Contact Human Resources
To contact the staff below, please email hr@pugetsound.edu or call 253.879.3369. For Payroll inquiries, please email payroll@listhost.ups.edu or call 253.879.3416.
Shannon Briggs
Director of Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation and benefits program direction and oversight
- Budgeting for benefits and staff salaries
- Staff salary increases and pay ranges
- Oversight of compensation analysis and classifications
- FLSA determinations
- ADA accommodations (in partnership with Director of Employment & People Development)
- Education Benefits
- Member of the Retirement Plan Advisory Committee (RPAC)
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Manages the annual benefits open enrollment process and health fair
- Manages legally-required benefits filings and notifications
- Oversight of benefits contracts, plan documents, and summary plan descriptions
Ana Burns-Johnson
Benefits Specialist
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Flexible Benefits Program
- Medical Plans
- Dental Plans
- Life Insurance
- Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
- Disability benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- Long-Term Disability Plan
- Leave Benefits (Policies and Leave Balances)
- COBRA administration
- Oversight of faculty/staff departure process
- Benefits vendor management
Jessie Carter
HRIS and Compensation Analyst
- HR information systems
- Reports, queries and employment data analysis
- Salary and benefits surveys
- Job description guidance
- Compensation analysis and classifications
- Salary offers
- Fiscal year roll for compensation budget
- Total compensation statements
- HR Subject Matter Expert for the ERP project
Chandler Fox
Human Resources Coordinator
- General Human Resources Inquiries
- Verifications of Employment
- HR Reception Services
- Human Resources Master Calendar
- HR Conference Room Reservation requests
- Requests for Forms
- HR Record Keeping
- Application Tracking Assistance
- Performance Review Program
- Professional Development and Enrichment Conference
- Staff Recognition Luncheon
Katie Holmes
Director of Payroll
- Manages payroll
- Time sheets
- Direct deposits
- Paychecks
- Form W-4 (federal withholding) changes
- Form W-2s (wage & tax statements)
- International faculty, staff, student staff, tax reporting
- Other payroll tax issues
Linda Koessler
Temporary Payroll and Benefits Assistant
Cindy Matern
Associate Vice President for Human Resources/Career & Employment Services
- Human Resources/Career & Employment Services Leadership
- Strategic Human Resources/Career & Employment Services Planning
- Retirement Plan Advisory Committee Chair
- Equal Opportunity Policy
- Human Resources Policies
- Harassment Reporting Officer
Nancy Nieraeth
Director of Employment & People Development
- Employment Program Direction & Oversight
- Employee Relations
- Harassment Reporting Officer
- Informal and Formal Complaint Resolution Processes
- Organization Development & Planning
- Professional Development Policy Development, Administration and On-site Facilitation
- Staff recognition
- Unemployment compensation
- Workplace injuries / workers compensation reporting
- Orientation
Donelle Pearson, PHR
DCS HR Representative
drpearson@pugetsound.edu or 253.879.1568
Key duties specific to Dining and Conference Services:
- Recruitment
- Employment
- Eligibility to Work (e.g., I-9, Visa status, immigration)
- Employee Relations
- Professional development and training
- Liaison between DCS staff and university Human Resources team
- Performance Management
Kelsey Wilburn
Recruitment Coordinator
- Recruitment
- Advertising
- Interviewing
- Hiring Processes
- Eligibility to Work (e.g., I-9, Visa status, immigration)
- Staff Recruitment Expenses
- 2013 Moving expense reimbursement
- Employee Relations
- Professional Development
