HUMAN RESOURCES ANALYST A/B/C/SPECIALIST

About the Department

The Office of Juvenile Justice is seeking a detail-oriented HR Analyst or Specialist to support key human resources functions across the agency. This role is ideal for someone who excels in accuracy, communication, and navigating complex HR processes within a fast-moving environment.

As an HR Analyst or Specialist, you’ll support employee administration, benefits, payroll coordination, and recruitment activities while ensuring compliance with Civil Service rules, state and federal regulations, and departmental policies. You’ll work closely with supervisors and managers, provide guidance to employees, and help maintain the integrity of personnel actions and HR documentation. This position offers structured growth through the Career Progression Group, allowing advancement based on experience, competencies, and performance.

If you’re organized, dependable, and committed to delivering high-quality HR service, this role provides a meaningful opportunity to support agency operations and develop professionally within a progressive HR career path.

A PREFERRED CANDIDATE WILL POSSESS THE FOLLOWING CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Communicating Effectively: Communicates clearly, listens actively, and explains complex ideas well.

• Demonstrating Accountability: Owns results, meets standards, and responds to feedback professionally.

• Following Policies and Procedures: Applies and explains policies accurately, adapts in routine cases, and helps improve procedures.

• Acting with Ethics and Integrity: Acts with integrity, respects confidentiality, and treats people fairly.

• Adapting to Change: Adjusts quickly and stays effective during change.

Position Duties

Minimum Qualifications

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.

Other Qualifications

Job Duties:

• Manages employee administration — processes personnel actions, audits HRIS data, resolves discrepancies, and ensures compliance with Civil Service rules, state/federal laws, and departmental policies.

• Oversees benefits and retirement programs — processes health/life insurance actions, counsels employees on benefit options, and ensures accurate reporting to retirement systems.

• Supports recruitment and placement — creates requisitions, posts vacancies, reviews qualifications, audits hiring actions, and guides managers through selection procedures.

• Administers payroll, FMLA, and workers’ compensation — assists with time entry, processes adjustments, manages injury claims, evaluates FMLA documentation, and coordinates return-to-work procedures.

• Ensures compliance and documentation accuracy — reviews personnel documents, monitors appointment authorities, prepares required reports, and maintains accurate HR files.

• Provides HR consultation — advises employees and supervisors on Civil Service rules, payroll issues, benefits, policies, and HR program requirements.

• Performs administrative support duties — maintains correspondence, tracks pending transactions, recommends policy improvements, and completes additional tasks as assigned.

Position-Specific Details:
Work Location: This vacancy may be housed at the Office of Juvenile Justice-Central Office in Baton Rouge, LA or at Jetson Center for Youth in Baker, LA. 
Appointment Type: Full time, Probational

Career Progression: This position is placed in a Career Progression Group and  may be filled as a Human Resources Analyst A, B, C, or Specialist.

Compensation: 
The incumbent of this position must not have been convicted or pled nolo contendere to a crime listed in R.S. 15:587.1 (c).

The Office of Juvenile Justice is a State as a Model Employer (SAME) agency that supports improved employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. For more information on employment-related resources available for those with disabilities, refer to the Louisiana Employment Resource Guide.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required  to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page. 

* Information to support your eligibility for the position must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).  Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

In the supplemental questions section, applicants must authorize the HR Office of Juvenile Justice to contact prior employers to check references under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) to be considered for employment.
 
 If you are contacted for an interview, please let us know at that time if you will need special accommodations.

NOTE: Prior to an appointment, the selected applicant must take and pass a drug screening test, possess a valid Louisiana Driver's License, and clear a background check.

For further information about this vacancy, contact:
Garilyn London
OJJ/ Human Resources
[email protected]

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Agency Information

EmployerState of LouisianaAddress 1201 N 3rd St

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802 Phone(866) 783-5462
Website http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm