THE POSITION: The County of Santa Cruz has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Personnel Analyst to join the Employee Relations and Salary Administration team, in the Personnel Department. This position is in the Employee Relations and Salary Administration (ERSA) Division, which is responsible for classification and compensation, labor relations including employee discipline and grievances , meet and confers, negotiations, position control, and personnel records. The successful candidate will be expected to oversee the county training program, staff civil service hearings, meet and confers, grievances and employee discipline. Duties will include preparing and presenting clear and concise recommendations on personnel and employee relations issues; researching and interpreting rules, laws, regulations and Memorandums of Understanding; providing alternative and creative solutions to complex human resource challenges; developing and presenting trainings to county staff on a wide range of human resource topics. The list established will be used to fill the current vacancy and it may also be used to fill other vacancies in the areas of recruitment, position classification, salary administration, employee relations, training, risk management and equal employment opportunity.
REQUIREMENTS: Any combination of training and experience which would provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be: Four years of increasingly responsible professional personnel experience which included assignments in major program areas, with one year of experience supervising professional staff. One year of the personnel experience must have been related to public agencies. A four year degree from an accredited university with an emphasis in Public Administration, Personnel, Employment Law or related field may be substituted for one year of experience.
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