Title: Scientist/Engineer Skills Matrix
Author: C. Callaghan
Last saved by: Lindsey Plessinger
Company: Jefferson Lab

Promotion Skills Matrix Form

Senior Staff Administrator

Name | Current Classification | Proposed Classification

Complete this form with relevant career information and current responsibilities/scope along with relevant examples of how each area of the Skills Matrix for the proposed classification is being met.  Criteria from the appropriate Skills Matrix is listed in the below table – complete each box with explanation and examples of how the employee is satisfying this criteria.

Education and Relevant Experience:  
•	Bachelor’s plus 15 years’ experience or any equivalent combination.

Scope/Impact:  
•	Provides strategic direction to administrative programs that have Lab-wide impact and assures that they support long-term objectives.  Ultimate responsibility for developing new policy.    Errors may result in critical legal liability and/or financial losses, and have a significant impact on the external credibility of Lab.

Latitude:  
•	The supervisor provides general direction in terms of the mission of the lab.  Incumbent independently formulates direction that has significant impact on the success of the organization.

Complexity:  
•	The work consists of broad functions and processes of the professional area and the integration of the programs within the lab.  Decisions regarding what needs to be done include largely undefined issues and elements requiring extensive probing and analysis to determine the nature and scope of the problems and range of solutions.   Incumbent establishes creative solutions for unyielding problems.

Communication:  
•	Negotiate broad, high impact issues for the lab.  Obtain agreement/consensus on the most controversial issues.  Typically, external contacts include high-level officials in organizations vital to the mission of the lab (SURA, DOE, Congress, and State of Virginia).

Management Responsibilities:  
•	Manages a large department with multiple functions that have broad lab-wide impact.  Sets goals and objectives for the department assuring alignment with lab goals.  Oversees the development of projects and programs to support lab’s mission.  Overall budgetary responsibility for department.

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