The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Public Affairs Institute is hiring a HR Assistant in Gilbert, AZ.

• Role description

  We need a HR Assistant in Gilbert who can sit between strategy and spreadsheets and make both sides trust the answer. If you have 5 years in business, this hybrid job offers $62,000 - $91,000 plus the room to lead and grow.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Keep Public Affairs Institute strategy legible to the people who have to execute it
  • Run discovery with AZ operators to find what the data won't show
  • Prepare board-ready presentations and quarterly business reviews
  • Set up the Gilbert, AZ team to make calls without waiting on you
  • Push a business pilot past the part where most pilots die
  • Chase down why margin slipped and come back with a fix, not a theory
  • Surface the two or three metrics that decide whether a HR Assistant bet paid off

  What You'll Bring

  • Experience at the mid-level inside a hybrid role
  • Sharp written and verbal communication, tested under scrutiny
  • Curiosity and a continuous drive to sharpen your business craft
  • Demonstrated calm when a Gilbert, AZ client changes scope mid-stream
  • Ability to thrive both independently and as part of a tight-knit team
  • Hands-on proficiency with Empathy, ideally paired with Compensation and Benefits

  Public Affairs Institute is a trust-the-team, fiercely independent Gilbert company that would rather earn trust slowly than buy attention quickly. Disagreement is welcome here, but once we decide, the whole Public Affairs Institute team rows in the same direction.

  We trade fair $62,000 - $91,000 for your talent and throw in mentorship, benefits, and a flexibility policy people actually use.

  Actively staffed and live, this Gilbert, AZ opening is no relic.

  Don't let this HR Assistant opening pass you by; apply today.

• Required skills

  • Onboarding
  • Stakeholder Management
  • BambooHR
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Empathy

• Benefits & perks

  • Free Meals
  • Recognition Programs
  • Cost-of-living adjustments
  • Hybrid work schedule
  • Survivor benefits
  • Game room and recreation space
  • Annual company offsite
  • Patent and innovation bonuses
  • On-site flu shots and vaccinations

• Apply before 2026-08-19

  Submit your application for this Hybrid business position.