Monday Update

Managing Your Mental Health

HR has collected a great set of mental health resources to help you manage the ups and downs of our COVID-19 experience. Our VPFO HR staff is on campus every day for confidential conversations. See below for this week’s HR duty roster.

A few of the courses and resources available to you in the next few weeks:

A new service is now available to match faculty and staff needing in-home child care support with students in the Faculty of Education’s Early Childhood Education program.

Last week’s updates from UBC

General updates about UBC and its response to COVID-19 continue to be updated at covid19.ubc.ca.

Department updates

VPFO

  • IRP Role-Specific Training: The IRP training team has started reaching out to specific members of the VPFO about role-specific training sessions. This training is important to complete in preparation for Workday go-live, so please reply promptly to the training session emails.

Facilities – Building Operations, Energy & Water Services, and Infrastructure Development

  • UBC Okanagan’s Infrastructure Development: UBCO welcomes Aaron Mogerman as Director, Infrastructure Development on September 14, 2020. Read the announcement on the UBCO website.
  • Project Services’ Project Coordinators on-site support schedule this week: Please continue to contact the designated Project Manager/Coordinator for project inquiries.
    • August 17-28: Victor Wong & David Kosub
    • Darren Harrington is on vacation until September 1, 2020
    • David Meek is on vacation until August 28, 2020

Finance – Comptroller, Finance & Operational Excellence, and Treasury

  • New contact information for FP&A: Treasury and the Comproller’s group have been building out UBC’s central Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) functions. These related teams produce a wide range of data-driven insights, with financial models that support everything from operational decision-making to organizational strategy. Learn more about FP&A on the UBC Finance website, or contact them for support at VPFO-FP&A@ubc.ca.

 

Operations & Advising – Communications & Engagement and Human Resources

  • VPFO HR on-site support schedule this week:
    • August 17: Matt Furgal, Rachel Lau
    • August 18: Arvind Kang, Rachel Lau
    • August 19: Gregor Macdonald, Kasia Burza
    • August 20: Matt Furgal, Gregor Macdonald
    • August 21: Arvind Kang, Kasia Burza

Safety & Risk Services

  • COVID-19 Safety Planning:
    • Team members from SRS continue to support UBC in COVID-19 Safety Planning activity, advising on and approving plans to inform local safety measures. Work is also ongoing to review and optimize COVID-19 related content on the SRS website.
    • SRS are beginning the process of auditing spaces/buildings to review signage and traffic flow in preparation of more faculty, staff and students being present on campus come September.

Other notable updates

BASIC TRAINING NOW AVAILABLE FOR ALL WORKDAY SYSTEM USERS

Starting November 2, Workday will hold the basic information you will need to work at UBC. To access Workday you will need to know your CWL and complete some simple training available to two employee groups:

Vice-President of Finance & Operations, Peter Smailes, has asked that all VPFO staff have completed this basic training by August 21. If you have any questions about workday training, please email vpfo.workdayreadiness@ubc.ca.

VPFO STRATEGIC PLAN KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs) NOW LIVE

In 2019, the VPFO introduced a new Strategic Plan to guide our work over the next three years. To assess how we’re delivering on our objectives, we developed a set of measures and key performance indicators (KPIs) to track our progress. Our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are now available from the Strategic Plan section of the VPFO website. If you have any questions about our KPIs, please email continuous.improvement@ubc.ca.

 

STAYING FIRE SMART IN THE COVID-19 ERA

Our Ranger Ready partners in SRS want to remind us that with the COVID-19 pandemic still upon us and wildfire smoke primarily affecting people’s respiratory tracts, minimizing accidental wildfires is critical. UBC media relations asked UBC faculty of forestry wildfire expert Lori Daniels what can be done. Read more on the Media Relations website.

 

Helpful news

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