Benefits & Wellness Manager

About the role

The purpose of this classification is to plan, implement, maintain, and administer a broad range of benefits and services to County employees. These benefits include retirement, medical, dental, life, disability insurances, medical leaves and health and wellness program and initiatives. Oversees contractual operations of the Employee Health and Wellness Center.

Responsibilities

• Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.
• Trains subordinate staff in job duties and responsibilities.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates operations/activities of various wellness and benefit programs; provides assistance and guidance to Director and Department heads to ensure proper administration of benefits programs.
• Establishes goals, standards and objectives; develops and administers benefits policies and procedures; ensures provision of services is in compliance with policy, Federal and state laws, rules and regulations.
• Schedules, coordinates and/or conducts initial employee benefits enrollment, instructs new hires in completion of benefit enrollment; distributes completed benefit information to appropriate providers and staff.
• Designs, develops and distributes communication tools to enhance employees’ understanding of the County’s benefits packages.
• Plans, coordinates and implements various enrollment and benefit meetings.
• Administers the County’s retirement programs including Defined Benefit Retirement Program, 401K plan and 457 (b) plan.
• Interprets, explains, applies, and ensures compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local policies, procedures, laws, rules, regulations, and standards initiates any actions necessary to correct deviations or violations; researches relevant labor laws at state/federal level to clarify issues and ensure compliance as they relate to human resources administration and enforcement.
• Affords assistance and advisement to Director as appropriate.
• Provides information, guidance, and assistance to County officials, directors, managers, supervisors, employees, the public, or other individuals regarding personnel issues, employment, employee relations, policies and policy interpretations, procedures, timeframes, forms, or other issues responds to questions/complaints, research problems, and initiates problem resolution.
• Affords assistance and recommends to Director with developing, recommending, updating, and implementing personnel policies and procedures.
• Affords assistance to Director with establishing annual budget and controlling expenditures for benefit and wellness programs in accordance with adopted budget.
• Maintains confidentiality of departmental issues and documentation.
• Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge of applicable laws/regulations; reads professional literature; maintains professional affiliations; attends workshops and training sessions as appropriate.
• Operates a personal computer and other general office equipment as necessary to complete essential functions, to include the use of word processing, spreadsheet, database, or other system software.
• Communicates with director, department heads and managers, County officials, employees, attorneys, government agencies, vendors, the public, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, or resolve problems; responds to requests for service or assistance.

Qualifications

• Performs other related duties as required.
• Performs general/clerical tasks, which may include answering telephone calls, making copies, sending/receiving faxes, filing documentation, or processing incoming/outgoing mail.
• Provides assistance to other employees or departments as needed.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance: The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners offers employees a choice of two medical plans offered by Aetna and a plan offered by Kaiser Permanente.
• Dental Insurance: The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners offers two dental plans from Delta Dental: Base $1,000 Plan Buy-Up $1,500 Plan.
• Vision Insurance: The vision plan offered by Forsyth County Board of Commissioners is administered by Aetna and will offer office visit copays for exams, as well as copays for lenses, frames, and contacts.
• Life & AD&D Insurance: The Board provides term life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) protection for each full-time employee. This is a County-paid benefit.
• Disability Insurance: 100% paid by Forsyth County. Eligibility begins date of hire. Short Term Disability – 60% of weekly earnings to a maximum of $1,000.00 a week. Eligibility begins 14 days after an accident or sickness and has a benefit period of 24 weeks. Long Term Disability – 60% of monthly earnings to a maximum of $5,000.00 a month. Eligibility begins at 26 weeks to coordinate with the end of Short Term benefits and continues 24 months (Own Occupation).

Pay

Salary $77,079.00 - $102,129.00 Annually

Schedule

Full-time