What are the responsibilities and job description for the Human Resources Generalist position at US Tech Solutions?
Job Details:
Job Title: Human Resources Specialist II
Location: Virtual (Work from Home)
Duration: 4 Months contract
Summary:
- The Sr. Accommodation Consultant (SAC) serves as a liaison between business lines, the Disability Leave Services (DLS) team, vendor partners and employees. Sr. Accommodation Consultants are highly skilled in answering questions related to ADA, understanding the employee’s situation, responding to changing circumstances and needs, and paving the way for a connected and trusted case management experience.
- Responsibilities include pursuing return-to-work management and collaboration with leave case managers and disability vendors to ensure effective administration of the program. This role will also provide consultation and coaching regarding accommodation matters to designated regional HR partners, managers and employees.
- In this position it will be critical to be able to understand business operations and have a deep understanding of ADA, FMLA, statutory leaves and disability policies and laws, in addition to the job accommodation processes.
- The Sr. Accommodation Consultant must demonstrate the ability to collaborate and teach in order to achieve goals for the company and employees. They must focus on projects that affect the DLS team and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for accommodation related issues.
Key Responsibilities/Duties:
- Provide information, referral, and support to employees with medical conditions or disabilities, supervisors, Human Resources, and other partners at an escalated level to support employee return to work efforts
- Operate as an advocate for the accommodations process by providing on-going consultative support to site stakeholders and accommodation specialists with a focus on problem solving and creative solutions.
- Facilitate communication between stakeholders, employees with disabilities, as well as Leave of absence, STD, LTD and Workers Compensation stakeholders
- Investigate and partner with DLS Management and Legal on escalated issues as appropriate
- Assist Human Resources and department supervisors in identifying essential and marginal functions of employee positions
- Conduct job site analyses
- Assist employees in understanding their restrictions and limitations and their legal rights and responsibilities
- Travel 25-50% of the time, as needed
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional or military experience
- 5 years case management experience applying ADA/ADAAA using a case management system and establishing/executing a case management plan; other HR or management experience can be substituted for progressive case management experience
- Knowledge of federal and state disability laws regarding access for employees with disabilities; specifically ADA and FMLA
