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Job Description
Position Description
Are you a human resources professional withdeepexperience in classification and compensation in a local government setting in California?
Are you a self-starter who excels at working interactively with clients to provide excellent services to the organization’s managers and employees?
Are you excited to work remotely in a dynamic, flexible public service organization?
Regional Government Services (RGS) is looking for a skilled Advisor to deliver journey-level classification and compensation services in a strategic partnership with clients. This will include conducting classification and compensation studies, salary surveys, and staffing assessments both independently and as a project team member.
Apply today!
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:- Thrive in an environment with competing priorities.
- Demonstrate the ability to exercise initiative and to work well both independently and collaboratively to solve problems with RGS team members and all levels of the client organization.
- Have a deep knowledge of employment law, human resources, classification, and compensation best practices at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Have extensive experience in the classification and compensation process, including interviewing employees, collecting salary and benefits data from multiple services, analyzing data, developing and justifying recommendations, and presenting data both orally and in writing clearly and concisely.
- Communicate in an approachable and responsive manner.
- Learn new processes quickly; review and analyze policies and procedures and implement effective procedures as necessary.
- Understand the importance of transparency and promote policies that enhance trust while maintaining confidentiality.
- Be able to analyze and develop innovative and practical solutions to administrative and operational challenges.
- Have a strong customer service focus.
- Be able to quickly assess project challenges and reach out for more expertise when needed.
- Be an excellent communicator with written and oral communication skills and demonstrate the ability to understand and speak to others' concerns while demonstrating empathy and sincere respect for other points of view.
- Have excellent time management skills while working on multiple projects in a remote work environment.
- Be highly proficient in utilizing computer and cloud-based human resources systems.
- Possess a high level of proficiency with various technologies and applications used in HR-specific services, spreadsheets (e.g., Excel), word processing (e.g., Microsoft Word), and records management.
- Have experience with remote meeting software (e.g. Zoom).
COMPETENCIES
RGS Advisors Competencies- Adaptability and Flexibility: Effectively responds to multiple demands, ambiguity, shifting priorities, emerging situations, and rapid change.
- Attention to Detail: Performs work thoroughly and is conscientious about attending to detail.
- Customer Service: Implements activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction.
- Decision Making: Takes action consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
- Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, courtesy, tact, empathy, and concern; develops and maintains relationships; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and situations and is sensitive to individual differences.
- Oral Communication: Expresses information to individuals or groups effectively; considers the audience and nature of the information; makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
- Writing: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.
Classification and Compensation Team Competencies- Accountability: Accepts responsibility for themselves and their team.
- Analytical Thinking: Identifies and defines problems, extracts key information from data, and develops workable solutions for the problems identified.
- Change Management: Assists others quickly and effectively, understands and adjusts to new roles, challenges, and changes in the work environment, and their jobs.
- Conflict Management: Intervenes in conflict situations, successfully alleviating or eliminating discord.
- Inclusiveness: Creates a workplace where people of all backgrounds and cultures feel included, welcome, and valued.
- Influence: Exerts a positive effect on others' views, attitudes, decisions, perceptions, and/or beliefs.
- Risk Management: Takes action to evaluate and minimize risks to the agency and its employees.
About RGS
Regional Government Services (RGS) is a unique California public agency serving local governments' consulting, administrative, and project management needs. Our greatest asset is our expert Advisors, who pride themselves on delivering outstanding services to support the mission of our partner agencies.
RGS has developed a highly flexible and adaptive team environment and work culture to provide thisexpertise. Weutilizetechnology to support a remote workforce of over 100 Advisors. Our Advisors are trained and experienced public-sector professionals from a variety of relevant disciplines. We combine the strength of each Advisor's unique experiences, perspectives, and skills through teaming,leveragingtheir combined talents tobenefitour partner agencies.
As an employer, RGS offers Advisors competitive compensation and benefits, client projects that offer rewarding and challenging work, and extraordinary flexibility. While client interactive work must be done during core business hours, there is flexibility to do other work elements on a personalized schedule to maximize flexibility.
Examples of Duties- To review the job description, please click here.
Typical Qualifications
Education:- College-level coursework or certification in human resources or public administration.
Experience:- Five (5) years of responsible California local government Human Resources experience at the journey analyst level with a primary emphasis in conducting classification and compensation studies, salary surveys, and staffing assessments.
Desirable Qualifications:- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in human resources, public administration, or a closely related field.
- IPMA-CP preferred .
Supplemental Information
SALARY AND BENEFITS:- $43 - $56 per hour DOQ/DOE
- Paid Time Off benefits are available for employees who regularly work more than an average of 20 hours per week.
