Community Dashboards Strategic Advisory Group: Terms of Reference
Purpose
The Community Dashboards Strategic Advisory Group exists to:
- Provide strategic direction and guidance to the Analytics Labs, Community Dashboards and Heidi Plus services.
Responsibilities
The Community Dashboards Strategic Advisory Group will:
- Consider and prioritise opportunities and recommendations made by the Community Dashboards Experts Group in relation to topics explored by future Analytics Labs Teams.
- Consider and prioritise recommendations made by the Community Dashboards Experts Group in relation to additions, updates and changes to the Community Dashboards portfolio within Heidi Plus.
- Nominate staffing for future Analytics Labs teams.
- Monitor the ongoing performance levels in the delivery of the Heidi Plus service (including user support).
- Provide strategic direction and guidance with regard to the delivery and development of Analytics Labs, Community Dashboards and Heidi Plus.
- Attend and contribute to the Community Dashboards Experts Group.
- Where relevant, represent the interests of particular sub communities of users.
- Champion the wider use of Analytics Labs, Community Dashboards, and Heidi Plus throughout the HE sector.
Membership
Membership is chosen to provide a broad representation of different users' communities within the HE sector, with UK-wide coverage
- Membership has been drawn from HESA subscribing providers and sector organisations to ensure that there is a strategic level of responsibility and insight with a range of representation across functional areas and geographically. Membership will include representation from HESA and Jisc
- Formally membership will be offered to individuals not the organisations of which they are employees. If a member opts to leave the group before the duration of their tenure then that place will not necessarily be allocated to another representative of that organisation. However, membership is chosen to provide a broad representation of different users' communities within the HE sector, with UK-wide coverage. Replacement members will therefore be selected with a view to maintaining that representation.
- A Chair of the Group will be nominated from the non-HESA and non-Jisc members. The Chair will serve for a period of one year
- HE provider and other sector organisation representatives will normally serve for a period of one year. HE provider and other sector organisation representatives may be re-appointed once, after which a two-year period must elapse before they are eligible for further appointment
- HESA and Jisc staff will attend the Community Dashboards Strategic Advisory Group meetings as necessary.
Frequency
The Community Dashboards Strategic Advisory Group will meet twice each year face to face and on an ad-hoc basis virtually as needed.
Reporting lines
The Community Dashboards Strategic Advisory Group reports directly to the HESA and Jisc Community Dashboard Management Group.