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In a nutshell the following

Job title:  One that everyone understands and represents the role and seniority

Department:  Which department the role is in

Reports to:  Who the role reports to

Responsible for: This can be roles or departments

Grade: If you have grades within you company remember these need to be clearly defined.

Overall Purpose: Summarise what the role

Key Accountable areas: This is where you document what is required for the role.  As mentioned before, you don’t want to document a process, but identify what this role is responsible for and group into areas of their role.

You can of course put in the job description requirements of the job i.e. qualifications, sign off levels, travel requirements etc, but you want to finish this process and not make it look like a job specification which you would use for advertising the role.

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