The Associate positions serve as the principal consultant for an assigned client areas which could support faculty, classified, exempt, and temporary employees of the university in such functional areas as classification, compensation, employee relations, human resources information systems, organizational structure, recruitment, performance management, training, contract, rule and policy advice. • May assist employees (at all levels of the university), managers and departments by providing advice and counsel related to HR functional areas and services; • Assist in problem and conflict resolution, performance development, personnel actions such as layoff and separation; • Interpret and apply the collective bargaining agreements, university policies and procedures, and state and federal laws.