What are the responsibilities and job description for the HR Coordinator position at Gilmer County Government?
General Nature of Work
The Human Resources Coordinator is responsible for performing human resources related duties in supporting designated areas. This position carries out responsibilities in the following functional areas: assistance with benefits administration, employee relations, training, performance management, onboarding, policy implementation, staffing and recruitment, and employment law compliance.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Processes bi-weekly payroll and its functions
- Assists with human resources strategies in all HR functional areas, programs, and practices such as talent management, staffing, on-boarding, employee relations, performance management, organization effectiveness, training and development, and HR policies.
- Maintains full cycle recruitment efforts including attracting and assessing candidate capabilities, work productively with outside search agencies, candidates, and internal clients.
- Assists with the onboarding process for the County including ensuring all pre-requisite screenings have been met, scheduling new hires, and ensuring all paperwork is completed on time.
- Assist HR Manager & CHRO on strategic HR initiatives.
- Work with the HR Manager & CHRO on talent management initiatives including employee assessment, development, organization effectiveness, and HR programs.
- Drive employee engagement efforts through execution of employee feedback survey, analysis of results, and development and exaction of engagement strategy.
- Assists HR Manager & CHRO with employee relations and assist in counseling employees.
- Assists the HR Manager & CHRO to design and implement a training curriculum for the employees of the County.
- Collaborate with the team to develop department goals, objectives, and processes.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations concerning employment/labor by frequently looking at applicable labor/employment sites and keeping up with current trends.
- Assists with the administration of HR programs; monitors the performance evaluation program and revises as necessary utilizing appropriate protocol.
- Performs benefits administration, including claims resolution, and communicating benefits information to employees.
- Assists HR Manager & CHRO with the County annual open enrollment.
- Serve as Admin user for HR Systems, ensure new hires and managers receive adequate training to use the system.
- Manages FMLA process from start to finish and ensures that all documentation and legal compliance is met.
- Manages the countys workers compensation program and has aggressive case management with the carrier.
- Maintain human resources records, compile reports accordingly.
- Additional duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit. Includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels. Includes significant internal and external interaction.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.
Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors degree in human resources, business or related field required.
- One (1) to Two (2) year(s) of progressively responsible experience in human resources, benefits administration, or employee relations preferred.
- May require specialized certifications and/or training as deemed necessary.
- A combination of education & experience may be supplemented and evaluated for the pre-requisite of this position.
ADA Requirements: Individuals applying for the posted position must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Physical Requirements: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
Work Environment: Essential functions are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.