HR Specialist/Generalist
State of Nebraska

Kearney, Nebraska

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Description
$20.640/hour plus $3/hr differential for every hour worked! $200 Monthly Bonus for commutes of 30 miles or more!

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This is the second level of the HR Specialist/Generalist Series. Under general supervision, performs technical support activities in one or more HR functions to include: talent acquisition, classification and compensation, benefits, payroll, and/or organizational development.

Positions at this level may serve as a functional specialist providing and coordinating standardized services, operations, and activities within one or more personnel programs or functions for an agency as a generalist having wide diversity in jobs located at a state facility or dispersed statewide. Positions at this level may serve as a senior personnel official providing and coordinating the full scope of personnel programs, functions, and related processes for an agency, geographic region, or a branch personnel office. Positions may supervise assigned technical and support level staff but typically would not supervise supervisory or professional level staff.
Examples of Work
Recruits, interviews, and screens applicants for the employing agency; applies established hiring evaluation criteria during the screening of applicants; trains managers and supervisors in interviewing techniques; writes ads for newspapers, social media, and job boards; and contacts various employment/labor sources to locate applicants;
conducts external recruitment activities, including attending job fairs.

Develops, coordinates, and presents orientation material to new teammates; explains State Personnel rules, labor contracts, the employing agency's personnel policies, and the State's insurance, retirement, and benefits package; conducts training to explain these matters to agency teammates. Answers questions and explains laws, State personnel rules, labor contracts, employing agency's personnel policies and procedures, and terms of state health insurance, leave, and other benefits to teammates and supervisors; drafts memos on personnel matters.

Assists in the coordination of benefits programs, functions, or processes (which include workers compensation, unemployment insurance, and safety-health actives) to ensure compliance with State Personnel rules, labor/management agreements and contracts, and administrative procedures. Coordinates HR programs, functions, or processes to ensure compliance with State Personnel rules, labor/management agreements and contracts, and administrative procedures.

Instructs teammates on personnel/employment laws, and State Personnel rules, labor contracts, with technical direction and final interpretation from higher-level employing agency, State Employee Relations, State Personnel,
or legal officials. Topics can include labor relations, teammate conflicts or teammate issues, salary administration, working conditions, and record keeping discrepancies.
Collects information on, identifies causes of, and offers suggestions on disposition of grievances and disciplinary actions; explains the employing agency's grievance and disciplinary procedures to agency supervisors and teammates; participates at grievance hearings and assists senior management or other personnel officials of the
employing agency in preparation of grievance/disciplinary responses.
Contributes to agency strategic planning efforts delivering HR expertise and solutions to drive organizational effectiveness.

Monitors or oversees the employing agency's equal employment opportunity and diversity programs, functions, processes, and activities including record keeping and report preparation. Monitors staffing levels; prepares organizational charts, and work activity and statistical reports; provides suggestions on workforce requirements and personal services budget requests; monitors the personal services portion of the employing agency's budget.
Coordinates various teammate/personnel related activities such as job safety/health activities, teammate contribution/fund drive campaigns, and teammate recognition/suggestion award events. Represents the employing agency at various personnel and other conferences, task force meetings, and informational seminars.
Qualifications / Requirements
REQUIREMENTS: Two years of coursework or training in personnel management, business administration, public administration or office/administrative or three years of related experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Knowledge of: the general practices of diverse areas of personnel administration including wage administration, talent acquisition, performance evaluations, management-teammate relations, understanding of broad administrative goals and processes and their relationship to delivering quality programs and services; goals and requirements of record maintenance and confidentiality; federal personnel/employment laws; standard personnel, payroll, benefits, and related budgeting practices, forms, and requirements; standard teammate/job safety and health practices; general labor/teammate-management relations requirements and practices.

Ability to: communicate with others individually and in group presentations, and through electronic means, correspondence, and reports; interact with agency teammates, elected or other State officials, and representatives of firms or associations to maintain working relationships; use computers and associated applications software using word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and graphic presentation features; interpret and apply governmental rules, agency directives, and work instructions.


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