Central support team
Our central support team members serve as the initial point of contact for our division-based faculty and staff for the following areas of expertise: administrative and events support, faculty effort support, purchases and travel support, and temporary hires support (including graduate associates, hourly students and research staff members). We are committed to providing high-quality, efficient support throughout the business process.
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Central support contacts
Email: CPH-Support@osu.edu
In Person: 179 Cunz Hall, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday-Friday
Urgent Requests: Contact Scot Erbe at 614-247-8727
Support services
- Provides calendaring for the division chairs, including division meetings
- Assists with executing division-initiated events (reserve venue, develop and distribute invitation, collect RSVPs, order and facilitate meal plans, etc)
- Initiates and responds to requests on behalf of division chairs
- Maintains list serves for division faculty, staff, students and lecturers
- Initiates requests to the CPH marketing and communications portal for newsletter submissions
- Distributes mail and restocks printers with toner and paper as needed
- Manages the central support mailbox
- Provides guidance and support to faculty members (including emeritus faculty) in The College of Public Health regarding effort planning and management
- Works with the faculty, and other business units as needed, to collect information to initiate the appropriate Workday transaction such as costing allocations, payroll accounting adjustments and period activity pay
- Manages the faculty effort summaries to ensure accuracy
- Processes off-duty pay which includes, but is not limited to, collection, processing and routing, and entering period activity pay. Collaborates with college HR consultant to process administrative attachments and related transactions
- Monitors funding end dates and transaction status through to completion; works with the HR consultant, payroll services, other business units, and the Office of Sponsored Programs – Grants Accounting as necessary to resolve faculty payroll issues.
- Initiates purchase and travel transactions in Workday and submits supporting documents as needed to complete transactions
- Monitors transaction status for all open requisitions, resolves issues and escalates transactions to the appropriate business unit as necessary
- Guides faculty in consultant agreement process and setting up vendors in Workday
- Orders gift cards, equipment and supplies for offices and laboratories upon request
- Guides employees in the recruit to hire, onboarding and off-boarding processes in collaboration with our human resources consultant
- Collects necessary information for initiating transactions as managerial liaison in Workday
- Monitors funding end dates and entering the appropriate HR transaction, such as costing allocations, period activity pay and payroll accounting adjustments
- Monitors transaction status and escalating transactions to the appropriate business unit
- Initiates hires and payroll accounting adjustments (PAAs) entries in Workday and monitoring transactions through to completion
- Initiates updates and corrections to period activity pays (PAPs) and fee authorizations
- Communicates process and deadline information to faculty and graduate associates/fellows including stipend and fee authorization funding details
- Serves as a liaison to the Graduate School