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Job Category:
Academic Staff
Employment Type:
Regular
Job Profile:
HR Generalist
Job Summary:
Join the UW-Madison Libraries HR team and support the people who lead in curating, preserving, and sharing knowledge to advance the mission and strategic priorities of our world-class research university. As part of the Libraries HR, we serve more than 200 full-time staff and 300 part-time and student employees in multiple locations with a focus on collaboration, innovation, and service. We provide timely, professional, and positive support that builds strong partnerships across the Libraries and beyond. This position offers the opportunity to grow your HR career in a dynamic, high impact, and fast paced environment while contributing to the mission of the Libraries.
As a HR Generalist, you will deliver frontline HR services across payroll, benefits, recruitment, and student support. You will work closely with colleagues and stakeholder committees to shape a positive employee experience. If you enjoy problem-solving, building relationships, and making an impact, this is the position for you.
In this capacity, you will take on a variety of duties that ensure our employees receive timely and effective HR support, including, but not limited to:
Payroll: Process bi-weekly payroll accurately and timely
Benefits: Provide guidance related to benefits, including new hires, life events, and open enrollment
Student Lifecycle: Process student hires, terminations, compensation changes, and promotions
Employee Lifecycle: Support the employee lifecycle by onboarding and offboarding employees and processing various HR transactions
HR Compliance: Conducts audits to ensure HR compliance and completion of staff training
Process Improvement: Create and update process documentation and identify improvements that drive consistency and efficiency
Parking: Facilitate parking assignments for employees
This position is eligible for partial remote work. A remote work agreement may allow for a maximum of 40% remote per week.
This position is full-time, 100%.
Ongoing/Renewable
Key Job Responsibilities:
Contributes to the development, implementation, interpretation, and revision of work unit Human Resources policies and procedures according to institutional and legal rules and regulations (20%)
Provides consultation, performs analytics, and/or maintains personnel files, communications, and materials for work unit through various mediums (20%)
Department:
Libraries, Administration
Compensation:
Starting salary will be based on experience and qualifications. Well-qualified applicants can anticipate earning between $53,000 - $65,000 with final salary based on experience and qualifications.
This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance, tax-advantaged savings accounts, and participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund. For a summary of benefits, please see https://www.wisconsin.edu/ohrwd/benefits/download/fasl.pdf.
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at (https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/).
Required Qualifications:
Knowledge of practices in payroll, benefits, and recruitment
Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and the ability to meet deadlines
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships
Strong organization and problem-solving abilities
Preferred Qualifications:
Education:
How to Apply:
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Applicants should attach a cover letter and resume detailing their training and experience relating to the required and preferred qualifications referenced above. The application reviewers will be relying on written application materials to determine which qualified applicants will advance in the recruitment process.
References will be requested from finalists only and are not required with the initial application. Reference requests will be sent via email from SkillSurvey.
Failure to submit the required documents will result in no longer being considered for the position.
Please note that successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.
Contact Information:
Abram Hopp, abram.hopp@wisc.edu, (608) 890-1795
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Institutional Statement on Diversity:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgrounds and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more information regarding applicant and employee rights and to view federal and state required postings, visit the Human Resources Workplace Poster website.
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Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct, including sexual violence and sexual harassment.
The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7).
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