The Department of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has a requirement to provide specialized job evaluation services on an as when required basis. These services include: training, third party job evaluation services, and professional advice and support in modernizing the current processes and tools such as renewing the Agency’s internal benchmarks. The services must be provided by a professional, knowledgeable and accredited resource that is trained in the modified guide charts in use at the Agency and is familiar with the Agency’s internal roles, benchmarks and customized executive and non-executive grade structures.
Currently, most classification work is conducted by internal Agency resources. However, from time to time, the Agency will use the services of an external third party to classify or provide opinions regarding the classifications of positions on an as needed basis to augment the capacity of the internal team. Typically these services will be used for GR-EX, Human Resources (HR) and other high risk or contentious positions. This support will supplement the role of human resources and the internal classification committee. This support will ensure rapid, objective evaluations of highly sensitive positions and those that would represent a conflict of interest for HR while balancing the workload of internal resources.
The following summarizes the classification services required:
Methodology training
Advice and support regarding classification governance and process modernization
Full third party evaluations of HR and/or contentious positions including a full rationales
Provision of third-part external evaluation opinions for evaluations previously conducted internally
