Description
*** Applicants seeking short-term or part-time work with the University of Hawai'i may apply for Casual Hire positions, which include administrative, professional, and technical (APT) or instructional-type positions. Because of the temporary nature of these appointments, Casual Hire employees are not eligible for most benefits as provided to regular Board of Regents (BOR) and Civil Service employees (i.e. paid holidays/leave). Casual Hire appointments may last for up to 89 days for full-time employees, and up to 1 calendar year for part-time employees.
Title: HUMAN RESOURCES SUPPORT SPECIALIST (CASUAL)
Hiring Unit: Human Resources Office
Position:***Casual Hire***
Location: UH Hilo
Date Posted: August 08, 2025
Closing Date: August 15, 2025
Salary: $36.73/hour
Full time/Part time: Part-time, not to exceed nineteen (19) hours per week
Temporary/Permanent: Temporary, limited-term appointment
Other Conditions: Casual Hire temporary appointment is expected begin August 2025 or soon thereafter.
Duties:
- Performs a wide range of professional human resources duties in assuring excellent customer service, compliance, efficiency, and maintaining a positive and productive employee relations environment for UH Hilo.
- Audits, reviews, and processes position and classification requests (e.g. SF-1, HRD-1, etc.), including drafting and preparing position descriptions to ensure proper classification and description of duties and responsibilities.
- Responsible for all aspects of recruitment including tracking, updating, and monitoring position vacancies, preparing position advertisements, screening applications, advising the hiring departments, and coordinating the completion of the search and hiring process.
- Researches and processes position/personnel actions for Civil Service and Board of Regents (BOR) appointments, as needed (e.g. maintaining and updating position and personnel files, processing salary adjustments, processing appropriate hire and separation actions to ensure compliance with laws, collective bargaining agreements, and UH policies, procedures, and directives, etc.).
- Researches, processes, and resolves issues involving employee pay and benefits, and advises HR Director or designee of unusual or difficult cases.
- Researches, processes, and responds to requests for regular and special reports, compiles information and completes surveys, including but not limited to salary adjustments, overpayments, and other position and personnel matters, in a timely manner.
- Keeps abreast of the laws, collective bargaining agreements, and UH policies, procedures, and directives, etc., that affect the human resources function.
- Operates a computerized human resources management system such as PeopleSoft and other personnel/payroll/financial database systems such as KFS, NEOGOV, TAPS, etc.
- Drafts and composes memos, letters, reports, and other communication related to areas of responsibility, as assigned.
- Assists in the orientation and onboarding of new employees, including but not limited to, generating and processing employment and payroll documents, providing an overview of employment benefits and resources, and other related employment actions.
- Receives calls, greets guests, assesses inquiries and makes referrals to the appropriate staff, office, or agency.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Possession of a baccalaureate degree in any field and three (3) years of progressively responsible professional experience with responsibilities in one or more functional areas of human resources such as position classification; pay administration; recruitment and examination; personnel and organizational development; employee and labor relations; or equivalent education/training or experience.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Knowledge of UH Policies, procedures, and organizational structure.
- Knowledge of collective bargaining agreements governing public employment in the State of Hawai'i (e.g. HGEA, UHPA, UPW).
- Professional work experience with University of Hawaii personnel/payroll/financial database systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, KFS, NeoGov).
- Professional work experience with HR responsibilities in a State of Hawai’i department and/or post-secondary education setting.
- Detail oriented and able to prioritize multiple duties with demanding deadlines.
To Apply:
/information will become the property of the University. All minimum qualifications must be met by the hire date. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Failure to submit all required documents and reference information shall deem an application to be incomplete.
Note: If you have not applied for a position before using NeoGov, you will need to create an account.
Inquiries: Lorena Kauhi, [email protected]
Please refer to the 'Human Resources Specialist - Casual Hire' when making inquiries.
EEO, Clery Act, ADA
Employment is contingent on satisfying employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986; reference checks of previous employers; and for certain positions, criminal history record checks.
In accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, annual campus crime statistics for the University of Hawai'i may be viewed at: https://www.hawaii.edu/titleix/help/campus-security/, or a paper copy may be obtained upon request from the respective UH Campus Security or Administrative Services Office.
Accommodation Request: The University of Hawai'i complies with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the EEO coordinator directly. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. For further information, please refer to the following link: https://www.hawaii.edu/offices/eeo/accommodation-request/
