HR Business Partner

University of Wisconsin-Madison

HR Business Partner providing guidance on HR policies for assigned departments. Focus on employee relations and managing HR operations supporting student employee programs.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeMadison • Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $74,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serves as a go-to resource for a portfolio of assigned departments, providing practical guidance on HR policies, procedures, and everyday employee and leadership questions.
Work closely with managers and staff to help navigate employee relations situations, including performance and disciplinary matters.
Offer recommendations that support both individuals and the broader goals of the division.
Partner with the HR Associate Director on more complex cases and help represent the division in HR meetings.
Act as the first point of contact for most HR-related needs for their portfolio.
Support a range of HR operations and projects to keep things running smoothly.
Lead the student employee program within the Division for Teaching and Learning which routinely employs 450+ student hourly employees and roughly 30 graduate student employees.
Routine work includes reviewing reports for accuracy and compliance, maintaining records and organizational charts, and helping track HR metrics for leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Professional experience in at least 2 of the following functional areas of HR for 3 or more years: Position Management/Staffing (recruitment, crafting job descriptions, developing staffing plans)
Onboarding/offboarding
Employment relations (performance/discipline management)
Compensation (conducting comprehensive reviews, processing salary adjustments)
Compliance (FMLA/ADA, records retention)
Successfully managing a high volume of varied tasks in a fast-paced environment (e.g., organizing, prioritizing, consistently meeting deadlines, managing multiple tasks).
Providing customer service to a range of customers (e.g., responding to inquiries, transparency, guiding customers through a transaction, follow-up / follow-through, etc.).
Ability to maintain confidentiality and use discretion responding to confidential and sensitive matters
Proficient in the use of word processing, spreadsheet, email, and database applications such as the Microsoft Office suite.
Experience working with human resources information systems (e.g. Workday)

Benefits

Comp & perks

generous paid time off
competitively priced health/dental/vision/life insurance
tax-advantaged savings accounts
participation in the nationally recognized Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) pension fund

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Hard Skills & Tools

Position ManagementStaffingCompensation AnalysisPerformance ManagementRecords Management

Soft Skills

Organizational SkillsPrioritizationConfidentialityDiscretionCommunication