Core plans
The six strategic aims will be delivered through a series of integrated core institutional plans that will guide the University’s operations in the following areas:
The development of the plans will be phased. All core plans are expected to be completed by November 2023.
An indicative timeframe of the development of all the core plans is as follows:
|
Core Plan |
Development starts |
Expected completion |
|---|---|---|
|
January 2022 |
June 2022 (Completed) |
|
|
Education and Student Experience |
April 2022 |
March 2023 |
|
Sporting Excellence and Opportunity |
October 2022 |
March 2023 |
|
Partnerships |
October 2022 |
June 2023 |
|
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion |
January 2023 |
June 2023 |
|
Research and Innovation |
January 2023 |
November 2023 |
Each plan will have a content lead, who will be responsible for overseeing the plan’s development, working in partnership with the University’s senior leaders and other key stakeholders within and, where appropriate, outside of the University.
Each core plan will be approved by the University Leadership Group, who will also review progress against each of the plans. A report on each plan will be presented to Council annually.
Enabling projects
The core plans will be supported by a series of six Enabling Projects.
The projects consider and address the organisational changes that need to be made to make progress with our strategic aims. The six projects are interrelated and together seek to develop our processes, our digital capabilities, our profile, our approach to compliance and our ways of working.
Each project will have a Sponsor, drawn from the University’s senior management teams, and a Project Director, who together will be responsible for leading the development of the project, supported by a Project Manager and the Organisational Development and Change teams.
The development of the projects will be phased. Project Enable was the first to be launched, in February, and early-stage work has begun on Project Compliance. The scope of the other Projects is currently being drawn up.
Project Enable
Sponsor: Prof. Nick Jennings
Director: Richard Taylor
Manager: Dr Jenna Townend
Project Enable explores how to create capacity and thinking space for staff to enable the advancement of our strategic priorities, and other value-add activities, by identifying what we can do differently or stop doing and by addressing both processes and culture.
Project Expectations
Sponsor: Prof. Nick Jennings
Director: Ffyona Baker
Manager: Sandra Hill
Project Expectations seeks to make clear the new expectations required of leaders and colleagues in the context of the new Strategic Plan, aligning supporting systems, processes and culture. It will look to make the intangible, tangible by exploring what Loughborough needs from its colleagues, how their performance will be measured and how they can expect to be developed, recognised and valued for their contribution.
Project Workspace
Sponsors: Richard Taylor and Professor Chris Linton
Directors: Ffyona Baker and Graham Howard
Manager: Meg Stafford
Project Workplace drives the transformation of our workplaces – as they relate to culture and physical space – to become engaging, modern offices suited to post-pandemic ways of working, where staff can thrive.