Careers at ŷ��AV

Careers at ŷ��AV

ŷ��AV is an equal opportunity employer

We seek to attract individuals who are committed to the College’s historic legacy of leadership in the education of women and in preparing students, through a liberal education integrating curriculum and careers, for lives of thoughtful, effective, and purposeful engagement in the world.

We are a diverse community of staff, faculty and students - tied together by our mission to provide an intellectually adventurous education in the liberal arts and sciences through academic programs recognized internationally for their excellence and range.

The ŷ��AV community

ŷ��AV believes in the right, indeed the necessity, of free inquiry and free expression for every member of the college community. The College aims to provide an environment hospitable to open interchanges of knowledge and opinion in the terms of reasoned discourse. The citizen’s rights to free speech, free movement, free association, peaceful assembly, and orderly protest extends to every member of the College. So do the citizen’s responsibility to uphold the law and the civilized person’s obligation to respect the rights and feelings of others.

Get to know our College benefits

ŷ��AV provides benefits for regular full-time and part-time employees who work at least 20 hours a week for the academic or fiscal year. Available benefits include health and dental insurance, vision plans, flexible spending accounts, a generous retirement plan and more. We also offer tuition benefits for eligible employees and their dependents. Our benefits booklet contains more information on these and other benefits.

Download our benefits booklet

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Benefits and more: information for newly hired employees

Please schedule an appointment for your Benefits Briefing at your earliest convenience and, ideally, before your first day of work. Email: hr-benefits-g@mtholyoke.edu If you have already requested your benefits briefing, please review the resources below. If you are outside of Massachusetts and unable to have an in-person briefing before your first day of work, email the above address to arrange a teleconference conversation.

Summary of Health Benefits and Coverage

Summary of Dental Benefits and Coverage

Rates and Enrollment

Health Insurance Marketplaces

Massachusetts Health Connector Overview

Retirement Plan Information

Voluntary Contributions to 403 (b)

All employees (except student employees) are eligible to make voluntary contributions to the 403(b) plan on either a Pretax or Roth basis through payroll deduction. There is no minimum contribution.

Employees may start, stop, or change their election for voluntary contributions by completing the Voluntary Contributions Form and returning it to Human Resources, 1 Skinner Hall.

Voluntary Contribution Form

A Flexible Spending Account (FSA) allows you to use before-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.

ŷ��AV has established two types of flexible spending accounts:

Health Care Spending Account:
- Contributions of a minimum of $120 to a maximum of $2750.
- Can be used to pay for eligible health care expenses (including dental expenses).
Dependent Care Spending Account:
- Contributions of a minimum of $120 to a maximum of $5,000
- Can be used to pay for eligible dependent care expenses.

Flexible spending dollars are deducted during the calendar year (January - December).

As permitted by the IRS, ŷ��AV offers an additional 'grace period' of 2 1/2 months in which a participant could use flexible spending dollars from the previous year to pay for expenses.

Please feel free to contact the Human Resources department if you have any questions.

Forms are available on the Payroll Office page.

The College will include employee domestic partners and their dependents in its policies and qualified benefits. Among the policies and benefits this affects are health insurance, dental insurance, bereavement and family leave, tuition reimbursement and waiver benefits, and use of College facilities and services.

Criteria for Domestic Partners

To be eligible for extension of benefits as a domestic partner, the ŷ��AV employee and the domestic partner must complete and keep an “Affidavit of Domestic Partnership” on file. The employee and the domestic partner will affirm in the affidavit and provide proof that they meet the following criteria:

they are each other's sole domestic partner and intend to remain so;
neither one is legally married to anyone else;
they are at least eighteen (18) years of age and mentally competent to enter into a contract;
they are not related to each other by blood in a way which would bar marriage in the state in which they legally reside;
they reside together in the same residence and intend to do so and/or have mutual power of attorney;
they are jointly responsible for each other's common welfare and share financial obligations;
they understand that as domestic partners they are subject to the same thirty (30) day notice requirement set forth in ŷ��AV's benefits program as are all other ŷ��AV employees who are covered by or are applying for benefits;

Documentation to certify the same-residence requirement in case of a question could include: driver's license, canceled rent checks, utility bills, a lease showing joint tenancy, or a jointly-held mortgage on their primary residency.

As part of the “Affidavit of Domestic Partnership” employees agree to notify ŷ��AV if there is any change in status as domestic partners as attested to in the Affidavit that would make them no longer eligible for benefits.

