Managing a world-class research university with nearly 40,000 students and facilities throughout the state requires a lot of talented people — which is where you come in.

Welcome! Congratulations on your new role. You will play an important part as the latest addition to the division of Finance, Operations and Administration. Though our jobs vary from budget analyst to groundskeeper, parking attendant to HR recruiter, police officer to IT professional — we all share the same vision: We strive to make the university better every day.

To help guide us in our mission, we follow a set of values:

• We aim to advance sustainability in the resources we steward.
• We drive innovation to solve our greatest challenges.
• We exercise integrity in all that we do.
• We build community by embracing our diversity.

Your colleagues throughout FOA

With more than 1,700 employees, FOA is home to a dozen distinct units. These include many critical campus services that you’ll become familiar with as a coworker and a customer. If you’d like to learn more, scroll through our list of operating units to understand what types of services we cover, or click through our organizational charts to see who else you can call a colleague.

FOA units:

• Administrative Innovation and Technology
• Budget and Institutional Analysis
• Design and Construction Management
• FOA Divisional Resources
• Facilities Management
• Finance
• Fire Department
• Human Resources
• Police Department
• Safety Services
• University Resources

When FOA comes together

Digest email newsletter

As an FOA employee, you will automatically be subscribed to our Digest newsletter, delivered to your inbox every other Thursday. The Digest newsletter curates recent news for employees into a to-do list of tasks, FYI updates and other brief features. We aim to keep you informed, while respecting your time. Skim the last edition

FOA All-Staff Meetings

A couple of times each year, we host an FOA All-Staff Meeting over Zoom to invite all of our employees to hear from leadership and to get updated on important topics. Win prizes for attending and send in any questions you might have when you register to attend, which may be answered live. Watch materials from past meetings

Guides to get started with campus systems

FOA technology support: FOA's own Admin IT team has a practical Welcome Guide for New FOA Employees to help you get set up with a computer, phone and other technology components for your workstation. If a computer is not waiting for you upon arrival, then make sure a supervisor has completed Admin-IT’s Employee Onboarding Form to request the correct equipment and file access that you will need.

UC Davis new employee checklist: The Getting Started as a New UC Davis Employee checklist helps you get started with an employee ID, login, benefits, orientation and other new-employee processes.

Remote and flexible work guide: The Flexible Workplace Guide from UC Davis HR includes directions for creating your flexible work arrangement if you will be working a non-traditional schedule, off-site, hybrid or other alternative work arrangements.

Sign up for email newsletters: The Campus Newsletter Directory hosted by Human Resources is useful for any UC Davis employee, but especially for new staff members who are curious to connect and find more information about their favorite UC Davis groups and topics.

Being a UC Davis staff member

Every UC Davis staff member is also a member of Staff Assembly, which is part of the university’s shared governance system as one of its five constituent organizations (the others are the Academic Senate, Academic Federation and two student associations). Staff Assembly hosts meetings, social events, a newsletter, staff awards and scholarships. It is also organizes the annual Thank Goodness for Staff (TGFS) picnic.

The UC Davis Front Door website welcomes new employees with information about relocating to our region, housing programs, setting up a new commute and other tips for new employees.

All UC Davis employees receive the weekly Dateline email, which provides news for both faculty and staff, including featured news articles, press releases, campus announcements, upcoming events and more. See the email archive or read some of its recent articles.