About Systemwide Workforce Planning and Development

SUMMARY

Systemwide Workforce Strategy and Development integrates institutional priorities and talent strategies to advance and promote a strategic, proactive, and systemwide approach to staff workforce planning. By connecting people priorities with UC’s mission and vision, Systemwide Workforce Strategy and Development meets evolving challenges and drives sustained institutional innovation and excellence.

OUR OBJECTIVES

• Anticipate future talent demands and guide decision-making to ensure readiness for emerging needs.
• Design and align systemwide talent strategies with institutional priorities to ensure UC locations are unified in their approach and equipped to attract, hire, develop, engage, and retain the right people and skills to meet evolving challenges.
• Strengthen systemwide talent capacity and foster inclusive and equitable growth to enable and empower UC locations to prepare for emerging workforce needs.

OUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Forecast systemwide talent needs by analyzing workforce data, identifying benchstrength, and critical skill gaps.
• Identify and address systemwide talent and workforce planning challenges and opportunities in collaboration with Systemwide HR functions and key stakeholders.
• Promote the strategic alignment of people, skills, and organizational capabilities with UC’s mission and long-term objectives.
• Provide consultation and strategic talent guidance to UC locations
• Provide systemwide strategic talent expertise, direction, and systemwide enablement through shared systems, data, initiatives, staff legal and policy compliance.

RESPONSIBILITY AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Workforce Analysis and Forecasting
• Strategic Talent Planning
• Talent Acquisition
• Employment and Onboarding
• Talent Development
• Succession Planning and Organizational Readiness
• Career Mobility