HR Operational Roadmap
Staff Success Strategic Plan Action Resource Committee (SPARC)
Parental leave: Create parental leave policy and process aligned with new state law
- UHR lead: Isandra Martinez-Marrero
Optimize staff onboarding: Develop comprehensive and customizable onboarding tools, including checklists, dashboards, and personalized welcome resources to support HR representatives and executive leaders in enhancing employee engagement and informing strategic planning
- UHR leads: Keith Becker and Erin Litton
P3 Merit Experience Pilot Project: Improve Merit experience and retention, focused on the first year of employment
- UHR lead: Isandra Martinez-Marrero
Develop career pathways framework: Establish a comprehensive career development framework, equipping employees and supervisors to progress career goals
- UHR leads: Rachel Napoli and Jiongting Hu
Staff recognition programs: Pilot and implement recommendations and utilize data to assess effectiveness of campus programs
- UHR leads: Justin Fraase and Abigail Schaver
TIAA retirement plan modernization: Modernizing UI retirement plans administered by TIAA to include a streamlined fund lineup with lower-cost investment options, a new target retirement series tailored to UI plan participants, and a self-directed brokerage feature
- UHR lead: Joni Troester
Recruitment marketing platform: Identify vendor from RFQ, determine funding, implement recruitment marketing platform
- UHR lead: Keith Becker
Employee Engagement Survey: Review vendors, explore third-party options that allow for benchmarking
- UHR lead: Isandra Martinez-Marrero
RESPARC: Operational Efficiency
Investigation process/ELR: Clarify roles, define investigative levels, and strengthen reporting lines. Enhance case management and tracking, address bottlenecks, and integrate Faculty Investigations Core
- UHR lead: Todd Rent
HR transactions: Re-envision and simplify data collection. Explore direct entry into HR system and evaluate additional tools to facilitate smooth, efficient processes
- UHR lead: Mike Kaplan
I-9 centralization: Connect I-9 hubs to the HR neighborhood. Streamline workflows and explore methods to make the process more consistent and efficient
- UHR lead: Sharon Beck
HR neighborhood: Develop a collaborative service delivery model that connects HR staff across administrative units, strengthens functional expertise, and builds consistent, employee-focused processes while allowing for continuous improvement
- UHR lead: Sharon Beck
Well-Being SPARC
Mental health: Expand implementation of peer to peer support: R U OK?
- UHR lead: Bronwyn Threlkeld-Wiegand
Financial well-being: Improve campus engagement in existing services; expand use of financial mobile app as part of training and education
- UHR lead: Diana Kremzar
Population health: Administer the GLP-1 Pilot Program focused on quality benefit design for the member and a financially sustainable model for self-funded plans
- UHR leads: Joni Troester and Erin Litton
Social connections: Explore opportunities to create campus connections promoting health, well-being, and staff success
- UHR lead: Joni Troester
Evaluation: Conduct outcome evaluations (quantitative and qualitative) on identified services; collaborate with orgs and departments on local data and opportunities for health improvement
- UHR leads: Erin Litton and Melanie Cuchna
Hard to reach populations: Improve engagement with select populations through multi-modal communication strategies and collaboration with local leadership
- UHR lead: Erin Litton
Operational Excellence
Faculty Investigative Core: Ensure initiative is launched, investigators trained, metrics and KPIs identified
- UHR lead: Todd Rent
Pay codes: Conduct internal review of special compensation earnings codes
- UHR lead: Trevor Glanz
Relocation: Move UHR staff from University Services Building to University Capitol Centre
- UHR leads: Cheryl Reardon and Sharon Beck
Health Care
Identify strategic compensation practices: Benchmark compensation practices across peer institutions and identify potential strategies that support recruitment and retention
- UHR lead: Trevor Glanz
Identify strategic high priorities: Compensation practices, well-being programs
- UHR lead: Cheryl Reardon
Mergers/acquisitions: Effectively manage new mergers and/or acquisitions
- UHR lead: Cheryl Reardon
Training and compliances: Assessment of required training and compliances
- UHR lead: Cheryl Reardon
