Job Families
A job family is a group of jobs involving similar types of work and requiring similar training, skills, knowledge, and expertise. Job families create opportunities for career growth by showing the progression from one level of job to another within the discipline.
Over the next few years, HR will partner with subject matter experts in each of these job families to develop career paths within and across each job family.
| Job Family | Description |
| Academic Student Services | Positions in this family provide direction and support to enhance the academic environment for students, parents and faculty. |
| Administrative Support | Positions in this family involve activities related to administrative and support services for individuals, groups, offices or departments. |
| Administrative & Managerial | Positions in this family provide vision, direction and organization for activities and services at the university. |
| Agriculture & Extension | Positions in this family perform agricultural operations and maintenance activities, and advise, consult and educate others on farming and agriculture. |
| Animal Health | Positions in this family perform a range of services in animal health care, research animal care and animal diagnostic lab services. Provides management, operation, and/or maintenance of related facilities. |
| Aviation | Positions in this family perform duties related to the piloting, maintenance and navigation of aircraft or unmanned aerial systems. |
| Business & Finance Services | Positions in this family establish, maintain, and support fiscal, business, and accounting policies. |
| Child & Youth Education Development | Positions in this family provide childcare services. |
| Communications/Marketing | Positions in this family promote the university and its services to multiple internal and external constituencies through a variety of media. |
| Engineering Technology | Positions in this family provide engineering expertise, guidance, and technical assistance. |
| Environmental Health & Safety | Positions in this family design, develop, implement and oversee the organization's environmental health and safety programs and procedures to safeguard employees and surrounding communities, and to ensure that all facilities are in compliance with regulations. |
| Grants & Contracts | Positions in this family support the activities of researchers across the university, facilitate funding with external partners while assuring proper stewardship of funds, and ensure adherence to research-related rules and policies. |
| Hospitality | Positions in this family provide services to ensure the comfort of staff, faculty, students, alumni, researchers, and visitors of the university. |
| Human Resources | Positions in this family perform activities supporting staffing and talent needs, management of compensation and benefits programs, administration of performance and career development programs, employee relations, and institutional equity. |
| Information Technology | Positions in this family develop, maintain and support computer systems, software and networks. Provides user support and training. |
| Legal & Compliance | Positions in this family ensure university compliance with all laws and regulations. |
| Library | Positions in this family are responsible for the general care and storage of library objects for university and community use. |
| Mental & Physical Health | Positions in this family provide support or direct patient care for both the physical and mental health of students. |
| Museum/Theatre | Positions in this family provide direction and support for museum and cultural arts administration, exhibits, programs and productions. |
| Physical Infrastructure | Positions in this family provide services, maintenance, support and management of campus facilities, grounds, transportation, postal services and other general operations. |
| Program & Project | Positions in this family plan, monitor and manage internal programs and projects. Secures required resources, and uses formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks and changes. Monitors performance metrics and other factors throughout program or project duration. |
| Research | Positions in this family support, facilitate or participate in research. |
| Safety & Security Services | Positions in this family perform a variety of activities to ensure the security and safety of students, the campus and its facilities. |
| Temporary | Positions in this family perform clerical, professional or technical work for the university on a temporary basis. |
