Human Resources Generalist
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Staff Personnel Unit
UC DAVIS PAYROLL TITLE: HR Analyst IV
SALARY RANGE: $48,288.00 - $86,918.00/YEAR 100% FIXED CAREER
SALARY COMMENSURATE WITH EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
JOB SUMMARY
The UC ANR Staff Personnel Unit (SPU) has overall responsibility for the leadership, management and
administration of ANR division-wide staff personnel actions. The SPU oversees compensation, recruitment,
classification, employment, employee relations, benefits, advancement and retention of staff in multiple
disciplines and multiple locations for all UC Cooperative Extension County-based offices and other non-campus
ANR units.
Under general direction from the ANR Executive Director or from the Human Resources Coordinator,
independently provide strategic and tactical research and analytical support in staff personnel, classification,
compensation, performance management, employee and labor relations, HR organizational development and a
variety of staff personnel related issues. Perform in a lead, collaborative and mentoring role among other ANR
HR-related analysts. Advise ANR management on HR-related issues. Relay collective bargaining information
and division-wide effects during contract negotiations. This position exercises significant independent thinking,
decision making, advising and authorship as issues relate to approximately 600 ANR staff and 230 academics.
Staff Personnel Unit's (SPU) responsibilities are equivalent to those found at a centralized HR Office on the UC
Davis campus.
POSITION FUNCTIONS
45% EMPLOYEE AND LABOR RELATIONS
- Administer campus based and ANR staff performance management, progressive corrective action, negotiation
and mediation.
- Advise supervisors and staff on disability management and workers compensation.
- Review work plans, performance expectations and employee appraisals; suggest modifications.
- Evaluate training needs, design training materials and presentations, conduct training in areas such as,
although not limited to, FML, performance management, writing performance appraisals, HR policy
interpretation, etc.
- Advise on implementation and administration of collective bargaining agreements, University personnel
policies and procedures, ANR programs and guidelines, grievances, conditions of employment, legal issues.
- Provide confidential research, synthesis, original analysis and a description of the impact to affected business
operations during labor contract negotiations to ANR management, HR Coordinator and campus Labor
Relations Office.
- Perform lead role while working with Personnel Analysts and REC and County UCCE Business Officers,
Directors and Supervisors collaborating and synthesizing different facets of HR issues, sharing historical
knowledge and policy application, reaching collective conclusions and recommendations.
- Mediate, negotiate, and facilitate conflict resolution.
- Conduct Administrative Review investigations, evaluations and interviews, reporting investigative and
interview outcomes, recommending courses of action, implementing or assisting in implementation process,
assessing or assisting in assessment of workability, progress, goal attainment, etc.
- Work with Division's Health and Safety Unit on unusual employee incidents, issues or concerns.
- Advise on investigations, completion and submission of reporting forms, and performance management
related to employee accidents and activities.
45% CLASSIFICATION, RECRUITMENT, COMPENSATION, AND ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
- Administer campus based and ANR staff personnel, recruitment, classification and compensation, and
organizational development programs. Conducts classification reviews and salary research, recommends
courses of action, introduces and implements approved changes.
- Advise and recommend process of reshaping organization (work units) structure and employee and manager
roles.
- Advise on and recommend alignment of organizational structure with processes, work expectations, reward
system, and employees' expectations of management and leadership roles.
- Define and recommend fundamental architecture of the organization/unit, recommend reporting
relationships, communication protocols, and strategic initiatives for management consideration.
- Perform as the Level 2 Approver for People Admin transactions.
- Represent ANR at administrative meetings and hearings.
10% HUMAN RESOURCES PROJECTS AND OTHER DUTIES
- Prepare original analyses, drafts documents, provides referrals, gathers data related to a wide variety of
issues, relationships and services impacting RECs' and County Cooperative Extension Offices' HR-related
business operations.
- Independently reviews, interprets and recommends application of internal administrative guides.
- Forecast outcomes, suggests mitigating measures to prevent or respond to anticipated and confirmed
consequences and risks.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Prolonged typing on a computer keyboard, sitting, standing, reading.
- Occasional walking over uneven terrain, and in extreme temperature environments.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- This is a critical position and subject to a background check. Employment is contingent upon successful
completion of background investigation including criminal history and identity check.
- Statewide travel and occasional overnight absences from the work place.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working in a human resources and labor relations environment in a large complex organization.
- Experience administering labor agreements and HR-related policies.
- Skills to read, comprehend, write, speak and present complex technical and legal material in accurate,
concise, understandable and professional terms.
- Experience to understand and articulate the applications of HR policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Experience with the application of liability and risk assessment, supervisory and management techniques.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge and application of University's and ANR's staff personnel, classification, compensation,
recognition, training and development programs.
- Experience in mediating differences between people and organizations, explore options for mutual gain, and
resolve issues to the satisfaction of those involved when possible.
- Skills to apply professional, personnel-related methodologies, practices, and standards.
- Skills to confidently and credibly speak/present in public.
- Skills to analyze, think critically, formulate and articulate reasonable positions and recommendations.
- Skills to adapt conventional and non-conventional methodologies to new situations.
- Skills to use professional and political acumen, make decisions, reach operational business needs, counsel,
facilitate, negotiate, foster relationships.
- Skills to negotiate business terms, apply professional methodologies, practices and standards.
- Skills to work, communicate and remain organized with conflicting priorities and during periods of heavy
workload.
- Experiences with the application of UC and campus HR policies, procedures, guidelines, Business and Finance
Bulletins, etc.
- Mathematical abilities to collect, categorize, array, assess and report complex statistical information.
- Knowledge of governmental employment requirements and regulations.
- Skills to work with a variety of software applications and the University's automated systems.
- Ability to create and deliver presentation and training information.
- Ability to initiate and perform work independently.
EXPECTATIONS
- Read and follow the UC Davis Principles of Community
-This position will promote, in all ways consistent with other responsibilities of the position, the affirmative
action goals established by the Division and the University as a contractor of the federal government. The
position will also take all measures necessary to assure that any employee or volunteers supervised by this
position fulfill their affirmative action responsibilities
On a consistent and sustained basis:
-Daily demonstrate dependable and punctual attendance.
-Display fair, professional and respectful treatment.
-Create accurate, concise, clearly understandable and applicable work products.
-Remain current in job function areas through continued training, mediations and work performance.
-Always consider the most effective business operations of the RECs when providing advice, offering training,
etc.
-Always empower employees to create a violence- and harassment-free work place.
-Recognize and encourage management to recognize employee contributions.
-Communicate thoroughly and professionally, in a positive and cooperative manner, with confidence,
credibility, sensitivity.
-Exercise creativity and flexibility to apply innovative approaches.
-Exercise active listening skills.
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