Employee Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for general human resources questions, employee concerns that arise, providing high-level and sensitive support to managers, supervisors, employees and applicants on a variety of human resources matters. Respond to basic questions in HR ticketing system and associated group email boxes and act when necessary.  Direct employees to appropriate resources. Forward more complex requests to COEs for resolution; Assist employees and redirect calls as needed on the HR phone queue.
  • Program Processing:  Process transactions related to assigned HR programs or audits.  Examples include process education benefit programs, complete I-9 documents for new hires, assist callers with various HR questions, perform job and position maintenance in Oracle, update basic employee data in assigned systems.  Warm hand off to COEs for complex issues related to policy creations or edits.
  • New Hire Paperwork Compliance: Track and follow up on new hire paperwork, including I-9s, federal and state compliance forms, COVID vaccine requirements and intellectual property information.   Notify impact employees and managers.  Take action in system
  • Administrative Duties: scan hard-copy forms, file documents in online system as needed, pull employee files as requested, and provide coverage for the Central HRSC front desk.
  • Other Duties as Assigned: projects will be assigned to HR Service Center Coordinators in specific areas to enhance their knowledge of HR programs.  These may include developing a draft of an employee communication, conducting an audit of employee data, creating or optimizing a report for another Benefits team member, etc.
 
Required Qualifications: 
  • High school diploma 
  • One year of general office or secretarial experience or equivalent combination of training and experience
  • MS Office Suite skills, including intermediate Excel skills
  • Customer service skills – sensitivity to employees with diverse needs and circumstances
 
Preferred Qualifications: 
  • Experience in an HR department
  • 2 years of support or customer service work in an office setting
  • Knowledge of Oracle
  • Knowledge of OnBase
 
All are welcome: Oregon Health & Science University values a diverse and culturally competent workforce. We are proud of our commitment to being an equal opportunity, affirmative action organization that does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of any protected class status, including disability status and protected veteran status. Individuals with diverse backgrounds and those who promote diversity and a culture of inclusion are encouraged to apply. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department at 503-494-5148 or aaeo@ohsu.edu.