Senior Analyst – Human Resources Department, Employment Division

City of San Jose • San Jose, CA

10d

About The Position

Our diverse and inclusive workforce of more than 7,000 employees play a key role in the success of San José, the heart of the Silicon Valley. All City of San José employees work together as one team to make San José a vibrant, innovative, and desirable place to work. The Human Resources Department delivers innovative and timely human resources services and leadership to enable the City, its departments, and employees to provide world class municipal services to our diverse residents and visitors. The Employment Division within the Human Resources Department oversees the City’s recruitment activities and administration of the City’s classification system. The Senior Analyst reports directly to the Program Manager and serves as a highly technical subject matter expert in classification and compensation. This position leads complex, citywide classification and compensation projects requiring sound judgment, analytical expertise, and independent decision-making. The Senior Analyst collaborates closely with department leaders, employees, and internal staff to assess operational needs, develop recommendations, and present findings on sensitive and complex issues. This position will provide day-to-day supervision, training, and mentorship to an Analyst, including assigning and reviewing work, providing technical guidance, and support development to ensure high-quality customer service and timely completion of projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of increasingly responsible experience in general management/administrative analytic work in the areas of budget, finance, grant administration, organizational analysis, general administration, human resources, or related field in general analytical work.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with applicable professional/technical principles and practices, Citywide and departmental procedures/policies and federal and state rules and regulations.
• Effectively conveys information and expresses thoughts and facts clearly, orally and in writing; demonstrates effective use of listening skills; displays openness to other people's ideas and thoughts.
• Experienced with common business computer applications including but not limited to: MS Outlook, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Access, and MS Excel.
• Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions.
• Acts to align own unit's goals with the strategic direction of the organization; defines tasks and milestones to achieve objectives, while ensuring the optimal use of resources to meet those objectives.
• When confronted with ethical dilemmas, acts in a way that reflects relevant law, policy and procedures, agency values, and personal values.
• Demonstrates a positive attitude and flexibility along with the ability to develop effective relationships with co-workers and supervisors by helping others accomplish tasks and using collaboration and conflict resolution skills.
• Exhibits resourceful behaviors toward meeting job objectives; anticipates problems, is proactive, and avoids difficulties by planning ahead; displays willingness to assume extra responsibility and challenges; pursues continuing education opportunities that promote job performance.
• Sets effective long and short-term goals based on a good understanding of management practices; establishes realistic priorities within available resources; provides motivational support; empowers others; assigns decision-making and work functions to others in an appropriate manner to maximize organizational and individual effectiveness.

Nice To Haves

• One (1) year of additional education above the Bachelor’s Degree level may be substituted for one (1) year of the required management/administrative analytic work.

Responsibilities

• Develop and establish new and updated job classification specifications.
• Conduct position reclassification studies and provide detailed analysis, reports, and recommendations to Program Manager.
• Benchmark salary and minimum qualification data from labor market agencies using online sources or by contacting labor market agencies directly.
• Assess class specifications from other agencies including their minimum qualifications, duties, responsibilities, and skills required to perform their job and compare and conduct an analysis against our class specifications.
• Prepare Council and Civil Service Commission memos related to amendments to the classification plan.
• Prepare reports and recommendations for improved City departmental operations, services systems or organizational methods related to classification and compensation.
• Develop contracts and service orders to meet specific City or department needs; prepares bids and specifications; monitors timely fulfillment of deliverables by consultant, reviews compliance of consultant work progress and accuracy of consultant billing submitted for work completed.
• Respond to inquiries from outside agencies.

Benefits

• The salary range for this classification is $118,460.16 - $144,318.72 annually. This salary range includes an approximate five percent (5%) ongoing non-pensionable compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior