Knowledge:

•  the organisation’s annual expenditure on staff and resource and any data against which this can be benchmarked against

• how staff are recruited to the organisation and how this compares to good recruitment and retention practice

• how staff performance management is used throughout the organisation in line with strategic goals and priorities and how this links to the criteria for staff pay progression, objective setting and development planning

• the remuneration system for staff across the organisation 

Skills & Effective Behaviours:

• ensures that the staffing and leadership structures are fit for purpose

• takes full responsibility for maintaining, updating and implementing a robust and considered pay policy 

• feels confident in approving and applying the system for performance management of executive leaders

• identifies and considers the budgetary implication of pay decisions and considers these in the context of the spending plan

• pays due regard to ensuring that leaders and teachers are able to have a satisfactory work life balance 

Knowledge:

•  human resource (HR) education policy and the organisation’s processes in relation to Teacher's pay and conditions  and the role of governance in staffing reviews, restructuring and due diligence 

Skills & Effective Behaviours:

• monitors the outcome of pay decisions, including the extent to which different groups of teachers may progress at different rates and checks processes operate fairly 

Knowledge:

• the process and documentation needed to make decisions related to leadership appraisal 

Skills & Effective Behaviours:

• is confident and prepared in undertaking leadership appraisal Leadership Appraisal 

• is able to explain to the board their proposals on leadership pay awards for approval