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href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/academic-senior-research-and-senior-teaching-appointments/college-consuls/">College Consuls</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/academic-senior-research-and-senior-teaching-appointments/chairs-professors-readers-researchers/">Appointment of Senior Academics, Senior Research and Senior Teaching staff</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/academic-senior-research-and-senior-teaching-appointments/chairs-professors-readers-researchers/further-particulars-/">Further Particulars </a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/honorary-and-visiting-associations/">Honorary and visiting associations</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/professional-teaching-and-research-staff-appointments/">Professional, teaching and research staff appointments</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/">Temporary worker appointments</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/existing-casual-workers/">Existing casual workers</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/existing-casual-workers/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/prospective-casual-workers/">Prospective casual workers</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/">Hiring Departments</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/hiring-casual-workers/">Hiring casual workers</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/hiring-casual-workers/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/hiring-departments/hiring-casual-workers/app-user-guides/">App user guides</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/temporary-worker-appointments/graduate-teaching-assistants/">Graduate Teaching Assistants</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/starting-salary-guidance-/">Starting salary guidance </a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/recruitment/new-job-site-faq/">FAQs for new job site platform</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/">Promotions</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/academic-promotions/">Academic Promotions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/learning-promotions/">Learning Promotions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/research-staff-promotion-and-progression-review/">Research Promotions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/promotions/teaching-promotions/">Teaching Promotions</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/">Contract types and contract changes</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/types/">Contract type guidance</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/role-guidance/" class="">Contract change form guidance</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/approvers/" class="">Trusted Requesters and Approvers for contract changes</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/contracts/contract-changes/">Contract changes for current staff</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/">Job families and grades</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/academic/">Academic</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/academic-and-research/">Research</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/learning-and-teaching/">Learning and Teaching</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/operational/">Operational services</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/professional/">Professional services</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/technical/">Technical services</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/">Working Group to review the Learning and Teaching and Research Terms and Conditions and the use of Fixed Term Contracts</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/phase-i/">Phase I</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/phase-ii/">Phase II</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/teaching-and-research-working-group/phase-iii/">Phase III</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/" class="">Working Group to review Academic Titles and Progression at Imperial</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/terms-of-reference/" class="">Terms of Reference</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/working-group-members/" class="">Working Group Members</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/meeting-summaries/" class="">Meeting Summaries</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/job-families-and-grades/working-group-to-review-academic-titles-and-progression-at-imperial/faqs/" class="">FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/recruitment-and-promotions/secondments-/">Secondments </a></li> </ul> </li><li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/">Pay and pensions</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/">Principles of pay</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/">2024 Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability Pay Gap Reports</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/gender-ethnicity-and-disability-quartiles/">Gender, ethnicity and disability quartiles</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/gender-ethnicity-and-disability-mean-and-median-pay-gaps/">Gender, ethnicity and disability mean and median pay gaps</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/gender-pay-gap-in-bonuses/">Gender pay gap in bonuses</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/ethnicity-pay-gap-in-bonuses/">Ethnicity pay gap in bonuses</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/disability-pay-gap-bonuses/">Disability pay gap in bonuses</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/previous-gender-and-ethnicity-data/">Comparison of previous gender and ethnicity pay gap data</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/previous-gender-and-ethnicity-data/previous-gender-data/">Comparison of 2017-2024 gender data</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/previous-gender-and-ethnicity-data/previous-ethnicity-data/">Comparison of 2018-2024 ethnicity data</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/principles-of-pay-and-recognition/gender-and-ethnicity-pay-gap/initiatives-and-projects/">Initiatives and projects</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/">Pensions</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensions-basics/">Pensions basics</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/">SAUL pension scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-care/">SAUL Care</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-start/">SAUL Start</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-data-breach/">SAUL data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/saul/saul-drop-ins-2024/">SAUL Drop-ins 2024</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/">USS pension scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/">USS valuations</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/">What is a valuation?</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/glossary-of-parties-involves/">Glossary of terms including the parties involved</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/timeline/">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/history/">How did we get here?