Health Insurance

An employee who is eligible for health and dental insurance coverage may choose a family membership in any of the health plans offered by the College to enroll a domestic partner if the employee has completed the "Affidavit of Domestic Partnership." Employees may also enroll their qualified unmarried dependent children if the children reside regularly with the employee and the domestic partner, if the children qualify as dependents of either the employee or the domestic partner for tax purposes, or if the employee or domestic partner is required to provide coverage for the children as a result of a court order.

Roommates, parents, siblings are not eligible for this coverage.

If an employee changes from single to family health insurance to provide coverage for a domestic partner and/or his/her dependents, the employee, in addition to paying the premium for family health coverage in most cases, will have to pay an income tax on imputed income.

Under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 152 (a)(9), the value of benefits coverage for domestic partners and the dependents of domestic partners may be taxable as "imputed income" to the employee. The College contributions for the benefits that cover the domestic partner and his/her dependents are treated as taxable income to the employee unless the domestic partner and his/her dependents qualify as the employee's tax dependents under the IRC. The amount of "imputed income" is the added value of the benefit which provides coverage for these additional family members (that is, the difference in College contribution between single and family group health insurance coverage for the employee or the value of other benefits extended to the domestic partner or dependent of the domestic partner).

Enrollment Procedures

Employees interested in enrolling a domestic partner and/or dependent(s) in health insurance, dental insurance coverage or in receiving more information about domestic partner benefits can contact the Human Resources Department.

All ŷ��AV employees are expected to know and understand the College’s policies on unlawful harassment and discrimination and to abide by them. Employees of the College are mandated by federal law to report instances of harassment and discrimination that they witness or that is reported to them.

To support employees with their obligations, the College has provided the following training to help employees learn how to recognize and prevent unlawful harassment.

Below are the steps to access and complete United Educator’s Workplace Harassment Prevention Online Course, which is designed to provide an overview of the problems of discrimination and harassment and how to prevent it.

in the EduRisk Educator's Learning Portal. (This is a customized URL for ŷ��AV)
Scroll down to Registration and enter in your First Name, Last Name, and Email/Username. Your email address will serve as your Username.
Click Register. Upon clicking Register, you will receive a thank you message noting your account has been created and an email has been sent with your temporary password. Follow the steps to log into the EduRisk Learning Portal.

Remember, when creating, resetting, or updating a password within the Learning Portal, the following criteria must be met in order for the password to be accepted:

Password at minimum needs to be 8 characters
Password must contain at least one uppercase letter
Password must contain at least one lower case letter
Password must contain at least one symbol from the following list: <>@!#$%^&*()_+[ ]{}?:;|'"\,./~`-=

Once you log into the new EduRisk Learning Portal, look for the course, "Workplace Harassment Prevention Fundamentals," under My Courses.

For more information

This course is based on thousands of harassment claims against colleges the United Educators (UE) has handled. UE is a licensed insurance company owned and governed by more than 1,100 member educational institutions; ŷ��AV was a founding member. Workplace Harassment Prevention was developed by a UE employment lawyer who has studied and written extensively on court expectations regarding harassment prevention training. In addition, the course was extensively tested by attorneys, human resources professionals and others at colleges and universities throughout the country.

Download the pdf version of the registration instructions

Transparency in coverage

are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data. It is not intended to be a cost comparison tool for employees and dependents in ŷ��AV’s medical plans.

Retiree privileges

Employees who retire at age 60 and over with at least 10 years of service are eligible for:

Classes at ŷ��AV (for audit or credit).
Complimentary tickets for Rooke Theater (2 tickets per performance – non-transferable).
Complimentary Tickets for Dance Performances (2 tickets per performance – non-transferable)
Kendall Sports Complex.
Parking decal, faculty/staff (renewed annually, no charge).
FieldEddy insurance program (discounts for car and home insurance).
Willits-Hallowell Center, (lifetime membership).
Williston Memorial Library (borrowing of ŷ��AV items only).

Performance management program

All employees are expected to support and contribute to the central elements of the College’s mission. ŷ��AV’s performance management program is intended to help employees recognize their own potential contribution to the College, participate in continuous feedback and support, and remain flexible to accommodate situational changes.

The performance management process involves an annual meeting between the supervisor and employee at the beginning of the performance cycle to plan, set goals, and identify development needs and opportunities; providing continuous feedback throughout the year on performance, goals, directions and changing expectations; coaching all levels of performance; evaluating performance and the end of the year; and developing plans to maintain and/or improve performance for the next year.

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We seek to attract individuals who are committed to the College’s historic legacy of leadership in the education of women and in preparing students for purposeful engagement in the world.

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