The Remuneration and People Committee
The Remuneration and People Committee is directly responsible for setting the remuneration of the President and Vice-Chancellor, and the Senior Leadership Team.
The Committee also approves the base salaries suggested by the Senior Salaries Review Group for Grade 9 academic-related staff and the Faculty Promotions Committee for professorial staff in the top two professorial zones.
When considering base salary increases for senior staff, the Committee takes careful account of the level of salary increases across the University in general, and the financial position of the University including the budget available for such increases.
The Committee gives full and proper consideration to any proposals notified to it to dismiss members of academic and academic-related staff on grounds of redundancy.
For each instance, appropriate information is provided to the Committee to allow it to reach a reasoned assessment of the proposal and to consider alternative strategies for the resolution of the circumstances leading to the proposal. Its recommendations are then passed to the full Board of Governors for approval.
The Committee reports directly to The University of Manchester’s Board of Governors. It is established in accordance with the principles of the Higher Education Code of Governance published by the Committee of University Chairs.
- Ann Barnes (Chair)
- Chair of the Board of Governors (ex-officio)
- Chair of Finance Committee (ex-officio)
- Union Affairs Officer
- Jatin Patel
- Fiona Smyth
- Paul Mativenga
In attendance:
- Executive Director of People and Organisational Development
- Executive Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- President and Vice-Chancellor
- Registrar, Secretary and Chief Operating Officer
- Sara Sawicki (University Solicitor)
- To consider policies and procedures relating to the remuneration of senior staff and recommend approval to the Board of Governors and to oversee their implementation within the University.
- To consider and determine on behalf of the Board of Governors the remuneration arrangements for the President and Vice Chancellor, other members of the University Executive, senior staff as agreed within wholly or jointly owned subsidiaries, and other senior staff as determined by the Committee and the Board of Governors, in line with agreed policies.
- To delegate to an appropriately constituted Senior Salaries Review Group (or Groups) the task of making recommendations on the remuneration of professorial and equivalent senior administrative staff not covered in 2 above and provide oversight of the salary review process.
- To provide assurance to the Board of Governors that the University is adhering to current relevant regulation and guidance.
- To receive and approve reports enabling the Committee to fulfil its role in relation to senior staff remuneration (this includes a report for inclusion in the financial statements on the number of staff earning over £100,000 per annum and a report on the analysis of the annual salary review of Non-Clinical Professors).
- To receive, comment upon and note the succession plan for the University Executive.
- To receive and comment upon (after approval by University Executive), the outcomes of pay gap reviews and audits.
- To recommend to the Board of Governors approval of People strategies (including those related to reward and equality, diversity and inclusion) and risk and performance assessment measures and to monitor the achievement of those risk and performance measures.
- To receive and consider reports from relevant staff and student networks and groups and have oversight of the overall staff experience.
- To consider proposed termination of permanent contracts which had at the outset a known or foreseeably greater risk of possible redundancy due to the finite nature of the project or funding for the post and make recommendations to the Board of Governors.
- To give full and proper consideration and make recommendations to the Board of Governors on: a) any proposals to dismiss members of academic and academic-related colleagues on grounds of redundancy in line with Ordinance XXIII or b) targeted voluntary severance arrangements, subject to the understanding that only necessary approvals are recommended to the Board of Governors. (Information provided in advance of the meeting and the approach to decision making consistent with Ordinance XXIII are set out in Appendix A.).
- To commission independent advice as required to enable the Committee to fulfil its remit.
- 4 November 2024
- 4 February 2026
- 29 April 2026
- 24 June 2026