Faculty Strategic Planning Program
The Faculty Strategic Planning Program (FSPP) has been established to pilot integrated business planning support and capacity building within faculties. The program aims to meet faculty needs for strategic business planning support by (1) providing additional staff with relevant skills for a 12 month period and (2) building capacity and capability within faculties through skill development and improved integration between the Central and faculty administration.
Five faculties are participating in the pilot program and are being supported by two FSPP teams whose members offer a broad spread of commercial and university experience. Each faculty is also contributing staff members to work with the FSPP teams on the agreed programs of activity.
Faculty |
Team Leader |
Analyst/s |
Architecture Building & Planning |
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Engineering |
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Land and Food Resources |
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Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences |
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Science |
The following provides a brief overview of the program of work for each faculty.
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
There are three main areas of work being addressed by the FSPP team. Firstly, the team is providing the faculty with analytical support to assist with the preparation of the 2008-2012 Faculty Business Plan, particularly in relation to workforce and space planning. Secondly, the Faculty funding allocation model will be further developed to distribute revenue received to the seven Schools, including the geographic clusters within the School of Medicine. Thirdly, the team will develop a Capex model for assessing capital work priorities across the Faculty to facilitate decision making and inform business and strategic planning.
Faculty of Science
The focus for the FSPP team and the Faculty of Science is to investigate and recommend options to reduce the faculty’s operating cost base in order to increase the level of funds available for investment in core research and infrastructure priorities. The aim is to maintain or improve services whilst streamlining and simplifying internal business processes and arrangements and enabling a reduction of administrative expenditure across the Faculty.
The team will also provide support to the Faculty in its preparation of its 2008-2012 Business Plan by reviewing financial projections developed by the Faculty.
Faculty of Land and Food Resources
The Faculty has identified two main objectives for the FSPP in 2008. The first is to provide LFR with the analytical support to assist with the preparation of the Faculty’s 2008-2012 Business Plan, particularly in relation to forward load projections and workforce planning. The second is to assist the Faculty in the development of an internal Campus Funding Allocation Model and to determine the income and costs associated with campus activities in order to update the five year projections within the Faculty Business Plan to inform the 2009 budget upload into Themis in October 2008.
Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty has identified two main objectives for the FSPP in 2008. One is to develop a financial model to enable a comparative analysis of the revenue and cost drivers associated with the Faculty’s research, research training, and teaching activities to assist with the future planning of the Faculty’s research and teaching profile. And secondly to develop a high level model to increase the transparency of the revenue and cost drivers embedded in the current University budget allocation process. The model will enable the Faculty to view the relative flow of revenue to the Faculty by major fund sources.
Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning
The Faculty has identified two main objectives for the FSPP in 2008. The first is to conduct high level competitor analysis of the Faculty’s professional postgraduate programs in order to improve the quality of student load forecasts and to inform the Faculty’s decision on future tuition fee setting. The second is to provide the Faculty with analytical support to assist with the preparation of the Faculty’s 2008-2012 Business Plan in time for the submission deadline of 11 April 2008 and an update of the plan by the end of October 2008.