NB : Impact rating MUST not be greater than the immediate supervisor.
Impact measures the overall contribution the position makes towards the total organisation, relative to all other positions.
Level
Description
1
MINIMAL Usually non-professional support positions. Level 1 positions have a very limited, minimal, or no discernible ability to impact on either the organisation's total annual revenue or budget.
2
LIMITED Level 2 jobs have a clearly discernible, but limited and typically local, impact. For example an accounts clerk, junior engineer, draftsman, field sales positions, Secretary to the CEO, and lower level supervisory jobs.
3
ADVISORY Exercises a predominantly management or professional advisory role. Major supervisory or fully professional staff. Examples are an accounts supervisor, senior personnel officer, production supervisor, and lawyer.
4
PARTICIPATIVE Performs an important management or professional advisory role. Senior specialist positions; regional managers; or managers of a subordinate or partial support function, eg management accountant, quality assurance manager, company secretary, chief legal officer, production manager. Level 4 positions cover some advisory staff, and also line management roles where advice or decisions clearly have an important impact on either expenditure or revenue of a unit. Decisions made by positions at this level are often reviewed in conjunction with another functional area, or by a superior position, thus confirming this position’s impact as ‘Important” rather than “Major” (the next higher level). Example jobs include human resources manager, manager information services, production manager, or portfolio manager in an investment fund.
5
MAJOR IMPACT Heads of significant organisational functions/operations, e.g. heads of finance; sales and marketing;, production/service delivery. Management and review of financial budgets and control of organisational resources would normally be a critical aspect of these jobs. Positions at level 5 report directly to the chief executive officer, or Head of the Organisation. They would make, or oversee the development of, significant contributions to the formulation of organisation policies. They may be members of the organisation's Board of Directors, or the Board of a subsidiary of the organisation.
6
RESTRICTED CONTROL and responsibility for an organisation. This covers heads of organisations in which the position has a restricted control over the use to which revenues generated by their organisation can be put, e.g. through legislative controls, or policy limitations on the CEO due to, for example, philosophical, or societal values of the organisation, or commercial agreements limiting the freedom of action. Level 6 would apply if wealth maximisation for the organisation is not the primary objective, and also if, the organisation has substantially guaranteed funding, eg for the provision of an essential public service. A CEO would also be evaluated at this Level also where there is unusually strong Board or ownership control (for example control that may be exercised by a parent organisation over its subsidiary, or a family company), or where regulatory authorities closely prescribe the activities of the organisation. The position may also be an Executive Director of the organisation but not a Chief Executive.
7
OVERALL CONTROL (CEO or Head of Organisation) Overall management control and responsibility. Full authority to set all aspects of organisation operating policy eg. product/market mix, production/service delivery systems, mergers, acquisitions and divestments, joint ventures, capital raisings or restructuring, human resource policies, financial systems, only limited by the broadest of appropriate shareholder or Board of Directors guidelines. Level 7 is confined to a CEO with the ultimate responsibility to the Board for results. At this level operating decisions are rarely subject to review before implementation, although recommendations for major investment and funding actions and mechanisms usually would be (by the Board). Position frequently is an Executive Director of the organisation, or may be its effective owner.
