Welcome to the Web Site of the Human Resources Division
In pursuit of academic distinction, Rhodes University strives to offer an employment partnership of choice to prospective and current staff by:
- Furthering institutional excellence and appreciating contribution in support of such excellence; and
- Affording respect and dignity to both the individual and the collective.
HR Information
Please note that the following officials are custodians of these documents at Rhodes:
- BBEE Certificate - Dr I L'Ange: Director Res Ops
- Registration Certificate Workmen Compensation Fund - Ms Desiree Philipson: Director Finance
- Social Corporate Investment Matters - Ms Di Hornby/ Ms Vera Adams: Director CSD/ CE
IR & EE Specialist
The Human Resources division is pleased to announce that Thulani Mnyungula has been appointed as the IR & Equity Specialist. His appointment is effective 01 April 2012. Thulani has been the Senior Generalist for the HR Academic Operations area for the last 18 months and before that he was with PPC where he worked both as an HR Generalist which included responsibility for IR. The division is looking forward to the positive contribution that he will make in this role and he will be missed in Academic Operations. ...read more
Support Staff Leave Policy Presentations (All Grades)
Kindly be informed that the Human Resources Division will be facilitating training and doing presentations on the new Support Staff Leave Policy which has been approved by Council with the implementation date effective from 01 January 2012. All support staff members are invited to attend these sessions, which are aimed at facilitating the transition from the Old to the New Leave Dispensation. ...read more
2012 Budget Applications for Staffing
The deadline for requests is Friday, 12th August 2011.
Applications should now be submitted for:
- Requests to the New Positions Committee (previously known as the Staffing Committee): New permanent/contract posts, extended contracts, conversion of funding from external to Rhodes funding, substantive restructuring (support staff) and/or reallocation of historical SCU allocations (academic departments).
- Temporary teaching programme
- Student Assistance & Graduate Assistance Bursaries
- Temporary assistance: Overtime, Responsibility Allowances, Casual staffing, Short-term appointments totalling less than 4 months of the year, student assistance (non-academic work), etc.
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Merit Awards
Please note the Merit Awards process for the period 01 September 2010 to 31 August 2011 has commenced. Relevant and up to date information on the 2011 Merit Awards application/ nomination process is available as follows:
For Academic Staff
For Support Staff
Deadlines must be adhered to in order for the documenation to be available for consideration by the Merit Awards Committees...read more
Wellness Training Programmes
As Rhodes moves steadily towards implementing and advancing a holistic wellness programme for the University, this is evidenced by a few key initiatives and developments. The latest of these is a move by the Counselling Centre to expand beyond merely serving students into making their services available to staff, albeit on a limited basis....read more
HR Structure
For those of you have had dealings with HR in recent months will be aware of changes to our structure and our office. Our new structure sees HR staff dealing with all HR processes for specific Faculties and Divisions of the University. ...read more
Merit Awards
Further to our last consultation with regards to the Support Staff Leave policy we are circulating a final draft of the policy which we would like to put forward to the Admin Sub-Committee of Council for approval. Before we do this there are 2 proposed to changes to the policy that we discussed with you earlier on this year and they are: -
How long leave will accrue and be taken
The payment of leave in lieu of overtime
To summarise the proposals, it is propos...read more
Support Staff Working over Shut Down
The University shutdown period commences 21st December 2011 and ends 3rd January 2012....read more
Proposed Support Staff Leave Policy
Call for Departments to Request Interns for 2011
New HR Structure and Staff
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Support Staff Leave Policy
The new Support Staff Leave Policy was approved by Council on 08 September 2011. The policy will come into effect on 01 January 2012. Staff will be hearing from HR shortly in respect of the transitional arrangements between our current practices and the new policy. Queries to be directed to your Generalist in HR.
The Support Staff Leave Policy document is below:
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Support Staff Working over Shut Down
The University shutdown period commences 21 December 2011 and ends 3 January 2012.
Certain areas of the University are required to remain operational during the shutdown period or parts thereof.
Please refer to the Protocol document below, that will detail how work arrangements over this time are to be dealt with.
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Call for Departments to Request Interns for 2012
The Human Resources Division is calling for applications from departments to host an intern in 2012. The Internship Programmes will start in February 2012 and end in December 2012. We have 10 Clerical Internships and 5 Graduate Internships that will be sponsored by the HR budget for 2012. If departments would like to sponsor their own interns and want them to be part of the RU internship program they may do so but the appointment of the Intern will need to follow the HR process, i.e. the assessment and interviews. In other words if the department has someone in mind that person will need to form part of the overall recruitment and selection process and cannot be screened. ...read more
