Employee Services Specialist (Temporary)

Human Resources Technician

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.

Compile, analyze and input employee data in the PeopleSoft Human Resource Information System; providing customer service by receiving and responding to policies, procedures and master agreement questions; calculating various experience and pay figures for employees; maintaining personnel files, including electronic files, on active and terminated employees and verify and provide information from employee files as requested.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

• Compile, analyze and input employee data in the PeopleSoft Human Resource Information System, including, but not limited to, new hires, account changes, transfers, pay changes, leaves of absence, separations, deductions, position management, employee credentials and education and additional pays. Verify accuracy of paperwork submitted to HR for processing and ensure documentation is updated to employee's electronic personnel file.
• Provide excellent customer service to all levels of staff by receiving and responding to questions regarding information contained in PeopleSoft HRIS, master agreements and Human Resources policies and procedures. Refer questions and/or requests to appropriate personnel if necessary. Regularly update employee forms and instructions including but not limited to Employee Action Forms, Intermediate Step Increase, retirement stipend forms and salary placement guidelines and forms. Update both external and internal tracking spreadsheets as needed. Query PeopleSoft to create ad hoc reports as requested by stakeholders.
• Onboard employees recommended for hire by collecting and tracking new hire paperwork, providing communications with new hire, verifying start date with school administration, assisting in weekly orientations, verifying background and fingerprinting information and interfacing new hire personal and position information between applicant system and HRIS system.
• Collect, compile, analyze and calculate new hire salary placement based on appropriate contract language and documentation provided. Calculate retro pay as needed. Create correspondence to all employees for any changes in salary. Provide salary placement information and estimates to candidates and applicants.
• Compute additional pay and establish pay records in compliance with district guidelines and master agreement language. Create, change and end additional pay records throughout the year, making changes in the HRIS system and department spreadsheets as needed.
• Provide back-up coverage for Human Resources Technician as needed.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Education And Related Work Experience: High school diploma or equivalent. Minimum of 3 years general clerical experience, including 2 years of data base application systems. Bachelor degree preferred.

Licenses, Registrations or Certifications: Criminal background check required for hire.

Application Information: All applicants (current district employees and external applicants) should list any and all work experience, including current district experience, when completing the employment application. Please include job titles and duties that you held while doing that job. Since the Human Resource department uses the application to screen for minimum qualifications required for each job, it is important to have a complete application so you will be considered for the position you are applying for.

Salary Information: All Classified positions are paid on an hourly basis. All Newly hired classified employees are placed initially on Step 1 of the pay grade for their position. Classified employees can advance an additional 7 steps (maximum Step 8) based on their previous experience. Final hourly placement on the Classified Salary schedule is dependent on the Grade Level for the position being posted and employees' previous work experience. "Grade" refers to position or job classification and "Step" refers to the number of work experience credit or service years. See our Classified Salary Schedule for hourly rates. For additional compensation information, please refer to The Classified Master Agreement.

Benefits Information: Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date). To learn more about our benefits, please see our Benefits Overview.