Benefits Coordinator

Benefits: Coordinator The Poughkeepsie City School District is committed to providing students and parents with pathways to opportunity that will lead to achievement and success. Through student-centered effective and transformational leadership, school and community engagement, and an unrelenting pursuit to achieve greater school outcomes for children, the Poughkeepsie City Schools is focused on developing and growing greater access, equity, opportunity, and quality across PCSD.This position involves the planning, application, coordination and administration of health benefit programs for both employees and retirees of the school districts. The incumbent functions as a liaison between the school districts and insurance carriers. Work is performed under the supervision of a higher-level administrator. Supervision is not a regular function of this position. Typical work activities include enrolling new employees for insurance benefits, coordinating benefit activities pertaining to employee records, plan maintenance, and fiscal records, utilizing program and contractual eligibility guidelines to establish and maintain proper enrollment and termination dates of insurances for employees and retirees, advising enrollees of COBRA benefits and costs, calculating reimbursement of Medicare payments, providing insurance deduction information for payroll, tracking Flexible Spending Account enrollment and payments, receiving and recording all accident and injury reports, processing all claims with Worker's Compensation Board, reconciling unemployment claims, managing the annual open enrollment process for all employees, meeting with employees and retirees who have questions about benefits, maintaining employee discount program through relationships with the business and higher education community, maintaining complex spreadsheets, issuing communications about benefits, and preparing annual benefits budget. Full performance knowledge, skills, and abilities include good knowledge of all federal, state and local laws, regulations and contractual agreements pertaining to benefits administration, knowledge of laws, rules and regulations pertaining to insurance, knowledge of accounting principles and practices, ability to determine advantages and disadvantages of all types of insurance coverage including self-insurance, ability to analyze insurance needs based upon past claims and projected future claims, ability to read and interpret insurance policies, ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people, ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, ability to follow oral and written directions, and personal characteristics necessary to perform the duties of the position. Minimum qualifications are either: (A) Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance or a related field AND one (1) year work experience in employee benefit administration; OR: (B) Associates degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Human Resources, Accounting, Finance or a related field AND three (3) years work experience in employee benefit administration; OR: (C) An equivalent combination of the training and experience within the limits of (A) through (B) above.