Performance Appraisals

All People Leaders (including Faculty and academic leaders of staff) are expected to provide employees feedback and clearly outline expectations through continuous performance management and an annual performance appraisal.

The University takes performance appraisals seriously; therefore, People Leaders are required to complete performance appraisals for all policy-covered employees by the campus deadline to be eligible for any salary program announced. People Leaders must also complete performance appraisals for all represented, probationary and non-probationary employees in accordance with their performance appraisal cycle to be eligible for any salary program announced.

The online application for UCSD Staff Performance appraisals is hosted on https://spa.ucsd.edu

Key Dates:

2024 Appraisal Cycle: May 1, 2023 – April 30, 2024

2024 Policy-Covered/Non-represented Deadline to complete appraisals: 4:30pm, June 14, 2024

2024 Represented deadline to complete appraisals: 4:30pm, August 14, 2024

Resources, Tools, & Guides:

Training: a short, self-paced online training module is available for employees and People Leaders. This course will provide an overview of how to use the system and complete tasks associated with their particular role in the process. The course is available in the UC Learning Center using this link: https://go.ucsd.edu/2yBfgPg.

Phases of SPA Appraisals Defined

Phases of SPA Staff Appraisals

Step-by-step SPA User Guide for Supervisors

Questions? Email perf-appraisal@ucsd.edu

Need training? https://go.ucsd.edu/2yBfgPg

More Info? https://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/supervising/annual-appraisal.html

UC Policy (PPSM 23): Performance Appraisals: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4010397/PPSM-23