Performance review

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Government IT Profession
Organisational IT Skills Assessment using
Government IT Profession frameworks Government
IT Profession e-Government Unit, Cabinet
Office August 2006
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The Value of Skills Assessment

• Organisations use skills assessment to
• Understand what skills are available
• Identify which skills are needed to deliver
  objectives
• Assess the gap between skills available and
  skills needed
• Define options for closing the skills gap
  including recruitment and developing staff

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The Benefits of Skills Assessment

• The benefits of skills assessment include
• Accurate and complete picture of the skills
  available for deployment
• Support for manpower planning
• Clear understanding of the degree of risk to
  delivery through lack of essential skills
• Opportunity to close the gap between skills
  available and needed

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The 4 stages of skills assessment

• Skills assessment can be done either at
  individual or organisational level
• The four possible stages to skills assessment
  are
• 1. Defining organisational need
• 2. Describing job roles
• 3. Self assessment against role description
• 4. Discussion of self assessment

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Defining the skills the organisation requires

• Principles
• The Government IT Profession provides skill and
  competency frameworks to support all stages of
  skills identification, analysis and assessment
• The government IT Competency Framework provides
  organisations with a clear, straightforward
  structure and maps directly to the skills
  framework
• The Skills Framework is based on Skills Framework
  for the Information Age (SFIA) - the UK industry
  standard best practice framework

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Government IT Profession Competency Framework
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Government Core IT Profession Skills Framework
based on SFIA v3
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Defining the skills the organisation requires

• Approach.
• Organisational analysis starts with understanding
  the high level outputs of the organisation and
  how IT contributes to them
• The IT Profession Competency Framework is used to
  identify which broad competency group(s) are
  needed to support and deliver the outputs
• 2. The IT Profession Skills Framework is used to
  identify at the detailed level every skill that
  is needed in each competency group
• 3. The result is a view of the competencies, and
  the skills within each competency, that are
  required to deliver the organisations objectives

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Describing job roles

• Principles
• Use the results of the organisational analysis to
  build specific roles required
• A role may have any number of skills
• deeply technical or specialist roles may require
  small numbers of skill in depth
• management roles will require a greater number of
  skills in breadth and at varying depths

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Skills Record Sheet
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Describing job roles

• Approach.
• Define the outputs required of each role
  (objectives and targets) in sufficient detail to
  identify
• The competency group which applies to the role
• The specialist and technical IT skills that
  apply to the role
• The level of each skill needed to deliver
  defined outputs
• Record the results against the role title (the
  Skills Record Sheet can be used for this)
• The role description, targets and objectives and
  Skills Record Sheet together are the basis for
  the job description and can be used for
  recruitment and for performance management and
  appraisal.

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Describing job roles

• Outputs
• Matching roles against the skill and competency
  framework will clarify
• The purpose of the role,
• Role targets and objectives
• The Competency Group that applies to the role
• The attributes, skills and the level of skills
  needed to deliver 1. 2.
• Together these are the basis for the job
  description and can be used for manpower
  planning, recruitment and for performance
  management and appraisal.

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Where can I find out more?

• The Government IT Profession competency skills
  framework charts and skill descriptions
• www.cio.gov.uk/ITProfession
• Professional Skills for Government Core
  Competencies for IT Professionals
• www.civilservice.gov.uk