The Organization

Community Partners offers expert guidance, essential services, and a strong dose of passion to help foster, launch, and grow creative solutions to community challenges. For almost 30 years, hundreds of individuals, groups, foundations, and other institutions have worked with Community Partners to create new nonprofit projects, establish coalitions, and manage major philanthropic initiatives to benefit the region.

Across all program areas, Community Partners works toward our organizational vision: A vibrant society in which individuals and institutions use knowledge, resources, and relationships to build equitable, democratic, and thriving communities.

Our work includes:

Intermediary Programs

We help foundations, corporations, government agencies and other institutions achieve greater impact.

Fiscal Sponsorship

We provide the structure, finance and administrative services, expert counsel that help nonprofit leaders succeed.

Knowledge Sharing

We offer workshops, reports, speaking engagements and a range of publications to help strengthen the field.

Community Partners today works with upwards of 180 projects and initiatives and manages roughly $90 million in revenues annually. Our work spans the fields of civic engagement, arts and culture, education, racial and social justice, health, public policy, social services, and youth. To learn more, please visit us at www.CommunityPartners.org.

THE POSITION

Reporting to the Human Resources Director, this position will support the Director in the day-to-day functions of benefits administration and the needs of the Human Resources team as a whole.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for all employee enrollments, disenrollments, and mid-year changes into and out of benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, etc
• Provide new employees with an explanation of benefits and instruct them on enrollment and fulfillment procedures
• Ensure all enrollments, disenrollments, and changes are reflected correctly to all vendors and carriers
• Consult with and educate all employees on benefit offerings and eligibility
• Resolve employee issues with insurance providers and other benefits administrators
• Reconcile and pay monthly insurance invoices
• Lead administration of 403(b) retirement plan, including but not limited to; employee opt-outs, employee deferral changes, biweekly funding payments, bi-annual supplemental payments, and monthly employer match eligibility review
• Co-lead in annual audit of the 403(b) retirement plan with Human Resources Director, including reconciliation.
• Lead company-wide open enrollment for 400+ benefits-eligible employees, tasks including but not limited to; education material and platform creation and/or updates, communication strategy planning and execution to all staff, collaboration with all carriers and third-party stakeholders, and benefits system updates and rate testing
• Run, analyze, and submit reports as required by state agencies and vendors, and as requested by project leaders
• Manage, review, and submit accurate records for annual Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting
• Administrate COBRA enrollments, disenrollments, and associated invoices
• Manage all Leave of Absences (through AbsencePro) with FMLA, PDL, and PFL usage and other issues as required by our in-house regulations and legal requirements
• Educate and assist employees with questions about Leave of Absences
• Manage and review bi-weekly payroll deductions for accuracy and proper payment
• Engage and collaborate with project leaders for benefits augmentation
• Provide ongoing support for benefits and HR team
• Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in human resource management or related field, and three to five years of related benefits or employee benefits administration experience
• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP and CEBS professional designations preferred
• Familiarity with payroll and benefits software systems
• Excellent proficiency with Excel spreadsheets including V Lookup (required for reconciliations)
• Must have excellent organizational and interpersonal skills, be highly attentive to detail, and be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work well in a team environment and maintain a high degree of confidentiality due to the nature of the position
• Excellent client service and interpersonal skills and professional demeanor in communicating with staff members at all levels throughout the organization, as well as with vendors and others
• Experience with HRIS, including Paylocity

Benefits

Benefits include paid holidays and vacation, a 403(b) plan with employer match, medical, dental, vision, flex spending, and a range of professional development opportunities. Community Partners has a 9/80 work week option under which employees may elect to work 80 hours in 9 days and take every other Friday off (after completion of introductory period).

Community Partners® is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive

workforce. In addition, the organization will consider for employment qualified applicants with

criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance

Initiative for Hiring.