Human Resources Service Mission
The mission of the Human Resources Service (HRS) is to assist and advise the President and the Secretary General in organising and managing the EUI’s administrative operations and supporting the EUI’s academic branch in the field of human resources. This includes a broad set of duties in recruiting, administering, trainDirector of Service: ing and advising EUI staff. HRS is involved in Jette Helding Pedersen developing policies and procedures, supporting performance management, and maintaining productive staff relations. The focus areas of HRS in 2019 were twofold: as administration supporter linking directly to the seven strategic objectives of the Action Plan of the EUI services, and as Strategic Advisor using the HR expertise to address organisational challenges.
Realisation of Yearly Objectives
HRS had an ambitious action plan for 2019 combined with the usual importance of maintaining business continuity in administrating and monitoring all employment contracts and their linked salaries, allowances and rights. The HRS administered 590 staff members in eight staff categories each with their own rules and terms of employment. This includes 98 retired staff. HRS also issued 44 traineeship agreements in 2019. HRS as administration supporter HRS took several initiatives to support the EUI administrative review by finalising the first sets of process maps, describing more than twenty HR processes using schemes, descriptions and actors. HRS also launched several working groups, one of which made recommendations for a roadmap to implement a reward system for the administrative staff at the EUI. Another group was set up to identify areas of improvement in the current legal framework for part-time professors. A third working group dealt with the appraisal and promotion exercises of administrative staff resulting in the
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