Another Source’s Client, ASI Cal Poly Pomona, is seeking a dynamic and experienced professional to join their team as the Position and Performance Manager in Pomona, California.
Here’s a little about ASI Cal Poly Pomona and the position they are recruiting for:
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) at Cal Poly Pomona is a student-focused, equity-driven non-profit organization established in 1963 and governed by a 14-member board of elected student leaders. As an auxiliary of the CSU system, ASI provides comprehensive Student Life programs and services—including recreation and wellbeing, student government, clubs and organizations, childcare, and the food pantry—while also overseeing human resources, IT, finance, facilities, and marketing operations. With 500 part-time student employees, 60 full-time staff, and stewardship of a $18M operating budget, $24M in reserves, and nearly 300,000 square feet of student space, ASI plays a vital role in campus life and student success. Serving over 28,000 students, ASI is a learning-centered organization that lives its values of care, growth, equity, diversity, and inclusion, with a mission to transform lives by engaging every student through leadership, innovation, and collaboration.
The anticipated hiring range for this position is: $74,779 - $91,604 based on experience.
About the role:
Reporting to the Associate Director of Human Resources, the Position and Performance Manager leads ASI’s Manager Support Unit and serves as the primary architect of job design and performance management. This role oversees the development and maintenance of position descriptions, ensuring alignment with ASI’s organizational structure and compensation philosophy. Partnering with stakeholders, the manager advances human-centered leadership development, implements progressive performance practices, and cultivates a student-focused HR environment rooted in ASI’s values of care, growth, inclusion, and high performance.
What you will be doing:
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Recruiting, supervising, training, developing, and evaluating the performance of assigned staff, including 1 Performance Management Assistant, 1 Lead Org Design Project Assistant, and 2 Org Design Project Assistants.
- Ensuring unit operations comply with applicable laws, ASI policies, core values, and progressive human-centered HR standards.
- Managing team workload and priorities to deliver timely, accurate, and high-quality services.
Management Support
- Overseeing position and performance structure design by defining standards, planning objectives, developing monitoring practices, reviewing outcomes, and establishing performance metrics.
- Serving as custodian of ASI’s position architecture by maintaining the master repository of position descriptions and org-chart data, and leading reviews for workload equity, organizational alignment, and strategic coherence.
- Conducting structural diagnostics of departments and units—mapping authority, communication flows, spans of control, and inter-dependencies—and recommending realignments to enhance collaboration and service delivery.
- Collaborating with the Learning & Development Manager to co-create manager-development programs, workshops, and toolkits that strengthen supervisors’ skills in goal-setting, coaching, and progressive performance practices.
- Partnering with the HR Systems & Compensation Manager to ensure all position changes are scored against compensable factors and routed for pay-band review.
- Partnering with the Employee Experience Unit to align counseling processes with employee relations practices.
- Collaborating with the Talent Acquisition Unit to provide deep position insights that inform compelling job postings and effective recruitment.
- Engaging stakeholders early to balance position-design requests with real-time budget capacity and refining proposals with budget managers.
- Leading cyclical and ad hoc position audits by interviewing staff, reviewing duties, identifying variances, and recommending structural or operational adjustments.
- Guiding supervisors in updating position descriptions, providing tools and coaching on essential functions, ADA compliance, and ASI-specific compensable factors.
- Designing, implementing, and enhancing the cyclical performance-management framework by publishing timelines, maintaining dashboards, and coaching managers on growth-oriented feedback, documentation, and improvement plans.
- Monitoring trends and outliers in position/performance data, preparing reports, and recommending corrective actions or policy updates.
- Ensuring ASI’s values of Care & Growth are consistently embedded across position and performance practices.
- Collaborating with stakeholders and adjacent units on updates, process changes, and cross-unit initiatives.
General
- Preparing, presenting, and administering the unit budget, including expenditure projections and quarterly variance reports.
- Maintaining an inclusive department environment and delivering exceptional customer service to ASI staff, management, and external stakeholders.
- Staying current on management best practices, legal requirements, and forward-thinking HR trends while engaging in ASI and University committees and initiatives.
- Role-modeling ASI’s core values and demonstrating continuous learning and self-reflection.
- Assisting with general HR inquiries, issues, and discrepancies from employees, managers, and administrators.
