What are job functions and job families?
In IU’s job framework, roles (jobs) are organized under specific job functions and job families. These building blocks group similar and/or related roles.
- Job functions: The largest category for the classification of related jobs—it contains related job families. Some examples of job functions include: Information Technology, Finance, or Student Services.
- Job families: Sub-categories inside a job function. These jobs perform similar types of work and may require similar skills, knowledge, and/or expertise. Job families are determined by the job function that contains them. For example, the Finance job function may contain Accounting, Payroll, or Tax job families.
- Roles/Jobs: All roles, or jobs, are contained within a job family. There may be many different roles, as well as roles in different career structures and at different career levels.
Here is a general outline that uses a narrow range of selections from IU’s finance job function as an example:
Family | Accounting & Tax | Financial Administration | Bursar | Payroll |
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Role | Accountant, Tax Specialist | Banking Services Courier, Financial Administration Coordinator | Bursar Assistant, Campus Bursar | Payroll Coordinator, Payroll Leader |