HR Business Partner

Universities of Wisconsin; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation & leave

Insurance & 401k

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Universities of Wisconsin seeks an HR Business Partner to support faculty lifecycle management and academic personnel processes. You will coordinate recruitment, onboarding, sabbaticals, and tenure clocks while ensuring compliance with policies and timelines.

Collaborate with faculty, deans, and chairs to provide responsive HR guidance, improve processes, and build strong professional relationships across the college and university communities.

Qualifications

• Experience managing full lifecycle HR processes including recruitment, performance management, and leaves.
• Proficiency with HR information systems, spreadsheets, and tracking tools.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and deadlines.
• Ability to interpret policies and apply guidelines consistently.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and efficiency gains.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to strategic plans and leads staff implementation of HR initiatives.
• Serves as a consultative HR resource, advising leadership and employees on policies.
• Develops and implements HR processes for recruitment, compensation, and payroll.
• Facilitates complex transactions and programs per established policies.
• Responds to inquiries via multiple channels and relays information appropriately.
• Audits HR reports to ensure policy compliance.

Skills

Lifecycle HR

HR systems

Organizational skills

Policy interpretation

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday

Job description

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.

Job Category:

Academic Staff

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Profile:

HR Business Partner

Job Summary:

The College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence Human Resources team is seeking a detail-oriented and collaborative HR Business Partner to support faculty lifecycle management and related academic personnel processes. This position primarily coordinates faculty recruitment and hiring, onboarding, sabbaticals and leaves of absence, and the tracking of faculty probationary periods and tenure clocks. The role may also support recruitment, hiring, and other employment processes for non-tenure-track faculty and instructional academic staff.

Working closely with faculty, Associate Deans, Department Chairs, the HR Business Partner provides guidance on policies and procedures, coordinates complex employment processes, monitors important deadlines, and ensures personnel actions are completed accurately and efficiently. This role requires strong organizational skills, sound judgment, and the ability to navigate established policies and procedures while providing responsive, thoughtful support to a diverse academic community.

The ideal candidate is proactive, dependable, and committed to delivering excellent service. They enjoy managing multiple priorities, solving problems, improving processes, and building relationships that help faculty and academic departments navigate employment processes with confidence.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• 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 recommend best strategies according to established objectives and goals

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

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

• 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

Department:

UW-Madison, College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Human Resources

Compensation:

The minimum salary is $70,000, but may be negotiable depending on qualifications and experience.

Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as:

• Generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off
• Competitive insurances and savings accounts
• Retirement benefits

More Benefits information can be found here.

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience managing full lifecycle HR processes, such as recruitment, performance management, leaves of absence, etc.
• Proficiency with HR information systems, spreadsheets, and other tools used to maintain records, track deadlines, and manage employment processes.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple processes, deadlines, and competing priorities.
• Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures, and guidelines consistently while exercising sound judgment in complex or sensitive situations.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and identifying opportunities to streamline processes and enhance the employee experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting human resources processes in higher education or an academic environment.
• Experience coordinating faculty recruitment, selection, hiring, and onboarding processes.
• Familiarity with faculty appointments, academic personnel policies, probationary periods, tenure processes, and tenure clock requirements.
• Experience administering or coordinating sabbaticals, leaves of absence, or other academic personnel actions.
• Experience with Workday

Education:

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Contact Information:

Kayla Weisensel

[e-mail]

Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal OpportunityEmployer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, including but not limited to, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, pregnancy, disability, or status as a protected veteran and other bases as defined by federal regulations and UW System policies. We promote excellence by acknowledging skills and expertise from all backgroundsand encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more information regarding applicant and employee rights and to view federal and state required postings, visit the Human Resources Workplace Poster website.

To request a disability or pregnancy-related accommodation for any step in the hiring process (e.g., application, interview, pre-employment testing, etc.), please contact the Divisional Disability Representative (DDR) in the division you are applying to. Please make your request as soon as possible to help the university respond most effectively to you.

Employment may require a criminal background check. It may also require your references to answer questions regarding misconduct, including sexual violence and sexual harassment. The University of Wisconsin System will not reveal the identities of applicants who request confidentiality in writing, except that the identity of the successful candidate will be released. See Wis. Stat. sec. 19.36(7). The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report contains current campus safety and disciplinary policies, crime statistics for the previous 3 calendar years, and on-campus student housing fire safety policies and fire statistics for the previous 3 calendar years. UW-Madison will provide a paper copy upon request; please contact the University of Wisconsin Police Department.