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RTE promotion arrangements

Council recently approved some significant changes to our arrangements for RTE promotion. Many colleagues will have been involved in the consultation exercises and focus groups that took place to help develop the new arrangements – thank you for your contributions.

Some of the changes include:

  • Explicit career pathways (Research and Innovation, Education and Student Experience and Citizen and Leadership) with detailed criteria for each pathway.
  • Formal processes set out for School level applications to ensure consistency of experience across Schools.
  • Revisions to the submission arrangements to support candidates with their applications.
  • Removal of references being sought for Reader applications.
  • Improved information and support for people applying for promotion, including briefing sessions and a range of materials in different formats. 
  • A change to the promotion timetable so that promotion rounds are six months apart (currently they fall in January and September).

Work is underway to implement these changes and further information will be available in the coming months. A decision has been made that going forward, promotion rounds will be held in June and December. Therefore, the next opportunity to apply for promotion will be in December 2023.  For this round only, colleagues will be able to choose whether to apply for promotion using the existing processes and criteria or the new ones. Existing arrangements can be viewed on our website. The detail of the new criteria and process will be available online by the end of September 2023. Deans (or their delegates) will deliver local briefings for RTE staff over the coming months.

These changes are important and have been developed to facilitate a more diverse and inclusive environment for our academic colleagues as part of our broader work on becoming a more diverse and inclusive university.

A separate piece of work has been initiated recently which is developing merit-based progression arrangements for the Specialist and Supporting job family (SSA). Further information on this, including the timescales will be shared shortly. 

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