Director for Human Resources & Faculty Affairs

Director for Human Resources & Faculty Affairs

Hiring Department: UICOMP-Admin

Location: Peoria, IL USA

Requisition : 1037490

Posting Close Date: 1/15/2026

Budgeted Salary Range: $90,000 to $160,000 per year

The Director for Human Resources and Faculty Affairs serves as a key leader, overseeing all HR functions and faculty-related processes to support the institution's academic, clinical, and research missions. This role manages complex personnel structures, including unionized and civil service employees, ensuring compliance with collective bargaining agreements, employment policies, and state and federal regulations. The Director also supports faculty affairs, including recruitment, appointments, promotions, and professional development for teaching faculty and clinical providers.

Acting as a strategic partner to school leadership, the Director fosters a positive workplace culture, advances equity and inclusion, and ensures effective alignment between workforce needs and institutional priorities. This position reports to the Regional Dean of the College of Medicine Peoria.

• Participate in strategic and institutional planning and decision-making committees such as Dean’s Executive Committee and Dean’s Advisory Council, Heads, Chairs, Associate Deans and Directors, and regional HR committees.
• Serve as a strategic partner to leadership by aligning HR and faculty affairs functions with institutional goals.
• Serve as the liaison between the three regional campuses for communication and planning of human resource needs and issues.
• Regularly review all HR related policies, procedures and guidelines to help align the strategic goals of the campus to those of UIC.
• Develop and monitor an annual budget that includes HR services, employee development, recruitment, retention and administration.
• Define all HR training needs and programs and assign the responsibility of HR and managers within those programs.
• Establish an in‑house employee training system that addresses training needs including training needs assessment, new employee orientation or onboarding, management development and measurement of training impact.

• Develop and implement workforce recruitment and retention strategies to meet organizational needs, including staff and faculty engagement.
• Oversee faculty recruitment processes, including posting, search committees, candidate evaluations and hiring approvals.
• Support orientation, onboarding, and mentoring programs for new faculty.
• Assist HR Team and departments through promotion and tenure procedures, ensuring compliance with institutional and accreditation standards.
• Oversee faculty affairs and civil service processes, including recruitment, appointment, promotion, and professional development of civil service and academic professionals.
• Design, direct, and manage organizational development initiatives, including succession planning, workforce development, key employee retention, organizational design, and change management.
• Champion a culture of inclusive excellence and belonging by embedding principles into HR strategies, policies and practices.
• Maintain compliance with state, federal, and university regulations and reporting requirements.
• Initiate and oversee any market analysis performed for the campus.

• Collaborate with UIC labor relations and lead negotiations for all five unions on the Peoria campus.
• Ensure compliance with civil service rules, university policies, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Lead HR policy development, communication, and implementation across the campus.
• Oversee all employee relations, performance management, and conflict resolution.
• Oversee and support the performance improvement process with non‑performing employees.
• Responsible for providing oversight of leadership and department Head/Chair evaluations and feedback.
• Oversee and review employee appeals in collaboration with UIC Employee Relations department.

• Oversee all aspects of benefit administration such as leaves, insurance, employee assistance, time and attendance, fringe reporting, enrollment and offboarding and other supportive services.

• Bachelor’s degree in…