Benefits Administrator

Benefits Administrator

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Ada County is seeking an energetic, creative, and highly organized professional who is passionate about building relationships, engaging employees, and transforming benefits into meaningful experiences. This is a fast-paced, highly independent role that requires a strong service mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to make complex benefits information clear, relevant, and useful.

Serving more than 2,300 employees and approximately 4,500 covered lives, Ada County's benefits program supports employees across diverse departments, work environments, and schedules. Success in this position requires a proactive, resourceful communicator who can adapt messaging for different audiences, build strong partnerships, and develop engaging education and outreach that helps employees understand and maximize the value of their benefits.

The Benefits Administrator serves as a trusted resource to employees and leaders while coordinating closely with brokers, consultants, carriers, and other vendor partners. This role will lead trainings, develop communication strategies, coordinate vendor resources, and ensure employees receive accurate, timely, and meaningful information. The successful candidate will be comfortable asking questions, solving problems, holding partners accountable, and bringing the right people together to get things done.

Beyond day-to-day benefits administration, this position will think strategically about employee engagement, utilization, claims costs, cost-containment opportunities, emerging benefit trends, regulatory changes, and opportunities to improve the County's comprehensive benefits program. The ideal candidate is curious, adaptable, comfortable managing competing priorities, and able to connect the technical details of benefits with the people those benefits are intended to serve.

The Ada County Human Resources Department serves over 2,300 county employees, as well as the county's 7 elected offices and 13 departments. Our Human Resources values are the foundation of how we support, engage, and empower our team. These values guide every decision we make — from hiring and development to workplace culture and employee well-being.

HR VALUES:

Serve Big: We aim high and give our all. We're here to make a difference.

Better Together: Our talents and ideas are welcome here, and we'll grow even better side-by-side.

Build Trust: We are committed to honesty, accountability, and meaningful connections

We offer a competitive Total Rewards package that increases your base salary by approximately 40%, including:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• 11 paid holidays annually
• Participation in Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) a defined benefit plan with a 11.96% employer contribution
• 457(b) deferred compensation plan with up to 3% county match, plus a 401(k)
• Paid parental leave, life insurance, and wellness programs
• Ongoing training opportunities and career development
• Remote work upon completion of training (up to 2 days/wk.)

The Benefits Administrator serves as a subject matter expert and strategic lead for the administration, development, contracts and compliance of group benefit programs including health, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, flexible spending plan, retirement plans across Ada County. The Benefits Administrator supervises the benefits staff and is responsible for directing and planning the day-to-day operations and short and long-term initiatives. This position works collaboratively with leadership, cross-functional teams, and external vendors to drive solutions that support employee well-being and organizational goals.