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More time for your mission. Less time on employment admin
Running a non-profit means doing more with less. Employment Hero helps mission-driven organisations replace time-consuming HR admin, payroll complexity and compliance risk with streamlined processes, so your team can focus on the work that matters.
What’s standing between your team and the work that matters?
PAIN POINT 1
Stretched HR resources and no dedicated people team
Most non-profits don’t have the luxury of a full HR department. People management often falls to a CEO, operations manager or finance lead who’s already wearing multiple hats. Manual processes make an already difficult job harder.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
One platform manages your entire employee lifecycle, from digital onboarding and contracts to leave management and payroll, so your leadership team isn’t buried in HR admin.
PAIN POINT 2
Managing a mixed workforce of employees and volunteers
Non-profits often operate with a combination of paid staff and volunteers, sometimes across different programs, locations and funding sources. Keeping track of who falls under which employment obligation, and what records need to be maintained, is genuinely complex.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero helps you manage paid staff compliantly and maintain clear records across your workforce, with visibility across your team no matter how it’s structured.
PAIN POINT 3
Agreement and Pay Equity complexity
Roles in the for-purpose and community sector often span a complex mix of Individual Employment Agreements, Collective Agreements and sector Pay Equity settlements (such as social work and support services). Getting pay steps wrong or miscalculating statutory leave creates risk under the Holidays Act 2003.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Our automated payroll engine simplifies compliance across complex community sector agreements, applying the correct Pay Equity steps, allowances and statutory entitlements automatically so your funding goes to your cause.
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Fast, digital onboarding for staff and program workers
Whether you’re bringing on a social worker, a community programme coordinator or short-term project staff, Employment Hero gets them contract-signed, IRD tax-ready and policy-acknowledged before day one. No printing, no manual chasing and no compliance gaps.
Automated agreement and Pay Equity compliance
Community sector roles span a mix of Individual Employment Agreements, Collective Agreements and Pay Equity framework rates. Employment Hero automatically applies the correct pay rates, allowances and statutory leave rules, which keeps your pay runs accurate without manual calculations.
Leave management that works across complex structures
Non-profit teams often include part-time employees, fixed-term contract workers and staff funded across multiple grants. Employment Hero manages leave entitlements accurately across all employment types, so your team leads can approve leave with confidence.
Compliance documentation and policy management
From child safety policies to code of conduct acknowledgements and mandatory training records, Employment Hero stores and tracks all compliance documents centrally. Automated reminders flag upcoming renewals before they become gaps.
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Focus on your mission. We’ll handle the employment side
Employment Hero gives non-profit organisations the compliance confidence, payroll accuracy and people tools to do more for their communities without the admin getting in the way.
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