People and Culture Committee

The purpose of the People and Culture Committee is to provide strategic oversight and scrutiny to CIMSPA’s people-related considerations, ensuring that the organisation’s processes, behaviours and culture clearly align to its values.

The Committee’s role

The People and Culture Committee’s role is to:

  • Promote processes, behaviours and culture which exemplify CIMSPA’s values and the Nolan Principles (above).
  • Monitor the effectiveness of CIMSPA’s people-related policies and procedures, ensuring that staff and volunteers are engaged, valued and supported to develop, and that their wellbeing is prioritised
  • Maintain oversight of the Board’s effectiveness and dynamics, ensuring these are regularly reviewed with actions agreed and implemented and that decisions are made ethically and transparently
  • Oversee the recruitment of high-performing individuals to the Board, and to the CEO role, whilst ensuring appropriate succession plans are in place for these and other key roles.
  • Ensure that a formal and transparent process is in place for determining trustee and CEO remuneration, and for developing policy on executive remuneration
  • Ensure that CIMSPA has clearly-articulated EDI ambitions and a realistic plan to achieve, these which is being delivered with demonstrable impact
  • Provide information and recommendations on the above to the Board to allow the Board to fulfil its responsibilities.

People and Culture Committee Terms of Reference

31/08/2026