The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.
Workforce digital skills
Understand your digital skills for the workplace
SCVO’s Essential Digital Skills for Work Check-up allows individuals and organisations to measure their skills for the workplace. Based on the Essential Digital Skills Framework produced by the UK government, the check-up is divided into five main skill areas with tasks that range from logging on remotely to collating, analysing and presenting information.
Around 7.5 million people in the UK still lack essential digital skills for work (Lloyds UK Consumer Digital Index, 2023), and while Scotland is above the UK average in all digital skills area, there’s still plenty of room to support and encourage those working in all sectors to improve their skills.
Find out more about workforce digital skills in our webinar recording 'Digital Inclusion Masterclass: Understanding Workforce Digital Skills.'
Why measure workforce digital skills?
- Understand the digital skills gap in your organisation.
- Identify priority areas for your learning and development plans.
- Target learning and development where it's most needed.
- Understand what your workforce wants to learn more about.
- Be better placed to adopt new technologies.
- Be better placed to support your users with digital tools.
A bespoke report for your organisation
You can use our Essential Digital Skills for Work Check-up online to understand your own skills or use it in areas of your organisation. If you want to undertake an organisation-wide digital skills audit, speak to us and we can help voluntary sector organisation for free with:
- Designing the question set to best meet the needs of your organisation.
- Digitising the form so you can share it widely across your organisation.
- Creating a non-digital version to engage those who can't complete a digital form.
- Analysis of your results.
- A report with recommendations that you can share internally.
You can preview a sample report, with artificial data, to get an idea of what you can expect from our workforce digital skills audit.
Create your own check-up
If you wish to create your own check-up, you can use the document below to see all of the questions we use, then add or remove questions to better fit your needs. If you want some help putting these into a Microsoft or Google form so that it can be completed digitally, we can help with that too! Just contact us and we can walk you through the steps.
For more information about this work, please contact:
Kathryn Parry-Wilkes
Digital Inclusion Assistant Development Officer
Kathryn.Parry-Wilkes@scvo.scot