Job Classification Service
Job Classification Frameworks for Clear, Equitable Roles
Our Job Classification service helps nonprofits, schools, and social impact organizations build a clear, equitable job architecture—so titles, levels, and roles finally make sense to the people doing the work. We partner with HR leaders, executives, and managers to design a job classification framework that groups roles by level, scope, and impact, and that aligns with your strategy, values, and compensation program.
Starting from your current job descriptions, HR policies, and strategic priorities, we assess how work is organized today and how roles are actually experienced across the organization. We then create a classification framework that defines levels, criteria (such as scope of responsibility, decision-making, and knowledge requirements), and recommended titles for each position. That framework becomes the backbone for equitable pay, transparent career pathways, and consistent promotion decisions. Throughout, we center Edgility Talent Partners’ pillars of equity—Clarity & Transparency, Fairness & Consistency, and Inclusion & Belonging—so your new job classification system supports trust rather than confusion.
Because we are former nonprofit leaders ourselves, we understand the blurry titles, hybrid roles, and legacy structures that often stand in the way of equity. We show up as partners—listening closely, pressure-testing scenarios with your team, and co-creating a classification framework that is both rigorous and flexible enough to grow with your organization.
Who We Partner With on Job Classification
- Chief People Officers, HR/People & Culture leaders, and compensation leads who are responsible for job architecture, salary structures, and internal equity.
- Executive Directors/CEOs, COOs, and functional leaders who are navigating title creep, unclear roles, or rapid growth and need a consistent way to define positions and levels.
- Through interviews and feedback on draft frameworks, we engage managers and staff to ensure classifications reflect real work and support credible, lived career pathways.
We treat job classification as a co-designed partnership—aligning leadership on design principles, incorporating staff insight, and ensuring the final framework is something your managers can explain and your staff can see themselves in.
Our Process for Job Classification
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DISCOVERY & PLANNING
We review your job descriptions, HR policies, strategic priorities, and related artifacts, and meet with HR and key leaders to understand how roles, titles, and levels are currently used and where pain points exist.
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JOB EVALUATIONS & CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORKS
We design a job classification framework anchored in your context, define level criteria, and recommend classifications and titles for each role, including guidance on adjusting job descriptions based on the framework.
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CAREER PATHWAYS & PROMOTION POLICY
We clarify career pathways tied to the new job levels and draft a promotion policy that explains the process and thresholds for movement between levels and roles.
4
IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT
We develop an implementation plan and provide a final report, staff training templates, and a customizable manager toolkit, along with coaching calls to support a thoughtful, equity-centered rollout of the new job classification framework.
Omar Carrera
CEO
Danielle Pointdujour
Human Resources Officer, Urgent Action Fund
Willa Marth
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England
While Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE) has worked to increase racial equity internally and externally, the racial reckoning of 2020 illuminated the need to ask ourselves what more we can do. With Edgility's methodology, we had clear data points and recommendations to create a plan internally to address any wage gaps and further our commitment to racial equity.
Sonia Dominguez
Chief Operating Officer, AVANCE
Erica Kashiri
Chief Operating Officer, Third Plateau
Deena Mangrum
Director of Talent Strategy, Para Los Niños
Catrina Bryant
Deputy Director, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
J.J. Lewis
Superintendent & CEO, Compass Charter Schools
Illy Askia
President & CEO, East Lake Foundation
Alicia Spurlark
Director of Operations
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