HR Office Manager

State of Maryland•Baltimore City, MD

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Maryland Military Department is seeking a candidate for the position of HR Officer III. This position will serve as the agencies HR Office Manager. The Maryland Military Department works a compressed schedule, Tuesday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Free parking is available. This is an internal position, open to current State of Maryland Employees only. The State Personnel HR Office supports the Military Department's mission of keeping a ready, qualified force of Soldiers, Airmen, Civilians, and Volunteer Forces by handling HR services across the agency. The team supports over 200 regular and contractual State employees and the National Guard members when activated. This position handles a range of HR generalist duties supporting all programs under the Maryland Military Department and manages the agency's timekeeping function. It supervises the Agency Timekeeper and HR Officer, reviewing their work for accuracy and compliance with HR law and agency policy.

Requirements

Seven years of experience, three years of professional HR experience involving recruitment and employment services, classification and compensation, employee relations, test development and validation, job analysis, job evaluation, salary administration, HR program evaluation, or HR policy formulation and an additional four years of professional HR management work experience in the areas of recruitment and selection, classification, salary administration, employee relations, or test development and validation or as a generalist.
Candidates may substitute paraprofessional personnel work experience on a year-for-year basis for up to four years of the required experience.
Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and three years of professional HR experience involving recruitment and employment services, classification and compensation, employee relations, test development and validation, job analysis, job evaluation, salary administration, HR program evaluation, or HR policy formulation for the required experience.
Candidates may substitute the possession of thirty graduate credit hours from an accredited college or university in the fields of HR/personnel administration, human resources management, business administration, public administration, statistics, tests and measurements, psychology or a related field for up to six years of the required experience.
Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in human resources management classifications or human resources management specialty codes in the human resources management field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.
Employees in this classification are required to obtain certification in State Personnel Management System policies and procedures and in the functionality of the Statewide Personnel System from the Office of Personnel Services and Benefits, Maryland Department of Budget and Management within six months from the time of appointment to the position. Employees are also required to obtain recertification every six months thereafter.
Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator’s license valid in the State of Maryland.

Nice To Haves

Experience initiating and processing Workday transactions, including resignations, retirements, terminations, personal information changes and corrections, and leave-related events, while ensuring accuracy and compliance with agency and State policies.
Experience managing full cycle recruitments in JobAps including working with hiring managers, creating job requisitions, creating Job Announcements, creating the T&E, annotating applications, moving applicants through the exam plan, sending notices, uploading documents into their respective locations for audit purposes and ensuring the completion and receipt of all required recruitment documents for audit compliance.
Experience as a Timekeeper or Timekeeper approver in Workday.
Experience processing and managing leave related events (FMLA, Chesapeake Employers Insurance/formerly IWIF)

Responsibilities

Process FMLA and other medical leave events
Coordinate with Chesapeake Employers Insurance (formerly IWIF) representatives to resolve worker injury reports, advocating for both employee and agency
Serve as agency Timekeeper Approver
Handle full-cycle recruitment, benefits coordination, and retirement coordination as HR Generalist
Perform other duties as assigned