Specialist, Compensation

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse 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:

• Reflects the diversity of our community

• 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 under-represented populations

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.
ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Specialist, Compensation

Job Description Summary:

Serves as a member of the Compensation Team supporting the Classification and Compensation system and processes.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Conducts analysis of qualifications and work experience for salary placement of new faculty and staff. Conducts job offers. Schedules orientation and handles communications with selected candidates and supervisors.  If required, works with the analysts on revised salary offers.
2) Processes offer letters, temporary assignment pay recommendations and other compensation-related actions.
3) Maintains various compensation logs and files. Compiles and generates reports as needed.
4) Updates and inputs job descriptions into job description database.
5) Maintains and updates the Compensation Information Manual and other compensation materials.
6) Maintains and updates the HR Compensation website.
7) Organizes and oversees retention of electronic and paper files for the Compensation area.
8) Answers inquiries regarding compensation issues; composes and edits correspondence as required.
9) Assists with salary research; verifies data and information.
10) Performs and audits mathematical computations for compensation reports and various projects and processes.
11) May assist with training sessions regarding compensation procedures, policies, and processes.
12) May participate in testing system changes related to compensation.
13) May design and produce handouts, fliers, newsletters, brochures, manuals or other documents.
 

Knowledge

* Federal and state wage and salary laws, regulations, and processes, to include overtime and compensatory time.
* Compensation and classification methodologies.
* General Human Resources practices and principles.
* Administrative procedures, principles, and practices.
* Customer service principles and practices.
 

Skills

* Maintaining an established work schedule. Peak periods may require evening and weekends.
* Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills including tact and diplomacy.
* Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
* Ability to present compensation information to employees and supervisors.
* Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
* Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
* Interpreting and applying rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
* Working with exacting accuracy.
 

Technology Skills

* Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
* May work with desktop publishing and updating of webpages.
 

Required Work Experience

* Two years related work experience.
 

Required Education

* Associate degree.
Four years of related work experience may substitute for this education requirement. Applicants who substitute work experience to meet the education requirement must use additional related work experience to meet the years of "Required Work Experience" for this position.  Please note that the college reserves the right to amend these terms of substitution at any time.
 

Preferred Education

* Bachelor's degree.
Preferred Licenses and Certification

* Professional Certifications: PHR or SHRM-CP.
 

Physical Requirements

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

Safety

Work safety and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

January 10, 2024
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.