Human Resources Liaison (Administrative Specialist I, Grade N18)

Salary : $62,328.00 - $98,322.00 Annually
Location : 201 Edison Park Dr Gaithersburg MD 20878 USA
Job Type: Permanent
Job Number: 2026-00327
Department: Alcohol Beverage Services
Division: ABS 85 Administrative Services
Opening Date: 06/01/2026
Closing Date: 6/5/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
FLSA: Non-Exempt


About the Position
Please note: The salary range above represents this position's earning potential. The anticipated hiring range for this position will be $62,328 to $80,325, based on the candidate's qualifications and experience.
WHO WE ARE

is committed to building a talented, skilled, and diverse workforce; enhancing the employee experience; and ensuring excellence customer service for County residents, businesses, and licensees. ABS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and values diverse perspectives, lived experiences, and cultures. ABS encourages BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), immigrants, women, LGBTQIA+, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

A dedicated ABS Human Resource Liaison to help maintain smooth communication and foster positive employee experiences. Serving as the connection point between employees and the HR department, you will help communicate policies, processes, and organizational updates. You will assist with onboarding, answer employee questions, and guide staff through HR procedures like benefits, training, and documentation. The role often involves gathering feedback, resolving minor workplace concerns, and ensuring employees feel supported and informed.
What You'll Be Doing
In the Human Resources Liaison position, this class will be responsible for performing a full range of professional administrative support, both complex and diverse work assignments which have significant departmental impact.

• Performs many tasks: onboarding, scheduling, documentation, training logistics, and follow-ups. Strong organizational habits are required to keep everything running smoothly.

• Supports FMLA program, sends FMLA notifications and information to employees and OMS, processes FMLA designations, reviews and analyzes employee leave to ensure compliance with FMLA rules.

• Supports and administers light duty, reviews health status reports from OMS, ensures Managers/supervisors adhere to the health status report and employee restrictions, works with OMS for clarification on light duty and all restrictions.

• Supports confidential reasonable accommodations, ADA placement requests, and ergonomic evaluations. Works with OMS to review recommendations and coordinate employee placement or accommodation.

• Supports fitness for duty requests, analyzes information, and makes recommendations about fitness for duty processes and procedures, processes fitness for duty requests, coordinates, and monitors employee's progress.

• Supports worker's compensation program. Works with Risk Management, OMS and CorVel to coordinate work related injuries for employees out of work, on light duty, and return to work. Meets with Risk Management and CorVel, as needed, to review compensation claims, statuses, and to support recommendations for action.

• Coordinates worker's compensation claim status with OMS and CorVel to ensure optimal recovery of employee.

• Coordinates the Sick Leave Donation Program for Unrepresented Employees in coordination with the Department of Finance and OMS.

• Analyzes and prepares essential employee reports, ensures newly hired employees are appropriately designated as essential personnel.

• Serves as the department's liaison for bi-weekly payroll.

• Performs all Oracle employee assignment and position management transactions to include HR Org changes, new hires, reclassifications, new position creations, competitive and non-competitive promotions, retirements, terminations, transfers, supervisor change, location change, LWOP, temporary promotions and other data changes.

• Coordinate performance management processes, compliance, and timelines, providing technical advice and guidance to employees and managers.

• Executes key administrative functions for people-centric programs, driving a positive employee experience by supporting the seamless rollout of HR initiatives and programs.

Telework: There may be an opportunity for limited telework, subject to manager approval, after the initial training period.
Background check: A criminal background check will be conducted on the selected candidate prior to appointment and will be a significant factor in the hiring decision.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience: One (1) year of professional administrative experience performing human resources administrative functions such as processing personnel transactions in an HRIS system (e.g., Oracle), coordinating leave programs (FMLA, ADA), managing workers' compensation cases, or supporting recruitment and performance management processes.
Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree.
Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Background check: A criminal background check will be conducted on the selected candidate prior to appointment and will be a significant factor in the hiring decision.
Medical Protocol: This position requires completion of a pre-employment Medical History Form to assess your ability to safely perform the essential duties of the role.
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
The applications of those individuals meeting the minimum qualifications will be reviewed to determine the extent, relevancy of training, and experience in the following areas:

• Experience supporting employee leave and accommodation programs such as FMLA, ADA, or light duty.

