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Program Manager 2 (College HR/Payroll Manager)

🇺🇸 Houston, TX

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $49K - $56K

💻 Human Resources

🗓️ March 21st, 2025

PeopleSoft

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Bauer is hiring a Program Manager 2 (College HR/Payroll Manager). This role involves managing day-to-day operations of a university program or department, supervising staff, planning and developing procedures, managing fiscal activities, and preparing various reports and documentation. The position also includes responsibilities such as facilitating HR and payroll processes, coordinating faculty-related matters, and ensuring compliance with HR issues.

Highlights

  • Manage day-to-day operations of a large university program or department.
  • Supervision of staff, planning procedures, and managing fiscal activities.
  • Coordinate faculty promotion, hiring paperwork, and immigration processes.
  • Required skills: PeopleSoft Finance and HR.
  • Compensation: $49,400-$56,200.
  • Requires a 4-year degree or equivalent specialized training.
  • Minimum of one year of directly job-related experience required.
  • Experience in higher education preferred.
  • Benefits may include alternative work arrangements.

Program Manager 2 (College HR/Payroll Manager) Full Description

Department:

Dean's Office Bauer College

Salary:

$49,400-$56,200

 Description: 

Manages the day-to-day operations of a large university program or department, including the supervision of staff employees, student workers, programs or processes. 

1. Plans and develops procedures for administering a large or complex department or program. 
2. Manages fiscal activities, including procurement and budget analysis. 
3. Provides guidance to subordinate staff and evaluates performance. 
4. Prepares abstracts, research reports, funding proposals, operations and procedure manuals, and other written material and documentation. 
5. Creates and reviews reports of expenditures and activities. 
6. May administer grants and grant-related related communications, scholarships and other operations. 
7. Develops, implements and maintains appropriate policies and procedures. 
8. May serve as property custodian for the department. 
9. Performs other job-related duties as assigned. 

MQ: Education: Requires a thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of an analytical, technical or professional discipline; or the basic knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Knowledge of the discipline is normally obtained through a formal, directly job-related 4 year degree from a college or university or an equivalent in-depth specialized training program that is directly related to the type of work being performed. Experience: Requires a minimum of one (1) year of directly job-related experience. Certification/Licensing: None.

Additional Posting Information:

• Experience will be considered in lieu of education
• Education will be considered in lieu of experience
• This position may be eligible for Alternative Work Arrangements, as allowed by UH policy: 

https://www.uh.edu/policies/mapps/02-human-resources/020410/ 

Description:

This position works in the Dean’s Office at the C. T. Bauer College of Business. Successful candidates will have the ability to work independently as well as part of a team, work well under pressure, consistently meet deadlines, and manage multiple projects while remaining flexible and positive. This will require exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail. Further, successful candidates will effectively communicate with all levels of management and fellow employees and be able to manage multiple employer relationships.
This position assists the College Business Administrator and the Director of Faculty Affairs for HR/Payroll related matters for the Bauer College of Business.

Position includes the following responsibilities:

1. Generate faculty professorships, endowments, summer research, chair & administrative stipends
2. Coordinate faculty promotion/tenure items
3. Coordinate faculty folders and new faculty orientation
4. Generate offer letters and hiring paperwork for new adjunct faculty
5. Facilitate the processing of H-1B and PERM petitions for foreign nationals
6. Generate faculty additional comp forms and process faculty overload ePARs
7. Coordinate with DBMs to ensure compliance on Human Resources issues
8. Coordinate with HR and Payroll to resolve issues with personnel records and payroll
9. Evaluate and maintain staff training processes for the college
10. Serves as employment representative for college (posting positions, interview processes, serve on interview committees as needed)
11. Oversee and reconcile all payable time and verification reports for Bauer college
12. Run and reconcile all college suspense reports
13. Logs staff assignments for DBM and Financial Analyst to reconcile BOB report
14. Audit and approve faculty, student and non-ben staff ePARs
15. Request ePRFs for faculty, staff and students reporting and funding changes
16. Review tuition waivers requests for CBA approval
17. Maintain log for faculty and staff leave accruals
18. Initiate, verify and finalize non-ben staff termination checklists 

Preferences: 

• Familiarity working in higher education and particularly directly with faculty.
• Experience in immigration processes for international hires.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Finance and HR.

All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check.  The policy of the University of Houston-System and its universities is to ensure equal opportunity in all its educational programs and activities, and all terms and conditions of employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, military status, genetic information, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or status, or gender expression, except where such a distinction is required by law.