The Roles and Responsibilities of the Committees

Faculty Committee (FC)

  • Advises the Chair and Secretary (by circulation) in deciding actions to take before the meeting, including nominating referees. 
  • Reviews applications, ensuring there is a complete set of documentation for each applicant. 
  • Considers each application at the meeting, evaluating, banding, and scoring the applicant’s achievements objectively against the relevant evaluative criteria and recording collective decisions against the relevant Assessment Criteria and School/Institution-specific Indicators of Excellence, using the full range of scores in order to indicate the relative strength of each application. 
  • Decides whether each application meets the criteria across the assessment criteria relevant to the applicant’s pathway, in accordance with the Assessment Criteria, confirming its assessment to the SC. 
  • Provides recommendations to the SC, placing applications for each office/post in a ranked list of priority. 
  • Advises the respective Lead HR Business Partner (as Secretary of the relevant SC) that documentation is complete and can be provided to the SC.

School Committee (SC)

  • Reviews the evaluation and scores for each applicant from the FCs, making changes it believes are necessary to ensure that they have been applied consistently between applicants and across FCs. 
  • Records all decisions made against the relevant Assessment Criteria and School/Institution-specific Indicators of Excellence.  
  • Decides which applicants meet the required standard of excellence and should be promoted, producing a rank order of total scores for each office/post. 
  • Agrees a Feedback Statement for each applicant not recommended for promotion, to be provided to the applicant at their feedback meeting with their Head of Institution. 
  • Advises the Secretary of the VCC that documentation is complete and can be provided to the VCC.

Vice-Chancellor's Committee (VCC)

  • Moderates between the School Committees to ensure that a consistent standard has been achieved. The VCC receives the rank order of applicants for each office/post and considers the documentary evidence for applicants, deciding whether any adjustments in evaluation are necessary. 
  • Identifies any particular application(s) where the SC reached a different conclusion from the FC and any cases in which non-standard aspects have caused difficulty.
  • Make recommendations to the General Board concerning applicants that should be promoted for each office/post.  The General Board receives these recommendations, confirms the promotion outcomes and provides a Report to the University recommending the establishment of Professorships (Grades 11 and 12) and Clinical Professorships, for its approval.