**Job Description** As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. UW Human Resources (UWHR) designs and leads policies, programs, and services that shape a respectful, inclusive and high-performing workplace culture for more than 56,000 staff, including faculty, academic personnel, and student employees across all three campuses (Seattle, Bothell, and Tacoma) and the UW health system. UWHR's mission is to support UW staff and faculty in successfully meeting the goals of the University by providing high quality and responsive HR 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. UWHR Compensation is a functional unit within UWHR that provides compensation and classification expertise to departments of the UW and to UW Medicine. The Compensation team serves as a strategic partner in advancing the university’s ability to attract and retain top talent. The team ensures compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and policies while aligning compensation practices with institutional values. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Campus Compensation, the Compensation Specialist has responsibility for reviewing and evaluating professional staff, union-represented staff, and classified non-union 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 business units. Primarily focused on providing professional level support, the Compensation Specialist will provide initial review and conduct preliminary research to expedite position and compensation reviews for Compensation Consultants. Additionally, this position will be independently responsible for routine classification reviews and compensation related actions for temporary professional staff and/or classified staff positions. **Duties and Responsibilities:** • Review Create Position, Edit Position Restrictions, and other compensation and classification requests in Workday for completeness. Research and proactively resolve errors, seek out missing information, identify positions that may need to go through Labor Relations review, and facilitate the review process in coordination with Compensation Consultants. • Perform intake of all position review requests received for the Campus Compensation team. Review for completeness, seek out missing information, research and proactively resolve errors, and send required notifications. Accurately enter information into review tracking database and distribute reviews to Compensation Consultants in a timely manner. • Receive completed position review requests, finalize database entry as needed, and file review packets per retention guidelines. • Evaluate and approve or deny routine classification or compensation requests including professional staff temporary appointment extensions, classified staff pay increases, and/or classified staff position reviews. • Participate in compensation- and classification-related training to further enhance understanding of UW policy, federal and state regulations, and to foster creative ideas of administering programs that assist in the recruitment, retention and development of staff that meet unit objectives. • As a member of the Compensation team, interact, provide suggestions, and implement changes to work processes. Assist in the development of plans and the implementation of enhancements to the compensation and classification system. • Responsible for bi-monthly audits to maintain compensation data compliance in Workday. Review, research and proactively resolve data errors in partnership with clients and UWHR partners. • Participate in compensation surveys, such as Milliman Puget Sound Area Salary Survey and Milliman Northwest Management & Professional Salary Survey, as well as occasional ad hoc surveys. • Partner with UWHR teams on communications and website maintenance. • Provide general office support, including scanning, filing, Microsoft Teams and shared drive maintenance, scheduling meetings, taking meeting notes, etc. • Participate in compensation plan maintenance including calculating and updating pay tables for all classified staff at the UW. **Minimum Requirements:** + Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business or Public Administration, or related field + 2 years of administrative experience, including 1 year of progressively responsible work in Human Resources. Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration. **Additional Requirements:** + Must demonstrate excellent writing and oral communications skills, + customer service skills, + and an ability to work within complex organizational structures while maintaining a high level of attention to detail. **Desired:** + Familiarity with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint). + Ability to be pro-active with a "can do" attitude about finding solutions to customer issues. + Ability to change and adapt to rapidly evolving office procedures and administrative systems. **Working Environment:** Hybrid office environment with cubicles in the Gateway building and remote. Occasional visits to other buildings at the University of Washington. **Compensation, Benefits and Position Details** **Pay Range Minimum:** $68,004.00 annual **Pay Range Maximum:** $70,008.00 annual **Other Compensation:** - **Benefits:** For information about benefits for this position, visit https://www.washington.edu/jobs/benefits-for-uw-staff/ **Shift:** First Shift (United States of America) **Temporary or Regular?** This is a regular position **FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):** 75.00% **Union/Bargaining Unit:** Not Applicable **About the UW** Working at the University of Washington provides a unique opportunity to change lives – on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees bring their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. In return, they enjoy outstanding benefits, opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work in an environment known for its diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. **Our Commitment** The University of Washington is proud to be an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer (https://hr.uw.edu/eoaa/) . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 or dso@uw.edu . Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under Washington state law (https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28B.112.080) . University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.