Human Resources Associate

Human Resources Specialist

This position will collaborate with teammates to ensure the County, as well as the team's assigned departments, are supported in the following HR functions: compensation, performance management, training, employee relations, leave administration, basic employment law, compliance, hiring, and onboarding. The incumbent must be proficient in organization, time management, prioritization, communication, attention to detail, collaboration, problem-solving, and flexibility.

Essential Duties:

• Providing coaching and feedback to managers and employees
• Providing policy interpretation and administration
• Preparing and analyzing salary requests for equity and adherence to policy
• Receiving and investigating formal complaints and writing reports
• Reviewing disciplinary action documentation
• Reviewing and auditing scheduled reports
• Processing large amounts of deadline-driven employment actions (hire, promotion, demotion, etc.)
• Administering hiring and onboarding processes to include creating job postings, screening applications, extending job offers, gathering documentation, and entering new hire information
• Responding to unemployment claims and representing the employer in hearings
• Organizing public safety departmental promotional testing
• Reviewing FMLA requests
• Administering quarterly random CDL and safety-sensitive drug and alcohol testing

Public Speaking Duties:

• Leading and facilitating supervisory training sessions on broad HR topics
• Speaking during internal and external meetings

Other Job Requirements/Information:

• This job requires fingerprinting.
• This job may require some evening and/or weekend hours.

The grade for this position is C41(1). Salary Range: $60,995 - $70,907.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in human resources, business administration, finance, or a closely related field; AND
• Four years of progressively responsible experience in one or more of the stated specialty areas: compensation, performance management, training, employee relations, leave administration, basic employment law, compliance, hiring, onboarding ; OR
• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
• Valid driver's license from state of residency

Preferred Qualifications in addition to the above minimum qualifications:

• Five years of progressively responsible, well-rounded human resources experience, to include, compensation, performance management, training, employee relations, leave administration, basic employment law, compliance, hiring, and onboarding.
• SHRM-CP, PHR, SPHR, or a similar HR Certification

Effective 4/11/2023, these positions are eligible for the Employee Referral Program.