Our People Accomplishments and Progress
Overview
Our people goal: We will cultivate a school where all members of our community have opportunities for professional growth and feel included, respected, and valued.
To achieve our people goal, we set three specific objectives:
- Enhance resources and create opportunities to ensure that students, alumni, staff, and faculty can reach their professional goals and realize their full career potential.
- Build bridges within our community that foster a shared culture of collaboration and belonging.
- Strengthen operational excellence to support a culture of effectiveness, accountability, transparency, and trust.
As we continuously advance resources and opportunities that empower individuals in our community, we have remained steadfast in our commitment to supporting the professional growth and development of our students, alumni, staff, and faculty. We have focused our efforts on several strategic initiatives aimed at fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and inclusivity. These initiatives encompass a wide range of endeavors, including enhancing onboarding processes for new faculty, developing comprehensive career development programs for staff members, and facilitating networking opportunities through various engaging events hosted by the staff council.
Moreover, we have taken proactive steps to address critical issues such as staff food insecurity by establishing dedicated task force committees and initiating comprehensive evaluations to identify prevalent challenges and recommend sustainable solutions. Concurrently, our commitment to operational excellence has driven us to develop robust metrics for monitoring system performance, streamline data reporting processes, and ensure seamless functionality of our grants management system.
Through these collective efforts, Rollins continues to foster an environment where individuals can realize their full potential and contribute meaningfully to our shared mission of advancing public health.
Key Achievements
Enhance resources and create opportunities to ensure that students, alumni, staff, and faculty can reach their professional goals and realize their full career potential.
- Implemented an individualized faculty onboarding process, including personalized meetings, comprehensive overview of Emory systems, comprehensive review of promotion guidelines and tenure considerations, and assignment of a navigator to address diverse needs.
- Launched a comprehensive staff career development series with 18 key topic areas.
- Developing a SharePoint page designed to streamline access to HR information and implementing a ticketing system for enhanced efficiency and accountability.
Build bridges within our community that foster a shared culture of collaboration and belonging.
- Organized diverse networking events facilitated by the Rollins Staff Council. Plans are underway for a comprehensive calendar of events for FY25.
- Established a task force to address staff food insecurity, led by faculty and staff members, with student involvement in survey and evaluation design.
Strengthen operational excellence to support a culture of effectiveness, accountability, transparency, and trust.
- Developed initial metrics to monitor central systems performance and service levels, including finalizing the transition of ROAR to a cradle-to-grave approach.
- Identified key data needs across central units to facilitate accurate and timely reporting to leadership and faculty.
- Leading the implementation of a grants management system that ensures functional operations and reporting meet faculty and staff requirements, improving efficiency, operations, and reporting capabilities.
- Established a grant deadline policy to promote team accountability and ensure the timely, accurate submission of research funding applications, while also maintaining a healthy work-life balance for our staff.