Recommended ways to define key responsibilities or main tasks are:
• Produce a list of 20-30 main tasks/activities.
• Think about:
o Processes, planning, monitoring, reporting, resources, information, inputs and outputs involved.
o Percentage of time spent on the tasks/activities
o Making sure the lists are in relation to outputs rather than describing the actual job
o Being clear about the accountability for results and resources
• Refine this list by grouping them together, find themes. Try and keep the themes to a minimum of 9/10 activities to avoid the job description being over complex. Consider putting these under headings/clusters
• Rank the list in order of importance
• Sense check that everything in the list is genuinely important and achievable
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