The training of electoral staff throws up some very specific challenges for Electoral Management Boards (EMBs).
To deliver an election that can be shown to be free and fair, it’s vital that the EMB can provide robust evidence to demonstrate that electoral staff were given the knowledge and skills required in order to carry out their roles correctly. This is exactly what SkillWise Electoral Manager was designed to do.
For full time employees, it’s important to provide them with suitable learning pathways, to improve staff retention and so that they can see meaningful career progression.
For part-time staff, the EMB’s very significant challenges are training large numbers of learners, in a short space of time, to a high standard whilst generating auditable evidence of their competency.
To address these twin challenges, we have designed a dedicated system, SkillWise Electoral Manager. SkillWise Electoral Manager is an on-line system designed specifically for EMBs.
For full time employees, SkillWise Electoral Manager allows tailored learning paths and training targets to be allocated to individual users. Purpose-designed learning content can be deployed to learners, along with targets such as attendance at training events or conferences. A Supervisor role is provided, to allow the setting of targets and the confirmation of Learners’ completion.
For temporary employees, SkillWise Electoral Manager allows:
- Bulk assignment of learning content, to save on administration time
- The presentation of auto-marking multiple choice question banks to Learners
- Bulk assignment of task-based tests to Learners
- The recording of evidence of competency, in the form of images, videos of simulated exercises and professional interview & witness testimony voice recordings
- Creates very robust, lasting records of each individual’s training record, and stores evidence of their competency in correctly completing specific tasks
In summary, SkillWise Electoral Manager allows you to:
- Manage your full time employees’ learning and thus enhance their career development and retention
- Deliver standardised training programmes to very large groups of part time staff, simultaneously, so you can be sure training is delivered consistently across different regions
- See Learner progress against target dates – you can be sure people will be properly trained by the target date
- Access fully auditable training records showing not just knowledge test results, but also evidence of vocational competency