The Company


Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?


J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise across all assets and value at risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations. We have over 100 locations worldwide. We are highly committed to all members of our community, both employees and clients. Our organization focuses on promoting a sense of community and inspiring our people to achieve results that exceed goals.

The Team and Job Summary


We are seeking a high energy contributor for a People Services Specialist with superb administrative skills and a strong focus on delivering exceptional service and superior work product to our clientele based out of our Medellin, Colombia office. Your primary responsibilities will be help support our rapidly growing employee base and help champion employees and managers with all things people related ensuring our global employees have an excellent employee experience at J.S. Held. We are a company focused on learning and development and is continually looking to attract and retain top talent who are creative, self-motivated, and organized.


Please submit your resume in English.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate and assist with employee's full life cycle from hire to retire.
• Execution of transactional core people operations, including but not limited to onboarding, new-hire orientations, terminations, exit surveys, and employee and contractor life cycle tasks.
• Maintain the integrity and accuracy of our HRIS system and workflows, including data entry and audits for accuracy and compliance.
• Provides dedicated and effective HR advisory services to employees with general inquiries (Tier 1 support).
• Triage HR inquiries to initiate and track internal process steps based on requests.
• Tracks data, consolidates employee responses, and follows up with the HR team as needed to obtain information and identify insights.
• Understanding our business and staying up to date with trends and best practices to optimize processes.
• Creates and distributes HR communication to organization.
• Collaborate with other HR team members to support key HR initiatives and projects.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• C1 or native Level of English.
• This position is required to work at the office for 3 days a week.
• 2+ years of relevant human resources experience.
• Experience with HR Systems and processes.
• Understanding of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high performing environment, rapidly changing environment with shifting priorities.
• High attention to detail and an ownership mindset as it relates to solving employee challenges and issues.
• Honesty, integrity, and strong knowledge of HR principles to ensure all information is handled with a high degree of confidentiality.
• Excellent listening skills, including the ability to identify concerns or objections.
• Must have an analytical mind that provides creative solutions to day-to-day problems and an ability to relate to staff at all levels of the organization.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• High level of proficiency writing in English.

Physical and Mental Job Qualifications

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

J.S. Held is dedicated to becoming the global leader in providing multi-disciplinary consulting services to the construction, government, healthcare, industrial, insurance, energy, legal, and technology, communities. We have diverse practice areas including Construction Advisory, Financial Investigations, Forensic Accounting & Economics, Forensic Architecture & Engineering, Surety, Environmental Health & Safety, Equipment, Toxicology, and Building & Property Consulting, among other disciplines. J.S. Held is devoted to recruiting and cultivating top industry talent to build a collaborative and diverse team of experts. We leverage our experience to provide local, cost-efficient solutions and an unrivaled client experience.

Our mission is to serve as trusted, expert advisors to organizations around the world facing high-stakes situations that demand urgent attention, exceptional knowledge, staunch integrity and objective, clear-cut analysis and advice.

Some of the Benefits We Have Include
J.S. Held understands all of our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.

• Our flexible work environment allows employees to work remotely when needed
• Generous Annual Leave Policy
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read the J.S. Held Online Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as required and described therein. California residents can click here to learn more about the personal information we collect and here to learn about additional privacy rights that may be available.

Please explore what we’re all about at www.jsheld.com.

EEO and Job Accommodations
We embrace diversity and our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal!
J.S. Held is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request for a reasonable accommodation, please email jobs@jsheld.com and include “Applicant Accommodation” within the subject line with your request and contact information.


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