Find Your HR Business Partner & Generalist

HR Business Partners work with assigned colleges or administrative areas to establish and implement HR strategies, initiatives, and activities that foster effectiveness and efficiency, while also aiding in recruitment, motivation, and retention of talented employees for EKU.

Business partners also help deliver HR services in areas such regarding full-time faculty & staff employment, compensation, employee relations, organizational design, performance management, and training & development.

HR Generalists manage the daily operations for student employment (undergraduate and graduate assistants), part-time faculty employment, seasonal and temporary staff, and EKU’s Volunteer Program.

Generalists also assist employees with web time entry questions, leave approver updates, and new hire paperwork/onboarding.

Employment Verifications

Requests for current or past employment at EKU may be sent to human.resources@eku.edu. Please provide a written authorization from the applicant.

Questions may be sent to human.resources@eku.edu or call (859)622-5094, option 1.

Human Resources Mission, Vision & Values

Mission
We support the university’s mission of excellence in teaching through strategic, innovative, and policies, practices, programs, and services that:

Vision
Human Resources is committed to advancing EKU. We create and sustain a workplace culture of excellence and high engagement, foster innovation, and growth, promote diversity and respect, and support the integration of the demands of work and life.

Values
work. We aim to enable our highly knowledgeable workforce to perform in a solution-oriented, creative, resourceful, and flexible manner. Our guiding principles are: