[Hiring] Fractional HR Business Partner @Jumpstart HR

Role Description

Jumpstart HR is looking for an experienced independent HR consultant who brings practical answers, a steady presence, and strong follow-through. You enjoy getting to know a business, understanding its people, and helping leaders make thoughtful decisions.

This opportunity is a good fit for someone with an established consulting practice who wants to add client projects to their portfolio.

What you’ll help clients do

• Help managers navigate employee concerns, performance issues, difficult conversations, and separation planning.
• Create or update handbooks, policies, job descriptions, and employee communications.
• Review HR practices, identify gaps, and build a realistic action plan.
• Improve hiring, onboarding, and offboarding.
• Help clients navigate HR requirements across multiple states, including leave and accommodations.
• Build useful performance-review tools and coach managers on giving feedback.
• Improve HR systems, employee records, and payroll or benefits processes.
• Support retention, compensation, and workforce-planning projects that fit your expertise.

You’ll help carry agreed work through to completion, keep clients informed, and flag issues that need legal counsel or another specialist. Clients remain responsible for their employment decisions.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressive HR experience, including work as an HR Business Partner, HR Manager, HR Consultant, or a similar role.
• An active SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification.
• Experience helping small or midsize businesses make practical HR decisions.
• Strong judgment in employee relations and a careful approach to confidential information.
• Experience supporting employees across multiple states.
• Clear writing skills and the ability to create documents people can understand and use.
• Confidence managing multiple client projects and delivering what you’ve agreed to.
• Familiarity with platforms like Gusto, Rippling, Paylocity, or similar HR systems.
• An established independent HR consulting practice and the resources to deliver your services.
• Experience with nonprofits, startups, professional services, California or New York requirements, investigations, compensation, or HR systems projects is a plus.

Requirements

• This is a nonexclusive independent contractor opportunity, subject to applicable state requirements.
• Rate: $40–$45 per hour, with the specific rate agreed based on experience and scope.
• Projects: You choose whether to accept proposed engagements. Hours vary, and there is no guaranteed minimum or promise of ongoing work.
• Flexibility: You set your methods, schedule, and work location while meeting agreed deadlines, client meetings, and security requirements.
• Other clients: You may continue serving other clients, while protecting confidentiality and addressing actual conflicts of interest.
• Business setup: You provide your usual equipment, workspace, and professional resources. We arrange access to client systems when needed.
• Payment: You invoice for services under a written consulting agreement. Scope changes and additional work are agreed together.
• Expenses and benefits: You manage your business expenses, taxes, and any required registrations or insurance. Employee benefits are not included.

Benefits

• Flexible working methods, schedule, and location.
• Opportunity to choose client projects and engagements.
• Support in accessing client systems when needed.

How we show up

• Own your expertise. Bring your knowledge and a clear point of view.
• Bring clarity from the clouds. Help clients understand what matters and what to do next.
• Be part coach, part cheerleader. Have the honest conversation, offer support, and celebrate progress.
• Ignite the spark. Ask good questions and spot opportunities to make things better.
• Forward and adaptive beat static and slow. Stay curious, adjust thoughtfully, and help clients make progress.

Interested?

Please apply here plus a short introduction that covers:

• Your areas of expertise, certifications, and the states you support.
• Your consulting practice and current capacity for additional projects.
• Two brief examples of HR challenges you helped solve and what changed as a result.

Please leave out confidential client or employee details. Email and social media outreach to team members at Jumpstart HR will not constitute an application. All applicants should apply here.

Jumpstart HR welcomes qualified consulting professionals from all backgrounds. We’re looking for sound judgment, useful expertise, and a thoughtful approach to helping people.