BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION GENERALIST

Description

Ready to GROW your HR career? Join the HR team at Desert Botanical Garden as our Benefits and Compensation Generalist and play a vital role in supporting our mission through a people-first approach. In this dynamic position, you'll oversee all aspects of compensation and benefits, ensuring our employees are supported, valued and cared for. If you're passionate about helping people blossom and want to root your work in a meaningful organization, this role might be for you!

The Benefits and Compensation Generalist is responsible for the daily operation functions related to benefits include 401(k) and compensation and enforcing Garden policies and practices.

Essential Duties

• Responsible for the administration of all Garden health and retirement benefits and compensation including 401(k) plus wellbeing, health and safety functions to assist employees in understanding garden benefit offerings and work directly with all vendors and benefits broker. Provide guidance during claims or enrollment process.
• Manage all aspects of FMLA, paid parental leave, ADA, worker's compensation, STD and LTD leaves and claims.
• Notify and approve benefits for new hires ensuring they are enrolled in benefits.
• Oversee the Maricopa County Trip Reduction Program.
• Responsible for all steps in the planning and agenda for Garden all staff meetings and ensuring that twice a year the meeting focuses on benefits open enrollment and retirement plan review.
• Lead Employee Appreciation Committee and all components. This will include ensuring milestones such as births and deaths are recognized.
• Manage APGA membership of all employees ensuring new hires are added as members and departing employees are removed.
• Responsible for various HR training. Develop, conduct or facilitate required and recommended training sessions.
• Address first line employee relations issues.
• Reconcile benefit statements and approve all HR invoices for payment through Sage.
• Serve as a team member of HR with knowledge of Total Rewards program. Works as a team with Senior Director of HR and benefits broker during open enrollment. Work directly with payroll provider and benefits broker to set up benefits in systems.
• Regulatory compliance to include preparing special reports and analysis and assisting with all 401(k), benefits and worker's compensation audits to prepare 5500s etc. Ensure all annual Total Compensation statements are compiled and distributed.
• Knowledgeable of Garden HR policies and benefits to provide administrative support to employees by guiding them through various human resources processes and answering questions about policies, benefits and HR-related questions.
• Knowledge of laws to comply with all HR local, state and federal regulation. Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes and new technologies in human resources.
• Available to work off hours such as weekends and evenings.

Pay range: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00

Requirements

• Four years of applicable experience in benefits and compensation generalist functions.
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration or related field or comparable combination of education and work experience.
• Good written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills to work well with all staffing levels.
• High level of confidentiality and professionalism
• Competency with Microsoft Office Suite software. HRIS and reporting experience preferred
• High levels of integrity, confidentiality and discretion.
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of benefits and compensation subject matter.
• Strong business acumen; able to build collaborative relationships; share knowledge , embrace ambiguity and thrive with changing priorities.
• Decision making and conflict management skills. Strong analytical, mathematical and problem-solving skills.
• Research and organizational skills; problem-solving and analytical thinking skills.
• Detail -oriented with time-management skills.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Team-oriented with HR team and all departments.
• Event planning experience.
• Ability to work off-hours with occasional evenings, weekends, and /or holidays.

Equipment Used

Typical office equipment

Internal Communication

Frequent interaction with managers and employees.

External Communication

Frequent communication with vendors, benefit brokers, etc.

Working Conditions

No physical effort beyond what is typically required in a normal office environment. Requires flexible time schedule. Potential for tight deadlines or time periods of high workload may require additional hours. The noise level is usually minimum.

The role requires the ability to walk, sit, stand, stoop, kneel, bend, see, hear, speak, read and type. Manual dexterity and the ability to lift up to 10 pounds required.

Reasonable accommodation may be made, when necessary and feasible, to allow a qualified individual to perform essential job functions.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Desert Botanical Garden is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by law.

The Garden fosters and supports workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion to honor the unique perspectives, experiences, and contributions of all, to celebrate successes, and to cultivate individual and institutional excellence.

All employees will help add to the Garden's diversity and fully embrace it.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and deliverables of the role. This is not a contract and should not be viewed as such. Other duties may be assigned by supervisor and/or his/her/their designee.