Senior Personnel Specialist - Sacramento, United States - Sacramento County CA

Description

The Position

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The Senior Personnel Specialist is the lead worker level in the Personnel Specialist series. This class is distinguished from Personnel Specialist (Level II) in that Senior Personnel Specialists must train, assign work to, and review the work of lower-level Personnel Specialists, and/or other office staff, and participates in the most complex personnel duties. This class is distinguished from Supervising Personnel Specialists in that Supervising Personnel Specialist is a full supervisory classification, which includes, conducting performance evaluations, independently making decisions for a work unit, and disciplining lower-level employees.

Examples of Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge of

Fundamentals of office procedures and organization.

Principles, procedures, and practices of payroll and personnel recordkeeping

Rules, regulations, and procedures affecting the personnel functions, including the Civil Service Commission Rules, Personnel Ordinance, Salary Ordinance, and other governing documents

Principles, practices, and procedures of statistical recordkeeping

Methods of training and assigning work to lower-level employees

Ability to

Understand, interpret, analyze and apply governing personnel rules and regulations, including County Charter, County Personnel Ordinance, Civil Service Commission Rules, Personnel Policies and Procedures, and labor contract provisions

Perform clerical work involving independent judgment, and requiring accuracy and speed

Meet deadlines under pressure of interruptions

Perform detailed and accurate review of personnel transaction information, forms, and reports

Elicit information from applicants and employees

Deal tactfully and courteously with other employees and the general public

Compose routine correspondence from notes or verbal instructions

Operate computers and standard office equipment and machines

Develop complex computer spreadsheets and use databases

Perform arithmetic calculations

Schedule and assign work to meet established time requirements

Train subordinates

Employment Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Either: 1. One year of experience as a Personnel Specialist (Level II) in Sacramento County service.

Or: 2. Three years of clerical experience that involved processing personnel, accounting, and/or payroll actions using computer spreadsheets and databases.

Note: If the word "experience" is referenced in the minimum qualifications, it means full-time paid experience unless the minimum qualification states that volunteer experience is acceptable. Part-time paid experience may be accumulated and pro-rated to meet the total experience requirements.

Special Requirements

Some of the positions in this class series may require the ability to speak, read, and write fluently in a language other than English.

Probationary Period

The probationary period for this classification is six (6 ) months.