California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) · 1 day ago
Customer Service and Support Manager
The California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) is seeking a Customer Service and Support Manager to join their Benefits Division. This role involves the administration of the state's assigned benefits programs, ensuring quality services for California employees, retirees, and dependents.
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Responsibilities
Manage or oversee complex benefits programs, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations
Handle highly sensitive customer inquiries and ensure service level expectations are met
Lead and develop staff for program operations, setting expectations and ensuring accountability
Qualification
Required
Experience managing or overseeing complex benefits programs (e.g., health, dental, vision, dependent eligibility programs)
Experience working in Human Resources; specifically, managing or overseeing complex benefits programs and/or HR transactions (e.g. payroll processes, knowledge of the SCO payroll system, health, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits)
Experience handling highly sensitive customer inquiries
Experience leading and developing staff for program operations
Preferred
Leadership Skills - Team development, coaching, motivation, performance and change management
Program Administration - Knowledge of employee benefit programs and/or health care industry standards
Organizational skills - Ability to manage time effectively, organize and establish workload priorities and meet deadlines while remaining flexible and adapting to rapid changes without compromising accuracy or quality of assignments
Interpersonal skills - Collaboration, teamwork, practices conflict resolution, adaptability, resilience, and helping behaviors
Communication skills - Clear and concise in verbal and written work, effective presentation skills, meeting facilitation skills, tact, applies critical and forward-thinking skills and the ability/skill to achieve buy-in and engage customers
General business acumen - Honest, ethical, systemic thinking, thoughtfully decisive, and conscientious
Benefits
CoBen benefit allowance
Employer paid life insurance
Additional vacation/annual leave
Not subject to State Disability Insurance payroll withholding
Company
California Department of Human Resources (CalHR)
The California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) was created on July 1, 2012, by Governor Brown's Reorganization Plan Number 1 of 2011.
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2025-09-09
2025-04-20
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