Human Resources Specialist

Under general supervision, performs a variety of technical, administrative and advanced clerical duties in the area of recruitment and selection, classification and compensation, payroll, benefits, employee/labor relations, employee development, training, safety, integrated disability management and/or other human resources programs.

The Human Resources Specialist is a paraprofessional class, responsible for performing technical personnel activities in support of professional human resources or administrative staff. Incumbents perform a full range of standard work procedures, operations, tasks, duties, and responsibilities with little or no immediate supervision. Incumbents have some responsibility for carrying out and explaining existing policy, methods and/or procedures related to the duties of the position.

The Human Resources Specialist is distinguished from lower level clerical positions in that this class performs technical duties that require extensive technical knowledge or that duties are diversified and require application of independent judgment and discretion. This classification is distinguished from the higher level classification of Human Resources Analyst in that the Human Resources Specialist class performs a high proportion of routine duties and tasks and decisions are made within established procedures, requiring general program knowledge, and are subject to more frequent and detailed review;

whereas the Human Resources Analyst performs the full range of professional human resource work with little or no immediate supervision. This classification is intended to serve as a bridge class between clerical classes and the professional human resources analyst level.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Assists in recruitment planning and prepares recruitment materials; contacts organizations and media to advertise recruitment; screens applications for completeness and minimum qualification requirements; organizes and schedules test times, sites and proctors; proctors tests; arranges for interview panels; responds to applicant inquiries concerning qualification requirements and selection procedures.
• Assists in the performance of classification studies; gathers and compiles salary, benefit, organizational structure data from other agencies; compiles and assembles data into appropriate format; organizes and presents information; makes comparisons between Court job specifications and those of other agencies; develops or revises class specifications.
• Reviews and processes personnel transactions for the Court's payroll system, identifies errors or deviations and resolves with division staff; processes payroll and miscellaneous pay; performs position management duties; resolves employee history and payroll issues; processes new employees, employee terminations, leaves of absence, and other personnel actions; checks personnel transactions forms and timesheets for accuracy; prepares and submits payroll accounting information for processing and reconciles any differences between payroll records and system processing reports;
  
  examines, reconciles, balances, and adjusts personnel/payroll records.
• Assists with new employee on-boarding process; conducts new employee orientation; assembles and explains information packets including human resources policies and benefit and retirement data; verifies new employees have accurately completed all paperwork; facilitates criminal history information background checks.
• Assists in the development, preparation and administration of benefit programs; participates in annual benefits program open enrollments; explains and interprets benefit options, benefit plan coverage, eligibility for benefits and claims procedures; receives, prepares, and processes health, life and other insurance benefit claims; verifies employee and dependent plan eligibility and accurate completion of enrollment forms; explains deferred compensation plan provisions.
• Assists in the coordination, development, and implementation of training and safety programs; maintains records, enters data, schedules and tracks employees training; generates training records.
• Assist with the administration of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Workers' Compensation, leave of absence and safety and ergonomics programs; assists with the administration of both public and internal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) program.
• Researches Court human resources policies, procedures and regulations, personnel and payroll records; compiles information for reports; prepares a variety of written reports and notifications; researches Memorandum of Understandings (MOU's) and assists with labor relation activities.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

One (1) year of clerical experience that involved processing personnel, accounting, and/or payroll actions.

Two (2) years of experience performing complex technical or clerical work in a human resources…