Description:
The City of Palo Alto is looking for experienced professionals to join their Human Resources Team! The City of Palo Alto's Human Resources team is an amazing group of diverse and engaged professionals working towards a common purpose, serving our community. The work we do every day helps empower our workforce, create equitable hiring opportunities, and ensure all employees have a safe, respectful, and motivating working environment. We are incubators of culture, accelerators of dreams, and champions of inclusion. If this is the kind of energy you want and need in your life, then this is the opportunity you have been waiting for.
As part of the FY2025 budget process the City of Palo Alto's Human Resources team may be expanding to include additional management or senior level positions. Highly skilled and qualified candidates from this recruitment will be considered for any position added as early as July of this year.
Candidates for
SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANALYST/HR MANAGER with the following core areas of skill will be seen as highly desirable for this opportunity:
- Budget creation and monitoring, procurement and contract management, and special project management.
- Organizational development, learning management, succession planning, career advancement program curation, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)
- Strategic Recruitment practitioner, project management, applicant tracking system integration, employee onboarding process improvement and integration, data analytics, and dashboard creation.
Join an Award Winning Team Palo Alto is an award-winning City recognized nationwide as innovative and well-managed. Palo Alto is one of a small number of California cities with a AAA bond rating. Recently, Palo Alto became one of the most livable cities in the U.S. by Livability.com. It's the only city to receive the Platinum Beacon Award in sustainability best practices by California’s Institute for Local Government.
The City has fourteen departments employing over 1,000 full-time staff. Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and building inspectors keep us safe. Engineers and public works staff build and rebuild the physical infrastructure. City planners help envision and shape future community growth. Recreation, arts, and library professionals enhance community life. Utilities provide electric, gas, water, sewer, and other services to residents and businesses in Palo Alto.
MEET YOUR FUTURE HR TEAM Benefits: The City offers outstanding benefits to our staff, including
- 12 paid holidays / year + paid vacation and management leave
- Annual day of recognition floating holiday which encourages employees to celebrate days of cultural importance or significance
- Caltrain Pass to continue our effort to reduce carbon footprint and reduce traffic throughout the region
- CalPERS Retirement
- Multiple HMO/PPO medical plan options for employees and their families
- and much more
The following are examples of innovative benefit offerings that Palo Alto has pioneered which you will have access to:- Flexible and Hybrid work schedules which include a combination of 9/80s, 4/10s, and remote working opportunities
- Tuition Reimbursement, professional development and Student Loan repayment programs
- Eligibility to enroll dependents into the award-winning Palo Alto Unified school district
- Child Care subsidy, up to $10,000 (subject to change)
Essential Duties:
Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following: - May supervise staff to include: prioritizing and assigning work; conducting performance evaluations, ensuring staff are trained; and making hiring, termination and disciplinary recommendations.
- Prepares and oversees the annual department budget submittal.
- Performs project and policy analysis, which includes: conducting research; determining and raising pertinent issues; summarizing findings; presenting results and administering programs.
- Manages department level special studies and projects, that are more high level and complex in nature which includes: contract administration; establishing and monitoring timelines; preparing requests for proposals; selecting consultants; ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, specifications, and/or requirements; monitoring project budgets; tracking projects; preparing related reports; and, performing other related duties.
- Serves as a liaison across departments as well as with employees; represents the City at a variety of meetings, public events, training sessions, on committees, and other related events.
The full job description can be found
HERE .Minimum Qualifications:
Sufficient education, training and/or work experience to demonstrate possession of the following knowledge and skills, which would typically be acquired through:Bachelor's Degree in a related field and five years of professional experience in public or business administration, public affairs, or a related field; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above. Postgraduate coursework or a Master's Degree is preferred.
Supplemental Information:
Screening and Selection: Screening will be conducted throughout the posting process with highly qualified candidates being invited to participate in virtual recorded interviews. The posting may be closed at any time once an appropriate number of highly qualified candidates have passed the initial screening, it is highly encouraged to apply early for this position.
The screening process may include any of the following; virtual recorded interview, panel interview in front of a minimum of three panelists, final/hiring interview with the Director or Assistant Director of Human Resources.
We are excited to get to know you more through this process.
The City of Palo Alto is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). In compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the City will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both perspective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.
The City of Palo Alto offers its employees a generous benefit package, featuring family medical coverage, retirement, life insurance, plus 12 paid holidays per year. - Participation in a Governmental 457 Deferred Compensation Plan
- Fully paid employee and dependent Dental Plan
- Fully paid employee and dependent Vision Plan
- Fully paid Life and AD&D insurance equal to annual salary
- CalPERs sponsored medical plan with City flat rate contribution
- Fully paid Life Insurance equal to one-times annual salary
- Voluntary Supplemental Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability plan
- 12 annual paid holidays
- Two to five weeks vacation annually depending on years of service per MOA
- 96 hours annual sick leave
- Direct Deposit
- Flexible Spending Account for Healthcare and Childcare expenses
- Paid Parental Leave- Six weeks of Parental Leave at 100% of salary, for the first twelve-month period, immediately following the birth, adoption or placement of a child with the employee.
Some Management classifications may qualify for
- 80 hours of Management Leave
- Professional development reimbursement
Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS)
- 2% at60 formula for Classic Misc Employees, one-year calculation for final compensation
- 2% at 62 formula for New Misc CalPers Members, three yearcalculationfor final compensation
- 3% at 50 formula for Classic Safety Employees, one-yearcalculationforfinal compensation
- 3% at 55 formula for New Safety CalPersMembers, threeyearcalculationfor final compensation
- Retiree Medical benefits for employee and dependents according to Retiree Medical Group
Please note: The City does not participate in CA State Disability Insurance (SDI) or Social Security.Since they City does not participate in SDI, City employees are not eligible to claim against the State's Pregnancy Disability Leave or Paid Family Leave programs.
Closing Date/Time: 4/28/2024 11:59 PM Pacific
