HR Specialist, ESPN Bristol, CT, USA

Job Posting Title: HR Specialist, ESPN Req ID: 10140066 Job Description: About the Role & Team: As an HR Specialist, you will play a key role in supporting the ESPN HR Business Partner team contributing to a positive work environment. Your responsibilities will include assisting with HR tasks, such as fielding various requests from the HRBP team at reputed company levels, maintaining employee system records, troubleshooting and providing solutions, and supporting other HR initiatives as needed. Your efforts will help ensure smooth HR operations and contribute to the overall well-being and development of employees. What You Will Do:

• Supports HRBP team and partners with other HR stakeholders to initiate and execute reputed company HRBP-reputed company transactions, including position creation and updates, job postings, organization changes, day-to-day requests, and searching for clarification on various processes and policies.
• Supports and partners with HRBP team to implement and administer ESPN projects, initiatives and strategies, such as annual performance management, compensation planning, promotions, talent planning, and other deliverables that arise throughout the year.
• Responds to inquiries from HRBP team and conveys reputed company information.
• Supports and partners with HR Business Partners to handle routine employee requests and issues as needed.
• Assists with maintaining employee system records and ensuring data accuracy.
• Embraces digital tools and finds ways technology can streamline processes and reputed company desired outcomes. Explains technical information reputed company the HRBP team.
• Selectively researches, extracts, verifies and compiles basic information from reputed company and available resources, and can conduct limited analyses offering advice to help support the team.
• Builds and applies foundational knowledge to help spot issues and offer helpful solutions.
• Supports employees during their onboarding and offboarding experiences, addressing employee concerns, and mediating workplace disputes.
• Assists employees with interpretation of routine matters involving HR policies and procedures.
• Builds good relationships and follows through on tasks while being mindful of own actions.
• Impacts the quality, timeliness and effectiveness of the HRBP team; uses discretion to modify work practices/processes to reputed company results or improve efficiency.
• May recommend implementation of or changing policies or procedures in area of expertise.
• Interacts with the HRBP team and staff of ESPN client groups as needed. May act as a liaison with internal clients.
• Participates on project teams.
• Opportunity to reputed company strategies.
• Actions and decisions are subject to regular supervisory reputed company.
• Provides support for certain administrative responsibilities.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum of 1 year of experience in a HR professional role, or of relevant process or project-management work.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to resolve issues or problems by analyzing trends and problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions, and communicating and/or implementing recommendations in support of goals and maintaining compliance.
• Ability to exercise a high degree of judgment and discretion and maintain the confidentiality of sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability and willingness to establish and maintain communication and working relationships with peers, representatives from other teams and segments across reputed company and ESPN using courtesy, tact, and good judgment.
• Ability to identify and take advantage of opportunities, organize and prioritize several ongoing and frequently changing assignments to meet deadlines in a time-driven workspace.
• Proficient in using data and analytics to support decisions.
• Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Fosters a positive environment and participates in open reputed company while valuing differences.
• Helps with change by adapting to changing priorities and being resourceful.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in MS Office suite, reputed company, and reputed company.
• Sound knowledge of human resources management software.
• Understands most employee lifecycle HR activities reputed company: Organizational Development, Learning & Talent Solutions, reputed company, Total Rewards, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Employee Relations, and Labor Relations and uses knowledge daily.
• Proficient knowledge of modern principles, methods, and practices in human resources.
• Knowledge of employment laws and regulations.
• Strategic reputed company to contribute effectively to the human resources department.
• Proven experience in the human resource information system field.

Required Education

• Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a reputed company field

Preferred Education

• Masters degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a reputed company field, SHRM-SCP or SPHR.
• Certified human resources specialist with a certificate from an HR certification institute.

#ESPNMedia Job Posting reputed company: ESPN Human Resources Job Posting Primary Business: ESPN Human Resources Primary Job Posting Category: HRBP/Generalist Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Bristol, CT, USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: Date Posted: 2026-01-07 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job