HR Assistant Placement

Our academic medical centre trains residents and fellows in over 40 specialties. We operate a Level I trauma centre, a children's hospital and a complete stroke centre. We started in 1933 and have grown to about 1,900 people.

About the internship

Houston Memorial Hospital is hiring an HR Assistant Placement for Feb 2027. The Human Resources is small and growing. You will help onboard new joiners, update policies, run surveys and keep records clean. Remote internship with a team based in Houston. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do

• Assist with performance review cycles by sending forms and chasing pending ones
• Answer routine employee questions on leave balance and holidays over Slack
• Coordinate onboarding for new joiners: documents, laptop request, welcome email and first-week schedule
• Maintain employee records in the HRMS (Keka, Zoho People or BambooHR) and Google Sheets
• Draft and update HR policies such as leave, remote work and reimbursement, for review by the HR manager
• Build simple HR dashboards in Excel: headcount, attrition, joining and exit trends

What we're looking for

• Based in Italy for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Italy
• Clear written English for letters, emails and policy drafts
• Ability to keep employee information confidential
• Organised and comfortable with routine documentation work
• Basic understanding of HR functions from coursework: recruitment, onboarding, payroll, labour law
• Laptop with MS Office or Google Workspace and stable internet
• Good command of MS Excel or Google Sheets: VLOOKUP, filters, basic pivots

Nice to have

• Interest in HR analytics
• Previous internship or volunteer role in a college placement cell
• Familiarity with Canva for internal posters and announcements

What you get out of it

• How onboarding, attendance and payroll inputs connect to each other
• Day-to-day HR generalist work at a real company, not case studies

Program dates: Feb 2027, 3 months.

Compensation: $800 - $1,100/month

What we offer

• Internet allowance
• Mentorship
• Flexible hours
• Paid public holidays

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Houston Memorial Hospital.