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No matter what state career you’re looking for, we offer jobs that fit your life and your schedule—flexible jobs that provide the gold standard of benefits. Our employees can take advantage of various avenues to advance their careers and realize their dreams. Our top-tier benefits and great retirement packages can help you build a rewarding career and lasting future with the State of Illinois.
Position Overview:
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Division of Child Support Services is seeking to hire a highly qualified and motivated professional to join our Cook/Personnel Services team in the role of Human Resources Associate. This position will perform para-professional duties for the Personnel Services Cook unit, and will gather, review, and certify timekeeping records for Division employees. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills to be successful in performing the operations of the Personnel Services team.
HFS values employees with different backgrounds, life experiences, and talents.

Employees receive a robust benefit package including:

• Monday-Friday work schedule
• Flexible work schedules are available in many program areas. (Remote work may be an option for certain positions.)
• Health, Life, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Deferred Compensation Program and other pre-tax benefit programs (Medical/Daycare)
• Employees earn (12) paid Sick Days annually.
• New Employees earn (10) paid Vacation Days their first year of service and can earn up to (25) paid Vacation Days annually.
• Employees earn (3) paid Personal Days annually.
• (13-14) paid holidays annually (based on start date)

If you are seeking a new opportunity, and this position appeals to you, please apply today!
At the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), we value staff as our greatest asset. We work in a spirit of teamwork to help millions of Illinoisans access high quality healthcare and fulfill child support obligations to advance their physical, mental, and financial well-being. We provide healthcare coverage for children and adults through Medicaid and other medical programs, and we help ensure that children receive financial resources from both their parents through Child Support Services. The HFS Office of the Inspector General investigates, audits and reviews program activity to ensure the integrity of our programs is maintained.
HFS is committed to promoting and preserving a workplace culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We welcome and value employees with different backgrounds, life experiences, and talents. It is the collective sum of our individual differences that provides a broad perspective, leading to greater innovation and achievement. In recruiting for our team, we recognize the unique contributions of each applicant regardless of culture, ethnicity, race, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion, disability, and sexual orientation. HFS is an equal opportunity employer.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to the completion of two years of college or satisfactory completion of an approved training program
• Requires the ability to keyboard accurately at 30 wpm.

• Performs a variety of para-professional duties for the Division of Child Support Services
• Gathers information and keyboards letters, forms, records, and employee bid lists
• Gathers information and submits timekeeping records for the Division of Child Support Services
• Reviews CMS 104s within the Division for accuracy and updates organizational charts
• Processes Merit Compensation increases for Division staff
• Monitors employee performance evaluation files
• Receives contracts for contractual employees, including 75-Day and summer workers
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above