Graduate Assistant Hire

Send to your Dean’s Office Human Resources Generalist

Graduate Assistant Hire PDF Download

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GatorStart (GS) Hire: Yes No Eform ID:
Employee Name: Job #:
Employee Record: Gator Link:
UFID: Hire Date:

Before Hire

Y/N Scholarship (if applicable) approved in scholarship database (SDB)
Background Screening Check
Y/N If hiring a foreign national, see UFHR’s Hiring a Foreign National Checklist for guidance and PHHP’s Documents Checklist for documents that must be forwarded to DO HR
Y/N Attach Foreign National Tax Document Packet to ePAF
Registration Requirements met
Y/N Graduate Assistant Letter of Appointment (Use for new appointees/admissions) (Approved in advance by your DOHR Generalist)
Y/N Graduate Assistant Letter of Reappointment (Use for returning appointees/admissions) (Approved in advance by your DOHR Generalist)
Y/N Employment of Relatives (Nepotism Memo) (approved at all levels prior to hire date)
Y/N Health Assessment
Y/N Disclosure of Outside Activity Form (approved at all levels prior to hire date)

PHHP requirements (forward with hire documents to your DOHR Generalist)

Completed UF and PHHP checklists
Code of Conduct, PHHP
GatorStart completed confirmation
Background screening results email/report
Emergency Contact Form

ePAF Hire Documents (Preferred single PDF)

GA Letter
I-9 Documents
Loyalty Oath
Y/N Selective Service
Y/N Employment of Relatives (Nepotism Agreement)
Y/N HR600
Y/N W-4/W-8 (if Foreign National)

Final Administrator Tasks

IdM (UF Directory): If new to UF, set Deliver To field with person’s gatorlink@mail.ufl.edu
Set “Network Managed By” (NMB) to department ID in Identity Management
PHHP IT Services Access Request
Complete employer Section 2 of I-9
Enter ISA
Enter LOA (tuition waiver) into myUFL UF LOA Instructional Guide
Request Gator 1 card
Training Tracker
Enter distribution (notify Dean’s Office if DO funding involved)
Gator Grad Care reminder: The Graduate School queries Active employment records in myUFL to determine eligibility. If a late hire will miss GGC sign up deadline, have the GA contact UF Benefits to inquire about registering for GGC.
New employee must register in UFOLIO, UF’s eCOI system at https://coi.ufl.edu/, even if no outside activities to disclose (required for 0.26 FTE and above)
Review information in college HRDB 1-2 weeks after hire

PHHP 6/2025