In order to evaluate the appropriate classification for a technical job description, it should include the following information:
- The "General Summary of Duties" should indicate the employee's autonomy and freedom to act within the unit. In particular, does the employee perform specified tasks or determine tasks based upon general organizational goals? Does the employee play a leadership role in planning and development of goals and policies within the unit?
- The "General Summary of Duties" should also indicate the scope of the position -- that is, how much of campus is directly impacted by the activities of this employee.
- Each "Essential Duty" should describe any special skills required to perform that duty. For example, a database development duty may require expertise in a particular database application.
- Each "Essential Duty" should also describe the resources the employee must manage to perform that duty (e.g., the number of desktop computers, server accounts, etc.) and the complexity of the environment (e.g.,U number of operating systems or protocols that must be supported and integrated).
- If there are multiple technical employees in the unit, all aspects of the job description should reflect any shared duties between employees. For example, if you have two employees supporting 100 desktop computers, that resource should be described as "Supports 100 desktop computers along with the other departmental CNT." The job description of each employee and the org chart should clearly reflect the relationship between the positions on any overlapping duties.