Senior Personnel Analyst

City of Sacramento • Sacramento, CA

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

The City of Sacramento Human Resources Department, Employment Services Division is seeking a knowledgeable, analytical, and motivated human resources professional to join our team as a Senior Personnel Analyst. This position serves as the supervisory-level classification within the Personnel Analyst series and is responsible for providing technical leadership, oversight, training, and support to lower-level personnel staff. The incumbent plans, assigns, reviews, and evaluates work; assists with staff development; provides guidance on complex personnel matters; and helps ensure the consistent application of Civil Service Rules, labor agreements, policies, procedures, and employment laws. This position performs advanced professional-level analytical work involving classification and compensation studies, job analysis, workforce research, policy interpretation, examination development, organizational analysis, and strategic workforce planning. Primary responsibilities include conducting complex job audits and salary surveys; preparing and revising class specifications; analyzing compensation relationships and workforce data; interpreting and applying Civil Service Rules, labor agreements, policies, and employment laws; and preparing detailed reports, recommendations, correspondence, and presentations for executive management, departments, labor representatives, and the Sacramento Civil Service Board. The position is regularly assigned the division’s more complex and sensitive projects and serves as a subject matter expert in multiple personnel program areas. The Senior Personnel Analyst serves as a strategic business partner to assigned departments, providing consultation and guidance on a wide range of employment-related issues, including staffing strategies, recruitment and retention challenges, classification and compensation matters, organizational changes, workforce planning, and policy interpretation. The incumbent is expected to independently navigate and resolve complex personnel issues, identify practical solutions, balance competing stakeholder interests, and provide sound recommendations to management. Additional responsibilities include overseeing and supporting recruitment and selection activities; coordinating recruitments; evaluating applications; developing examinations; responding to appeals; analyzing program effectiveness and workforce trends; leading special projects and process improvement initiatives; collaborating with internal and external stakeholders; and delivering exceptional customer service in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Requirements

• Three years of professional-level human resources management experience in the areas of recruitment/selection, classification and compensation, career development, and/or benefit and retirement programs.
• Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in business or public administration, human resources, or closely related field.
• Advanced principles and practices of personnel administration.
• Principles, methods, and procedures utilized in recruitment and selection, position classification, organization structure, salary administration, benefit administration, training programs, and retirement programs.
• Test construction, analysis, and evaluation; methodology for determining reliability and validity of written, oral, and performance tests; interviewing practices, screening and examining techniques.
• Socio-economic, language, and cultural barriers affecting minorities, women, and disadvantaged segments of the community.
• Methods for developing and evaluating special employment programs.
• Principles and practices of administering contracts with employee organizations, processing grievances, and dealing with disciplinary matters.
• Principles of supervision.
• Applicable Federal and State laws and regulations.
• Statistical concepts and methods.
• Principles of effective organization, administration, and management.
• Technical and analytical report writing.
• Special needs of diverse populations.
• Community resources.
• Computers and computer applications.
• Use of computers and computer applications and software.
• Perform difficult and complex human resources work, ensuring compliance with City policies and procedures, local, state and federal laws and regulations.
• On a continuous basis, know and understand all aspects of the job.
• Analyze systems, administrative and management practices and identify opportunities for improvement; analyze situations quickly and objectively, apply appropriate elements of decision-making and determine the proper course of action.
• Value customers and co-workers through provision of excellent customer service.
• Consistently apply concepts, laws, methods, techniques, approaches, and other guidelines of professional work in the human resources field.
• Use initiative and good judgment.
• Meet deadlines.
• Plan and review the work of professional, technical and clerical staff.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing.
• Collect, compile, analyze, and interpret information and data.
• Prioritize and complete professional personnel work in assigned area.
• Interpret and explain City personnel programs and policies to employees and the public.
• Effectively promote programs for diversity in the workplace.
• Secure cooperation of operating officials in accepting and carrying out sound human resources management practices.
• Train and provide project direction and supervision to other professional, technical and clerical staff.
• Function under challenging conditions and/or confrontational situations requiring instructing, persuading and motivating people.
• Obtain and maintain eligibility to handle confidential materials, including medical, financial, and personnel records.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a public-sector agency is preferred.
• A Master's degree may substitute for one of the three years of experience.
• Additional qualifying professional-level experience may substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Responsibilities

• Plans, prioritizes, and reviews the work of professional, technical, and clerical staff assigned to support daily operations of the department.
• Develops schedules and methods to accomplish assignments ensuring work is completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Provides direct supervision over professional, technical and clerical staff including assigning, directing, training and evaluating subordinate staff; performs evaluations and recommends discipline.
• Assists in the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, and priorities; evaluates programs and projects and recommends and implements policy and procedure changes to improve effectiveness; plans and reviews the work of professional, technical, and clerical employees in a variety of personnel programs.
• Plans and coordinates recruitments; determines labor market and length of recruitment; prepares job bulletins and recruitment information; determines and places advertising in appropriate media; coordinates participation in career and job fairs; and reviews and evaluates applications; determines appropriate written, oral, and or performance examination programs; develops, evaluates and validates selection instruments; supervises the administration and scoring of examinations and the establishment of eligible lists.
• Conducts position classification studies; performs job audits and analyses of individual positions, classes, and series of classes; participates in organizational and staffing studies of City departments; prepares and revises class specifications; prepares study and implementation reports; conducts salary and employee fringe benefit surveys, analyzes data, and recommends adjustments and internal relationships.
• Participates in the administration of the City retirement and other benefit programs; evaluates program effectiveness and vendor effectiveness; assists in resolving difficult or sensitive problems and serves as intermediary for employees and vendors/providers.
• Participates in workplace diversity, equal opportunity employment, and inclusion activities; coordinates committees; gathers and compiles statistical information; evaluates effectiveness of programs; recommends and implements program changes; evaluates training needs through surveys, focus groups and other evaluative tools, develops curriculum, selects instructors, markets program; conducts training sessions and workshops; evaluates training feedback and implements changes or enhancements.
• Participates in meet and confer process as a resource person; works with departments on personnel problems, staffing needs, interpretation of personnel policies and procedures; develops and maintains relationships with agencies, vendors, consultants, and recruitment sources.
• Provides exceptional customer service to those contacted in the course of work.

Benefits

• Intermittent remote work (with supervisor approval and must physically reside within the Sacramento region or have the ability to regularly report to a City of Sacramento physical worksite with little notice).

What This Job Offers

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