Final competencies report
Scoping for a skills framework for equality specialist infrastructure workers.
The Consortium identified the lack of a current framework or guidance on what skills, knowledge and experience are required for a specialist infrastructure worker; and how their skill set differs from that of a generalist infrastructure worker.
This lack of guidance has very real implications for practice. For example, it can lead to duplication of effort or, conversely requests for help falling between gaps if assumptions are made by workers about another’s role.
Using desk research and a consultation exercise with 21 infrastructure agencies, this project aimed to start the process of looking at what may be needed to improve upon this situation by:
- Identifying the commonalities or roles within equality infrastructure organisations, emphasising their unique areas of work.
- Highlighting the differences and distinctions between specialist equality and generalist infrastructure workers.
- Helping provide clarity on why these distinctions exist; and thus highlight the case for both types of infrastructure.
- Providing guidance to equality infrastructure organisations around the recruitment, management and development of specialist staff.
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