University Health KC

Benefits Coordinator

University Health KC  •  United States (Onsite)  •  22 days ago
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Job Description

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Benefits Coordinator101 Truman Medical Center

Job Location

Crown CenterKansas City, Missouri

Department

Compensation and Benefits

Position Type

Full time

Work Schedule

8:00AM - 4:30PM

Hours Per Week

40

As our Benefits Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in helping employees navigate their benefits and compensation programs. You’ll be a trusted resource, a behind-the-scenes problem solver, and a friendly first point of contact for benefits-related questions. If you enjoy a mix of customer service, coordination, and administrative work — this could be the perfect fit!

What You’ll Do:

Here’s how you’ll make an impact:

✅ Help administer employee benefit programs and answer benefits-related questions
✅ Support employees with insurance enrollments, life event changes, and coverage updates

✅ Maintain accurate benefit records and ensure dependent documentation is complete
✅ Assist with benefit deduction reconciliations and vendor payment processing
✅ Help administer retirement reward and education assistance programs
✅ Support and present during new hire benefits orientation
✅ Monitor eligibility and payroll-related benefit changes and collaborate with internal teams and vendors
✅ Help coordinate benefit fairs and open enrollment events
✅ Participate in special projects and continuous improvement initiatives

You’ll also help support a culture of quality, safety, compliance, diversity, and exceptional customer service.

Minimum Qualifications:
✔ High school diploma
✔ 3+ years of Human Resources administrative experience
✔ Strong attention to detail and comfort working with numbers and data
✔ Excellent communication, customer service, and organizational skills
✔ Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel

Preferred:
✔ Benefits administration experience
✔ Healthcare industry experience
✔ Experience working with HRIS systems

Why You’ll Love Working Here

  • Opportunity to make a meaningful impact supporting employees

  • Collaborative and supportive team environment

  • Variety in your day — no two days are exactly alike

  • Opportunities to grow your HR and benefits expertise

You’ll do well here if you are:

  • Naturally helpful and service-focused

  • Highly organized and detail-oriented

  • Comfortable balancing multiple priorities

  • A strong communicator who enjoys working with people

  • Curious and motivated to learn

University Health KC

About University Health KC

University Health (UH) has all the things you expect from a great health system. With two acute care academic hospital locations, the largest, most comprehensive behavioral health program in the area, a long-term care facility and multiple primary care practices, UH provides the highest quality care – from routine screenings to the most complicated cases. We are the primary teaching hospital for the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, so our doctors are academic specialists who teach tomorrow’s doctors the very latest updates.

University Health Truman Medical Center, our downtown campus, is one of the busiest Level One Trauma Center in the city. Providers offer the full range of services with specialties in chronic disease management, high risk pregnancy and sleep disorders along with the state-of-the art Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Center.

University Health 1, located at 2101 Charlotte Street is an outpatient care and day-surgery center, with sixteen clinics including Sabates Eye Center, Plastic Surgery, Hernia repair and Medical Imaging with Siemens 3D Mammography.

At University Health 2, 2211 Charlotte St, providers offer Primary and Women's Care.

In eastern Jackson County, University Health Lakewood Medical Center sits on 300 acres of beautiful wooded grounds. We are a community hospital providing the continuum of care— from emergency medicine to a nationally-certified orthopaedic joint replacement program — as well as The Family Birthplace, We have several family medical care centers and a radiology center, Medical Imaging Eastland, that provides the latest in technology and specialized breast cancer care.

Mission

University Health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Kansas City, MO
Year Founded
1962
Website
universityhealthkc.org
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