- Performing other related duties, as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, organizational development, or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working with performance management practices, job design and development, organizational development, and leadership development
- Working knowledge of job‑analysis methodologies and organization design frameworks
- Ability to translate structural diagnostics into clear recommendations that optimize cross‑unit collaboration and decision‑making efficiency.
- Ability to develop performance‑metric systems and coach managers in progressive, growth‑oriented performance practices.
- Working knowledge of inclusive management practices and federal and state labor law
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to interpret data, identify trends and recommend improvement practices in management practices
- Working knowledge of human resources functions, procedures, and systems
- Supervisory Responsibilities
- Recruiting, supervising, training, developing, and evaluating the performance of assigned staff, including 1 Performance Management Assistant, 1 Lead Org Design Project Assistant, and 2 Org Design Project Assistants.
- Ensuring unit operations comply with applicable laws, ASI policies, core values, and progressive human-centered HR standards.
- Managing team workload and priorities to deliver timely, accurate, and high-quality services.
- Management Support
- Overseeing position and performance structure design by defining standards, planning objectives, developing monitoring practices, reviewing outcomes, and establishing performance metrics.
- Serving as custodian of ASI’s position architecture by maintaining the master repository of position descriptions and org-chart data, and leading reviews for workload equity, organizational alignment, and strategic coherence.
- Conducting structural diagnostics of departments and units—mapping authority, communication flows, spans of control, and inter-dependencies—and recommending realignments to enhance collaboration and service delivery.
- Collaborating with the Learning & Development Manager to co-create manager-development programs, workshops, and toolkits that strengthen supervisors’ skills in goal-setting, coaching, and progressive performance practices.
- Partnering with the HR Systems & Compensation Manager to ensure all position changes are scored against compensable factors and routed for pay-band review.
- Partnering with the Employee Experience Unit to align counseling processes with employee relations practices.
- Collaborating with the Talent Acquisition Unit to provide deep position insights that inform compelling job postings and effective recruitment.
- Engaging stakeholders early to balance position-design requests with real-time budget capacity and refining proposals with budget managers.
- Leading cyclical and ad hoc position audits by interviewing staff, reviewing duties, identifying variances, and recommending structural or operational adjustments.
- Guiding supervisors in updating position descriptions, providing tools and coaching on essential functions, ADA compliance, and ASI-specific compensable factors.
- Designing, implementing, and enhancing the cyclical performance-management framework by publishing timelines, maintaining dashboards, and coaching managers on growth-oriented feedback, documentation, and improvement plans.
- Monitoring trends and outliers in position/performance data, preparing reports, and recommending corrective actions or policy updates.
- Ensuring ASI’s values of Care & Growth are consistently embedded across position and performance practices.
- Collaborating with stakeholders and adjacent units on updates, process changes, and cross-unit initiatives.
- General Preparing, presenting, and administering the unit budget, including expenditure projections and quarterly variance reports.
- Maintaining an inclusive department environment and delivering exceptional customer service to ASI staff, management, and external stakeholders.
- Staying current on management best practices, legal requirements, and forward-thinking HR trends while engaging in ASI and University committees and initiatives.
- Role-modeling ASI’s core values and demonstrating continuous learning and self-reflection.
- Assisting with general HR inquiries, issues, and discrepancies from employees, managers, and administrators.
- Performing other related duties, as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience with progressive supervision with at least 4 direct and indirect reports, required; Supervising/coaching and guiding over twenty (20) direct and indirect reports and at least five unique positions, preferred
- Experience within a university or nonprofit environment, preferred
What’s in it for you:
At Cal Poly Pomona’s Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), we value the well-being and growth of our employees. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, Aflac voluntary benefits, and an Employee Assistance Program to support you and your family. We also offer generous vacation and holiday time, along with pension and retirement savings plans that help you build a secure future. At ASI, you’ll enjoy the stability of strong benefits combined with the fulfillment of making an impact in a student-centered, mission-driven organization.
Find more about the benefits here: https://asi.cpp.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Benefits-Summary.pdf
Equal Employment Opportunity and Non-Discrimination:
The California State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, race, religion or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, transgender, or protected veteran status consistent with applicable federal and state laws. This policy applies to all CSU students, faculty and staff programs and activities. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and certain other federal and state laws, prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in all education programs and activities operated by the university (both on and off campus).
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