People Strategy Enablement Advisor
Job Description
Job Summary:
Serves as a liaison between People Strategy, HR, and operational stakeholders and the Data & Insights function. People Strategy Enablement Advisor translates business priorities into analytics use cases, requirements, and decision-support needs, while partnering with the Data & Insights team that owns technical development and delivery. Ensures that analytics efforts focus on the highest-priority workforce challenges and UCSF continues to transition from descriptive reporting to predictive and prescriptive insights.
This role owns UCSF’s people analytics use-case portfolio and roadmap, translating business needs into actionable analytics, reporting, and dashboard requirements to govern the development glidepath.
Department Summary:
UCSF Human Resources has a mission of attracting, developing and retaining outstanding and diverse people with a vision of being a strategic and trusted partner empowering the UCSF Health community to leverage their talents. Human Resources is committed to providing an outstanding customer experience, leading workforce strategies, creating an engaging environment focused on continuous improvement for the HR team, and demonstrating value to the organization.
% of time | Essential Function (Yes/No) |
Key Responsibilities (To be completed by Supervisor) |
| 20 | Y | Partners with HRBPs and COEs to embed insights into core processes (e.g., workforce planning, talent reviews, workforce development, learning and development, recruitment strategy) and ensure analytics products are adopted, integrated into people strategy governance, and used effectively across HR. Defines and tracks impact of analytics initiatives on business and talent outcomes. |
| 15 | Y | Collaborates across HR teams and business stakeholders to identify critical workforce questions and decision needs and translates those needs into clear analytics use cases. Aligns people analytics efforts to measurable business outcomes (e.g., retention, productivity, labor cost, talent quality, current and future workforce skill gaps, etc.). |
| 20 | Y | Develops and manages a prioritized portfolio of people analytics priorities which define business value, success metrics, and expected impact for each use case. Balances immediate reporting needs with longer-term capability building and serves as a key input into the Data & Insights team to support prioritization and sprint planning |
| 15 | Y | Converts stakeholder needs into defined metrics and KPIs, data requirements and specifications, dashboard and visualization requirements, and appropriate analytical approaches (diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive). Supports the Data and Insights team in establishing and driving consistency in workforce metrics, definitions, and governance to ensure outputs are designed for business decision-making and actionability. |
| 15 | Y | Defines and drives the roadmap to evolve people analytics capabilities by identifying high-impact opportunities for predictive modeling (e.g., attrition risk, workforce planning, hiring effectiveness, HR service levels, employee engagement). Partners with Data & Insights to ensure models are business-relevant, interpretable and usable, and embedded into decision processes. |
| 10 | Y | Partners with Data & Insights leadership to inform business capability development and resourcing roadmap and ensure that development efforts align with future-state people strategy needs, not just reactive demand. |
| 5 | Serves on committees and participates on cross-functional teams to solve complex HR business, process, service and / or systems issues. | |
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Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, I/O Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- 6-10 years related experience in HR strategy, HR operations, and/or people analytics.
- In-depth knowledge of how workforce dynamics impact business performance.
- Advanced knowledge and skill in connecting people strategy initiatives to measurable outcomes and converting ambiguous business questions into structured analytical problems.
- Advanced critical thinking and problem-solving skills to manage highly-complex information, assess problems, and develop effective solutions.
- Advanced organizational and project management skills.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex information in a clear, concise manner. Ability to produce and deliver presentations to diverse audiences.
- Advanced interpersonal skills for to collaborate across HR, business leaders, and technical data and dashboard development teams
Working knowledge of data structures and metrics, visualization and dashboard design best practices, and basic statistical and predictive modeling concepts
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, I/O Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- Ability to serve as an advanced technical leader providing advice, counsel, and analysis on business intelligence issues.
- Background in management consulting, workforce strategy, or analytics translation roles.
- Familiarity with modern HR data platforms and visualization tools (e.g., Oracle HCM, Tableau, Power BI).
- HR or People Analytics Certification
- Strategic Management Professional (SMP) or other strategy certification
SHRM or PHR Certification