Personnel/HR Generalist

Office of the Illinois Secretary of State

Alexi Giannoulias

Job Title:    Personnel/HR Generalist - Exempt

Division:     Chicago Operations

Union:         N/A

Location:    17 N State St, Chicago, IL – Cook County

Salary:        $50,000 - $60,000 annually - salary commensurate with experience

Benefits:    https://cms.illinois.gov/benefits/stateemployee.html

Overview: 

Performs journey-level professional personnel work in a centralized personnel operation in one or more personnel programs including, but not limited to, position classification, compensation, test development, employment selection or employee benefits where policies and procedures require interpretation and adaptation to work situations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reviews, processes, approves or denies personnel actions requiring use of independent judgment and discretion relative to specific laws, rules and regulations.
• Explains employee benefit programs to employees or beneficiaries requiring extensive knowledge of program policies and procedures; takes necessary action to ensure benefit coverage; resolves problems relating to benefit claims or processes.
• Develops hiring criteria and employment interview questions through contact with management staff and by review and analysis of position descriptions, class standards and related documents.
• Conducts structured employment interviews for candidate selection; evaluates candidate interview responses for final candidate ranking.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Specific Skills:

• Requires extensive knowledge of office procedures, practices, equipment and personal computers.
• Requires extensive knowledge of personnel/human resources practices and techniques.
• Requires extensive knowledge of composition, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Requires extensive knowledge of the principles of organizational administration and structure.
• Requires working knowledge of arithmetic computations.     
• Requires working knowledge of the Secretary of State merit Employment Code, rules, and regulations or equivalent knowledge gained in other merit or civil service settings.
• Requires ability to effectively interact with employees, management personnel, the public, applicants and other personnel professionals.
• Requires ability to follow detailed oral and written instr