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Careers at Mount Holyoke
Careers at Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke College is an equal opportunity employer
We seek to attract individuals who are committed to the College’s historic legacy of leadership in the education of women and in preparing students, through a liberal education integrating curriculum and careers, for lives of thoughtful, effective, and purposeful engagement in the world.
We are a diverse community of staff, faculty and students - tied together by our mission to provide an intellectually adventurous education in the liberal arts and sciences through academic programs recognized internationally for their excellence and range.
The Mount Holyoke community
Mount Holyoke College believes in the right, indeed the necessity, of free inquiry and free expression for every member of the college community. The College aims to provide an environment hospitable to open interchanges of knowledge and opinion in the terms of reasoned discourse. The citizen’s rights to free speech, free movement, free association, peaceful assembly, and orderly protest extends to every member of the College. So do the citizen’s responsibility to uphold the law and the civilized person’s obligation to respect the rights and feelings of others.
Get to know our College benefits
Mount Holyoke College provides benefits for regular full-time and part-time employees who work at least 20 hours a week for the academic or fiscal year. Available benefits include health and dental insurance, vision plans, flexible spending accounts, a generous retirement plan and more. We also offer tuition benefits for eligible employees and their dependents. Our benefits booklet contains more information on these and other benefits.
Download our benefits booklet
Join us!
View open positions (internal candidates)
View open positions (external candidates)
Learn about flexible and adaptive work options
Upcoming events
All human resources Events
Benefits and more: information for newly hired employees
As part of your first-day orientation, new hires will participate in a benefits briefing designed to provide a clear understanding of the comprehensive range of programs and resources available to MHC employees. This session will cover key information on health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other core employee benefits.
If you have questions or need further clarification after the orientation, we encourage you to schedule a one-on-one meeting with a member of the Benefits Team by emailing
hr-benefits-g@mtholyoke.edu
.
Policy on Domestic Partners
The College will include employee domestic partners and their dependents in its policies and qualified benefits. Among the policies and benefits this affects are health insurance, dental insurance, bereavement and family leave, tuition reimbursement and waiver benefits, and use of College facilities and services.
Criteria for Domestic Partners
To be eligible for extension of benefits as a domestic partner, the Mount Holyoke College employee and the domestic partner must complete and keep an “Affidavit of Domestic Partnership” on file. The employee and the domestic partner will affirm in the affidavit and provide proof that they meet the following criteria:
they are each other's sole domestic partner and intend to remain so;
neither one is legally married to anyone else;
they are at least eighteen (18) years of age and mentally competent to enter into a contract;
they are not related to each other by blood in a way which would bar marriage in the state in which they legally reside;
they reside together in the same residence and intend to do so and/or have mutual power of attorney;
they are jointly responsible for each other's common welfare and share financial obligations;
they understand that as domestic partners they are subject to the same thirty (30) day notice requirement set forth in Mount Holyoke College's benefits program as are all other Mount Holyoke College employees who are covered by or are applying for benefits;
Documentation to certify the same-residence requirement in case of a question could include: driver's license, canceled rent checks, utility bills, a lease showing joint tenancy, or a jointly-held mortgage on their primary residency.
As part of the “Affidavit of Domestic Partnership” employees agree to notify Mount Holyoke College if there is any change in status as domestic partners as attested to in the Affidavit that would make them no longer eligible for benefits.
Health Insurance
An employee who is eligible for health and dental insurance coverage may choose a family membership in any of the health plans offered by the College to enroll a domestic partner if the employee has completed the "Affidavit of Domestic Partnership." Employees may also enroll their qualified unmarried dependent children if the children reside regularly with the employee and the domestic partner, if the children qualify as dependents of either the employee or the domestic partner for tax purposes, or if the employee or domestic partner is required to provide coverage for the children as a result of a court order.
Roommates, parents, siblings are not eligible for this coverage.
If an employee changes from single to family health insurance to provide coverage for a domestic partner and/or his/her dependents, the employee, in addition to paying the premium for family health coverage in most cases, will have to pay an income tax on imputed income.
Under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 152 (a)(9), the value of benefits coverage for domestic partners and the dependents of domestic partners may be taxable as "imputed income" to the employee. The College contributions for the benefits that cover the domestic partner and his/her dependents are treated as taxable income to the employee unless the domestic partner and his/her dependents qualify as the employee's tax dependents under the IRC. The amount of "imputed income" is the added value of the benefit which provides coverage for these additional family members (that is, the difference in College contribution between single and family group health insurance coverage for the employee or the value of other benefits extended to the domestic partner or dependent of the domestic partner).
