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Rewarding, Enhancing & Managing Academic Staff Performance (REMASP)
The aim of the Rewarding, Enhancing & Managing Academic Staff Performance is to manage your performance, as an academic staff member by setting, biennially, personal performance expectations of you and assessing performance against these expectations.

Your role:

• Participate biennially in the development of a personalised ‘Statement of Expectations’ and evaluation of performance
• Maintain an up to date CV to be used as the core material for future evaluation
• Provide your supervisor with evidence of performance eg. Teaching evaluations and peer reviews
• Take responsibility for your own development to ensure that you meet the performance expectations for your role
• Assist your supervisor in preparing a case for promotion

Academic Promotion
The aim of Academic Promotion is to recognise the quality of performance in our staff, reward merit and achievement and retain those staff whose performance warrants it.

Your supervisor with your assistance will be responsible for initiating and facilitating a case for promotion. Your supervisor will do so when they believe that the quality of performance and the contribution of you, the staff member, at a particular Level warrants recognition through promotion to a higher Level.

Further information on Academic Promotion.

Consultancies / 52 Day Rule
The University recognises the benefits of academic staff undertaking consultancy services in their personal capacity (‘Individual Consultancy’) and other professional activities which are related to the nature of their University employment. Full-time academic staff members may engage in work on Individual Consultancies for up to 52-days per year where they are to receive remuneration for those services from an external organisation. If you have further questions relating to consultancies please contact our College Finance Team on x55910.

Grants and Consultancies
Policies, Procedures and Forms

OSP - (Outside Studies Program) / PDP (Professional Development Program)
The College supports Outside Studies and Professional Development Programs for its academic staff, who propose a program of sufficient academic merit. Enabling you to undergo professional refreshment and development outside the University by providing time away from your usual duties to carry out scholarly work or research, to attend conferences, visit other tertiary institutions and conduct fieldwork. In working at other institutions, while on outside studies and professional development programs you make the achievements of the University more widely known. Programs provide benefit to you and to the University as a whole. Such programs can be a vital component of academic careers.

At The Australian National University there are two types of study leave available to you as an academic staff member. Members of academic staff who hold standard (continuing) appointments may apply for an Outside Studies Program (OSP).

Staff members on fixed-term appointments may apply for a Professional Development Program (PDP). Externally funded staff (e.g. those employed under a grant) are eligible to be absent on professional development only if the external source of funding permits or the employing area is prepared to provide funding to support the program.

Other types of leave available to academic staff include Fieldwork, Conference Attendance, Release Exclusively for Research and Release from Teaching (for academic staff in The College).

Further Information
Policies, Procedures and Forms