- Employer Contribution at 10% of earnings to a 401a deferred compensation plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits are available for employees who regularly work more than an average of 20 hours per week.
- Flexible work hours with the understanding that some portion of time will be during core work hours of 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST to deliver human resources services.
- More information here: https://www.rgsjpa.org/employee-resources/rgs-salary-and-benefits/
APPLICATION PROCESS AND SELECTION PROCEDURE:
Applications must be submitted online through this applicant tracking system. Materials must be complete and clearly indicate that the candidate meets the minimum qualifications. Incomplete, late, emailed, and faxed applications are not accepted. Resumes are not considered in lieu of the required employment application.
Certificates, resumes, and/or cover letters must be uploaded with your application through this applicant tracking system.
All statements made on the application, resume, and supplemental materials are subject to verification. False statements may because for immediate disqualification, removal from eligibility list, or discharge from employment.
The deadline to apply is Monday, December 22, 2025, at 11:59 PM PST.
LINK TO APPLY HERE
Appraisal Process - (Pass/Fail) After the closing deadline, applications will be screened in relation to the criteria indicated in this announcement.
This process may also include various interviews and/or a skills assessment exam to rank applications, and to prepare a Qualified Candidate List.
Application - Minimum Qualification Assessment - (Pass/Fail) All completed applications and supplemental questionnaires will be reviewed and assessed for each applicant's ability to meet the minimum work experience, training, and education qualifications.
Remote Screen Interview Exam - (Pass/Fail) Candidates who pass the Remote Screen Interview assessment will be invited to a Remote Screen Interview Examination to evaluate training, experience, and other job-related qualifications for the position. The Remote Screen Interview will be conducted via a video conference platform and is tentatively scheduled for the week ofearlyJanuary2026.
Online Skills Assessment - (Pass/Fail) An Online Skills Assessment may be used to evaluate candidates’ knowledge, skills, and abilities for the position. The online assessment is tentatively scheduled formidJanuary2026.
Technical Interview Exam - (100%) Applicants may be selected for consideration to participate in a Technical Interview appraisal to evaluate training, experience, and other job-related qualifications for the position. The Technical Interview is tentatively scheduled forearlyFebruary2026. Successful candidates will be placed on a list of qualified candidates.
Successful candidates will be submitted to the hiring manager of Regional Government Services for further consideration.
All communication and notices will be sent via e-mail. Additional inquiries about the position may be directed to dprieto@rgs.ca.gov .
The Regional Government Services is not responsible for failure of internet forms or email in submitting your application. Candidates who may require special assistance in any phase of the application or selection process should advise Regional Government Services by emailing dprieto@rgs.ca.gov .
Regional Government Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Closing Date/Time: 12/22/2025 11:59 PM Pacific -
ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Regional Government Services
Show moreOUR HISTORY
Regional Government Services Authority (RGS) is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) serving the needs of cities, counties, special districts, joint powers authorities, and other governmental entities since 2002. RGS works exclusively for the benefit of public agencies, providing a ready source of support and consulting services to meet the needs of its partner agencies in a broad range of disciplines and to help local governments meet three challenges:
- Decreasing revenues
- Increasing demands (and costs) for services, and
- Loss of experienced staff.
Local government leaders knew that these challenges were likely to continue, so agencies would have to work together – uniting not only their voices but their resources to advocate and become more efficient. The idea behind the creation of RGS was to form an agency that would help local governments share expertise and improve efficiencies. This was an emerging need. It did not require that each agency hire full-time staff. With the creation of this JPA, agencies could, in effect, share expertise through a third-party.
WHO WE ARE
Today, RGS is governed by several member agencies, all with the common goal expressed in the JPA’s MISSION STATEMENT: To provide quality, innovative, cost-effective services exclusively to public agencies. In November 2020, the 5-year Strategic Plan was adopted. Current member agency representation can be found on the Board of Directors page of this website.
RGS developed a highly flexible platform of administrative support, benefit plans and programs that could serve the diverse needs of cities, special districts, counties and other joint powers authorities. Flexibility was vital because the needs of partner agencies varied and because RGS services were 100 percent fee-based. Thus, RGS costs have always been able to ramp up or down quickly, as demand changed.
To further understand RGS main service lines, please see the RGS Services Brochure or the Services area of the website.
To view the RGS Org Chart click here.
Regional Government Services Authority was formed under Section 6500, for the purpose of providing local governments with administrative, staffing and advisory services. RGS has now served over 300 cities, special districts, joint powers authorities and other local governments and non-profits that support local governments.
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