Compensation Coordinator (Chicago)

Compensation Coordinator

Since 1911, City Colleges of Chicago has been connecting students from across Chicago's neighborhoods to economic opportunity. By offering a quality education at an unprecedented value, City Colleges provides our students and alumni with a pathway to upward mobility. City Colleges of Chicago is the city's most accessible higher education engine of socioeconomic mobility and racial equityempowering its students to take part in building a stronger and more just city. As Illinois' largest community college system, City Colleges is comprised of seven colleges and five satellite sites across Chicago.

Reporting to the Director-Compensation, the Compensation Coordinator provides administrative and technical support to the Compensation team. This position assists with maintaining job descriptions and classification data, tracking compensation-related requests, coordinating documentation workflows, and preparing reports. The role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and basic data analysis capabilities.

Essential Duties

Tracks incoming compensation related requests and maintains organized records of progress and outcomes.

Assists with the posting, archiving, and maintenance of job descriptions on internal systems and shared platforms.

Helps collect and organize job information for new and existing positions. Gathers job questionnaires, communicates with managers for clarification, and researches basic job data to support the compensation team.

Supports department in conducting job audits to ensure accurate position classifications, evaluating positions and communicating decisions to college administration for implementation.

Supports the development and maintenance of compensation-related guides, templates, and process documentation.

Assists with gathering and formatting compensation data for internal audits, salary surveys, and market reviews.

Maintains and monitors the Compensation department's email inbox, routing inquiries and requests to appropriate team members.

Assists in overseeing and approving requests for special stipend payments. Tracks, reviews and processes such payments in accordance with policy and bargaining agreement guidelines. Analyzes data; ensures consistency and appropriate processes.

Supports Compensation Team in administering the Special Assignments online approval function. Updates Special Assignments User Guide as needed.

Prepares standard reports for the department in a timely and efficient manner.

Creates and maintains electronic and manual files.

Provides general administrative support to District and College personnel on issues relating to employee compensation.

Adheres to City Colleges of Chicago Customer Service Excellence standards.

Performs related duties as required.

Reporting Relationships

Reports To Director-Compensation

Direct Supervision None

Qualifications

Associate's degree from an accredited college or university. Bachelor's Degree preferred.

Work experience in Human Resources or office administration

A combination of education and experience may be taken into consideration based on the applicant's credentials.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent organizational and time management skills with a strong attention to details focusing on quality control

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Ability to conduct research for salary surveys, job descriptions, and compensation reviews.

Ability to work effectively with employees at all levels of the organization, as well as with internal and external stakeholders.

Ability to handle all situations with tact, persuasiveness, and diplomacy.

Ability to handle sensitive information with the utmost confidentiality

Ability to work within a culturally diverse environment.

Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams)

Offered salary will be determined by the applicant's education, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as other factors such as internal equity.

Excellent health and welfare benefit package and long-term savings and investment programs including 403(b) & 457(b) Investment Plans and a pension plan with the State University Retirement System (SURS) Plan. Generous vacation, holiday, personal and sick days, and tuition reimbursement. For a more detailed overview of benefits, please visit the benefits page of our website.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Chicago residency is required for all full-time employees within 6 months of hire. Thank you for your interest in CCC!