What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compensation Specialist position at Cleveland Metropolitan School District?
Position Type:
Administration and Professionals
Date Posted:
2024-07-01
Location:Administration or As Assigned
INTRODUCTION: CONTEXT AND MISSION
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) serves approximately 37,000 students in 100 schools. Over the past several years, the Greater Cleveland community has united behind the collective goal of ensuring every child in Cleveland attends a high-quality school and every neighborhood has a multitude of great schools from which families can choose. The Cleveland Plan defines CMSD’s approach to the reinvention of public education and holds our community accountable for the success of Cleveland’s schoolchildren. The Cleveland Plan is supported by Ohio House Bill 525, which provides much-needed flexibility and autonomy for the district and its schools. Our schools have autonomy over human and financial resources in exchange for accountability for
performance. The principal has primary responsibility and accountability for establishing his or her school as a high-quality, high-expectations academic center with a focus on personalized instruction, professional support for teachers, and school-wide practices that lead to measurable results.
The Cleveland Metropolitan School District has developed standards of excellence that the district applies to all parts of the organization inclusive of schools, principals, school leadership teams, networks, and central office. Alignment between Standards of Excellence (SoE) and the district’s Theory of Action helps ensure that principals are able to focus on scholar achievement and that central office supports are timely and effective.
Our Vision for Learning in a Post-Pandemic World:
In our pursuit of a more fair, just, and good system of education, we want each of our learners, both each of our scholars and each of their educators, to be individually and collectively presented with academically / intellectually complex tasks that are worthy of their productive struggle and allow them authentic opportunities to demonstrate their work and their learning of academic content and transferable skills in a joyful and adventurous environment.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
Location: Administration or As Assigned
Reports to: Executive Director, Culture and Total Rewards
FLSA Status: Non- Exempt
Salary Band: 12
Compensation: $ 45,900. - $ 64,260.
We are seeking a Compensation Specialist to be responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of various compensation programs and Collective Bargaining Agreements to support the District’s needs and attract and retain the best talent. This position will first and foremost be a strong analytical thinker and self-motivator while maintaining a high level of confidentiality, accuracy, and integrity.
Duties & Responsibilities
This role will:
- Maintain compensation data and benefits data within the HRIS system (Workday) regarding new hires, transfers, reclassifications, budget changes, and supplemental assignments of all employees in compliance with internal policies as well as local, state, federal laws and guidelines and negotiated collective bargaining agreements
- Set salaries and hourly rates for employees in accordance with various collective bargaining agreements and non-union employees
- Responsible for managing job codes, job titles, and pay grade structures in the HRIS system including new job creation, grade structure updates, and ongoing maintenance
- Responsible for maintaining all appropriate documentation related to compensation transactions
- Provides reports related to analysis as requested. Ability to extract data and present findings and recommendations
- Adhere to, educate and advise managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations and negotiated collective bargaining agreements on compensation administration
- Participate in efforts to revise and streamline existing compensation processes and/or to develop new compensation processes
- Provide customer service to employees seeking assistant with compensation
- Monitor and update the seniority lists in compliance with the negotiated collective bargaining agreements
- Assists in the completion of salary surveys and other benchmark studies
- Assists with provision of information pertaining to hearings and compensation inquiries
- Update and maintain employee personnel records as it pertains to compensation
- Respond to phone and written inquiries regarding compensation within an established response time
- Ability to work with and maintain highly confidential information
Qualifications
- Associate’s Degree required, Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent years of experience
- Minimum of zero to three years of directly relevant experience with compensation required
- Experience working with union contracts preferred
- Experience working on multiple complex, detail-heavy projects
- Understanding of Federal and state regulations governing compensation and employment including: Fair Labor Standards Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Equal Pay Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
Working Conditions/Physical Demands
- Expected moving, walking, and standing consistent with an office environment and occasionally lifting up to 15 pounds
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms
- The employee is frequently required to talk and/or hear.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to a normal office environment
- Local travel may be required for training/meetings
NOTE: The above-stated duties are intended to outline those functions typically performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This description of duties is not intended to be all-inclusive or to limit the discretionary authority of management to assign other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility.
Education
High School or GED
To Apply
Please submit your resume and application using Workday, our online human capital management system. Please note that an offer of employment will be subject to the successful completion of an FBI/BCI background check and drug screen.
EEO Statement
We believe that equity and inclusion at CMSD is an essential call to action, a catalyst to ensure value and appreciation among all our employees, so we may be fair and welcoming now and in the future. CMSD provides equal opportunities for employment, retention and advancement of all personnel by administering all terms and conditions of employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex, disability or genetic information, age, citizenship status, military status, sexual orientation or expression, socio-economic status, title, other dimensions of identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The District’s Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, and Sexual Harassment and the District’s Title IX grievance procedures, including information on how to report or file a complaint of discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how the District will respond, may be accessed on the District’s Civil Rights Notices webpage, available at ClevelandMetroSchools.org/domain/105. The District’s Title IX Coordinator / Director of Equal Employment Opportunity may be reached at:
1111 Superior Avenue East, Suite 1800
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216)-838-0070
TitleIX_EEO@ClevelandMetroSchools.org
Salary : $45,900 - $64,260
