Job Categories
The University of North Carolina system has worked for several years to design
and implement a system-wide model to consistently categorize the broad range of
positions that exist across all 17 of the constituent institutions of the
university.
The JCAT model (which simply stands for "job categories"),
provides a common set of definitions that are used to group similar positions.
The JCAT model categorizes jobs based on the actual work performed by
each position, rather than primarily on job titles. The JCATs are modeled after
a system first implemented by the University System of Georgia in 2003, and they
are built directly upon official federal IPEDS definitions used for reporting
university positions nationally.
The JCATs are not job titles, and
neither individual job titles nor salary ranges are affected directly by JCAT
category assignments. JCATs simply provide a streamlined way to help answer
questions like, "How many IT positions are there on your campus?"
JCATs will support consistency across the UNC campuses in
characterizing employee and job data for various reporting requirements at the
federal, state, university system, and campus levels. It is a work in progress,
but the basic model was implemented in mid-2009.
For the current
JCAT Guidelines and their definitions, click HERE.
For the current Detailed Master List of JCATs, click HERE.