The Vice-Chancellor's Performance Fund aims to acknowledge and reward the outstanding achievement of academic and professional staff by providing performance awards. The Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund enables staff who have made a superior contribution in a particular area of activity to be recognised.
Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund awards are offered annually, with funds provided by the Vice-Chancellor and deployed to faculties and divisions based on the number of full-time equivalent staff employed.
Unless otherwise approved by the Vice-Chancellor, at least 50% of the Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund will be directed to the recognition of outstanding frontline teaching and learning, or the direct support thereof.
Criteria and Eligibility
Vice-Chancellor's Performance Fund awards recognise outstanding achievement by staff over a specified review period or over the past twelve months.
All ongoing and fixed-term academic and professional staff, sessional academic staff, and casual professional staff of the University are eligible to receive a performance award. Teams are also eligible to be nominated for a Performance Fund award.
The Vice-Chancellor's Performance Fund award is not conditional on Performance Planning and Review (PPR) outcomes (see B/9). However the staff member or team must have made a significant and superior contribution or innovation in a specific area of activity.
Senior staff are not eligible to receive a Vice-Chancellor's Performance Fund award.
Staff are ineligible to be considered for a Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Award if they were a recipient of a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in the same year.
Timeline
There will be one award round each year, with calls for nominations made in early September, following the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence Ceremony.
2011 Timeline
| Mid September | Call for nominations |
| Early October | Nominations close at faculty/division/institute |
| Late October | Recipients finalised |
| November/December | Areas host acknowledgement ceremonies for recipients |
Process
The performance awards will be reviewed periodically by the Vice-Chancellor to ensure the maintenance of value and relativity with the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence.
Performance Awards are administered at the Faculty/Division/Institute level. Nominations for awards will be made to a locally convened advisory committee which will make recommendations to the Executive Dean/Head of Division/Executive Director of an Institute.
Faculties and divisions determine the specific criteria for their awards and are to make these available to all staff.
For information on the administration of the Vice-Chancellor's Performance Awards, including criteria, nomination form and local process, please consult your local area contact:
| Faculty/Division |
Contact | Telephone/email |
| Built Environment & Engineering | Kerrie Bianchi | x89286 |
| Business | Eve Cuskelly | x81750 |
| Creative Industries | Kaye Petherick | x88107 |
| Education | Donna White | x83679 |
| Health | Louise Salter |
x85672 |
| Law | Nicole Barclay | x82840 |
| Science & Technology | Cass Russell | x82156 |
| Administrative Services | Amara Nazim | x84014 |
| Chancellery | Lawrence Stedman | x82655 |
| Finance & Resource Planning | Shannon Fitzsimons | x85388 |
| International & Development | Mandy McDonald | x85010 |
| Research & Commercialisation | Famena Khaya | x89062 |
| Technology, Information & Learning Support | Angela Smyth | x81637 |
Reward
The Vice-Chancellor determines the award amounts annually, and in 2011 Individual recipients will be awarded $5,000 while Team award recipients will receive $2,000 per team member.
Award money may be paid as a one-off non-superannuable salary payment or may be used at the recipient's discretion for work-related purposes (eg for equipment purchases or to offset costs of participation in conferences, seminars and training courses). Relevant taxation will apply to any salary payment.
Any equipment purchased by the University with award monies remains the property of the University, subject to University policy. Any expenditure of award monies (other than money paid as salary) should conform with the University's policy on appropriate expenditure of University funds (see G/5.1 and the Financial Management Practice and Procedures Manual ).Any award recipient who is no longer employed by the University at the time of the announcement of the awards will be issued an Award Certificate but will not be entitled to award money.
Contact
If you require any further information please contact the HR Project Officer by email (hrprojectofficer@qut.edu.au) or on extension x84025.