• Experience assisting with workers' compensation activities, including claim status tracking, coordination of medical restriction statuses, fitness-for-duty, or return-to-work processes.

• Experience applying HR policies, procedures, collective bargaining agreements or employment-related regulations in completing HR tasks and advising employees.

• Experience supporting performance management cycles and processes.

• Experience performing personnel or position transactions in an HRIS such as Oracle.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.

Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at View email address on click.appcast.io. Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.

MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference.

All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.

This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.

Montgomery County Ethics Law : Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code. Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Leave Benefits

Our generous leave package starts with non-MLS permanent and term employees earning 15 days of sick leave and 15 days of annual leave in their first year, as well as up to three additional personal days each calendar year. Positions in MLS earn 35 days of paid time off each year. In addition, we offer all employees 10 paid holidays. Our leave policies adhere to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, and we provide six weeks of paid parental leave for new parents.

Retirement Benefits

All permanent and term positions are eligible for robust retirement plans. Public safety positions are eligible for a defined benefit pension plan in which they are vested after only five years. Employees in non-public safety positions can participate in retirement plans that contribute up to 12 percent of their annual salary. All employees can also participate in a supplemental retirement plan, the 457 Deferred Compensation Plan, to contribute even more to their retirement goals.

Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Forgiveness

Montgomery County employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Participants who meet all requirements may qualify for forgiveness on the remaining balance on their Direct Loans after making 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time in a qualifying public service position. To learn more about PSLF, please visit the Student Loan Repayment Benefits page. Our tuition assistance program allows you to receive up to $2,130 annually in tuition assistance to help you achieve a degree that supports your career path.

Free Mass Transit Benefit

County employees are entitled to use the RideOn Bus service for free with a valid County-employee ID. This benefit can be used any time of the day or evening, including weekends. We also offer a pre-tax flexible spending account to reduce the cost of other mass-transit options such as MARC trains and Metro.

Reduced Child and Health Care Costs

Working for Montgomery County also entitles permanent and term employees to participate in healthcare and childcare Flexible Spending Accounts. These plans allow eligible employees to save on a pretax basis for healthcare and dependent care costs incurred during the plan year.


Employee Wellbeing

We deeply care about your holistic wellness. Our award-winning wellness program, LiveWell, will support you in improving and maintaining your physical, mental, financial, social, and intellectual well-being.

Learn more about our wonderful benefits available to you once you join our team. Montgomery County Benefits
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MQ Question ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST I (000152)

What is your highest level of completed education?

• N/A
• High School/GED
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• Juris Doctor
• Doctorate

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MQ Question ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST I (000152)

How many years of professional administrative experience do you have performing human resources administrative functions such as processing personnel transactions in an HRIS system (e.g., Oracle), coordinating leave programs (FMLA, ADA), managing workers' compensation cases, or supporting recruitment and performance management processes?

• No Experience
• 1 Year Experience
• 2 Year's Experience
• 3 Year's Experience
• 4 Year's Experience
• 5+ Year's Experience

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Please identify the position(s) on your resume where you performed these human resources administrative functions and briefly describe the types of transactions or activities you handled (for example, HRIS personnel actions, leave coordination, workers' compensation support, recruitment tasks, or performance management processes). If you do not have experience in this area, indicate "N/A."
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Select the one response that best describes your experience supporting employee leave and accommodation programs.

