Senior Compensation Analyst

Senior Compensation Analyst

The Senior Compensation Analyst serves as a subject-matter expert responsible for the design, analysis, and governance of Dallas College's compensation programs. This role provides strategic, data-driven consultation on job architecture, market competitiveness, internal equity, and pay practices, ensuring alignment with institutional goals, regulatory requirements, and labor market conditions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as a lead compensation subject-matter expert, providing advanced analysis and consultative guidance on compensation strategy, job architecture, and pay decisions.
• Lead complex market pricing, benchmarking, and trend analysis using multiple survey sources and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Design, evaluate, and maintain salary structures and compensation frameworks that balance competitiveness, equity, and fiscal responsibility.
• Conduct advanced job evaluations and classification analyses, including independent FLSA determinations.
• Assess internal pay equity and external competitiveness for staffing actions and formulate defensible recommendations.
• Identify, assess, and proactively escalate compensation-related risks with recommended mitigation strategies.
• Provide expert interpretation of compensation policies, legislation, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop executive-ready reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Lead internal and external salary surveys, participation and validation.
• Partner with HRIS leaders to enhance systems, data integrity, automation, and reporting.
• Provide analytic leadership for annual compensation cycles.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex compensation inquiries.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and governance standards.
• Complete required Dallas College Professional Development training hours per academic year (minimum 19 hours; additional 16 hours for people leaders).
• Regular, reliable, and punctual attendance is an essential function of the job.
• Perform other duties not listed as assigned.

This position requires regular on-site presence to fulfill essential duties that cannot be performed remotely. Duties must be executed in-person to ensure effective collaboration, supervision, and service delivery, in accordance with Texas SB 2615.