Human Resources
2023 Budget
2023 Budget
$4,920,631
32 FTE
Department Overview:
The Human Resources (HR) department seeks to maximize the city’s significant investment in people by fostering a culture and brand that embody our core values, and by aligning our workforce to best meet desired citywide business outcomes. This is done by providing services focused on improving the employee experience to attract, retain, and reward high performing staff at all levels of the city organization.
For 2023, the HR Department recommended additional budgeting for targeted recruiting, HRIS systems analysts, the Workday platform, and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to manage everyday challenges for City Employees.
Department Programs:
Operating Budget (FY2021-23)
Expenditure by Program
Department Overview
Business Partnership & Operations
Business Partnership & Operations comprises the HR Business Partners (HRBPs) team, who work collaboratively with the city’s leadership to provide people-oriented solutions based on expertise in human resources and broad-based knowledge of the city operations. HRBPs assist in strategy development for the clients they support in areas such as hiring and selection, compensation and classification, retention and talent development, and employee/labor relations.
HR Operations & Learning supports employees and managers across the city and executes foundational HR transactions ensuring timely and accurate workforce administration, onboarding, and offboarding. Learning delivers training solutions to city employees is aligned to the city’s organizational effectiveness framework.
Manages the department’s applications portfolio and the HR Information System (HRIS), provides peopleanalytics services, and partners with Innovation & Technology to best enable HR services with technology.
HR Strategy is the HR leadership team that collaborates with employees and managers across the city to execute foundational HR transactions ensuring timely and accurate payroll, benefits, recruiting, onboarding, and offboarding. The team provides frontline customer service and triages employee issues to resolve appropriately.
Talent Acquisition supports all departments in attracting and hiring the best talent to meet their business objectives. Talent Acquisition partners with Total Rewards to attract talent by promoting the city’s competitive compensation, benefits, and lifestyle perks and by establishing strong employer brand awareness.
The Total Rewards team manages the City of Boulder employee compensation and benefit programs, including benefits selection and renewal strategies, open enrollment administration, benefits, Well-Being @ Work, and compensation and classificiation strategies and management.
Department Staffing
