Benefits Manager

🕒 May 22

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The Community Solution Education System

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2009

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit • Healthcare

The Community Solution Education System is a nonprofit network of six colleges and universities dedicated to enhancing educational access and success for underserved communities. Through a collaborative approach known as the 'One System' model, they focus on fostering academic achievement and providing diverse educational opportunities. The system trains future professionals in critical fields such as healthcare, law, and education, positively impacting both students and their communities.

📋 Description

• Oversee and manage the day-to-day administration of healthcare, retirement, wellness, and leave benefit programs. • Serve as a subject matter expert for employee benefits and leave processes, ensuring employees receive accurate, timely, and supportive guidance. • Evaluate the employee experience related to benefits programs and identify opportunities to improve communication, accessibility, education, and utilization. • Develop and maintain educational resources, training materials, FAQs, and employee communications regarding benefits offerings and processes. • Lead annual benefits renewals, open enrollment processes, and employee education campaigns. • Ensure benefit programs align with organizational objectives, employee needs, and operational capabilities. • Partner closely with HR leadership, including the HR AVPs, to align benefits strategies, employee communications, wellness initiatives, and leave programs with broader employee engagement, employee experience, and workforce support objectives across The Community Solution Education System. • Oversee and support leave administration processes, including FMLA, ADA accommodations, Workers’ Compensation, STD, LTD, and other federal, state, and local leave requirements. • Partner closely with HR, Payroll, managers, and third-party administrators to ensure accurate and timely leave coordination, pay impacts, and employee communications. • Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations related to employee benefits administration, including ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, Section 125 plans, retirement plan requirements, and applicable reporting obligations. • Monitor regulatory changes and proactively assess organizational impacts, recommending updates to programs, processes, communications, and policies as needed.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local benefits and leave regulations, including ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, ERISA, FMLA, ADA, Workers’ Compensation, STD, LTD, and related compliance requirements. • Demonstrated understanding of benefits administration operations, process improvement, systems integration, and employee support models. • Strong proficiency with Workday Benefits administration and related HR systems functionality. • Ability to assess and improve operational workflows, documentation, and employee experience related to benefits administration. • Experience managing vendor relationships, service delivery expectations, and implementation efforts. • Strong analytical, organizational, communication, problem-solving, and project management skills. • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Payroll, HR Operations, HRIS, Finance, Legal, managers, and external vendors. • Ability to manage sensitive and confidential information with professionalism and discretion.

🏖️ Benefits

• generous paid time-off • medical and dental insurance coverage • life and disability insurance • retirement plan with employer contribution • multiple flexible spending accounts • tuition reimbursement