Tulane’s five distinctive career bands, with 4–5 levels each, were developed for the learning and growth of staff.
The design includes:
- Mapping pathways for career and professional development.
- Providing a clear understanding of what is essential to advancing one’s skills and competencies.
- Defining universal competencies and factors across career bands:
- Impact: The nature and scope of influence the level has on its area of responsibility.
- Problem Solving: Degree to which the level needs to identify and devise solutions to problems and the level of autonomy to make decisions.
- Communication and Influence: Describes the nature of communication the level is responsible for and the level of influence required.
- Leadership: Responsibility for people's development, including supervision, training, coaching, and performance management.
- Knowledge: Level of expertise required to fulfill level responsibilities as defined by minimum levels of formal education and/or work experience
Career Bands Level Guide
Additional Information
The Career Bands Level Guide provides in-depth information about each career band and its associated levels. Below are brief descriptions for each career band.
- People leaders spend the majority of their time overseeing their area of responsibility and achieving goals through direct and/or indirect reports.
- Individual contributors with responsibility in a professional or technical discipline or specialty.
- Spends the majority of their time overseeing the design, implementation, or delivery of processes, programs, and policies using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education (typically university).
- Individual contributors who provide organizational-related support or service (administrative or clerical).
- Spends the majority of their time in the delivery of support services or activities, typically under supervision.
- Opportunities for progression outside this career band are typically limited without additional education or significant training and experience.
- Individual contributors who focus on technical, scientific, or analytical tasks.
- Jobs typically require advanced skill training, specialized external certification, or a completed technical school education.
- Individual contributors who focus on technical or operational tasks to support ongoing university operations.
- Includes skilled technicians in a hands-on environment that is often highly specialized.
- Jobs typically require advanced skill training, specialized external certification or completed technical school
