Scope of Job:
To administer University Benefits and provide expert advice regarding health insurance benefits, retirement plans, and deductions/processing for all UTRGV employees and retirees for an assigned location.
Description of Duties:
• Responsible for administering
insurance benefits, retirement, and additional health, life, retirement,
and/other related deductions for an assigned campus location.
• Serves as a subject matter expert to employees, retirees, management and
university leaders in benefits, retirement and critical benefit related
situations.
• Provides supervision, advise and support to assigned staff.
• Ensures benefit policies compliance to applicable state, coordinating board,
UT System and federal reporting requirements.
• Responsible for accurately processing, monitoring, and validating payroll
adjustments to include all benefit deductions for health, retirement,
voluntary, and optional additional payments.
• Validates and resolves all benefit payment and retro payment activities with
payroll.
• Responsible for administration of health benefits, retirement plans and acts
as liaison with UT System, health insurance and retirement vendors, for the
assigned campus location.
• Makes effective and legally sound decisions for complex and sensitive benefit
and retirement related issues and offers creative and alternative solutions, as
applicable, with diplomacy under tight deadlines.
• Advises employees and retirees regarding university benefits, insurance
programs, policies and recommends solutions for all related employee/retiree
problems and reports more complex issues to the assigned supervisor.
• Responsible for the preparation and submission of disability applications for
short-term, long-term insurance benefits and retirement and provides vendor
with all required documents. Develops and conducts training and new hire
orientation sessions regarding institutional benefits, retirement and optional
plans. Organizes other special events such as vendor presentations, lunch and
learns, benefits fairs, and trainings as needed.
• Provides interpretation and advice to ensure compliance with government
regulations and plan provisions including but not limited to IRS and
retirement plan limits, retiree return to work provisions, issuing of 1095C
forms and Affordable Care Act (ACA) eligibility and enrollment.
• Coordinates and implements the processing of benefit
updates ACA and any other legislation impacting benefits eligibility.
• Reviews, monitors, and validates the maximum exclusion allowance for those
employees who contribute to tax deferred annuity plans to ensure compliance
with Internal Revenue Service tax code requirements.
• Prepares and submits all necessary documentation for death claims and assists
beneficiary with benefit and payroll related documents.
• May serve on Benefits Advisory Committee (BAC) as needed.
• Assists with benefit and retirement plan design and policy development.
• Actively participates as lead and/or team member for PeopleSoft
and ERP related technical and functional issues.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
Required Experience:
• Four (4) years of experience in
benefits, retirement, or other related Human Resources experience.
• Experience may be substituted for education on a 1-on-1 basis.
Preferred Experience:
Experience obtained in Health Services, Higher Education, or entity offering Teacher Retirement System benefits Experience with TRS/ORP.
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