Location: Laurel, MD
Company: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
conducting desk audits, compensation and benefits studies, benefit and retirement programs, and performance pay and base pay program development and administration. This position is a part-time 20 hours per week role. Selected candidate must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area to attend meetings.
Primary Duties / Responsibilities: Supervisory Responsibilities: None Compensation • Develop and implement overall total reward philosophy. • Develops KSAs for job descriptions to reflect standardized language for job skill and complexity levels, and occupational questionnaires for backssing job evaluations & analyses. • Assists in administering VOACC’s performance pay programs and
base pay systems, ensuring legal compliance and administration consistency. • Participates in third party salary and benefits surveys and conducts compensation studies to include data analysis and report writing.
• Administers premium pay programs. • Conducts new hire salary reviews using industry tools, software and salary survey reports, analyzing data and making recommendations. • Prepares compensation reports as necessary. • Conducts desk audits to determine appropriate information to use in preparing or editing job profiles and in developing the selection criteria. • Performs other duties as assigned. Benefits Administration • Research global benefit programs to ensure market competitiveness
and the organization’s ability to attract/reward and retain top talent.
• Responsible for employee wellness initiatives including webinars, vaccination clinics, etc. • Guides the implementation/administration of all benefit plans including annual open enrollment efforts and collaborates with vendors and external partners to ensure maximum value of services is delivered. • Responsible for benefit plan compliance; ensures company benefit plans and practices are aligned with external regulatory requirements. • Partners with vendors and internal stakeholders to oversee ongoing administration of retirement and health and welfare plans including periodic reconciliation and audit as well as annual plan processes.
• Performs a full range of benefits staff work for new hire and incumbent employees, including medical, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance; flexible spending; family medical leave; and retirement plans. • Assists in coordinating with plan administrators, insurance carriers, and the payroll office. • May advise employees, retirees, and dependents, individually or in groups, on specific benefit program features, including integration of plans with Social Security benefits. • Respond to employee inquiries, determines eligibility, calculates deferral amounts, and provides financial estimates for employees in retirement and benefits programs.
• Prepares and produces a variety of benefits reports; assists in preparation of annual benefits statements. • Performs periodic audits of various payroll reports to ensure correct employee deductions. Perform discrimination testing as required. • May calculate distribution payments for non-vested separated employees. • Maintains files on retirement plan histories and data. • Submits data and documents to appropriate committee, trustee, or actuary, including for actuarial valuation of benefit plans.
• Assists in processing long-term disability benefits applications; notifies employees of eligibility and maintains files and active cases. • Assists in preparation of case files for investigations under HR and benefits statutes. • Develop and deliver presentations at New Hire Orientation and to the executive leadership teams. • Performs other related duties as assigned.