</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/frequently-asked-questions/">Frequently asked questions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-is-a-valuation/external-resources/">External resources which may help you understand your pension </a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/how-might-this-affect-me/">How might this affect me?</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/">What the College is doing</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-4"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/uss-staff-working-group/">USS Staff Working Group</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/imperial/">Our involvement with previous consultations and valuations</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/joint-statement/">Joint statement from Imperial College London and the Imperial College UCU branch</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/changes/what-the-college-is-doing/joint-letter/">Joint letter from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and Imperial College London</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/uss-prudential-facility/">USS Prudential Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/capita-cyber-incident/">Capita Cyber Incident</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/uss/uss-drop-ins-2024/">USS Drop-ins 2024</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/nhsps/">NHS pension scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/nhsps/nhs-scheme-pays/">NHS 19/20 scheme pays</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/the-federated-pension-scheme/">The Federated Pension Scheme</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/the-federated-pension-scheme/statement-of-investment-principles/">Statement of Investment Principles – May 2024</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-3"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/the-federated-pension-scheme/statement-of-investment-principles/implementation-2324/">Implementation 23/24</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/financial-advice/">Financial advice</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/financial-planning/">Financial planning</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/tax-relief-on-pension-contributions/">Tax relief on pension contributions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/approaching-retirement/">Approaching retirement</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/retirement-options/">Retirement options</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/retirement-options/faqs/">FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensions-auto-enrolment/">Pensions auto-enrolment</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensions-auto-enrolment/2019-re-enrolment/">2022 Re-Enrolment</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/">PensionSMART</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/new-starters-information/">New starters information</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/terminology-explained/">Terminology explained</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pensionsmart/pensionsmart-faqs/">PensionSMART FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pension-options-for-overseas-staff/">Pension options for overseas staff</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pensions/pension-faqs/">Pension FAQs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/">Pay initiatives</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/annual-pay-award/">Annual pay award</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/annual-pay-award/jtus-pay-claim-202425/">JTUs pay claim 2024/25</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/annual-pay-award/imperials-full-and-final-pay-offer-202425/">Imperial's full and final pay offer 2024/25</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/pay-review/">Pay review</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-2"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/pay-initiatives/pay-review/guidance-for-managers/">Guidance for managers</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/payroll-deadlines/">Payroll deadlines</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/salaries/">Salaries</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/salaries/engaging-agency-workers--guidance-for-managers/">Engaging agency workers- Guidance for managers</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/terms-and-conditions/">Terms and conditions</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/attraction-and-retention-at-imperial/">Attraction and retention at Imperial</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/" class="">Benchmarking</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/professional-technical-operational-and-learning-benchmarks/" class="">Professional, technical, operational and learning benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/research-job-family-benchmarks/" class="">Research job family benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/teaching-fellows-benchmarks/" class="">Teaching Fellows benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/national-academic-job-family-benchmarks/" class="">National Academic job family benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/american-benchmarks/" class="">American benchmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/benchmarking/international-academic-job-family-benchmarks/" class="">International Academic Job Family Benchmarks</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/">Industrial action</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/industrial-action-students/">Industrial action: guidance for students</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/industrial-action-staff/">Industrial action: guidance for staff</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/pay-and-pensions/industrial-action/industrial-action-undergraduate-marking-and-assessment/">Industrial action: undergraduate marking and assessment</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li><li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/">Leave and absence</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-0"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/annual-leave/">Annual leave</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/annual-leave/additional-leave/">Purchasing additional annual leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/annual-leave/calculations/">Calculations for annual leave</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/sickness-absence/">Sickness absence</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/university-closure-days/">University closure days</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/carers-leave/">Carers leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/">Family leave</a> <ul class="multilevel-linkul-1"> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/adoption/">Adoption leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/fertility-treatment/">Leave for fertility treatment</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/maternity/">Maternity leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/paternity-maternity-support-leave/">Paternity and maternity support leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/shared-parental/">Shared parental leave</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/surrogacy/">Surrogacy</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/keep-in-touch/">Keeping in touch days</a></li> <li><a href="/admin-services/human-resources/leave/family-leave/new-parents/">Parents and carers 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