Department of Human Resources

Staff

Vivian L. Hunter, Director
Raquel Prince, Benefit Specialist
Debbie Burner, Administrative Assistant
Christine Waugh, Administrative Assistant

The City of Belle Glade is a full service municipality striving to meet the needs of a growing community. The City offers full time employment with a benefit package consisting of: vacation and sick leave, 11 paid holidays, health and life insurance, disability insurance, various retirement options, in addition to optional 401k plans and Dental coverage. The City of Belle Glade is more than another job to its 240 plus employees, it’s the place for opportunity.

Mission Statement

The Human Resources Department’s mission is to establish and maintain a uniform system for managing personnel matters; linking neighboring communities with local government through employment; and to provide for standards, terms, and conditions of employment within the City in a clear and comprehensive fashion.

2007 Holidays

Primary duties of the Human Resources Department Include, but not limited to:

• Creation, modification, and oversight of personnel policies;
• Department support in the areas of hiring, retention, discipline, evaluation, and separation of employees; Manages recruitment activities such as establishing class requirements, announcements, selection, and orientation.
• Coaching and counseling for personnel-related issues;
• Employee pay and classification (salary surveys, salary adjustment recommendations, classification review of employees);
• Citywide employee service support;
• Administers employee benefit programs such as Health, life, and AD/D benefits, retirement program and saving plans;
• Administers programmatic functions of Risk Management;
• Workers’ compensation and other claims;
• Administers vacation, sick leave, FMLA, ADA and ERISA; and
• Employee relation.
• Establishes, reviews, or approves human resources functions and processes, such as forms, payroll and hiring processes, grievance procedures or other; gathers and maintains information to support periodic and special reports documenting human resources activities and events.
• Conducts policy reviews and recommends improvements in policy or procedures to elected and appointed officials.
• Coordinates employee personnel related information, and orientation programs such as safety, first aid, benefits programs, and other programs;
• Monitors local, state, or federal rules, regulations, policies and procedures that may affect the Human Resources Department to insure compliance; recommends or implements changes as required;