Streamlining Faculty Hiring Processes
ScottMadden designed and implemented an integrated faculty hiring model at a public research university, streamlining processes, optimizing technology, and reducing time-to-hire to improve efficiency and support faculty affairs.
Process Transformation
Developed an integrated faculty hiring model, aligning roles, responsibilities, and processes to streamline operations and ensure clarity across stakeholders
HR Technology Enablement
Collaborated with system owners to adapt HR technologies to support the newly defined processes, enhancing overall efficiency
Efficiency Improvement
Focused on reducing faculty time-to-hire by identifying tactical opportunities for continuous improvement, including automation and process reconfiguration
Challenge
After challenges moving forward with faculty hiring changes mandated from senior leadership at a public research university, ScottMadden was engaged to design and support the implementation of the new, integrated faculty hiring model. The work included developing detailed project plans; defining future state hiring roles, responsibilities, and processes; and capturing supporting technology requirements. The work also included assessing and generating tactical opportunities to improve faculty time-to-hire.
Process
- Developed integrated faculty hiring transformation plan to meet deadlines and achieve desired outcomes
- Documented hiring processes and facilitated discussions to define transitioning process responsibilities
- Advised on the creation and execution of the hiring strategy to ensure sufficient resource capacity
- Coordinated with university system owners to reconfigure HR technologies enabling process changes
- Measured faculty time-to-hire to establish opportunities for continuous improvement and efficiency
Result
- Streamlined faculty hiring processes and clarified key responsibilities among multiple stakeholders, resulting in increased capacity of the faculty affairs team to provide strategic and enhanced support to academic faculty
- Defined the future state integrated faculty HR model and established the transformation implementation plan
- Identified process and technology improvement opportunities to reduce faculty time-to-hire (e.g., automated creation of hiring requests)
- Improved oversight of research faculty hiring through transfer of ownership to research institutes
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