HR Specialist, Total Rewards and Payroll

Compensation and Benefits:

• Administer and support employee compensation and benefit programs, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, retirement plans, and wellness initiatives.  
• Assist with salary benchmarking, job evaluations, and internal equity reviews to ensure competitive and fair pay practices.
• Participate in annual compensation review process, including merit increases and incentive pay programs.
• Manage benefit enrollment processes and support open enrollment.
• Serve as a point of contact for employee benefit inquiries and issue resolution.
• Maintain compliance with benefit-related laws and regulations (ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, ERISA, etc.)
•  Offer educational opportunities for employees to learn about the benefits provided by YFC and our partners.
• Support employee onboarding by conducting meetings with new hires to discuss YFC benefit programs and payroll.
• Assist with offboarding tasks, including final pay, COBRA notices, and exit benefit reviews.
• Coordinate vendor relationships for benefits and payroll services.
• Oversee LOA and ensure compliance with state and federal LOA requirements.
• Contribute to employee engagement and recognition programs, such as service awards or wellness initiatives.

Payroll

• Process semi-monthly payroll accurately and in a timely manner, in coordination with the HR and Accounting team.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations and wage/hour laws.
• Maintain employee payroll records, including new hires, terminations, and compensation changes.
• Collaborate with HRIS/payroll provider (Paychex) to manage system updates and troubleshoot issues.
• Respond to employee payroll-related inquiries and resolve discrepancies promptly.
• Support year-end payroll activities, including W-2 process and tax reporting
• Maintain YFC payroll calendar.
• Assist in policy creation surrounding total rewards, compensation, and payroll.
• Support HR audits or respond to requests for documentation from internal or external auditors.
• Assist with employee communications surrounding pay, benefits, or policy changes.
• Oversee state unemployment. 

Reporting and Analytics:

• Prepare and analyze compensation, benefits, and payroll reports for internal stakeholders.
• Track and report on HR metrics related to total rewards and payroll accuracy
• Recommend improvements based on data insights and best practices

Other duties:

• Participate in cross-functional HR projects.
• Provide HR backup support to team members during absences or high-volume periods.
• Other duties as assigned.

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, and in that regard to make, educate and encourage life-long disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is very important that you as an employee in the movement of Youth for Christ be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel.

As an employee of Youth for Christ and an associate minister of the Gospel, YFC expects all employees to:

• Seek God’s guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole as well as for specific ministry initiatives.
• Participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFC.
• Teach and preach from the Holy Bible at YFC staff meetings, conferences, camps and events.
• Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in word and in the practice of faith expression.

YFC employees will have an opportunity to be commissioned or licensed as a minister of the Gospel through the established Youth for Christ process, and/or ordained by an outside body recognized by Youth for Christ USA.

YFC Cultural Attributes

Our cultural attributes are not about competency. It is an obedience to the call of Christ on our lives. YFC believes that spiritually healthy adults foster healthy relationships with our kids. We place a heavy commitment and emphasis on developing and equipping a Christ-centered life marked by Enduring Humility, Relentless Trust, Joyful Camaraderie, Courageous Faithfulness and Kingdom-Inspired Diversity.

Our leaders are expected to be willing to demonstrate and/or possess the following:

• Ability to humbly serve and honor others even in difficult situations with prayer, consistency, transparency, and resilience. (Enduring Humility). 
• Demonstrates proper reliance on God, others, and self through generous giving of time and skills, by collaboratively incorporating others’ ideas, welcoming candid input, recognizing others’ need for grace and extending forgiveness and empathy. (Relentless Trust).
• Prioritizes others’ needs for a missional outcome, characterized by joy, with active listening and problem-solving skills, while encouraging and empowering fellow believers. (Joyful Camaraderie).
• Trusts God with new approaches and changes, and communicates needs and limits with emotional intelligence*, while seeking confidence and wisdom in Christ. (Courageous Faithfulness)

Seeks and fosters authentic Christ-Centered relationships with people of various backgrounds and an inviting environment and empowers historically marginalized groups and indigenous populations (within the local context), through active listening, inclusion, advocacy of those who are vulnerable and respect of others’ experiences. (Kingdom Inspired Diversity).  

Fundraising Responsibilities

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA. These activities will include—but are not limited to— extending invitations to fundraising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.