Career Pathways Project
To create a growth-based culture at the University of Glasgow, the career pathways project sets out to design, create and launch career and progression pathways for professional services job families, underpinned by the Glasgow Professional Behavioural Framework.
This project is part of our wider People and Organisational Development Strategy and has been initiated in response to feedback from UofG colleagues. In studying feedback from colleague engagement surveys we recognised that professional services colleagues feel they do not have similar opportunities for career growth at the university as our academic colleagues do.
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Project Aims
Our aim is to provide a supportive environment where colleagues can drive their development and career, with full support and guidance from their line managers within an enabling landscape at the University of Glasgow.
Our aim is that career pathways will provide greater flexibility and opportunity to move between teams and roles and help colleagues to find out how they might develop their career at the university.
Who are the career pathways for?
We are developing career pathways specifically tailored to the unique needs and requirements of our professional services colleagues within different job families. This includes those within the “Management, Professional and Administrative”, “Technical & Specialist” and “Operational” job families. Each pathway will be designed to provide targeted development opportunities and support that aligns with the skills and behaviours required for success in each respective job family.
By providing a roadmap for career progression, we can help our professional services colleagues acquire the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their current roles and prepare them for future opportunities within the university.
How will career pathways be developed?
To ensure the success of the project we’ve appointed a dedicated project board, as well as a project action group who are working in partnership with our campus trade unions.
Building upon the feedback from colleagues, the project action group have been working together for some time conducting extensive research to understand career pathways fully. They are now in the process of developing what those pathways could look like and are creating supporting resources to provide targeted development opportunities and support that aligns with the skills and behaviours required for success within different job families.
The project group are also exploring ways in which technology can support colleagues in defining their career pathway and navigating the layers of support, guidance and tools that would be available.
The group aims to deliver a formal recommendation in the Summer period.