Enrollment Procedures
Employees interested in enrolling a domestic partner and/or dependent(s) in health insurance, dental insurance coverage or in receiving more information about domestic partner benefits can contact the
Human Resources Department.
Workplace Harassment Prevention Training
All Mount Holyoke employees are expected to know and understand the College’s policies on unlawful harassment and discrimination and to abide by them. To support employees with their obligations, the College has provided the online training course.
Launch Edu Risk courses
(For the first time, please click "Register" at the bottom of the page. Enter the following branch code: 621-89636)
Transparency in coverage
These machine-readable files
are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data. It is not intended to be a cost comparison tool for employees and dependents in Mount Holyoke College’s medical plans.
Retiree privileges
Employees who retire at age 50 and over with at least 10 years of service are eligible for:
Classes at Mount Holyoke College (for audit or credit).
Complimentary tickets for Rooke Theater (2 tickets per performance – non-transferable).
Complimentary Tickets for Dance Performances (2 tickets per performance – non-transferable).
Kendall Sports Complex.
Parking decal, faculty/staff (renewed annually, no charge).
Willits-Hallowell Center, (lifetime membership).
Williston Memorial Library (borrowing of Mount Holyoke items only).
Performance management program
All employees are expected to support and contribute to the central elements of the College’s mission. Mount Holyoke College’s performance management program is intended to help employees recognize their own potential contribution to the College, participate in continuous feedback and support, and remain flexible to accommodate situational changes.
The performance management process involves an annual meeting between the supervisor and employee at the beginning of the performance cycle to plan, set goals, and identify development needs and opportunities; providing continuous feedback throughout the year on performance, goals, directions and changing expectations; coaching all levels of performance; evaluating performance and the end of the year; and developing plans to maintain and/or improve performance for the next year.
Contact us
Careers at Mount Holyoke
We seek to attract individuals who are committed to the College’s historic legacy of leadership in the education of women and in preparing students for purposeful engagement in the world.
human-resources@mtholyoke.edu
413 538-2503
1 Skinner Hall
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Careers at Mount Holyoke
Careers at Mount Holyoke
Mount Holyoke College is an equal opportunity employer
We seek to attract individuals who are committed to the College’s historic legacy of leadership in the education of women and in preparing students, through a liberal education integrating curriculum and careers, for lives of thoughtful, effective, and purposeful engagement in the world.
We are a diverse community of staff, faculty and students - tied together by our mission to provide an intellectually adventurous education in the liberal arts and sciences through academic programs recognized internationally for their excellence and range.
The Mount Holyoke community
Mount Holyoke College believes in the right, indeed the necessity, of free inquiry and free expression for every member of the college community. The College aims to provide an environment hospitable to open interchanges of knowledge and opinion in the terms of reasoned discourse. The citizen’s rights to free speech, free movement, free association, peaceful assembly, and orderly protest extends to every member of the College. So do the citizen’s responsibility to uphold the law and the civilized person’s obligation to respect the rights and feelings of others.
Get to know our College benefits
Mount Holyoke College provides benefits for regular full-time and part-time employees who work at least 20 hours a week for the academic or fiscal year. Available benefits include health and dental insurance, vision plans, flexible spending accounts, a generous retirement plan and more. We also offer tuition benefits for eligible employees and their dependents. Our benefits booklet contains more information on these and other benefits.
Download our benefits booklet
Join us!
View open positions (internal candidates)
View open positions (external candidates)
Learn about flexible and adaptive work options
Upcoming events
All human resources Events
Benefits and more: information for newly hired employees
As part of your first-day orientation, new hires will participate in a benefits briefing designed to provide a clear understanding of the comprehensive range of programs and resources available to MHC employees. This session will cover key information on health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and other core employee benefits.
If you have questions or need further clarification after the orientation, we encourage you to schedule a one-on-one meeting with a member of the Benefits Team by emailing
hr-benefits-g@mtholyoke.edu
.
Policy on Domestic Partners
The College will include employee domestic partners and their dependents in its policies and qualified benefits. Among the policies and benefits this affects are health insurance, dental insurance, bereavement and family leave, tuition reimbursement and waiver benefits, and use of College facilities and services.
