BCSO Human Resources Technician

Purpose of the position:

This position functions as a strategic partner in an assigned department providing various administrative functions in areas such as personnel actions employment timekeeping and payroll to ensure consistent application of policies procedures and practices.

Minimum Education Training and/or Experience:

Associate degree in a relevant field from an appropriately accredited institution and one (1) year of experience or a High school or General Educational Development (GED) diploma and three (3) years of experience.

Essential Functions of the position:

• Process a variety of personnel actions to effect changes in employee status such as pay increases transfers promotions and terminations according to established policies and procedures.
• Provide department time keeping functions including entering leave reconciliation of payroll and employee correspondence related to payroll matters.
• Assist with recruitment and employment activities including the maintenance of recruitment selection files and the initiation of approvals for new hires.
• Performs administrative support work such as data entry and retrieval file maintenance and creating reports and spreadsheets to ensure accuracy and conformance to established procedures and policies.
• Assist employees applicants and external customers with general inquiries; provide information on departmental policies and procedures or refer inquiry to the appropriate staff member.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skills Abilities:

• Knowledge of County personnel policies practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of federal and state laws and State policies procedures and practices.
• Knowledge of office practices procedures and standard records maintenance.
• Ability to interpret and apply standard personnel policies procedures and regulations.
• Ability to exercise judgment in evaluating situations and making recommendations concerning employees and positions transactions and problems.
• Ability to handle a variety of personnel situations with tact and diplomacy in a confidential manner.
• Ability to analyze and interpret policy and procedural guidelines and to resolve problems and questions.
• Ability to research program documents and narrative materials and to compile reports from information gathered.
• Ability to maintain clerical and statistical records.
• Ability to gather compile and evaluate position and employee information.
• Ability to use logic and reasoning to understand analyze and evaluate situations and exercise good judgment to make appropriate decisions.

In order to uphold internal pay parity and equity salaries are non-negotiable for new and current Buncombe County employees. All new employees are paid according to their years of relevant education and experience above minimum requirements for the position and employees have the opportunity to obtain pay increases via cost of living increases and promotions.

Buncombe County Government realizes the importance of a diverse professional workforce and the need to foster a responsive and innovative organizational culture one that fully engages all of our employees honoring and building on each employees unique experiences opinions and perspective.

It is the policy of Buncombe County to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all persons regardless of race natural hair or hairstyles ethnicity creed color sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin or ancestry marital or familial status pregnancy veteran status religious belief or non-belief age or disability or any other legally protected class under federal or NC State law. EEO practices and employment decisions regarding recruitment hiring assignment promotion and compensation shall not be based on any of these protected classes. In addition the County expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination.