DEPARTMENTAL PERSONNEL ASSISTANT/EMERGENCY APPOINTMENTS HOMELESSNESS

About the role

The Department of Mental Health is seeking qualified candidates to fill emergency Departmental Personnel Assistant vacancies related to the homelessness crisis. Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment.

Responsibilities

• Maintains personnel files and records of individual employees, including work history, vacations, leaves of absence, probation reports, performance evaluations, appraisals of promotability, status changes, and disciplinary actions.
• Maintains a system of item control as a check on the number of allocated positions and the status of each; prepares requests for approval of deviations such as frozen or borrowed positions.
• Compiles periodic statistical reports providing management with information such as turnover, vacancies, total number employed, and budget needs.
• Disseminates information concerning recruitment needs to various agencies and organizations.
• Obtains eligible lists, certifications, examination results, medical records, and other information pertaining to the recruitment, testing and selection of applicants.
• Interprets salary provisions of the County Code to determine the salary rate applicable in a given set of circumstances, considering factors such as Y-rates, advanced step recruitment, superior-subordinate pay, shift differentials, bonuses, hazard pay, and furnishes necessary data to the payroll section.
• Provides information to applicants, explains Civil Service procedure, evaluates applications, clarifies questionable or inadequate information, and attempts to resolve problems affecting eligibility.
• Serves as a point of contact for employees concerning their rights, benefits and responsibilities, departmental policies and regulations, Civil Service Rules, and the County Code.
• Supervises a small clerical staff in the personnel office.

Requirements

• One year of experience in a highly specialized capacity* assisting in technical personnel work** in a central personnel office***.
• One year of payroll experience at the level of Payroll Clerk I****.

Qualifications

You MUST meet the above requirement(s) in order to be appointed to fill any vacancies related to this recruitment.

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