HR Admin Intern: Summer 2027

Pay scale

$24.00–$28.00 per hour

Hours

30–40 per week, twelve weeks, June to August 2027

Classification

Non-exempt, hourly, overtime-eligible

Location

Remote, California applicants

The role

A paid twelve-week internship for a student who wants to see HR practiced rather than described. You work on live client files under supervision, doing the administration that makes an HR function run: personnel records, onboarding packets, compliance audits and HRIS data. You are on payroll from day one and the work you produce is used. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis through spring 2027.

What you will do

• Maintain digital personnel files to retention standards with permissions checked.
• Assist with onboarding packets: offer letters, I-9 collection, handbook acknowledgments, equipment checklists.
• Audit compliance items on a schedule: required postings, expiring certifications, outstanding acknowledgments.
• Enter and reconcile HRIS data, flagging records that do not agree rather than guessing.
• Draft first versions of policy summaries and process documentation for review.
• Build recurring reports on headcount, training completion and open requisitions.
• Complete one project of your own by the end of the summer, presented to the principal consultant.

Required qualifications

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program, or graduating in 2027. Any major.
• Available thirty to forty hours a week for twelve weeks between June and August 2027.
• Able to work remotely during California business hours.
• Genuine care about accuracy: you would rather ask than submit something that might be wrong.
• Discretion with confidential employee information, with a confidentiality agreement on file.
• Comfortable in spreadsheets and documents; we will teach the HR systems.

Preferred

• Coursework in human resources, business, labor studies, psychology or law.
• Prior office or customer-facing work of any kind.
• Interest in sitting for the aPHR; Spanish fluency.