HIRING SPECIALIST
Requisition No: 845477
Agency: Children and Families
Working Title: HIRING SPECIALIST - 60009005
Pay Plan: Career Service
Position Number: 60009005
Salary: $1,442.31 Bi-weekly
Posting Closing Date: 01/31/2025
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The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is the state of Florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.
Within DCF, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health (SAMH) Program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The Office of SAMH is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.
TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED AND MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION.
THIS IS NOT A TELEWORK POSITION. CANDIDATE WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK IN THE TALLAHASSEE OFFICE.
MULTI-HIRE OPPORTUNITY.
HIRING SPECIALIST - 60009005 Job Details | State of Florida
This is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as the Human Resource Liaison within the SAMH Mental Health Treatment Facility. This is independent work in which the incumbent will be responsible for coordination of recruitment and selection activities for the assigned geographical Region/Facility Human Resources Team. This position will collaborate with each section within the facility and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Performs personnel management functions for the Mental Health Treatment Facilities (Florida State Hospital, Northeast Florida State Hospital or North Florida Evaluation and Treatment Center) and consults with supervisors and management on personnel actions.
- Investigates, researches, and provides consultative advice on personnel issues and actions.
- Maintains proficiency with current personnel rules and regulations.
- Maintains position descriptions, classifications specifications, records of personnel and budget actions relative to establish new positions or effecting changes to existing positions.
- Advertises position vacancies and proactively maintains control of the recruitment process to ensure appropriate recording, review, acknowledgement and processing of all applications.
- Completes all forms necessary to sustain employment processes.
- Assists new employees getting established in People First. Monitors records for evaluation due dates and works with supervisors to ensure that employee evaluations are completed timely.
- Creates and maintains facility vacancy report.
- Evaluates expenses and works with staff to ensure that all expenses have been properly recorded, research and resolve discrepancies.
- Performs purchasing functions for the department and makes recommendations for cost savings. Analyzes expenditures and offers recommendations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required for the position:
- Knowledge of Department of Management Services Personnel Rules.
- Knowledge of People First.
- Proficient user of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and SharePoint to query, interpret, prepare and report data.
- Skills in using communication principles and techniques to effectively convey information, orally and in writing.
- Skills in knowing how to find information and identifying essential information.
- Advanced skill and ability to perform basic arithmetical calculations.
- Skills in time management and organization.
- Ability to understand and apply applicable human resource rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Ability to use critical thinking to provide alternative approaches.
- Ability to produce written work products that display a high level of competence and job knowledge.
- Ability to compile data from various sources, organize data into a logical format, and make oral presentations.
- Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate work assignments.
- Ability to utilize problem-solving techniques.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree from a college or university is preferred and two years of Human Resources/personnel and/or administrative related experience
- A master's degree from a college or university can substitute for one year of the required experience.
- Professional experience as described above can substitute on a year-for-year basis for the preferred college education.
- Two years of experience using Microsoft Office Suites.
- Two years of experience writing formal business communications, including emails.
- Valid Driver’s License (Travel is required to attend off-site job fairs, interviews and meetings as needed).
Preference will be given to applicants who have:
- Professional-level human resource management experience with an agency in the State of Florida’s State Personnel System.
Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:
- Health insurance
- Life insurance; $25,000 policy is free plus option to purchase additional life insurance
- Dental, vision and supplemental insurance
- Retirement plan options, including employer contributions
- (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com);
- Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
- Flexible Spending Accounts;
- Opportunities for career advancement
- Tuition waiver for public college courses
For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.