237 Hardin Hall (North Wing)
3310 Holdrege Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln NE 68583-0972
FAX: 402-472-4915
Business Manager: Kyle Bogus
Phone: 402-472-6703
Regular Office Hours: Monday through Friday – 7:30am to 5:00pm
General Information
The Natural Resources Business Center (NRBC) is a unit within the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), with principal financial and human resources support to our supported customer departments and units: Environmental Studies Program, Nebraska Forest Service (NFS), IANR Media, Nebraska Statewide Arboretum (NSA), School of Natural Resources, and Department of Statistics. We also support units that also report to the College of Arts and Sciences.
The NRBC team works together to provide professional services, resource and human resource management, and solution development and implementation with the highest levels of integrity, accountability, and customer focus.
Major activities include budget development and administration, financial management services, human resources and payroll management, and grant development and support.
NRBC Personnel
- Provides overall guidance to Business Center staff in fiscal management, human resources and grants/contract administration.
- Provides guidance to unit administrators, faculty and staff in fiscal management/budgeting.
- Serves as liaison to IANR Finance & Personnel, IANR Deans & VC offices, CAS Dean’s office, VC for Research, the VC for Academic Affairs, and all other UNL functional offices in the management of fiscal & human resources issues.
Financial Staff
- Pre-Award Grant Development including grant proposal review, budget development, confirming cost share documentation and match commitments, processing and routing.
- Provides fiscal coordination and account management for the CALMIT, Forestry, and Mead Farm.
- Handles revenue contracts.
- Travel and non-travel review and approver.
- Provides fiscal coordination and account management for the Environmental Studies, NDMC, Resilience Center, EPSCoR Program, and Platte Basin Time Lapse.
- Annual review and submission of service center rates.
- Travel and non-travel review and approver.
- Pre-Award Grant Development including grant proposal review, budget development, confirming cost share documentation and match commitments, processing and routing.
- Provides fiscal coordination and account management for the Nebraska Forest Service, Nebraska State Arboretum, and Nebraska Fish & Wildlife COOP.
- Travel and non-travel review and approver.
- Provides fiscal coordination and account management for Fisheries and Wildlife, and Department of Statistics.
- Provides backup to the fiscal coordination and account management for the Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska State Arboretum.
- Handles billings for Cartography and IT.
- Travel and non-travel review and approver.
- Provides fiscal coordination and account management for HPRCC, CESU, and Soils/Drilling/CSD.
- Handles campus requisitions and billings for Copiers and Web Services.
- Travel and non-travel review and approver.
- Provides fiscal coordination and account management for IANR Media, Nebraska State Climate Office, Mesonet, and Nebraska Maps & More.
- Processes transactions for Marketplace and Cvent.
- Handles P-Card purchasing, procurement backup, mileage logs, and billings for mileage
- Travel and non-travel review and approver
- Handles accounts payable/receivable, purchase orders, P-Card purchasing, internal billing transactions(IBTs), warrant requests, and expense contracts.
- Reconciles purchasing card transactions.
- Procurement expert and eShop liaison for IANR.
- Maintains inventory of SNR’s capital assets and desirable equipment.
Human Resources Staff
For time being please send your HR and Payroll related questions to the UNL NRBC Human Resources mailbox: unl-nrbchr@unl.edu.
- Handles HR issues relating to student hires, staff and faculty positions (creating and filling regular and temporary positions, classifying and reclassifying positions, personnel and supervisor issues).
- Provides guidance in the search and interview process.
- Handles all aspects of payroll administration; processes new hire paperwork; assists with the classification of student and on-call/temp employee wages, and monitors appointment end dates.
- Time Entry
- HR backup
Correspondence with Human Resources at NRBC
To better service everyone and speed up response times, please put the person you are emailing about "first name last name, NUID (or personnel number)" as the subject line. If the person is new to UNL please Put NEW instead of NUID. If it is a general question and there is no person involved please put your last name and GQ as the subject line. Examples:
- Herbie Husker (0123456789876543)
- Lil Red (654321)
- Smokey Bear (NEW)
- Rife (GQ)
Resources
- Collection of forms from NRBC and SNR
- Adding and Removing Employees