The Talent Development Platform: Putting People First in Social Change Organizations

Chapter 5Mapping Competencies and Proficiency Levels to Job Descriptions

In the last chapter, we provided a list of ten core social change competencies and encouraged you to create sub-competencies personalized to your organization, departments, and positions. We also showed you how to create job descriptions for each staff and volunteer position. Now we'll show you how to map the social change competencies to job descriptions and how to realign job descriptions based on the proficiency mapping.

The Importance of Accurate Job Descriptions

We cannot express enough the importance of keeping accurate and up-to-date job descriptions. We recognize you have limited time and many of you are overworked, but you will lose many employees and volunteers ...