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Onboarding Specialist

RWJBarnabas Health
vision insurance, paid time off, long term disability, tuition reimbursement
United States, New Jersey, Franklin Township
379 Campus Drive (Show on map)
Sep 22, 2025
Onboarding Specialist
Req #: 0000212339

Category: Professional / Management

Status: Full-Time

Shift: Day

Facility: RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services

Department: HR Service Center

Pay Range: $21.69 - $30.64 per hour

Location:
379 CAMPUS DRIVE, SOMERSET, NJ 08873


Job Title: Onboarding Specialist

Location: RWJ - 379 Campus Dr,

Somerset

Department Name: HR Service Center

Req #: 0000212339

Status: Hourly

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $21.69 - $30.64 per hour

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated hourly wage range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

This role initiates and manages the end-to-end process of new hire onboarding and/or internal mobility management with a focus on a positive customer experience and meeting clearance and orientation deadlines, while ensuring regulatory and RWJBH policy compliance.

These activities include welcoming the new hire and guiding them through the onboarding process, resolving any new hire inquiries, coordinating with other departments and vendor partners, ensuring all onboarding steps are completed correctly and initiating creation of the new hire s personnel file.

This role also manages the end-to-end process of intra-system transfers with a focus on delivering a positive customer, new hire, employee, and manager experience, providing accurate and timely information about changes due to the transfer, while ensuring regulatory and RWJBH policy compliance.

These activities include coordinating with other HR teams or escalating complex issues for resolution and the ongoing maintenance of information and documentation in Service Now, Position Manager and other HR and onboarding systems.

Collaboration and establishment of positive relationships with other members of the HR team, payroll, Corporate Care, benefits teams, and outside vendors and is critical to ensuring positive new hire, employee and manager experiences.

Also, a drive to deliver superior customer service, strong teamwork, and personal accountability to meet or exceed, SLAs, and individual goals and performance metrics is critical to success.

Essential Job Functions:

  • Execute an effective and efficient new hire onboarding and intra-system transfer process, while ensuring the consistency of a positive new hire, employee and customer experience, to meet obligations with respect to high levels of customer satisfaction, regulatory and RWJBH policy compliance, creation of personnel file, and accurate, thorough information collection and system documentation in all onboarding and HR systems
  • Collaborates and communicates well with team members, internal and external customers, and leverages feedback to continually improve effectiveness and customer experience
  • Responds within pre-determined SLAs to new hire or employee inquiry, complaint, or request, asks questions to ensure full understanding of issue, then provides an accurate, timely and thorough response to support a positive new hire or employee experience
  • Ability to develop a strong rapport with the customer by listening and questioning to fully understand the issue, then responding in a way that is easiest for the customer to understand
  • Partners with external vendors, payroll, talent acquisition, benefits, and other members of HR teams to ensure positive customer experience and efficient and effective execution of onboarding and transfer activities in compliance with regulatory and company standards

Qualifications:

Required:

  • Associates degree or commensurate business experience required
  • 1-3 years of relevant HR, Talent Acquisition or related work experience required
  • Strong desire and ability to provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers by holding oneself accountable to providing timely, accurate and consistent responses

  • Demonstrated technological acuity and ability to manage competing priorities and tasks in a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines while ensuring a positive customer experience

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills including ability to alter communication styles to deliver information to the audience in the easiest manner for them to understand

  • High degree of personal organization and accuracy in work product, with minimal errors and the ability to effectively communicate updates and manage customer expectations for issue resolution

  • Ability to use interpersonal savvy to develop productive, collaborative, trust-based working relationships with others to drive resulring positive internal and external customer experience while meeting SLAs and individual goals

Preferred:

  • Healthcare industry preferred, but not required

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
  • Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Retirement Plans
  • Short & Long Term Disability
  • Life & Accidental Death Insurance
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Wellness Programs
  • Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
  • Discounts Through our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!


RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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