• I have not supported employee leave or accommodation processes.
• I have assisted with basic leave-support tasks such as forwarding forms, logging leave activity, or sending template notices under supervision.
• I have independently completed routine leave-support steps such as sending required notices, tracking deadlines, reviewing documentation for completeness, or communicating with employees or supervisors about basic requirements.
• I have coordinated multiple leave types (FMLA, ADA, light duty), monitored restrictions or timelines, communicated with OMS or supervisors about required steps, and ensured adherence to guidance with limited oversight.
• I have supported complex or sensitive leave or accommodation cases, clarified requirements with OMS or HR specialists, provided guidance to supervisors, or contributed to improving leave-related procedures or tracking tools.

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Please describe the types of leave or accommodation activities you supported and the tools, systems, or medical/administrative frameworks you used, and identify the position(s) on your resume where this work was performed. If you do not have experience in this area, indicate "N/A."
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Select the one response that best describes your experience supporting workers' compensation or related medical-restriction processes.

• I have not supported workers' compensation or related processes.
• I have collected incident information or documentation and forwarded materials to HR, Risk Management, OMS, or a third-party administrator.
• I have monitored claim status, communicated with injured employees or supervisors, tracked medical restrictions, or assisted with light-duty or return-to-work coordination.
• I have reviewed medical restriction information, coordinated next steps with OMS or Risk Management, ensured supervisors adhered to restrictions, and monitored progress toward return-to-work with minimal guidance.
• I have supported complex or sensitive cases requiring coordination with multiple stakeholders (e.g., OMS, Risk Management, supervisors), resolved issues related to restrictions or documentation, or contributed to refined tracking or coordination practices.

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Please describe the workers' compensation, medical-restriction, fitness-for-duty, or return-to-work activities you supported and the tools, systems, or medical/administrative frameworks you used, and identify the position(s) on your resume where this work was performed. If you do not have experience in this area, indicate "N/A"'
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Select the one response that best describes your experience applying HR policies, procedures, CBAs, or employment-related regulations.

• I have not applied HR policies, procedures, CBAs, or employment-related regulations.
• I have referenced written policies, procedures, or CBAs to answer basic questions or complete tasks under supervision.
• I have applied HR policies or CBA provisions to routine decisions, helped employees or supervisors understand requirements, and ensured that my actions aligned with written procedures.
• I have interpreted HR policies, CBA provisions, or regulatory requirements, advised supervisors on appropriate steps, and used multiple sources (policies, guidance, CBAs, regulations) to ensure accurate and compliant decisions.
• I have handled complex HR matters requiring interpretation of multiple policies, CBAs, or regulations, advised leadership on compliance implications, or contributed to improvements in HR procedures or guidance.

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Please describe the types of HR policies, procedures, CBAs, or regulations you applied, the decisions or case situations involved, and how you ensured accuracy and compliance, and identify the position(s) on your resume where this work was performed. If you do not have experience in this area, indicate "N/A."'
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Select the one response that best describes your experience supporting performance management processes.

• I have not supported performance management processes.
• I have assisted with basic tasks such as tracking due dates, collecting forms, or sending reminders to employees or supervisors.
• I have monitored timelines, assisted managers with required steps, reviewed documentation for completeness, or supported process compliance.
• I have coordinated performance management activities for multiple units, provided guidance to supervisors on procedures, and helped ensure timely and compliant completion of required steps.
• I have supported complex or organization-wide performance cycles, developed or improved tracking tools, trained staff on performance procedures, or contributed to enhancements in process design.

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Please describe the types of performance management tasks you supported and the tools or systems you used to monitor timelines or documentation, and identify the position(s) on your resume where this work was performed. If you do not have experience in this area, indicate "N/A."
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Do you have experience performing personnel or position transactions in an HRIS such as Oracle?

• Yes
• No

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Please list the HRIS system(s) you used, the types of personnel or position transactions you completed, and the tools or reports you used to verify accuracy, and identify the position(s) on your resume where this work was performed. If you do not have experience in this area, indicate "N/A."
Required Question