HR GENERALIST 1 - 08252026- 80562

Location: Nashville, TN (remote position)

Salary: $4,057.00 – $5,078.00 monthly ($48,684.00 – $60,936.00 annually)

About the Role

An employee in this position will be a member of the Classification and Compensation team supporting employees, supervisors, and leadership in the Department of Human Services (DHS). This is the first level in the HR Generalist series, functioning at the entry/working level and responsible for implementing human resources services, including preparing, processing, and maintaining human resources transactions and analyses.

Responsibilities

• Provides interpretation and guidance on a variety of current human resources rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and documents for internal and external business partners to facilitate understanding, enhance communications, and ensure compliance.
• Prepares, processes, reviews, audits, corrects, and analyzes human resources documents such as employee appointments, promotions, demotions, reclassifications, flex class changes, separations, terminations, transfers, retirement, security access changes, highly confidential transactions, information changes, leave and attendance, overtime reports, pay differentials, longevity, supplemental payroll, unemployment, and performance management processing.
• Enters employee information, including schedule information, general and personal information, leave information, worker’s compensation, and other human resources-related transactions into appropriate database tracking software, electronic and paper tracking logs, spreadsheets, and other forms.
• Conducts agency-specific and specialized training, orientation/on-boarding, and benefits meetings for agency employees. Explains employee benefits to new employees, including retirement and insurance policies, flex benefits, 401k, education reimbursement, sick leave bank, leave accrual, FMLA, workers compensation, military leave, and more.
• Assists internal business partners with investigations of employee relations issues, evaluation of qualifications and background checks, development of interview questions, evaluation of employment and retention decisions, and evaluation of time and attendance for workers compensation, FMLA, and other types of extended leave.
• Determines employee qualifications for a variety of employment benefits, including FMLA, worker’s compensation, and qualifying events for insurance to ensure compliance with standards and identify next steps.
• Resolves benefit, time and attendance, pay, and other issues using departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures to ensure accurate and timely processing.
• Prepares, analyzes, audits, and maintains a variety of reports with recommendations for action in areas including attendance, benefits, equal employment opportunity issues, classification and organizational structure, selection and retention, occupational safety and health, employee relations, and salary plan reports for submission to Finance and Administration.
• Handles employee files and other departmental documentation to facilitate file organization, research, and requests from business partners.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree.
• Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying full-time professional or paraprofessional human resources experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of four years.

Skills

• Customer Focus
• Communicates Effectively
• Instills Trust
• Organizational Savvy
• Decision Quality
• Personnel and Human Resources
• Customer and Personal Service
• Law and Government
• Administration and Management
• Clerical Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Active Learning and Listening
• Time Management
• Service Orientation
• Coordination Abilities
• Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
• Problem Sensitivity
• Information Ordering
• Oral Comprehension and Expression
• Written Comprehension and Expression

Tools & Equipment

• Computers
• Phones
• Copier/Scanner/Printer/Fax Machine
• Calculator
• Other office equipment as required