Recruitment & Benefits Specialist

Position Description: Under the direction of the HR Director, the Recruitment & Benefits Specialist is responsible for executing recruitment strategies, maintaining personnel files, managing employee benefit programs, and facilitating the new hire experience. This position will support the HRD in a broad range of administrative and coordination duties. This incumbent must maintain a high level of confidentiality, accuracy, analytical skills, and exercise good judgement.

Some Position Duties Include

• Maintains a weekly HR Report to reflect current recruitments, the flow of applicants, new hires, and exiting employees.
• Manages and facilitates new hire orientation.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in JAMHI benefit programs; providing employee education and answers questions.
• Participates in regular department audits and efforts for continuous improvement and mitigating risk.
• Perform quality checks of benefits-related data.
• Responsible for developing and executing marketing strategies that generate interest and attract top talent.
• Serves as liaison to new hires in the completion of their pre-employment requirements, onboarding process, and benefit enrollments.
• Identify, research, and develop recruiting tools, such as recruitment videos, job ads, social media content, and recruitment events.
• Utilizes the HRIS for all aspects of recruitment functions and managing the employee lifecycle.
• Advertises current recruitments via our JAMHI website and any other external recruiting platforms necessary to successfully reach target individuals.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Research, analyze, and administer employee benefit programs (health, dental, disability, and retirement).
• Collects data for insurance purposes, grant reporting, quality insurance measures, and creating a workforce and recruitment summary.

Education

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of employee benefit programs, required.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, PowerPoint, Virtual Meetings software, HRIS, required
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Human Resources or related field.
• Knowledge of regulatory language with respect to collective bargaining agreements, labor laws, and best practices, required.

Experience/Skills/Abilities

• Must possess a current Alaska driver’s license within 90 days of appointment.
• One (1) year of recruitment experience required, two (2) preferred.
• One (1) year of benefits administration preferred.