Benefits
What We Do
We provide faculty and staff with support on the full scope of university-sponsored health, welfare, and retirement benefit plans by:
- Maintaining an effective benefits communication program
- Providing one-on-one counseling and assistance over the phone, in person, and via e-mail
- Offering new employee benefit orientations to inform eligible faculty and staff about the University’s benefit plans in a small-classroom setting
- Training departmental representatives and supervisory personnel who assist employees in their respective departments with benefits-related issues and/or materials
Services and Programs
- Questions about benefits plan options
- Policy guidance
- Benefits orientation
- Benefits counseling (including layoff and continuation of benefits after separation)
- Retirement counseling
- Retirement disability counseling
- UCPath escalations
- Prospective applicant benefits consultation
- Retirement counseling workshops
Contact Us
Email: benefits@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2816
Vice Chancellor Area Assignments
Elaine Garrido, (858) 822-6593
- Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs
- Colleges
- Extension
- Graduate Division
- Libraries
- Office of the EVC
- School of Arts & Humanities
- School of Global Policy & Strategy
- School of Social Sciences
- The Preuss School
- Vice Chancellor - Marine Sciences
Blanca Reyes, (858) 534-5244
- Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs
- Academic Senate
- School of Biological Sciences
- Jacobs School of Engineering
- School of Physical Sciences
- Qualcomm Institute
- Rady School of Management
- San Diego Super Computer Center
- Vice Chancellor – Resource Management & Planning
Kaitlyn Kigin, (858) 534-8313
- Office of the Chancellor
- Vice Chancellor – Advancement
- Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer (VC-CFO)
- Vice Chancellor – Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Vice Chancellor – Research Affairs
- Vice Chancellor – Student Affairs
About Us
Mailing Address
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0926
Street Address
Torrey Pines Center South
10280 N. Torrey Pines Road
Suite 230
La Jolla, CA 92037
Our Team
Melissa Williams
Director
(858) 534-6743
Noelle Zouari
Benefits Operations Manager
(858) 822-4514
Elaine Garrido
Senior Benefits Analyst
(858) 822-6593
Kaitlyn Kigin
Senior Benefits Analyst
(858) 534-8313
Ronisha Martin
Health Care Facilitator Program Assistant
(858) 534-9686
Blanca Reyes
Senior Benefits Analyst
(858) 534-5244
Debra Wells
Health Care Facilitator
(858) 822-2197