Compensation & Benefits Specialist (Part-Time) | Laurel, MD

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  • Location: Lanham, MD

  • Company: Volunteers Of America Chesapeake And Carolina's

conducting desk audits, compensation and benefits studies, benefit and retirement programs, and performance pay and base pay program development and administration. This position is a part-time 20 hours per week role. Selected candidate must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area to attend meetings.

Primary Duties / Responsibilities: Supervisory Responsibilities: None Compensation • Develop and implement overall total reward philosophy. • Develops KSAs for job descriptions to reflect standardized language for job skill and complexity levels, and occupational questionnaires for backssing job evaluations & analyses. • Assists in administering VOACC’s performance pay programs and

base pay systems, ensuring legal compliance and administration consistency. • Participates in third party salary and benefits surveys and conducts compensation studies to include data analysis and report writing.

• Administers premium pay programs. • Conducts new hire salary reviews using industry tools, software and salary survey reports, analyzing data and making recommendations. • Prepares compensation reports as necessary. • Conducts desk audits to determine appropriate information to use in preparing or editing job profiles and in developing the selection criteria. • Performs other duties as assigned. Benefits Administration • Research global benefit programs to ensure market competitiveness

and the organization’s ability to attract/reward and retain top talent.

• Responsible for employee wellness initiatives including webinars, vaccination clinics, etc. • Guides the implementation/administration of all benefit plans including annual open enrollment efforts and collaborates with vendors and external partners to ensure maximum value of services is delivered. • Responsible for benefit plan compliance; ensures company benefit plans and practices are aligned with external regulatory requirements. • Partners with vendors and internal stakeholders to oversee ongoing administration of retirement and health and welfare plans including periodic reconciliation and audit as well as annual plan processes.

• Performs a full range of benefits staff work for new hire and incumbent employees, including medical, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance; flexible spending; family medical leave; and retirement plans. • Assists in coordinating with plan administrators, insurance carriers, and the payroll office. • May advise employees, retirees, and dependents, individually or in groups, on specific benefit program features, including integration of plans with Social Security benefits. • Respond to employee inquiries, determines eligibility, calculates deferral amounts, and provides financial estimates for employees in retirement and benefits programs.

• Prepares and produces a variety of benefits reports; assists in preparation of annual benefits statements. • Performs periodic audits of various payroll reports to ensure correct employee deductions. Perform discrimination testing as required. • May calculate distribution payments for non-vested separated employees. • Maintains files on retirement plan histories and data. • Submits data and documents to appropriate committee, trustee, or actuary, including for actuarial valuation of benefit plans.

• Assists in processing long-term disability benefits applications; notifies employees of eligibility and maintains files and active cases. • Assists in preparation of case files for investigations under HR and benefits statutes. • Develop and deliver presentations at New Hire Orientation and to the executive leadership teams. • Performs other related duties as assigned.

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