Human Resources Principal Analyst Hybrid

Location:

1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, 94063

We offer a wide range of meaningful and exciting career opportunities with potential for growth, training and development, competitive salaries, flexible schedule/hybrid work options, paid time off, and a robust benefits package. The Redwood City team is guided by the core values of excellence, integrity, service, collaboration, inclusion and innovation
. Inherent in these values is a great organizational culture based on trust, strong and supportive leadership, respect, risk‑taking, empowerment, and effective communication.

Our community is known for its diversity, strong neighborhoods, and civic pride. The City works diligently to maintain positive and productive relationships with community partners, together providing outstanding services, programs and opportunities for residents. We hope you find that this mix of tradition and progress, community and diversity, makes Redwood City an extraordinary place to work and call home.

The examination process will consist of at least one oral board interview process to establish an Eligible List for both current and future vacancies. We will follow with a departmental hiring interview where we can learn more about your career goals and explore position fit.

If you’re looking to continue growing your career as part of an HR team that fosters innovation, creativity and collaboration, we encourage you to apply!

This is the highest level classification in the management analyst series. The incumbent will act as a lead; be recognized as a technical specialist of the various technology systems for Human Resources functions and will be relied upon to provide expert consultation to meet user needs. The incumbent will act as a project manager over some aspects of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)/Oracle and may act as a lead over some Payroll functions.

Some responsibilities include performing diverse, specialized, and complex work involving significant accountability and decision‑making responsibility.

This position is required to develop and/or to present management positions with respect to employer‑employee relations, with duties that normally require access to confidential information contributing significantly to the development of management positions. Please review the detailed job description for Human Resources Principal Analyst here, which includes more information on the duties and essential knowledge, skills and abilities for this position.

• Creative and innovative thinking – evaluating past practices and best practices; developing creative and innovative solutions that improve outcomes and/or promote efficiency; implementing and managing change.
• Managing work – effectively managing time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently, with self‑management and independent judgment.
• Decision making – identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities for improvement; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Planning and organizing – establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently and accurately.
• Interpersonal communication – developing and maintaining effective working relationships with others; relating well to people from varied backgrounds and in different situations.
• Continuous learning and self‑development – actively identifying, creating and participating in learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge on the job and learning through its application.

A combination of experience, training and education that has prepared you to have the knowledge, skills and abilities to succeed in this position. Examples of potential experience, training and education that would qualify may include:

• Five (5) years of professional‑level programmatic, budgetary, governmental accounting,…