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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

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Description of Duties and Tasks

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Supervises, trains, coaches, directs, coordinates, and disciplines assigned staff while adhering to organizational human resource policies and procedures and related employment laws. Recommends hire and termination personnel actions for positions supervised.
• Develops, implements, manages, and continuously improves employee benefits programs and procedures including, but not limited to, group insurances, Employees Retirement System of Texas (ERS), the Teacher Retirement System (TRS), Optional Retirement Program (ORP), Affordable Care Act (ACA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), disability plans, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), supplemental insurance, ensuring compliance with legislative directives, state, and federal laws and Austin Community College (ACC) policies and procedures.
• Researches, studies, and remains current on news, laws, regulations, policies, and practices affecting employee benefits ensuring compliance. Initiates and facilitates any changes/updates.
• Manages and oversees programs and other benefits information retrieval from HRIS system for accurate reports generation for reconciling employee benefits, HSA’s, flexible spending accounts, retirement programs, and other benefits programs.
• Manages and oversees the workplace accommodation activities of ACC, which includes the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), extended sick leave, sick leave pool, disability programs, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) programs.
• Counsels and assists employees, supervisors, retirees, vendors, contractors, state and local agencies, and HR staff with inquiries and questions regarding benefits programs; coordinates death benefits for survivors of deceased employees. Manages decisions on complex benefits issues.
• Responds to questions from benefit providers, including ERS, TRS, and other external agencies, regarding benefits, benefit changes, flexible spending accounts, and benefits policies; mediates between providers and district employees.
• Performs research and analysis in support of presentations, projects, interviews, statistical reporting, surveys, forecasting, trends, forms preparation, and other reporting requirements.
• Composes written communications for various audiences to instruct, explain, and/or train regarding benefit matters.
• Develops, tests, and implements customized reports and processes to automate and improve operations.
• Conducts educational and information sessions and workshops for a variety of audiences.
• Provides periodic reports to the administration and ACC Board of Trustees.

Knowledge

• Principles, best practices, and human resource and benefits management trends.
• Supervisory principles, practices, and methods.
• Benefit plan programs and options available to employees including, but not limited to, health insurance, retirement, disability, and leave.
• State-specific benefits information and entities including but not limited to: Texas Employees Group Benefits Program, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, and/or Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board-Optional Retirement Program.
• Applicable regulatory requirements and other pertinent regulations, laws, and processes including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disability laws, state requirements, and retirement system regulations.
• Benefits survey methodologies.
• Benefits administration and accounting concepts and procedures.

Skills

Must possess the required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the job's essential functions can be performed.

• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy, to influence a diverse audience for results.
• Analyzing laws, regulations, policies, and procedures and applying changes to existing plans or provisions.
• Leading and coordinating the activities of staff.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Developing benefits policies and procedures.
• Effectively solving problems and making decisions.
• Advanced writing skills.
• Effectively managing conflict.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• HRIS software skills.  Workday experience strongly preferred.
• Maintaining security and confidentiality of sensitive information.

Required Work Experience

• Five years of related work experience, including one year supervisory experience.
• Designing and implementing benefits programs and supporting electronic systems preferred.
• Experience with benefits coordination in a State of Texas agency strongly preferred.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred.
• High school diploma or equivalent and additional full-time directly related human resources experience may be substituted on an equivalent year-for-year basis.

Special Requirements

• SHRM Certification or other HR certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
• Ability to travel as required.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

• Supervise the safe operation of the unit. Facilitate safety inspections. Take reasonable and prudent actions to eliminate identified hazards. Ensure employees receive appropriate safety training and foster a workplace safety culture.

Salary Range

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.