What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compensation Specialist position at ACG Hospice?
Overview
Become a HR Compensation Specialist with Agape Care Group!
We are seeking a dynamic and people-centered HR Compensation Specialist to help shape an exceptional employee experience while driving operational excellence across our organization. This role is ideal for a highly analytical professional who is passionate about fair, competitive, and compliant compensation practices and who thrives in a detail-driven, data-informed environment. As an individual contributor, the HR Compensation Specialist plays a vital role in administering, maintaining, and advancing the organization’s compensation and performance management programs. You will manage salary administration for assigned divisions, including Hospice Enterprise merit increases, while ensuring internal equity, market competitiveness, and alignment with organizational strategy. Serving as a trusted subject matter expert, you will partner closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and leadership teams to provide compensation insights, analytics, and guidance. You will also lead and support the employee performance review process, leveraging technology and workflow improvements to deliver a consistent, accurate, and effective evaluation experience across the organization.
What You’ll Do
We’re Offering Even More Great Benefits When You Join Our Team!
As a regional leader in hospice and palliative care, Agape Care Group proudly serves patients through its family of care providers — Agape Care South Carolina, Georgia Hospice Care, Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in North Carolina, and ACG Hospice in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. The company’s employees are committed to serving with love those touched by an advanced illness, providing comfort and support through compassionate care and meaningful experiences. At any location within our company, you'll find a career that means something. You'll not only have the opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference, but you'll also be part of an inclusive, respectful work environment filled with peers who have answered the call to care for others.
Our Company Mission
Our mission is to serve with love, providing comfort and support through compassionate care and meaningful experiences. For our team members, these aren’t empty words. In every interaction, no matter how big or small, we’re dedicated to providing a superior experience for patients facing life-limiting illnesses and their families.
Essential Functions
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Qualifications
Education & Experience
Become a HR Compensation Specialist with Agape Care Group!
We are seeking a dynamic and people-centered HR Compensation Specialist to help shape an exceptional employee experience while driving operational excellence across our organization. This role is ideal for a highly analytical professional who is passionate about fair, competitive, and compliant compensation practices and who thrives in a detail-driven, data-informed environment. As an individual contributor, the HR Compensation Specialist plays a vital role in administering, maintaining, and advancing the organization’s compensation and performance management programs. You will manage salary administration for assigned divisions, including Hospice Enterprise merit increases, while ensuring internal equity, market competitiveness, and alignment with organizational strategy. Serving as a trusted subject matter expert, you will partner closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and leadership teams to provide compensation insights, analytics, and guidance. You will also lead and support the employee performance review process, leveraging technology and workflow improvements to deliver a consistent, accurate, and effective evaluation experience across the organization.
What You’ll Do
- Administer salary programs, merit increases, and compensation actions for assigned divisions
- Conduct position classification, FLSA designation, and job description development and refinement
- Perform internal and external market benchmarking to maintain competitive and equitable salary ranges
- Develop, maintain, and analyze salary structures and compensation models
- Provide compensation analytics, reporting, and insights to HR and business leaders
- Design, implement, and support the performance review process, including system workflows and tools
- Monitor compensation trends, best practices, and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance
- Support continuous improvement of compensation-related processes, systems, and programs
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail
- A solid understanding of compensation principles, job evaluation, and performance management
- Ability to communicate complex data and recommendations clearly and effectively
- High degree of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality
- Comfort working independently while collaborating cross-functionally
We’re Offering Even More Great Benefits When You Join Our Team!
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Immediate Access to Paid Time Off
- Employee Referral Program Bonus Eligibility
- Matching 401K
- Annual Merit Increases
- Years of Service Award Bonuses
- Pet Insurance
- Financial and Legal Assistance Program
- Mental Health and Counseling Programs
- Dental and Orthodontic Coverage
- Vision Insurance
- Health Care with Low Premiums
- $500 Matching Health Savings Account
- Short-term and Long-term Disability
- Fertility Assistance Program
As a regional leader in hospice and palliative care, Agape Care Group proudly serves patients through its family of care providers — Agape Care South Carolina, Georgia Hospice Care, Hospice of the Carolina Foothills in North Carolina, and ACG Hospice in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia. The company’s employees are committed to serving with love those touched by an advanced illness, providing comfort and support through compassionate care and meaningful experiences. At any location within our company, you'll find a career that means something. You'll not only have the opportunity to use your skills to make a real difference, but you'll also be part of an inclusive, respectful work environment filled with peers who have answered the call to care for others.
Our Company Mission
Our mission is to serve with love, providing comfort and support through compassionate care and meaningful experiences. For our team members, these aren’t empty words. In every interaction, no matter how big or small, we’re dedicated to providing a superior experience for patients facing life-limiting illnesses and their families.
Essential Functions
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Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field (required)
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience HR compensation administration
- Hands-on experience administering compensation programs, HR policies, and performance management processes
- Intermediate-to-advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUPs, IF/THEN statements, and MATCH formulas
- Advanced data review and analytics skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and research capabilities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and HR technology platforms
- Preferred: Experience with UKG HRIS and compensation administration
- Preferred: Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Strong understanding of compensation best practices and continuous improvement methodologies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Sound professional judgment, strong business ethics, and commitment to confidentiality
- Effective time management, planning, and organizational skills
- Reliable transportation, valid driver’s license, and proof of auto insurance
- Ability to meet agency health screening and testing requirements
- Ability to sit, stand, bend, lift, and move intermittently and perform daily work activities
- Ability to read, speak, and write English clearly and effectively
- This position rarely to never involves patient contact and does not require hands-on patient care