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- ** Job Description
**** The UWHR Compensation Office*
* ** has an outstanding opportunity for a Compensation Consultant to join their Campus team.
**** About this Opportunity
** The Human Resources department's mission is to support UW staff in successfully meeting the goals of the University by providing high quality and responsive human resources support to foster an exceptional work environment that encourages, nurtures and recognizes the professional development of University employees. The department's vision is to create a premier HR organization whose staff members are dedicated to the goal of working together to provide the highest possible quality of services in carrying out its mission.

The UW Compensation Office is a functional unit within HR that provides compensation and classification expertise to departments of the UW.Reporting to the Assistant Director of Campus Compensation, this professional level position has substantial responsibility for reviewing and evaluating staff positions to ensure alignment and compliance with applicable classification and compensation standards. This position will exercise discretion and independent judgment in effecting, executing, and discharging various aspects of the compensation and classification function for assigned client areas.

This position is responsible for advising clients and/or delivering specific products/services for classified, professional, and represented civil service exempt staff, and other UW personnel in the areas of classification, compensation, and in organizational restructuring.

This position functions in a highly complex compensation environment involving multiple unions and various State and Federal regulations.
** Key Responsibilities
** Provide comprehensive compensation support to assigned client areas. Make decisions regarding the best course of action for compensation and classification issues and provide advice and counsel to all levels of employees. Perform the following responsibilities for assigned client areas:
** Job Evaluation (40%)
*** Evaluate new and existing professional staff positions using a point factor job evaluation system and recommend salary ranges and offers that maintain equitable salary relationships across the University.
* Evaluate new and existing classified and represented civil service exempt positions. Use job specifications, desk audits, and interviews to determine appropriate classification. Interpret contractual language to administer changes to classification/compensation and anticipate possible labor relations issues arising from classification misalignment.
* Review and evaluate jobs on FLSA or WMWA exemption criteria. Provide advice and counsel on issues pertaining to the FLSA and the overtime rules of the WMWA.
* Coordinate with HR Labor Relations on position reallocations out of a bargaining unit to another union, classified non-union or exemption to a professional staff position. Meet and discuss with HR Labor Relations and labor union representatives as necessary. Act as University expert to defend reallocation determinations if actions are challenged through contract classified Hearing Examiner process or classified non-union appeal processes through Washington State Human Resources.
* Classify new union-represented and non-represented positions as required. Assist in developing new classification specifications to be proposed to the unions and/or to Washington State Human Resources.
** Consultation and Training (30%)
*** Educate clients on the various components of the UW Compensation system as needed. Work with HR colleagues and clients to develop creative compensation and classification solutions considering the goals of the organization, recruitment and retention issues, staff planning and/or career ladders, recognition of team and individual performance, etc.
* Conduct…