Chief Operations Manager, Assistant; Benefits Administrator); Class Code 4222

professional, administrative and supervisory work assisting the chief operations manager in directing and coordinating the activities of one or more comprehensive components or functions of the chief administrative office benefits administration division; and related work as required. This division maintains group policies for life insurance, healthcare, and voluntary products. It is critical that services, product offerings, and end of life benefits be sustained.

Our overall goal is to uphold policy and federal guidelines.

• a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. *
• permanent status with the city of new orleans in a class of work having a pay grade equal to or higher than management development specialist ii (pay grade 77).
• three (3) years of responsible professional administrative experience which must have included at least one (1) year of assisting a chief operations manager or a supervisor having a pay grade equal to or higher than 90 in carrying out a wide range of municipal administrative programs and projects.

• a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. *
• four (4) years of responsible professional administrative experience in a centralized human resources division. This experience must have been at an exempt (salaried) level and must have included the planning and administration of an employee group benefits program (for example, health insurance, life insurance, and/or flexible spending plans). At least one (1) year of this experience must have been in a supervisory capacity.

professional experience is considered experience gained in a position that required a bachelor's degree upon entrance. The civil service department reserves the right to determine whether experience qualifies as responsible experience.

* prior to appointment, the hiring agency is required to verify education claimed by the applicant to qualify for this classification. If selected for hire, applicants must provide original documents of their qualifying credentials to the hiring agency prior to their start date in this job classification.

a rating of training and experience, weighted 100%. All previous related experience will be considered for qualification purposes; however, credit on the rating of training and experience will only be given for experience gained within the last ten (10) years.

this is a promotional examination limited to permanent employees of the city of new orleans.

the city of new orleans is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, creed, culture, or ancestry. Requests for alternate format or accommodations should be directed to shana parker at  or tty/voice at  or .

domicile requirements are currently waived for the purpose of application. However, all new full-time employees hired into this classification on or after january 1, 2013, must be domiciled in orleans parish within 180 days of hire. Public safety employees such as commissioned law enforcement officers hired by the new orleans police department (nopd), firefighters hired by the new orleans fire department (nofd), emergency medical technicians hired by the new orleans emergency medical services (noems) and the recruits for these positions hired by these departments are excluded from this provision.

Airport employees are excluded from this provision if the actual domicile of the employee is nearer to the employee’s job site than the distance from the job site to the nearest point of orleans parish.

additional exceptions to the domicile requirement may be made on a case‑by‑case basis. We encourage…