HR Business Partner

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 400 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 Business Partner, you will deliver frontline HR services across payroll, benefits, recruitment, employee lifecycle, and student support. You will work closely with leadership and staff 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 Administration: Administer 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 a full-time, 100%.

Ongoing/Renewable

• Receives and responds to inquiries in-person, via email, and through various communication mediums and relays information to appropriate entities

• Audits human resources reports to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures

• Contributes to the development of strategic plans and directs staff implementation of initiatives in alignment with strategic goals

• Serves as a consultative Human Resources resource and liaison. Interprets, advises on, applies and disseminates complex policies, procedures, and options to leadership and employees; and recommends best strategies according to established objectives and goals

• Facilitates and processes complex transactions and programs according to established policies and procedures

• Develops and implements processes and procedures for one or many various HR functions such as employee trainings, recruitments, compensation, and payroll

Libraries, Administration

Starting salary will be based on experience and qualifications. Well-qualified applicants can anticipate earning between $60,000- $85,000 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/).

• Professional experience in two or more functional areas: payroll, benefits, recruitment, onboarding, and/or compensation
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships
• Demonstrated ability to independently prioritize workload, manage multiple projects and deadlines effectively, and follow-through on tasks

• Experience with Workday
• Experience working in higher education
• Professional experience in communicating complex information related to employment law and/or HR policies to a broad audience
• Knowledge of and ability to interpret policies and procedure as well as federal and state laws and statutes related to HR
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting

Bachelor's Degree Preferred in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or related field

Click the "Apply" button to start the application process.

You will be prompted to upload the following documents:

-Resume

-Letter of Qualifications

Applicants should attach a letter of qualifications 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.

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.

Caitlin Milnthorpe, caitlin.milnthorpe@wisc.edu, 608-263-4962

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