Aim of EJRA
The EJRA is considered to provide a proportionate means of:
- safeguarding the high standards of the University in teaching, research and professional services;
- promoting inter-generational fairness and maintaining opportunities for career progression for those at particular stages of a career, given the importance of having available opportunities for progression across the generations, in order, in particular, to refresh the academic, research and other professional workforce and to enable them to maintain the University’s position on the international stage;
- facilitating succession planning by maintaining predictable retirement dates, especially in relation to the collegiate University's joint appointment system, given the very long lead times for making academic and other senior professional appointments particularly in a university of Oxford's international standing;
- promoting equality and diversity, noting that recent recruits are more diverse than the composition of the existing workforce, especially amongst the older age groups of the existing workforce and those who have recently retired;
- facilitating flexibility through turnover in the academic-related workforce, especially at a time of headcount restraint, to respond to the changing business needs of the University, whether in administration, IT, the libraries, or other professional areas;
- minimising the impact on staff morale by using a predictable retirement date to manage the expected cuts in public funding by retiring staff at the EJRA; and
- in the context of the distinctive collegial processes through which the University is governed, avoiding invidious performance management and redundancy procedures to consider the termination of employment at the end of a long career, where the performance of the individual and/or the academic or other professional needs of the University have changed.
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