HR Community of Practice project — Career Pathways

The project aims to develop clarity around career paths for staff in professional services across UCL aligned with the core behaviours framework. The objective is to encourage high performance and develop future leaders, helping to retain key staff.

Project leaders

Jennifer Brown HR Career Pathways lead and Departmental Administrator, UCL Library Services I have worked within a number of sectors, which have included Local Government, Higher Education, Further Education, the NHS and Housing over the last 17 years. I current lead the HR department within Library Services. Specialist areas of HR: Policy, Learning and Development, Resourcing, Reward, Organisational Development, Employee Relation and Management Information.

Georgia Payne HR Career Pathways lead and HR Services Advisor, UCL HR This is my first role in HR, I started as a HR Services Administrator within HR Services. I particularly enjoy the fast pace nature of my role. I have completed my CIPD and look forward to developing my career within HR. Specialist areas of HR: HR Service Delivery.

Project members

Zara Chaudhy, Therasa Smith.

Outline of project

Milestone	Completed by
Research conducted – external and internal	24 May 2018
Benchmarking exercise	31 May 2018
Initial draft of career pathways document	31 June 2018
Present proposal at the HR conference	6 August 2018

Measures of Success

Success measure	Method assessment
Staff retention number increases	Analysis of statistical information
Reduction in staff turnover rates	Analysis of statistical information
Number of internal promotions and secondments increased	Analysis of statistical information and feedback from relevant members of staff
A career framework that is used and valued by the HR community	Feedback from those within the HR community