Centralising job data is critical for effective governance and robust risk management in local government. Without this, there are challenges associated with outdated or inaccurate job information.
RoleMapper understands our challenges and has the ability to fast-track the whole digitisation process, it’s why we appointed them to work with us.
Collecting thousands of different job descriptions, centralising them and then facilitating their review and updating by multiple parties together, has been transformative for the council.
Many Councils are facing a rising tide of pay equity claims, with recent cases highlighting inadequate record keeping and lack of governance as critical issues.
The root causes of these challenges are multifaceted:
These systemic issues collectively contribute to the growing vulnerability of Councils to pay equity claims and underscore the urgent need for improved job management practices.
Digital transformation is the key to increasing efficiency, reducing workloads, and streamlining data-driven insights at Councils, however:
Eliminating unnecessary paper-based services and processes could save over £1 billion by 2025, according to the UK government.
Councils need to urgently look at ways to encourage self-service, both from an end user and employee perspective.
How job descriptions are designed impacts recruitment and inclusion. A key issue in recruitment for Councils is competing with private sector salaries and comparable job attractiveness – having poor job descriptions potentially restricts the candidate pool which will compound this issue. Councils need to put more emphasis on how the overall responsibilities of a role are defined. What the role holder must do - and take ownership for - has a major impact on how attractive the job is for prospective candidates.
Complexity is a real barrier to inclusion:
Current approaches to job description creation in Councils are usually offline, pen & paper exercises and focused in organisational silos. This results in verbose and convoluted job descriptions, perpetuating inequalities, creating potential barriers to inclusion, and deterring high-calibre candidates
AI-powered data processing to rapidly digitise, standardise, and cleanse existing job descriptions.
Centralised intelligent database to efficiently manage, standardise, and govern job descriptions.
AI-powered content writing features fast-track job description creation and ensures consistency, quality, and accuracy.
An inclusive job design foundation ensures JDs are de-biased and designed with inclusion.
Automated workflows and collaboration to automate and streamline job description review and job evaluation processes.
The audit trail feature helps manage and track changes, tracking both user changes within the document and changes to versions over time.
Dashboards and governance features help govern the quality, scope and accuracy of jobs and enable comparison across job descriptions to assess equal work for equal pay.
Audit trails, dashboards and reporting help govern job creation and changes, provide increased visibility of equal pay for equal work, and reduce risk of pay equity claims.
The recruitment module provides the ability to rapidly generate best practice inclusive job adverts to support efficient, inclusive recruitment.
Job Architecture module and AI-powered data processing to automate and fast-track a transition to job families.
Know your job profiles from your job descriptions.
A job profile provides a broad, generic overview of a role for organisational planning and reward strategies, while a job description offers a more tailored outline of a role for hiring, performance management, and day-to-day guidance for employees.
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