Leaves Manager

Benefits & Leaves Manager

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Location: Hybrid – South San Francisco, CA
🕒 Schedule: Full-Time | Exempt
🏢 Department: Human Resources
📋 Reports To: Human Resources Director – Core HR Services
💰 Salary Range: $110,000 – $115,000 annually

Aspiranet is seeking a highly experienced and service-oriented Benefits & Leaves Manager to lead our organization-wide benefits, leaves, workers’ compensation, and accommodations programs. This is a critical leadership role for an HR professional who brings deep expertise in California employment laws, self-insured health plans, and complex leave administration and who is passionate about delivering an exceptional employee experience.

In this role, you’ll guide a dedicated HR team, partner closely with leadership, and serve as a trusted resource to employees navigating benefits and leaves during important moments in their lives. If you thrive in a mission-driven environment and enjoy balancing strategy, compliance, and hands-on problem-solving, we’d love to hear from you.

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About Aspiranet

Founded in 1975, Aspiranet is a California-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting children, youth, and families. Our statewide services include foster care and family support, adoption, mental health care, residential programs, youth transition services, and community-based initiatives. Every role at Aspiranet contributes to a shared mission: ensuring opportunity, hope, and healing for the communities we serve.

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Summary Position

The Benefits & Leaves Manager oversees all aspects of employee benefits and leave administration, ensuring compliance with federal, state (especially California), and local regulations. This includes leadership over self-insured health plans, 403(b) administration, leave of absence programs (FMLA, CFRA, PDL, PWFA, disability), accommodations, and workers’ compensation.

You will supervise HR staff responsible for day-to-day administration, collaborate with brokers and vendors, support employees and managers through complex situations, and continuously evaluate programs for quality, compliance, and cost-effectiveness. This role is ideal for a hands-on HR leader with experience supporting a large, diverse, multi-site workforce.

• Lead administration of medical, dental, vision, life, wellness, COBRA, and 403(b) programs.
• Manage self-insured and group health plans, including vendor relationships, claims funding, renewals, and plan performance.
• Plan and execute annual open enrollment, including employee communications and education.
• Ensure compliance with ACA, HIPAA, COBRA, ERISA, and related regulations.
• Analyze utilization and cost data to recommend enhancements or cost-containment strategies.

• Provide leadership for all employee leave programs (FMLA, CFRA, PDL, PWFA, disability, workers’ compensation, and related leaves)
• Lead and ensure compliance with the ADAAA/FEHA interactive process.
• Oversee return-to-work coordination and benefit transitions.
• Supervise and mentor team members managing leave and accommodation cases.

• Stay current on evolving federal, state, and local employment laws.
• Lead benefits- and leave-related audits, reporting, and documentation.
• Analyze trends to support organizational planning and risk management.

• Serve as the primary liaison with brokers, carriers, and third-party administrators.
• Partner with HR and internal communications teams to deliver clear, accessible guidance to managers and employees.
• Supervise, coach, and develop HR team members.

✅ Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
• Minimum 3+ years of benefits and leave administration experience.
• 2+ years of supervisory experience.
• Experience managing self-insured health plans preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of CFRA, FMLA, PWFA, FEHA/ADA, ACA, ERISA, COBRA, and related laws.
• Experience supporting a multi-site organization (500+ employees), preferably within a nonprofit or human services setting.
• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency…