Senior Human Resources Technician (Confidential)

About the role

The role involves leading and performing responsible and complex technical and administrative duties in support of the District's Human Resources department and its programs. Duties include conducting recruitment and selection activities, employee records maintenance, and personnel transaction processing.

Responsibilities

• Provides input in selecting, training, and providing day-to-day lead work guidance and direction to other staff.
• Schedules and monitors work for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with District, department, and legal/regulatory requirements and standards.
• Maintains information on work processes and technical, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• Interprets, explains, and applies human resources department services, Board policies, Personnel Commission rules, collective bargaining agreements, and federal/state laws and regulations.
• Develops recommendations to improve department processes and procedures.
• May draft revised administrative regulations for executive approval.
• Leads, coordinates, and performs a variety of technical human resources duties involving the new-hire process and personnel transaction processing.
• Provides guidance and information to managers, employees, and the public on the District's recruitment process.
• Assists with and participates in the recruitment and employment process for academic staff, both full- and part-time.
• Processes, tracks, and maintains records for leaves of absence for employees.
• Oversees the District's position control; provides quality control of position numbers and data entered into HRIS; verifies and authenticates the data input from multiple campuses and ensures compliance with District procedures.
• Provides the payroll department with a variety of position information and status changes necessary to process employees' pay; ensures all personnel transactions are processed accurately and timely; may calculate and create new annual employment contracts for academic administrators and full-time faculty.
• Ensures employees and supervisors are notified of upcoming evaluations; monitors process for completion and ensures maintenance of evaluation files.
• Creates, maintains, and updates specialized and custom forms, databases, logs, files, records, and reports; designs, develops, and maintains spreadsheets and databases requiring data interpretation and manipulation.
• Prepares and conducts staff training sessions and other presentations to a variety of audiences.

Requirements

Knowledge of board policies, District human resources policies, rules, administrative regulations, procedures and practices related to the administration of recruitment, selection, hiring and other human resources management activities. The California Education Code and other applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations. Principles, concepts and techniques used in customer service, public relations and community outreach. Modern office practices, procedures and equipment including computers and applicable software programs. The District's HRIS system, practices and procedures for processing applicant information and personnel transactions. Operations, services and activities of a community college district. The District's collective bargaining process and labor contract provisions. Principles and practices of sound business communication; correct English usage, including spelling, grammar and punctuation. Safety policies and safe work practices applicable to the work.