Washington State HR Community

The HR Community utilizes a structure of working committees to facilitate and coordinate the sharing of advice and expertise and to formulate recommendations and decisions on specified workforce issues.

HR committees and workgroups

• Provide leadership for the Washington State HR Community through alignment of agency HR objectives and activities with enterprise objectives and processes.
• Support enterprise HR initiatives by representing customer agencies perspectives, providing resources when necessary, championing the outcome and advocating for success.
• Recommend priorities, identify opportunities for collaboration and enterprise service improvements and provide cross-agency staff to work on issues as needed.
• Commit to open communication between agencies, State HR and the Department of Enterprise Services to ensure collaboration.
• Provide a forum to discuss and brainstorm strategic opportunities and ideas regarding HR process improvements.
• Provide oversight to the development of human resource professionals within state government.
• Serve as a forum to raise critical issues and seek resolution.
• Make appropriate human resource related decisions that impact the state human resource system and contributes to administrating HR programs in a fair and equitable manner.