Welcome to the University of Maine (UMaine) and its regional campus, the University of Maine at Machias (UMM). We are pleased that you have chosen to join our university communities to share your talent, expertise, vision and passion. Our wonderful faculty and staff members are critical to the mission of our student-centered universities, and your leadership will contribute to that success.

At UMaine, you are joining Maine’s land, sea, and space grant university that has a statewide mission to produce new knowledge to serve Maine, the nation and the world. UMaine is the state’s only public research university, which informs the student experience and community engagement, and drives the nationally/internationally recognized research, scholarship and creative achievement of world-class faculty.

At UMM, you are joining a close-knit liberal arts community with deep roots in Down East Maine, a region that provides a unique learning and living environment that informs the university’s scientific, cultural, economic and social initiatives.

Our institutional Strategic Vision and Values focus on fostering learner success, creating and innovating for Maine and beyond, and growing and advancing partnerships. As a leader in the University of Maine System’s Research and Development Plan, UMaine is focused on making Maine the best state in the nation in which to live, work and learn by 2030; establishing an innovation-driven Maine economy for the 21st century; and preparing Maine’s knowledge-and-innovation workforce.

We look forward to the difference you will make and your every success in this chapter of your career.

We are proud to work with the UMaine and Machias community to support partnership, collegiality, and collaboration. The Office of Human Resources will continue to ensure that the University is a compelling place to work, learn and live and is one of the most distinctive universities in the country for student achievement and community engagement.

OHR’s mission is to recruit, train, inspire, develop, engage, and retain employees committed to UMaine and its student-centered mission.  By partnering with all departments on campus via our partner model, we help employees at all levels of the organization align individual and departmental goals with institutional goals.

It is an exciting time to be part of the UMaine and UMaine Machias community and we look forward to working with you to realize your individual and departmental goals and those of the institution.  Thank you for your passion for and commitment —Go Blue!