New Employees
We, the community members of UMKC, are proud to contribute to a student-centered urban university, serving our mission of learning, discovery, research, and service inspired by our commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and respectful interaction. We are excited that you have joined our UMKC community!
Please contact your Human Resources (HR) recruiter with any questions you have. We are here to help you in any way possible to ensure that your onboarding experience goes smoothly.
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Things To Do
On your first day
- Complete your paperwork (Administrative Center, Room 226)
- Get your UMKC Roo Card
- Visit Campus Parking
- Tour your work area
- New employee checklist (PDF)
During your first week
- Review UMKC’s Mission, Vision and Values
- Review the UMKC Statement of Values (PDF)
- If you will supervise employees, view and print the checklist for new supervisors (PDF)
During your first month
- Complete benefits enrollment
- Complete the university-required online compliance training courses in Percipio.
- Complete the mandatory “UMKC Unconscious Bias Microaggressions and What To Do About Them” training
- Schedule a New Employee Campus Tour
- Discuss employment details with your supervisor.
- Performance goals and expectations
- Meet or learn key people in your division/department
- Departmental procedures related to breaks, requesting time off, etc.
- Suggested Percipio training
New Employee Orientation
After you are hired as a new employee of UMKC, you will attend new employee orientation. In orientation, you will get an overview of university policies, benefit programs offered to you and your eligible dependents and the chance to ask any questions that you may have about the university. Visit the Human Resources calendar to see when your new employee orientation session will be held.
New employee orientation is hosted every other week. We encourage new employees to attend as soon as possible after beginning work at UMKC. If you are a new faculty member, please visit Faculty Resources and Orientation.
Orientation Agenda
8:30–9:50 a.m. About UMKC, Student Success, Campus Safety and Policy Overview, Employee Resoruces, Professional Development, and Getting Involved on campus.
9:50–10:00 a.m. Brief break and snack
10:00–11:30 a.m. UMKC employee benefits
Parking
Parking can be found in the Cherry Street Parking Structure just north of the Administrative Center. Metered parking is on the fifth level of the parking structure along with a pedestrian walkway that will lead you to a walking path to the Administrative Center. The metered parking area is highlighted in yellow on our campus map.
You are welcome to park at the metered parking without paying on your first day. If you receive a ticket, contact Human Resources and let them know that it was your first day of employment so that they can waive the ticket.
Please stop by the Parking Office (Administrative Center, Ste. 221) to sign up for your parking hangtag if you plan to park on campus during your employment. You will need your car’s license plate number for this so please have it handy. You may also obtain your parking pass online.
New Employee Onboarding E-Forms
You must complete online hiring documents before beginning employment. You will receive an email from “no-reply UM System” with a subject line of “Welcome to Univ. of MO”. This email will give you information about entering the last required documents of your hire. You should receive this email within 24-48 hours depending on when the department processes and approves. If you do not, please contact us at 800-488-5288 or via email.
You must bring two forms of identification to complete your I-9. Please reference the List of Acceptable Documents for I-9s (PDF) and bring these with you on your first day. If you are not able to bring these items, please notify Human Resources at once.
HR Business Partners
HR Business Partners provides overall guidance and a wide range of human resource services to managers, supervisors and individual employees in accordance with university and unit policies and practices in support of the goals of the unit.