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Compensation, Hiring, & Job Descriptions

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Consumer-Driven Health Plans: A Healthy Plan for Today and Tomorrow
Presentation from November 4th, 2009 Financial Management CoP call, presented by Jennifer Borislow and Mark Gaunya of Borislow Insurance

The Human Resources Issue: Defining the Challenges Facing Business Officers
This NBOA edition of Net Assets deals with such issues as Termination, Health Savings Accounts, Benefits for Multi-Generational employees, and more.

Jewish Day School Peer Yardstick™ Multi-Year Report, 2003-2006 Faculty Compensation Report
At the PEJE 2008 Assembly for Day School Education, Sacha Litman presented findings from the Day School Peer Yardstick Compensation analysis to answer questions about benchmarks and factors associated with faculty compensation.

Steps In Creating A Compensation Plan
This document, from Forward Looking Management, outlines steps to consider in creating compensation plans

Sample Benefits Plan
This ISACS document provides a starting point for schools looking to develop a benefits plan.

Administrators Job Descriptions from ISACS

Sample Business Manager Job Description

Head of School - Business Manager Relationship
This NAIS article addresses ways in which heads of school and business managers best collaborate.

Relevant Reading

Best Practices in Staff Benefits Programs for Independent Jewish Day Schools

Rightsizing: Responding to the New Economic Trends
These notes and slides from a Financial Management CoP call explore how schools can reduce their legal exposure when planning staff reductions.

Surviving and Thriving in Hard Times
This article discusses managing staff anxiety in difficult times as well as how the head of school should communicate layoffs.

How Safe is Your Space
This document and powerpoint presentation, developed by Caryn Pass for a Financial Management Community of Practice call, delve into hiring practices to minimize a school's risk. Topics discussed include avoiding negligent hiring, interview practices, and background checks.

Comparing Different Compensation Systems
These notes and handouts from two Financial Management Community of Practice calls with ISM's Terry Moore compare three major types of compensation systems. Salary broad banding, in which faculty are rewarded for professional growth and development is emphasized as an innovative option. Implementation of salary broad banding is discussed.

How to Hire Workbook for Nonprofits
This workbook, published by Capability & Company and Nonprofit Oyster, contains tips on hiring for nonprofits.

Compensating Excellence and Rewarding Performance
This NAIS PowerPoint explores pay for performance and three new compensation models.

Re-Thinking Faculty Compensation
This NAIS article discusses how schools can prepare themselves for the coming teacher shortage by re-engineering compensation.

Benefits
This NAIS article provides some principles, strategies, and standard policies related to benefits planning.

Health Insurance
The lead article from this NBOA newsletter deals with efforts to decrease school health insurance costs.

Qualified Tuition Reduction Memo
This memo, from the Los Angeles BJE describes issues in implementing qualified tuition reduction as a staff benefit.

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