UCSF Financial and Administrative Services (FAS)

One Good Thing

For our final issue of One Good Thing in 2020, we talked to Mike Clune, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer and Risa Gleichenhaus, Coordinator, Institutional Analysis, about how a holiday tradition for the UCSF Finance Budget and Resource Management (BRM) staff turned into a virtual cooking session. Scroll to the bottom to see details on the Ten-Year Financial Plan Roadshow on Friday, December 11, 1:30-3pm and three tips on how you can help with financial recovery, plus see Hot Jobs at UCSF. "See" you in 2021!

It’s an honor to work in a team that shares special skills and acts of appreciation and unity. Mike’s pepper jelly provides some homemade deliciousness and is a good reminder that beyond Zoom and email, we are all people with lives, working together in a world gone a little crazy.

More Than Jelly

Mike Clune, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer for UCSF Finance, usually makes dozens of jars of homemade pepper jelly to give his staff during the holidays. Since he can’t physically see his staff for the holidays, he shares with us how he took it virtual.

BRM Happy Hour Cooking Edition

Since I arrived at UCSF in 2011, a friend and I have been making pepper jelly each fall and giving a small jar to each of the BRM staff at the holidays. I’m sure some of them now have eight unopened jars in their cabinets at home, but I know others have enjoyed a spicy treat on a cracker with goat cheese or cream cheese. Others have reported using it as a glaze for salmon, pork chops, or chicken. As a quarantine employee engagement activity, Darryl Lim, Costing Policy Director in BRM, suggested we have a cooking edition for a Friday happy hour on Zoom. I thought since I can’t deliver the jelly to the team this year, I could teach them to make it themselves. And they did!

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Risa Gleichenhaus, Coordinator, Institutional Analysis, UCSF Finance, shares her experience on the updated holiday tradition:

Mike’s pepper jelly really is ‘one good thing’ on many levels. Each of the past several years we have been blessed with a personal and delicious bit of holiday cheer and a reminder of our connection in the form of a perfect sized jar of homemade red pepper jelly. Getting the little jar full of wonderful ‘just hot enough’ homemade pepper jelly has become a part of the holiday season and serves as a reminder that we are appreciated and part of the BRM team.

This holiday season will be different. We’ll miss the lunches, catching up with friends and associates, the buzz of events around campus, the planned and ad-hoc parties with a good show of ‘extras’ in the breakroom that seem to be there at all the right times through the New Year.

I thoroughly enjoyed the virtual event where Mike circulated his recipe and walked us through the process of creating the treasured gift. While we’ll forgo the ‘2020 jar’, I feel the connection and appreciate the outreach and effort to stay connected and adapt in these pandemic pre-vaccine times.

But wait...there's more!

Ten-Year Plan Roadshow Friday, December 11, 1:30-3pm
UCSF Finance will host the UCSF Ten-Year Financial Plan roadshow this year via Zoom. The roadshow is intended to promote a greater understanding of the UCSF finances and the financial plan used by the Chancellor and leadership to help make decisions. The plan review includes key assumptions regarding revenue streams, patient volumes, salary and benefit costs, investments, cash flow and borrowing, and their impacts on our annual financial performance and balance sheet. If you plan to attend, please register here. Plus, see the new campaign "What can you do to help with UCSF's finance recovery?" to find three ways you can help with financial recovery.

HOT JOBS at UCSF
Even with the systemwide hiring freeze, some critical positions still need to be filled. Do you know anyone who might be a good fit? Let them know about the listing!

Administrative Officer, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Req #56890BR http://tiny.ucsf.edu/v5zKpT

Health Professions Education Specialist UCSF Fresno
Req #56868BR http://tiny.ucsf.edu/uh3aPC

Organizational Consultant, Office of Medical Education Administration
Req #56830BR http://tiny.ucsf.edu/y24eiR

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