IAB Human Resources Office
The IAB human resources office provides personnel support advice and services for faculty, staff, and students including facilitating hiring faculty, staff, and students; new employee orientations; employee manuals; benefits information; payroll and time-sheet coordination; employee relations; tuition waivers; tax forms; and supervisor resources.
Email: UAF-IAB-HR@alaska.edu
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Office Schedule:
Monday - Friday8:00 am - 5:00 pm
WTE Reminder:
If you are an approver and unavailable to approve electronic time sheets, please be sure to set-up a proxy and let them know that they need to approve for you. Proxies do not receive automatically generated reminders.What's new in HR?
Are you interested in hearing about tuition waiver changes, healthcare or leave cash-in changes? Click here for updatesQuestions about your TRS or PERS retirement account or retirement benefits? Looking for a workshop?
There are many excellent resources online at the AK Division of Retirement and Benefits or call 1-800-821-2251.Electronic Time Sheet (WTE):
- WTE Submission and Approval Schedule
- Demonstrations on how to complete or approve the web time sheet.
At this time, all IAB employees are submitting their time sheets through UAOnline with the web time sheet entry program (WTE).
Unless otherwise noted, web time sheets have the following due dates:
- Employees: Submit time sheet by noon on the Monday after the pay period ends
- Approvers: Approve time sheets by 5:00 pm on the Tuesday after the pay period ends
Benefited Positions:
Post Doctoral Fellow (JOB13-13)
Research Technician 2 (Harms, JOB13-35)Please visit the UAKjobs website for more details on these job postings.
HR Forms/Resources
Personnel
- Employment Forms (W-4, Change of Address or Name, etc.)
- Non US resident Forms (NRA)
- Incident Report Forms (Contact IAB HR immediately, to assist with submission of form and determine if a claim form is needed)
- Staff Resources and Quick Links to Employment Information
Benefits
- Annual Leave Cash-In Guidelines
- Benefits (Tax Deferred Annuities, Flex Spending Account, etc.)
- Health Forms (Family Medical Leave, PharmaCare/Caremark, UA Choice, etc.)
- Retirement Forms & Pension (TRS/PERS, ORP, TDA)
- Caremark (UA's Pharmacy Benefit Manager)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Plan Overview
- Pharmacy
- Premera Blue Cross
- Employee Education Benefits (Tuition Waiver)
- Wellness Program
Payroll
- Payroll Forms (direct deposit, request/change, etc.)
- Wages Paid During Travel
- Working outside of Alaska?
Leave
- Leave Request Form
Use for annual, personal and sick leave requests. Please note: annual leave may not be taken in advance of accrual per Chapter 04.06 Benefits and Leave of BOR Policy and Regulation R04.06.120.4. - Paid Holidays Administrative offices are closed.
Performance Evaluations
To evaluate an employee's performance, the supervisor must complete this form. As a first step, contact Margo for procedures. Six month evaluations for the probationary period should be completed for new employees. Otherwise, performance evaluations should be completed on an annual basis.
Increases: Performance increase requests can only be completed once an evaluation has been completed. An increase request is completed through a memo format, separate from the performance evaluation form. Details of the employee's satisfactory performance must be sited in the memo, to justify the 1-5% performance increase. Submit the request to the IAB HR office for review. IAB HR will obtain the necessary approvals and submit the request to UAF HR.
Recruitment/ Position Updates
- IAB Recruitment Form and Directions.
Use this form when recruiting for a student or temporary position. Please refer to the directions form or contact Julie as a first step. - Position Description Form (PD)
Use this form to set up a benefited position or to update a current one. Please initiate this process by contacting IAB HR as a first step. - Employment vs Scholarship/Fellowship Questionaire
Please complete the appropriate form and e-mail it to IAB HR for processing.
Training & Development
- Training (E-learning, SkillSoft)
- Supervisory Trainings
- Mandatory Safety Trainings for All Employees
- Laboratory Safety Trainings
Faculty and Staff Governance
Concerns addressed by the Faculty Senate include the following: course and program development and change; policies related to academic procedures; academic freedom and faculty rights and responsibilities; and quality of teaching, research and service.
UAF Staff Council provides non-bargaining non-exempt and exempt employees an avenue to help formulate new policies, change existing policies or working conditions, and other matters that affect services provided by the support staff of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Collective Bargaining
Transportation/Travel/ Relocation
- Campus Housing
- Parking Services Website
- Transportation Safety Manual for Driving UAF Vehicles
- UA Driver Training and Quiz
- UAF Shuttle Services
- Bicycle Lockers
Volunteers
Visa Information
The sponsoring faculty member must contact Julie at IABHR to initiate visa requests.
UAF International Programs & Initiatives
Are you traveling outside of the US and need to know what type of visa you need? There are many resources which can be used. A few are listed below.



