Roles and Competency Mapping Guidance and Template

The purpose of a Roles and Competency Mapping document is to take a structured approach to identifying and cultivating the essential competencies needed for effective performance across different roles within your organisation.

The document can be also used to identify new job roles, or changes to existing roles, by aligning competencies to the organisation’s objectives to ensure that the organisation has the skills and knowledge required to support overall success.

Our mapping document uses the NIH proficiency scale, which describes an individual’s level of proficiency in a particular competency, with the following levels:

1: Fundamental Awareness (basic knowledge) 
2: Novice (limited experience) 
3: Intermediate (practical application) 
4: Advanced (applied theory) 
5: Expert (recognised authority)

The Roles and Competency Mapping template can be downloaded and completed digitally, if you have a pdf editing tool, and then saved and printed. Alternatively you can download the Word version to complete it, or print it out for completing by hand. 

The Roles and Competency Mapping document is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial Licence, which allows you to copy, modify, and redistribute the document, but requires attribution to the original author and cannot be used for commercial use.

If you have any questions regarding this document please email [email protected]