Criteria for Domestic Partners
To be eligible for extension of benefits as a domestic partner, the Mount Holyoke College employee and the domestic partner must complete and keep an “Affidavit of Domestic Partnership” on file. The employee and the domestic partner will affirm in the affidavit and provide proof that they meet the following criteria:
they are each other's sole domestic partner and intend to remain so;
neither one is legally married to anyone else;
they are at least eighteen (18) years of age and mentally competent to enter into a contract;
they are not related to each other by blood in a way which would bar marriage in the state in which they legally reside;
they reside together in the same residence and intend to do so and/or have mutual power of attorney;
they are jointly responsible for each other's common welfare and share financial obligations;
they understand that as domestic partners they are subject to the same thirty (30) day notice requirement set forth in Mount Holyoke College's benefits program as are all other Mount Holyoke College employees who are covered by or are applying for benefits;
Documentation to certify the same-residence requirement in case of a question could include: driver's license, canceled rent checks, utility bills, a lease showing joint tenancy, or a jointly-held mortgage on their primary residency.
As part of the “Affidavit of Domestic Partnership” employees agree to notify Mount Holyoke College if there is any change in status as domestic partners as attested to in the Affidavit that would make them no longer eligible for benefits.
Health Insurance
An employee who is eligible for health and dental insurance coverage may choose a family membership in any of the health plans offered by the College to enroll a domestic partner if the employee has completed the "Affidavit of Domestic Partnership." Employees may also enroll their qualified unmarried dependent children if the children reside regularly with the employee and the domestic partner, if the children qualify as dependents of either the employee or the domestic partner for tax purposes, or if the employee or domestic partner is required to provide coverage for the children as a result of a court order.
Roommates, parents, siblings are not eligible for this coverage.
If an employee changes from single to family health insurance to provide coverage for a domestic partner and/or his/her dependents, the employee, in addition to paying the premium for family health coverage in most cases, will have to pay an income tax on imputed income.
Under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 152 (a)(9), the value of benefits coverage for domestic partners and the dependents of domestic partners may be taxable as "imputed income" to the employee. The College contributions for the benefits that cover the domestic partner and his/her dependents are treated as taxable income to the employee unless the domestic partner and his/her dependents qualify as the employee's tax dependents under the IRC. The amount of "imputed income" is the added value of the benefit which provides coverage for these additional family members (that is, the difference in College contribution between single and family group health insurance coverage for the employee or the value of other benefits extended to the domestic partner or dependent of the domestic partner).
Enrollment Procedures
Employees interested in enrolling a domestic partner and/or dependent(s) in health insurance, dental insurance coverage or in receiving more information about domestic partner benefits can contact the
Human Resources Department.
Workplace Harassment Prevention Training
All Mount Holyoke employees are expected to know and understand the College’s policies on unlawful harassment and discrimination and to abide by them. To support employees with their obligations, the College has provided the online training course.
Launch Edu Risk courses
(For the first time, please click "Register" at the bottom of the page. Enter the following branch code: 621-89636)
Transparency in coverage
These machine-readable files
are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data. It is not intended to be a cost comparison tool for employees and dependents in Mount Holyoke College’s medical plans.
Retiree privileges
Employees who retire at age 50 and over with at least 10 years of service are eligible for:
Classes at Mount Holyoke College (for audit or credit).
Complimentary tickets for Rooke Theater (2 tickets per performance – non-transferable).
Complimentary Tickets for Dance Performances (2 tickets per performance – non-transferable).
Kendall Sports Complex.
Parking decal, faculty/staff (renewed annually, no charge).
Willits-Hallowell Center, (lifetime membership).
Williston Memorial Library (borrowing of Mount Holyoke items only).
Performance management program
All employees are expected to support and contribute to the central elements of the College’s mission. Mount Holyoke College’s performance management program is intended to help employees recognize their own potential contribution to the College, participate in continuous feedback and support, and remain flexible to accommodate situational changes.
The performance management process involves an annual meeting between the supervisor and employee at the beginning of the performance cycle to plan, set goals, and identify development needs and opportunities; providing continuous feedback throughout the year on performance, goals, directions and changing expectations; coaching all levels of performance; evaluating performance and the end of the year; and developing plans to maintain and/or improve performance for the next year.
Contact us
Careers at Mount Holyoke
We seek to attract individuals who are committed to the College’s historic legacy of leadership in the education of women and in preparing students for purposeful engagement in the world.
human-resources@mtholyoke.edu
413 538-2503
1 Skinner Hall
Quick links
Visit Mount Holyoke
Request Information
Apply