The People and Culture Committee:

• Helps develop and deliver the College Strategy by considering appropriate organisational design, structure, and culture.
• Provides constructive challenge to ensure that employee policies, procedures and systems meet the needs of the institution now and over the next 20 years.
• Identifies and responds to international, local, external, and internal drivers as well as business needs that could impact the university’s success.
• With support from the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Group, develops and oversees a stretching and impactful set of priorities and programmes for an ambitious EDI agenda.
• With support from the Imperial Together Action Group, sponsors and champions activity which will continue to improve the culture at Imperial, enabling it to become not only a world leader in teaching, research, and impact, but also a place where the best minds choose to work and study.
• Anticipates and defines changes in the external and internal people environment; considers change management activity required to achieve successful transitions and implementations.
• Listens and learns from ongoing feedback from the College community to ensure views, ideas and examples of good practice are reflected and acted upon.
• Provides leadership, direction, and challenge on the delivery of the ambitious People Strategy, to deliver consistently strong people management which creates the conditions for competitive advantage.
• With support from the University Research and Enterprise Board, ensures that research culture remains a key consideration and priority.

The Committee considers all the areas covered by the three pillars of the People Strategy, (Finding and Developing Diverse Talent; Supporting and Inclusive Leadership; Building a Resilient Workforce) in addition to others which help enable the successful development and delivery of the new College Strategy:

• Organisation design
• Resourcing, talent, and succession planning
• Learning and organisational development 
• Performance management 
• Reward and recognition 
• Employee relations 
• Culture
• Employee engagement and experience
• Internal people communications