SFCG Human Resources Benefits Administrator/Generalist

The Organization Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international non-profit organization that promotes peaceful resolution of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and Brussels, Belgium, SFCG’s mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions. SFCG seeks to help conflicting parties understand their differences and act on their commonalities. With a total of approximately 400 staff worldwide, SFCG implements projects from 28 offices in 22 countries. SFCG’s programs are in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East and the United States.

Summary of Position The Human Resources Benefits Administrator/Generalist responsibilities lie in both the international and domestic field employee health and welfare benefits, including EAP. This includes health insurance, life insurance, disability, Smart benefits, employee recognition, service awards, policies and procedures development and communication, and HR data reporting responsibilities. The position collaborates with all employees, including country directors, program directors, managers, and supervisors. It is based in Washington, DC, and reports to the Chief Administrative Officer.

Work Environment Search for Common Ground has a great work environment with a mission of peace-building in the world, hard-working and friendly co-workers, team-building opportunities, and involvement in staff events (i.e. monthly staff meetings and brown bag sessions, such as informational seminars by employees). The organization has won numerous awards, voted top 100 International NGO.

Responsibilities • Manages all employee domestic and international benefit plans, including health/life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plans, international pension planning for Washington based, Ex Patriots and Local National staff.
• Manages employee country by country severance benefits and tracks accordingly. • Makes proactive recommendations for all benefits by meeting with vendors and brokers to understand latest compliance issues and competitive benefits packages.
• Works within Search allocated Overhead budget. • Manages all employee benefits including housing, storage, leaves, field per diems ensuring consistent application with country codes and Search practices. • Manages benefit system setup including, maintenance, as well as internal and external communication meetings and newsletters regarding same. • Provides trainings to both domestic and international staff on the organizations benefits/policies. • Fully manages open enrollment processes for domestic and international eligible employees, makes recommendations for all employees. • Audits all benefit billing. • Fully manages international and domestic payroll data input. • Coordinates all domestic new hire orientations and international new hire benefits orientations. • Key contact for workers’ compensation policies and procedures. • Develops and/or revises HR benefits policies and procedures as needed. • Uses Excel to manage employee census data and generate appropriate reports HR turnover, other HR-related reports, and all HR metrics. • Manages employee recognition and service anniversary program. • Completes other special projects, as assigned. • Ensures compliance with federal, country, and DC employment laws and regulations. • Assists in the continuing development of the organization, its mission and its staff, through the sharing of experience and knowledge, particularly contributing to its “Best Practices and Lessons Learned” initiative.

As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the position holder may be required to undertake other duties that are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

Essential: • Bachelor’s degree with a major in human resources, or business. • Minimum of five years of human resources generalist experience, preferably with at least two years in a non-profit and/or international organization, or other equivalent experience. • Experience working in headquarters office of a US-based organization with offices in the US and overseas. • Strong knowledge of benefits, pension planning/retirement and compensation laws and regulations domestically and internationally. • Knowledgeable of benefits, compensation, and HR best practices. • Comprehensive understanding of global benefit issues within each country office, including understanding the differences created by transferring employees between countries.
• Provides recommendations for specific types of agreements, case by case, created data base for tracking the impact of these transfers on severance and total benefit packages. • Experience developing and benefits policies and procedures. • Interfaces with finances on budgetary benefits issues. Ensures benefits are covered by grants as appropriate prior to committing funds. • Excellent people skills and presentation/platform skills. • Comfort with Diversity. • Experience and understanding handling sensitive and confidential information. • Ability to be structured in a flexible environment. Comfort level with nuances and ambiguity. • Ability to efficiently complete HR tasks requested within deadlines. • Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. • Ability to influence and manage change. • Excellent communication and negotiation ability. • Strong organizational skills, with ability to meet deadlines, both prescribed and self-imposed. • Strong work ethic with excellent attention to detail. • Honest, ethical, and pleasant manner with positive, can-do attitude. • Highly developed research skills and problem-solving ability. • Proficiency with business software applications (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.). • Ability to type at least 50 wpm. • Occasional travel may be required.

Desirable: • Some overseas work experience or experience working in a multi-cultural setting is a plus. • French language proficiency. • PHR and/or CEBS, or other relevant, certifications. • Experience researching international labor laws.

NOTE: Please note this is a mid-level HR generalist position with solid HR benefits and generalist skills.

How to apply:

Please send a cover letter and current resume to employment@sfcg.org or fax to (202) 572-6287 with the subject heading: Human Resources Generalist. Please be sure to include minimum salary requirements (or current salary), projected start date, and to mention where you found this posting. We are looking to fill this position with the right candidate. Only applicants invited for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please. Please see our web site www.sfcg.org for full details of our work.

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