Rewards Partner

• Compensation: USD 72,000 - USD 72,000 - yearly

Background

Since 1976, St. Joseph Center has been meeting the needs of low-income and homeless individuals and families in Venice, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, and surrounding communities. The Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that assists people without regard for religious affiliation or lack thereof through comprehensive case management and integrated social service programs. The Center enjoys broad-based community support as well as a sponsored relationship with its founders, the Sisters of St.

Joseph of Carondelet. St. Joseph Center serves approximately 6,000 individuals annually.

Brief Description of Principal Activities

Multifaceted intervention, prevention, and education services are carried out at four sites on the Westside of Los Angeles. St. Joseph Center’s integrated programs provide clients with concentrated and coordinated access to services according to the nature of their needs.

The People + Culture team fosters a welcoming, supportive, and values-driven environment where employees feel empowered to thrive. We are committed to building a culture of trust, meaningful connection, and service grounded in St. Joseph Center’s mission and values.

The People + Culture Total Rewards Partner is a hands‑on individual contributor who owns the day-to-day administration of employee benefits, leaves of absence, workers’ compensation, and core HRIS processes. The role helps build sustainable, scalable systems and processes that improve consistency, reduce administrative burden, and support the organization’s evolving needs. The position also helps launch practical employee‑facing HR technology and provides administrative and analytical support for compensation activities as the total rewards function matures.

This is an employee-centered operations role reporting to the AVP, People & Culture.

• Benefits Administration and Employee Support:Own the day-to-day administration of medical, dental, vision, life, flexible spending, retirement, and related benefit programs. Serve as a primary employee resource; manage eligibility, enrollments, life‑event changes, terminations, and documentation; coordinate with brokers, carriers, payroll, and vendors; reconcile invoices, payroll deductions, eligibility files, and vendor feeds; and lead the operational execution of year-round benefits education and open enrollment.
• Leave of Absence and Workplace Accommodations:Manage end-to-end administration of statutory, company‑provided, and personal leaves, including intake, eligibility review, notices, certifications, tracking, extensions, benefit continuation, payroll impact, return-to-work coordination, and closure. Support the interactive process for disability, pregnancy, and related accommodations in partnership with People & Culture leadership and legal counsel when appropriate.
• Workers’ Compensation:Administer workers’ compensation cases from incident intake through closure. Coordinate with employees, managers, medical providers, payroll, operations, carriers, and claims partners to support appropriate care, wage coordination, work restrictions, modified duty, return‑to‑work activity, and case resolution. Maintain accurate files and monitor case aging, trends, barriers, and risk.
• HRIS, Data Quality, and Employee
  
  Experience:
  
  Assist with requirements gathering, process mapping, configuration, data validation, testing, training, documentation, issue tracking, launch support, and adoption. Maintain accurate HRIS data; produce recurring and ad hoc reports; support employee‑facing HR tools.
• Compensation and Total Rewards Support:Maintain accurate compensation data, job records, and…