Academic Human Resources Analyst 3

Employment Duration: 6 months

The Academic Human Resources Analyst 3 is a seasoned professional with a comprehensive understanding of UC, campus, and departmental academic personnel practices, policies, and procedures. This individual resolves moderate to complex academic personnel and HR-related issues and serves as the primary academic contact for an assigned portfolio of client departments.

Key Responsibilities:

Academic Personnel Advising & Policy Interpretation

• Analyze and interpret policies and guidelines to advise unit clients on onboarding, appointments, compensation, work-eligibility (visa) matters, and benefits considerations.
• Counsel departments on appointment types, visa application processes, and policy compliance.
• Provide timely, proactive customer service; initiate and respond to inquiries; keep clients informed of case statuses.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and specialty centers to perform academic personnel and HR duties.
• Identify critical stakeholders involved in policy interpretation and escalate complex situations appropriately.
• Learn unique departmental needs and synthesize multiple overlapping policies to support compliant decision-making.

Academic Onboarding, Appointments & Reviews

• Facilitate and manage onboarding, appointment, and academic review processes for faculty, non-faculty academics, and trainees.
• Administer academic actions in accordance with deadlines, policies, and labor contracts.
• Provide customer service and status updates throughout the process.
• Partner with internal teams to support academic personnel and HR needs for client departments.

Case Management & Systems

• Manage and process cases in PeopleConnect; track and respond to client requests to meet internal deadlines.
• Use UCSF HR information systems, including PeopleConnect, UCPath, Advance, and HBS/MyTime.
• Produce ad hoc reports as needed.

Training & Other Duties

• Identify and tailor training needs for diverse client groups.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• 3+ years of experience in UC or university academic personnel services, or related HR experience involving high-level HR activities; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to apply and interpret systemwide and campus academic personnel and HR policies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing assignments and integrate information to determine appropriate actions.
• Minimum of 3 years of directly related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training.

• Strong understanding of compensation policies, collective bargaining agreements, and procedures governing academic employees and health sciences compensation plans.