Benefits Administrator

Are you looking for a career that checks all the boxes? A career that motivates and stretches your talent. A career that offers you the flexibility to pursue growth and accomplishment while maintaining a balance to continue to pour into your passions? A calling that gives purpose and meaning to your life while helping others around the globe eternally change theirs? We know you have options out there that will check most of the boxes, but at Lutheran Hour Ministries, we believe that not only do you deserve to have them all, but that you need them all. When your career aligns with your values and goals, you are empowered to grow and succeed!

Allow us to introduce ourselves: Lutheran Hour Ministries is a trusted resource in global media that equips and engages a vibrant volunteer base to passionately proclaim the Gospel to more than 150 million people worldwide each week. Through its North American headquarters and ministry centers on six continents, LHM reaches into more than 60 countries, often bringing Christ to places where no other Christian evangelistic organizations are present.

Summary:

The Benefits Administrator will serve as the critical liaison between LHM and external benefits administrative entities. Additional responsibilities include managing and overseeing the administration of employee benefits programs, ensuring smooth and efficient communication between all parties involved, coordinating with benefits vendors, resolving employee benefits issues, and ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations.

Working closely with the HR and Finance teams, the Benefits Administrator streamlines benefits processes, enhances employee satisfaction, and provides timely and accurate information regarding benefits options, ensuring benefits programs are administered effectively and in alignment with company policies and fostering a positive work environment.

Major Responsibilities:

1. Monitor and facilitate health, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and retirement plans offered through our benefits administrator.
2. Conduct new hire orientations and open enrollment meetings.
3. Ensures timely and accurate benefits enrollments and provide vendor partners with accurate eligibility information.
4. Performs benefit enrollment and related data audits and quality checks to maintain the integrity and compliance of this information.
5. Serves as primary contact for benefits administration vendor partners.
6. Assists staff with benefit questions and dependent eligibility verifications as needed.
7. Assist with projects such as the open enrollment process, census dependent eligibility verification audits, new plan year audits, and ensuring benefit and payroll deductions match as needed.
8. Prepare cost share structure for employer and employee benefit coverage.
9. Completes monthly invoice billing reconciliation and payment.
10. Maintains compliance with applicable government regulations during benefits administration processes.
11. Manage auto escalation process for the retirement plan.
12. Assist with the development of communication tools to enhance employee knowledge and engagement with the company’s health and welfare programs.
13. Manage the leave  processes (FML, PPL (Paid Parental Leave).
14. Manages ongoing and annual ACA filing requirements with external benefits administrator plus resolves discrepancies in data elements.
15. Manage workers compensation requirements for audits and state requirements.
16. Performs other related duties as required and assigned.

Minimum Qualification Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field, or equivalent years experience
• Strong skills using Microsoft Office, Excel, Word and PowerPoint (Preferred)
• Minimum of 3+ years of related “hands-on” group employee benefits administration experience
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills and good written and verbal communication skills.
• HRCI or SHRM certification a  plus

Location: Our office is located in St. Louis, MO but LHM offers flexible work arrangements, including remote work.

Apply at www.lhm.org/careers

The above listing is a full-time position with benefits through Concordia Plan Services. (See www.concordiaplans.org for benefit details: The Church’s Plan.)

For more information on Lutheran Hour Ministries, please visit www.lhm.org.