Temporary Agency Jobs in Riverside, CA (NOW HIRING)

Position Details
Position Information
Position Title
Human Resources Technician I (Short-Term Hourly/Substitute Temporary Position) Continuous Pool
Recruitment Start Date
09/08/2025
Recruitment End Date
Open Until Filled
First Consideration Date
Salary Range
Pay Rate
$31.00 an hour
FLSA Status
Benefits
This position is not eligible to receive the comprehensive program of fringe benefits (medical, dental, vision, and life), holiday pay, or vacation pay.
At the beginning of each academic year, all professional expert, short-term, substitute, and student employees with an assignment which will exceed 30 days will be provided with five days (40 hours) of paid sick leave. This paid sick leave is available to be used for an illness of the professional expert, short-term, substitute, and student employee or his/her family member and/or for leave due to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. A professional expert, short-term, substitute, and student employee shall be entitled to use such sick leave as of the 90th day of employment. The five days (40 hours) of paid sick leave do not accumulate.
General Description/Summary
This is a short-term hourly, substitute temporary POOL position. Application materials for this position are accepted on an on-going basis. As openings for these positions become available, candidates may be selected from this pool of applicants.
POSITION SUMMARYPerforms a variety of technical and advanced clerical work in the human resources areas of personnel status transactions, recruitment, development and maintenance of personnel files, employee communications, and the writing and typing of mandated reports.
Minimum Qualifications/Education and Experience
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE- An associate degree, or the completion of at least sixty (60) college-level semester units, and one year of office work experience; or, in the absence of an associate degree, or the completion of at least sixty (60) college-level semester units, two years of office work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Demonstrates sensitivity to, understanding of, and ability to work with the diverse academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, religious, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, immigrant status, and cultural background of community college students, faculty, and staff; and successfully fosters and supports an inclusive educational and work environment.
Licenses and Certificates
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES- Provides information on personnel policies, rules and regulations. Assists employees with insurance, retirement, and salary placement questions or problems.
- Receives and reviews documentation on new employees. Verifies information and eligibility for benefits and retirement. Creates a personnel file and prepares related reports.
- Prepares and distributes employee contract letters per offer and acceptance agreement.
- Maintains and updates all personnel files. Ensures that all paperwork is up-to-date and that files comply with record retention requirements.
- May compute and/or verify salary adjustments for employees based on range, step, longevity, and other changes occurring from changes such as annual adjustments, reclassification, and out-of-class assignments. Refers date, salary rate, and related information to the Payroll department for processing.
- Enters new employee information onto a relational database of human resources information (HRS). Sets up prompts or separate schedules for identifying dates of employee status change (e.g., step-in-grade, longevity, professional development, performance appraisal).
- Notifies administrative staff of due dates for performance evaluations. Monitors receipt and follows up on late evaluations.
- Arranges for fingerprinting of new employees for record checks as directed. Processes necessary paperwork.
- Maintains personnel files and other confidential information. This requires extreme discretion when dealing with oral and written communications about employees.
- Provides procedural instructions and guidance to staff on recruitment and selection procedures, including strategies for outreach and the design and use of candidate testing and selection methods.
- Prepares and distributes position vacancy announcements, creating and presenting advertisements to newspapers, periodicals, external agencies, web sites, and other areas of access. Works with publishing agencies, newspapers, and employment agencies to post and monitor activity relating to job announcements.
- Accepts, controls, and processes applications for full and part-time positions. Reviews applications for required information, including, as appropriate, transcripts. Develops and maintains applicant mailing lists, ensuring up-to-date information.
- Sets up systems for centralized handling of recruitment activities such as, but not limited to, document control, information flow, and communications.
- Monitors the progress of selection committees during screening, assessment, and interviews. Facilitates committee processes by scheduling meetings, logistics, candidate testing, and communications.
- Composes letters regarding employment or other personnel matters. Processes wage verifications by phone or mail.
- May compile reports for external agencies. May compile statistics and trends. May calculate employee costs for specially funded programs.
- May conduct new employee orientations.
- Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Requires demonstrated skills at using a personal computer for word processing, tabulating data on spreadsheets, accessing and entering data onto relational databases, verifying numerical and demographic information, and entering information onto established data entry screens.
- Requires sufficient human relation skills to convey technical concepts to others, to deal with sensitive and confidential information, to give instructions, and to facilitate discussions in individual settings.
- Requires language, grammar, and writing skill to prepare professional correspondence, position advertisements, and informational brochures.
- Requires the ability to interpret the policies, procedures, techniques, and rules governing human resources management at the District.
- Requires the ability to achieve harmony and cooperation in communications with others.
- Requires the ability to prepare professional correspondence for routine communications.
- Requires the ability to learn and apply laws, regulations, policies and procedures for equal employment opportunity.
- Requires the ability to learn and apply the provisions of the District's collective bargaining agreements dealing with recruitment, selection, transfer, and assignment of salaries.
- Requires the ability to maintain up-to-date files and ensure security and confidentiality of employee information.
Physical Abilities
PHYSICAL ABILITIES- Position involves light work including some walking, standing, stooping, occasional carrying and lifting of lightweight materials (under 20 pounds).
- Requires visual acuity and depth perception to recognize words and numbers; hand and finger dexterity and hand/eye coordination to use a computer keyboard and common office equipment.
- Requires speaking and hearing ability sufficient to hear over a phone and carry on conversations.
Working Condition
WORKING CONDITIONS- Work is performed indoors where minimal safety considerations exist.
Department
Human Resources
Job Category
Assignment
Percentage of Time
Months per Year
As needed, not to exceed 195 working days (including holidays)
Work Days per Week
Not to exceed 29 hours per week
Work Schedule per Day
Hourly as needed, not to exceed 900 hours during a fiscal year
Work Shift
Days
Bargaining Unit
Citrus College Diversity Statement
CITRUS COLLEGE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
It is the policy of Citrus College to not discriminate against and to encourage a diversity of applicants based on national origin, religion, age, sex or gender, race, color, medical condition, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, use of family and medical care leave, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or because they are perceived to have one or more of the preceding characteristics, or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS:
Applications are considered legal documents, and as such, all areas of the application must be completed, or your application packet will be considered incomplete and will not be moved forward. While it may be appropriate in some areas of your application to use "NA" (not applicable), do not use terms such as "see resume" or "see attached". When listing your work experience, please specify the beginning and end dates for each job you held and describe your experience.
Applicants are responsible for ensuring that all required documents, and those additional documents you choose to include, are attached BEFORE clicking the "Finished Attaching Documents" button and confirming. It is advisable to attach "Optional" documents first, and then "Required" documents once you are ready to click on the "Finished Attaching Documents" button and confirming.
Application and Supplemental Questionnaire must be complete. A resume will not substitute for a fully completed employment application and supplemental questionnaire. Incomplete applications will be rejected. When listing your work experience, please specify the beginning and end dates for each job you held and describe your experience.
Additional documents CANNOT be added to your electronic application packet once you click on "Finished Attaching Documents" and receive your confirmation number; so, please be sure you have all documents you will upload handy and in an electronic format. THE APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEM WILL NOT ACCEPT DOCUMENTS LARGER THAN 2MB. IF YOUR DOCUMENTS DO NOT UPLOAD, PLEASE RESIZE/COMPRESS THE FILE. If you do not have all your documents handy at the time you are applying for the position, we advise you to click on "Finish Attaching Documents Later". Be sure, however, to finish attaching your documents BEFORE the close or first consideration date for the position. Please remember, you will NOT be able to attach additional documents after you have selected "Finished Attaching Documents" and have received a confirmation number, and you will not be able to apply for a position after the position has closed.
About Transcripts
Selection Process
NOTE: For those applicants required to submit a Confidential Record of Convictions (Form 101) to the Executive Director of Human Resources, please take a few minutes to download, complete, and mail the form today. Form 101 must be received in our office prior to the first consideration/closing date of the position for which you are applying. Form 101 may be obtained by visiting the Citrus College website or by clicking the link on the welcome page.
Quick Link
https://employment.citruscollege.edu/postings/1295