Training

At the start of every financial year, you will be given a financial budget of £1000 pro-rata and a time budget of 5 days a year prorata to spend on training. So for a staff member working 4 days a week, that would equate to £800 and 4 days.

The main aim of the training should be to progress your skills in line with the job family you wish to move up in. You can read more about the company's job structure framework and job families here. Any time spent on training should be recorded under the Skills and Training project, apart from attending events (such as a tech conference), which gets recorded under Personal development events (each event should be it's own issue).

It's up to you to create a plan for how you would like to spend the budget, whether that's going on a course, attending conferences, or buying books and doing self learning. It must be feasible within the proportioned financial and time budget set (and should include any costs related to the training, including travel), and you need to get your plan approved by your line manager before actioning it. This can be done either in one of your monthly catch ups, or you can schedule a separate meeting for this.

It will be up to you to follow through on the plan, and keep track of your budget. To facilitate with this, you will be given a budget tracking spreadsheet.

We recognise that you will also need to spend some time just 'keep up to date' with technologies that we use regularly, such as new CiviCRM extensions and releases. Time spent on this falls outside of your training budget as it is more about doing your current job well, rather than personal development. This time should also be recorded under the Skills and Training project in gitlab. But please bear in mind that if you are spending time researching a new feature for the benefit of a specific client that will not be useful in a wider context, then this time should be logged under that client project and be charged to the client.