Campus Changes Process on Requirements for Position Approval

Jack McEnery, Director, HR Shared Services

Effective immediately the requirements for when a Recommendation and Authorization for Hiring Approval (RAHA) form have changed.

The table below outlines when the RAHA will be required going forward.  These changes are now in effect in the workflows in HireTouch.

Summary of When a RAHA is required

Employee Group		RAHA Required
Academic Professional	Regular - Initial appointment	Yes
	Regular - Reappointment	No
	Visiting - Initial appointment	Yes
	Visiting - Reappointment	No
Civil Service	Status	Yes
	Extra Help/Outside Agency	Yes
Faculty	Tenure/Tenure Track - Initial Appointment	Yes
	Non-Tenure* - Initial Appointment	Yes
	Non-Tenure* - Reappointment	No
	Term by term appointment	No
Graduate Student	Graduate Assistant - Initial appointment	No
	Graduate Assistant - Reappointment	No
	Graduate Hourly - Initial appointment	No
	Graduate Hourly - Reappointment	No
Post Doctorial	Post Doc Research Assoc	No
Undergraduate Student		No

*Includes all modifiers, e.g. Visiting etc. 

Please Note the Following Regarding Changes in the RAHA

1. Changes in the requirements for when a RAHA is to be completed do not change any requirements for the completion of a job description in filling a position.

2. These changes are not intended to change any internal College/Unit requirements on position approval.

3. For Academic Professional and Faculty Appointments, the RAHA is to continue to be attached to the respective HR Front End transaction. We are examining ways to connect the approval of the position with the respective HR Front End transaction which may eliminate this requirement.

Future Changes

Please note that in the near future, the form will be updated and renamed Position Authorization. At that time, it will be integrated with the Requisition utilized for Civil Service positions resulting in only one form required for filling a Civil Service position. You will be notified about this change at that time and webinars will be conducted to overview the changes with you.

If there are any questions about the requirements for the RAHA, please contact Jack McEnery (jmcenery@uic.edu)  312-996-3581.  If there are any issues with the RAHA in HireTouch, please contact the UIC HR Helpdesk (uichrhelpdesk@uillinois.edu)  312-413-4848.