Faculty Fund Management

​Jane Youn (jyoun@berkeley.edu), located in room 547, is the point of contact for all faculty fund requests within the Economics department. This includes fund balances, financial questions, purchasing, and travel and entertainment reimbursement requests.

Reimbursement Requests

Send your scanned documents to econreimburse@berkeley.edu.

For Travel reimbursements 
  • A valid UCB business purpose is required.
  • Requests must be submitted within 45 days of the end of a trip otherwise it may be subject to tax withholding.
  • If you flew to a destination, include the airfare itinerary to/from the bay area even if you are not requesting reimbursement for the airfare.
  • All receipts should show proof of payment and method of payment (ie last 4 digits of the credit card)
  • If you have a specific chartstring you'd like to use, please mention it in your request.  Otherwise Jane will determine the most appropriate chartstring to use.
 
For Entertainment reimbursements
  • A valid UCB business purpose is required.
  • Requests must be submitted within 45 days of the end of a trip otherwise it may be subject to tax withholding.  
  • Include a guest list with their names, titles, and their affiliations (ie name, professor, UC Santa Cruz)
  • Both the itemized receipt and payment receipt are required.  This may be on one or on two separate receipts.  
  • If you have a specific chartstring you'd like to use, please mention it in your request.  Otherwise Jane will determine the most appropriate chartstring to use.
 
 

Feel free to use the forms below if they are helpful to you:

Hiring

For GSR Hiring and/or Student Assistant Hiring, complete the GSR Hiring Form or the Student Assistant Hiring Form.  You can check with Jane Youn (jyoun@berkeley.edu) if you have any questions about:  (1) fund balance, (2) chartstring usage, or (3) estimated cost.  

Additional information about hirings can be found respectively on these webpages SHARE Region GSR Hiring and SHARE Region Student Assistant Hiring.  A member of the economics staff will coordinate with ECON's HR Generalist, Iman Pour, to initiate the hiring process.

For Academic Hiring (Postdocs, Specialists, Researchers), contact ECON's HR Business Partner, Herman Sangera, who will coordinate with a member of the ECON Academic Personnel team on steps needed to recruit for Academic Positions.

Additional information about hiring Academic Positions can be found on the SHARE Region Academic Hiring webpage.

Please note that the hiring department is determined by the funding source.  If you are using a non-Economics Department chartstring, then contact the department that manages your chartstring to process the hire.  

Sponsored Awards (C&G)

If you're applying for a sponsored project, then the Proposal Request Form must be completed and the Economics Department must be chosen as the sponsor.  An RA will be assigned to assist with the proposal submission requirements.  The sponsored award (C&G funds) will be managed by ECON's SHARE Research Administration and will coordinate with a member of the ECON Finance Team through the life cycle of the awarded proposal.