HR Generalist - Classified Operations

HR Generalist - Classified Operations

The Graduate Center (GC) is the focal point for advanced teaching and research at the City University of New York (CUNY), the nation's largest urban public university. With over 35 doctoral and master’s programs of the highest caliber, the Graduate Center fosters pioneering research and scholarship in the arts and sciences and prepares students for careers in universities and the private, nonprofit, and government sectors.

The Graduate Center’s commitment to research and scholarship for the public good is exemplified by its more than 30 centers, institutes, and initiatives, including its Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), a 200,000 square‑foot facility in upper Manhattan, designed to promote collaboration among scientists in five areas of global research and innovation: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental sciences.

The Graduate Center (GC) benefits from highly ambitious and diverse students and alumni—who in turn teach hundreds of thousands of undergraduates every year. Through its public programs, the Graduate Center enhances New York City’s intellectual and cultural life.

The Office of Human Resources (OHR) supports a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive employee community at the Graduate Center and at its affiliated CUNY colleges and professional schools, which include Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Macaulay Honors College and School of Labor and Urban Studies. Our comprehensive services include employee and labor relations, talent management, professional development, payroll and time and leave, benefits and wellness, compliance with emphasis on quality, effective and sustainable HR solutions.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Human Resources, the HR Generalist – Classified Operations will be responsible for managing the entire portfolio of the Graduate Center’s classified civil service staff. The incumbent will be responsible for processing all actions related to full‑time and hourly classified and classified managerial employees, including appointments, fingerprinting and/or filing fees, reappointments, promotions, salary increases, level changes, longevity increments, transfers, and terminations.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Develops and utilizes systems to track and update employee data pertaining to staffing levels (e.g. Gittleson floors), probation periods, seniority, longevity increases, continuous service, etc.; generates reports as requested.
• May partake in presentations, initiatives (e.g. employee surveys), and forums (e.g. focus groups) to engage and develop full‑time and hourly and classified managerial employees to bolster performance.
• Collaborates with the Deputy Director to ensure compliance and proper application of various civil service rules and regulations, and pertinent Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA); serves as a resource for staff and responds to their questions and/or concerns.
• Conducts orientation for full‑time and hourly and classified managerial staff; supports on‑boarding and/or off‑boarding of staff.
• Partners with Payroll, and Time and Leave to resolve pay and/or attendance issues; timely advises appropriate leaders and/or units of issues requiring immediate action.
• Reviews and accurately processes all OHR related forms including health insurance enrollment, retirement applications, reinstatements, and terminations for civil service and classified managerial staff.
• Handles recruitment for College Assistant positions; maintains database to ensure contractual work hours are not exceeded and contractual increases are processed timely and accurately.
• Administers civil service hiring pools for internal vacancies and conducts 1-in-3 review to ensure compliance with civil service rules and regulations; also attends city‑wide hiring pools to oversee the interview and selection process to identify talent suitable for hire.
• Responsible for reviewing and accurately entering data into systems (e.g. CUNYfirst, spreadsheets, etc.); performs scheduled or ad‑hoc data audits of CUNYfirst and PAYSERV records and affiliated systems to ensure data integrity; timely reports and…