Professional Staff Program
Appendix A - Exemption Criteria
- Confidential Secretaries and Administrative Assistants to
the President and Vice Presidents
Individuals serving as a confidential secretary and/or administrative
assistant to the President or a vice president.
- Executive Heads of Major Administrative or Academic Divisions
Individuals serving as the:
- President;
- Provost, vice provosts, associate and assistant provosts,
associate and assistant vice provosts, deans, associate
and assistant deans, chairpersons, and academic personnel
equivalent to a director;
- Vice presidents, associate and assistant vice presidents;
- Hospital administrators, and senior associate and associate
hospital administrators;
- Directors and other administrative personnel; who are
responsible for a separate budgetary unit or units
and direct the work of others. Heads of major administrative
or academic divisions must have a reporting relationship
not below that of director or the equivalent.
- Principal Assistants to Executive Heads
Individuals serving as principal assistants to executive heads
of a major administrative or academic division and who have major
administrative or program responsibility within the division/department
and report directly to the executive head. The employee regularly
exercises independent judgment and discretion in work directly
related to management policies or department business operations
and has delegated authority to make commitments that affect department
operations.
- Counseling of Students1
Individuals responsible for directing and/or participating in
providing academic, athletic, career, medical, financial aid,
student activity, and/or personal counseling to students.
- Continuing Education1
Individuals that have responsibility for administrative,
operational and/or educational components of extension or continuing
education activities or programs.
- Research1
Individuals having formal academic preparation at least at the
Bachelor's level or demonstrated professional competence in a
specific field of research, and having responsibility for or
assisting in one or more of the following tasks:
- Identifying and defining research problems,
- Designing approaches or hypotheses to be tested and the
methodology to be used,
- Designing specific phases of research projects,
- Analyzing results,
- Developing conclusions and hypotheses,
- Presenting research results in publishable form, and/or
- Obtaining research grants.
- Graphic Arts and Publications1
Individuals having prescribed academic preparation or special
training in the fields of graphic arts, printing and publications,
and who are assigned to a major academic or administrative unit
and who are responsible for the development and design of scholarly
or related publications, or the full range of printing and publication
activities, including publication via digital or other non-print
media.
- Program Direction/Control
Managerial or professional level positions having substantial
responsibility for directing or controlling program operations
and who are accountable for the allocation of resources and program
results.
- Institutional Policy
Managerial or professional level positions having substantial
responsibility for formulating University of Washington institutional
policy.
- Human Resources (Personnel)
Managerial or professional level positions having substantial
responsibility for exercising discretion and independent judgment
in effecting, executing, and discharging personnel functions,
such as employment, classification, compensation, benefits, affirmative
action/equal employment opportunity, labor relations, employee
relations, and training and development.
- Legislative Relations
Managerial or professional level positions having substantial
responsibility for promoting information flow to and from local,
state, and national governments; devising institution's lobbying
strategies; and also monitoring and analyzing bills and policies.
- Public Information
Managerial or professional level positions having substantial
responsibility for planning and directing the development and
communication of information designed to keep the public informed
of the institution's programs, accomplishments, and point of
view. Individuals exercise discretion in determining content
of written copy. Other duties may include creating ideas, laying
out artwork, contacting media representatives, and representing
the institution directly before the general public.
- Development
Managerial or professional level positions having substantial
responsibility for:
- Establishing the unit's fundraising goals and developing
methods to accomplish them;
- Planning and conducting public contact programs designed
to promote the public's understanding of the unit's
activities; and/or,
- Cultivating donors.
- Senior Computer Systems and Network Programming
Individuals having demonstrated professional competence in computer
systems and network programming above the journey-level, who
independently perform work assignments, and devise methods and
processes to meet new and unique work requirements and problems.
Employees having substantial responsibility in at least one of
the following areas:
- Applying systems analysis techniques and procedures including
consulting with users to determine hardware, software,
or system functional specifications;
- Designing, developing, documenting, analyzing, creating,
testing, or modifying computer systems or programs,
including prototypes based on and related to user
or system design specifications;
- Designing, documenting, testing, creating, or modifying
computer programs related to machine operating systems;
or
- A combination of these duties, the performance of which
requires the same level of skills.
- Internal Audits and Investigations
Individuals responsible for examining and analyzing fiscal and/or
administrative records, and institutional practices and procedures
for:
- Compliance with internal and external regulations and
policies, including those for patient, worker and
public health and safety;
- Effectiveness of established controls;
- Efficiency of operations; and,
- Accuracy of reports and records.
Individuals report to management on investigation or audit results
and resolve complaints, provide risk assessments, and/or make recommendations
for training or to improve operations.
