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Amy Grubbs, assistant director of employment services in the human resources division, has been named onboarding manager for University Business Operations.  She will manage the new Onboarding Center scheduled to open this month in the Joyner Visitor Center. Grubbs has significant human resources experience. In her 12 years at NC State, she managed the changes in [...]

NC State is accepting applications for several positions in University Business Operations. These positions are open to internal candidates only at this time. Review the position descriptions and apply: Travel Services Manager Onboarding Specialist (3 positions)

Charles D. Leffler, vice chancellor for finance and business, says transition teams will be established to help determine staffing for the new Business Operations Centers in the coming months. In a memo to executive officers, deans and department heads, Leffler reviewed the progress that’s been achieved to date to streamline business services at the university, [...]

If you’re only vaguely aware of something called “strategic realignment” at NC State, don’t worry—the concept is about to come into focus. In just a few months, NC State will begin rolling out a new organizational structure for delivering business services. Eventually, most finance and human resource transactions will be lifted out of individual units [...]

The university’s top business and academic leaders have embraced a sweeping change in the way shared services will be implemented on campus over the next two years. Chancellor Randy Woodson, flanked by the provost and the vice chancellor for finance and business, met with the team guiding the effort Tuesday in Winslow Hall. All three [...]

Ask any group of NC State employees how smoothly they navigated their first few months on the job and you’re likely to hear a common thread – a catalog of misadventures and missed opportunities. Park in an SV space when you have a C permit and risk having your car towed (don’t ask how I [...]

University Business Operations is pleased to announce the appointment of Nikki Price to the position of director of human resources. She will begin work on Jan. 14. Price has been a valued member of the NC State community for over 12 years, most recently as the director of facilities human resources. She comes to UBOD with a [...]

Finance and human resources professionals from across campus are working to standardize and streamline common processes that affect virtually everyone on campus. Meet the hardworking experts driving this important effort. The finance task force and human resources task force. The HR process review team for hiring.

It’s the Friday before Thanksgiving on the lower level of the Avent Ferry Technology Center but few people seem interested in the pumpkin-flavored doughnuts arranged invitingly on a table in the hallway. Inside two large meeting rooms, employees huddle in groups of six or eight, working on the kind of brainteasers that would give Ernő [...]

Employees in the first departments on campus slated to undergo a business realignment sat down recently with the administrators leading the effort. The Q&A session, which could be described as the first chance for the two groups to size each other up, gave everyone a reason to breathe easier. “We recognize that employees are the [...]