Human Resources Professional 1

About the Role

The Iowa Department of Education's mission is ensuring all students experience a world-class education. To accomplish this mission, we need talented, passionate people working together to build an excellent education system that empowers all students to achieve their full potential. We are looking to find a highly qualified leader to serve as the Department's Human Resources Professional 1.

Responsibilities

• Regularly consult with agency managers on all employee-related issues, ensuring managers comply with Iowa Code and agency policies when conducting employee investigations and issuing disciplinary action, including developing and consulting on investigatory questions, participating in investigations as needed, ensuring all information has been gathered to prove just cause, providing agency recommendations for action to be taken, assisting with the grievance process, and coordinating the agency's effort to standardize all documentation.
• Regularly consult with DAS HRE on all performance issues.
• Provide guidance to supervisors and employees regarding FMLA and all other leave programs, and assist managers in noticing patterns and/or potential FMLA qualifying events.
• Facilitate the interactive process with employees and managers for all reasonable accommodation requests, and work with staff to order necessary office equipment/furniture approved as reasonable accommodations.
• Review, research, create, and maintain human resource policies for the Department Employee Handbook.
• Interpret state and federal laws pertaining to human resources, administrative rules, collective bargaining agreement, DAS-HRE, and Department policies.
• Consult with Department supervisors by providing guidance and advice to ensure consistency on human resource policies, work rules, policy enforcement, recruitment and selection, classification and compensation, leave management, investigations, corrective disciplinary action, reasonable accommodations, and FMLA.
• Respond to all unemployment claim notices and represent the Department in Fact Finding Interviews.
• Develop and monitor a consistent agencywide onboarding experience for new employees, review for continual improvement, and collaborate with appropriate sources to ensure content is current and relevant.
• Arrange and conduct the delivery of new employee orientation, including initial orientation on the first day and monthly sessions for new staff covering six topics on a rotating basis.
• Work with leaders to ensure that all employees have proper tools and training to perform the essential functions of their position.
• Develop and monitor retention strategies to assist with staff engagement.
• Consult with managers to develop and ensure PDQs are updated with current duties and essential functions prior to submitting to DAS PDQ for review.
• Correspond with all prospective candidates inquiring into employment at the Department.
• Post positions to NEOGOV and IowaWorks.
• Recommend appropriate compensation levels and prepare necessary paperwork for advanced appointment rates.
• Follow up with candidates on status of hiring process and notify applicants who were not chosen.
• Guide managers with all areas of the recruiting process, including developing standardized resume scoring tools and interview scoring tools for use in the hiring process, and work with DAS recruiting specialist to enhance recruitment scope.
• Create and process personnel documents including reemployment/reinstatement, transfers, personnel employee changes, benefit changes, reclassifications, employee deduction changes, and position changes.
• Review biweekly distribution payroll worksheet and timesheets to ensure all funding and program code changes are entered accurately.
• Initiate and complete paperwork for all employees upon separation from the department, including completion of the acceptance letter, all necessary retirement paperwork (including insurance enrollment paperwork), removal from Iowa Benefits, and discussing COBRA rights and options.
• Support the Department, Division, and Bureau through performing other duties as assigned.

Hours

8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Monday – Friday

Qualifications

• Passion for accomplishing common goals in pursuit of public service.
• Ability to work independently, moving projects forward with minimal supervision.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Conflict resolution and interpersonal skills.
• Desire to work with diverse teams and stakeholders.

Desirable Qualifications

• Knowledge of Department of Administrative Services human resources policies and procedures.
• Experience with Workday or other HRIS system.
• Experience with NeoGov or other online Applicant Tracking System.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite products, specifically Excel and Word.
• Proficient in Google Suite products, specifically Mail, Calendar, Drive.
• Public Service experience preferred (defined as working for a local, state, or federal government).

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a Bachelor's degree.
• A combination of a total of four years of education and full-time experience in technical or professional human resources work, where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work equals one year of full-time experience.
• Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes three years of full-time work performing technical human resources work.

Benefits

• Opportunities to make a widespread difference in the lives of children, their families, and Iowa communities.
• Collaborative, positive work environment.
• Talented and passionate work colleagues that will help you learn and grow.
• Opportunities to collaborate with experts from around the country.
• Employee discounts from a variety of vendors.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.