1) Purpose

The heidi Stakeholder Group exists to:

• advise the HESA Board on the current performance and on-going developments of the heidi service
• identify and prioritise areas for the on-going development of heidi
• represent the heidi user community and offer advice and feedback to HESA to ensure that the service continues to meet requirements and aspirations of users

2) Responsibilities

The heidi Stakeholder Group will:

• Monitor the ongoing performance levels in the delivery of the heidi service (including user support) by HESA;
• Provide strategic direction and guidance with regard to the delivery, development and review of heidi;
• Advise upon, prioritise and review all plans for development;
• Provide user advice and input to HESA with regard to detailed operation, maintenance and development issues;
• Provide an annual report to the HESA Board on the operation and development of the heidi service;
• Champion the wider use of heidi throughout the HE sector;
• Consider the access policy for heidi and make recommendations to the HESA Board

3) Membership

• Membership has been drawn from HESA subscribing institutions to ensure that there is a mixture of hands-on users and those with a more strategic level of responsibility and insight with a range of representation across functional areas and geographically. Membership will include representation from HESA.
• 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.
• As a group reporting to the HESA Board, HESA will nominate the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Group from the non-HESA members. The Chair and Deputy Chair will serve for a period of three years.
• HE institutional representatives will normally serve for a period of four years. HE institutional representatives may be re-appointed once, after which two-year period must elapse before he/she is eligible for further appointment.
• Exceptionally, in order to ensure an appropriate on-going balance between membership turn-over and continuity, four members will be invited to step down after two years to be replaced by new members.

The current membership list is as follows:

• Christine Couper, Director of Planning, The University of Greenwich(Chair)
• Giles Carden, Director of Planning, University of Warwick
• Prashant Desai, Planning Officer, De Montfort University
• Emma Forster, Head of Strategic Planning, University of Aberdeen
• Alison Hartrey, Head of Planning, The School of Oriental and African Studies
• Sue Holmes, Director of Estates, Leeds Metropolitan University
• Rob Wyn Jones, HR Management Information & Systems Support, Cardiff University
• Paul Marshall, Head of Employee Relations, University of Hull
• Andrew McConnell, Director of Finance, University of Huddersfield (HESA Board member)
• Kyla Morgan, Management Information Officer, University of Plymouth
• Nathalie Mortimer, Head of UK Student Recruitment & Acting Deputy Director of Marketing, University of Nottingham
• Stephanie Neave, Equality Challenge Unit
• Amanda Watson, Head of Strategic Planning and Student Administration, University of Sunderland
• Laura Watson, Statistical Analysis & Benchmarking manager, St Andrews University
• Mike Wilson, Planning Officer, Glyndwr University

HESA staff will attend the Stakeholder Group meetings as necessary.

4) Frequency

The heidi Stakeholder Group will meet twice each year at the HESA offices in Cheltenham, and on an ad-hoc basis if the needed. Expenses for meeting attendance will be paid by HESA.

5) Reporting lines

The heidi Stakeholder Group reports direct to the HESA Board through the HESA Chief Executive.