Standard Job Description

A standard job description describes work at a high level and connects UW job titles to similar job titles in the market. It is a general set of responsibilities, without regard to any specific employee, that describes the work an employee performs and their role and impact to the organization.

Salary information for jobs outside of salary ranges 15-35 is located on the UW System Compensation Appendices webpage.

Title Details
Job TitleChief Human Resources Officer (Inst)
Job CodeHR004
Scaled JobYes
Salary Grade34
Family NameHuman Resources
Sub Family NameHR Generalist
Job Overview
Job SummaryOversees all Human Resources initiatives and functions for an institution. Develops and promotes the use of standardized and proactive human resources processes, provides vision, oversight, strategy, and policy direction. Serves as the institution’s most executive Human Resources position and liaison to executive leadership. Directs subordinate executives and staff managers to maximize human resources principles.
Job Responsibilities
  • Identifies, develops, and directs all human resources management activities for an institution to maximize its strategic use
  • Serves as the key human resources subject matter expert and institutional strategic planner and consultant, promoting institutional initiatives and advising institutional leadership on best practices
  • Establishes and maintains collaborative partnerships to maximize human resource contributions and attain critical strategic priorities
  • Identifies and implements continuous improvement principles in strategic direction-setting
  • Develops, formulates, and interprets personnel policies and procedures providing staff guidance, instruction, and interpretation for application
  • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
Additional Information
Employee CategoryLimited (LI)
Supervision RequiredYes
FLSA ExemptExempt
Education*Master's Degree - Preferred Minimum

*All preferred education can be fulfilled with comparable experience, unless education is listed as required for the job.

Scaled Jobs in the Library

The title and salary structure continues the idea of creating additional job titles for some jobs found systemwide or university-wide based on a small, medium, and large designation. We call this scaling. If there is a scaled job available, universities should choose that job for their employees.

  • Scaling is not title progression.
  • Scaling is a type of further refining the market pricing for a job.
  • For example,

    Title

    TTC Title

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/L

    Athletics Assoc Dir

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/M

    Athletics Assoc Dir (B)

    ASSOC DIR, ATHL/S

    Athletics Assoc Dir (C)

Key

Institution Scale
System A – no ( )
Milwaukee A – no ( )
Eau Claire (B)
La Crosse (B)
Oshkosh (B)
Platteville (B)
Stevens Point (B)
Stout (B)
Whitewater (B)
Green Bay (C)
River Falls (C)
Parkside (C)
Superior (C)

Scale is based on the size and budget of a university.

(Inst)

(Inst) typically designates institution-wide or systemwide scope and a non-institution version of the same job title typically indicates use at a School/College/Division/Department-level.

Minimum Education Requirements

The minimum preferred education represent the systemwide shared minimum elements of each job description. When posting for an open position, universities can add additional requirements or preferences to their specific recruitment.

[updateD September 12, 2022]