Description

The authorized level of the position is Personnel Regional Assistant III. Applications are being accepted down to the Personnel Regional Assistant I in the event of recruiting difficulties.

Examples of Duties

• Reviews, conducts research, and consults with state level personnel to provide guidance to PRO, complex area leadership, district support staff, and school personnel to resolve technical HR matters and process related transactions.
  Responds to assistance requests, provides talent development and updates on any changes in personnel rules, contract provisions, and Department procedures to ensure a clear understanding of the application in talent management activities.
• Independently determines and anticipates unique school/office talent acquisition and position needs by maintaining and monitoring a regional position control system: communicating with the complex area leadership, district support staff, and school administrators; reviewing school/office financial data; reviewing state position and system data; and processing related transactions.
• Monitors and initiates position actions and ensures proper completion of all documentation, such as establishment/abolishment of positions, position extensions, increase and decrease of full time equivalence, position transfers, and fund changes.
• Exercise independent judgment to provide options and advice to complex area leadership, district support staff, and school administrators on talent acquisition to address needs; recommends suitable methods/strategies based on time frame, availability of applicant lists and historical data; assists to recruit talent; and processes related transactions.
• Performs employee criminal history checks, fingerprinting, background clearance activities/transactions, and suitability requests, traveling to other sites if needed.
• Independently develops and maintains a regional leave accounting system, conducts final review of all leave and unauthorized leave without pay requests for compliance with rules, regulations, guidelines, and BU contracts and prepares for PRO approval.
• Independently coordinates, monitors, and provides information to facilitate talent management/HR activities for the region, including TATP/transfers and/or staff reassignments, casual personnel hiring and extensions, reduction-in-force, and performance management.
• Reviews and drafts documents related to grievance, investigation, directed leave, and disciplinary matters for PRO or complex area Leadership and prepares responses to union requests for the PRO’s review, consulting with PRO when needed.
• Assigns, prepares, and supervises the operational work assignments and schedules of student helpers and lower level staff. Assists with the training and development of assigned staff.
• Receives and screens visitors and telephone calls and provides information to the public, complex area leadership, district support staff, and school/office personnel, which require the use of judgement and interpretation of rules and regulations, policies and procedures, BU contracts, memoranda of agreement, etc.
• Manages the PRO office and records, providing support to the PRO with letters and documents; processing payroll, payments, travel and mileage reimbursements; ordering forms and supplies; mail management; and processing office personnel action forms.
• Provides designated regional office and staff coverage when assigned.
• Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities and professional development to help integrate within their functions.

Minimum Qualifications

• For positions in the Personnel Regional Assistant III level, applicants must show that they possess supervisory aptitude.

Supplemental Information

Salary: The advertised salary is based on full-time employment and includes shortage and school year differentials, if applicable.
Requirements: Applicants must meet all the requirements for the position they are seeking as of the date of the application, unless otherwise specified. Unless specifically indicated, the required education and experience may not be gained concurrently. Calculation of experience is based on full-time, 40-hour workweeks. Part-time experience is pro-rated. Example: Twelve months of experience at 20 hours/week is equivalent to six months of experience, not one year. Also, hours worked in excess of 40 hours/week will not be credited. Example: Twelve months of experience at 60 hours/week is equivalent to one year of experience, not one and a half years.
Temporary Assignment: Claims of Temporary Assignment (TA) experience to meet the minimum qualification requirements must be verified and attached to the application using one of the options below:

• A copy of the applicant’s TA History Report or equivalent system-generated report;
• A signed letter from the applicant’s supervisor that includes the applicant’s name, his/her TA job title, the TA start and end dates (from mm/yy to mm/yy), his/her specific TA duties performed, and either the TA hours worked per week or total TA hours worked; or,
• Copies of the applicant’s signed SF-10 Forms.

Equal Opportunity

The Hawaii State Department of Education does not discriminate in its educational policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and disability in accordance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991. The Department does not discriminate in its employment policies, programs, and activities on the basis of sexual orientation, arrest and court record, and National Guard participation, as well as on the basis of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, and disability, in accordance with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991, Equal Pay Act of 1963, and Chapter 378, Part I, Hawaii Revised Statutes.