Job evaluation and grading

The grade for jobs on the universities pay and grading structures is determined by job evaluation. Job evaluation and grading review is the ongoing process of evaluating new roles and reviewing existing ones to ensure that pay and grading is appropriate to the duties and responsibilities of jobs.

Requests for a job grading review will be based on the business needs of the department and will be carried out for the following reasons:

• Restructuring of roles and organisational change.
• Grading of new roles and existing vacant roles.
• Change to grade review - significant permanent change to the duties and responsibilities of an existing role.

The analysis of the duties and responsibilities of a role is carried out by trained analysts using the HERA scheme. HERA was specifically designed to support the evaluation of roles found in higher education and is the scheme most commonly used by universities and colleges to analyse and evaluate roles.

Please note:
The university does not share the individual point score for roles. This is to comply with guidance on sharing commercially sensitive information which is subject to copyright by HERA providers ECC.

The Reward and Recognition Team co-ordinate the evaluation of roles within the University. If you have any queries with regards to job evaluation please contact Ann Reade.