SFIA 9 - quick links

SFIA 9 Launch webinar 

Demo of  enhanced search and navigation tools for easier exploration of skills and levels

Links to SFIA 9 content:

• SFIA 9 launch webinar and slides from October 30th 2024
• SFIA 9 home page 
• SFIA 9 documentation 
• Change tracker 
• SFIA 9 release notes page 
• Updated How SFIA works - Levels of responsibility and skills with new graphics
• Revision notes on each SFIA 9 skill - search and browse using the SFIA 9 skills directory
• Moving to SFIA 9 on each SFIA 8 skill - search and browse using the SFIA 8 skills directory

Links to updated resources and support assets

prioritised which ones to be ready for 30th October and after

• SFIA - a framework for cyber security skills
• SFIA - a framework for cloud computing skills
• SFIA - a framework for AI skills (in development, BETA available soon)
• Links to Industry Bodies of Knowledge
• Illustrative skills profiles - updated to SFIA 9
• SFIA - Levelled NICE Work Roles (update to SFIA 9 in progress)
• Illustration of NICE Work Roles using SFIA 9 (the full set to be updated in collaboration with the NICE Project

Other resources

Resources for people new to SFIA

• A 10 minute quiz on SFIA fundamentals
• The SFIA framework is free or low cost to use
• Video - Skills management and SFIA
• Accelerate your skills-first journey with SFIA
• The SFIA Foundation is a global not-for-profit
• Who uses SFIA?

SFIA guiding principles - the why and how of the framework

• SFIA fundamentals in pictures (slide pack to download for your own use)
• SFIA and skills management
• How SFIA works - Levels of responsibility and skills - updated text and diagrams
• SFIA Levels of responsibility
• SFIA professional skills
• The context for SFIA

Help and resources

• SFIA case studies and user's stories
• Visual guide to SFIA self-assessment
• SFIA assessment guidelines
• Skills profiles for industry jobs/roles
• SFIA and Bodies of Knowledge

Evolving community practice - making use of SFIA for people and skills management

• Learning and development catalogues
• Mapping learning products to SFIA 
• 70-20-10 with SFIA
• Skills-based job analysis 

Translations – published

📑 Framework Documentation ✓ SFIA 9 Framework Reference (comprehensive color PDF) ✓ About SFIA - Guidance for Use (comprehensive color PDF)
🔍 Digital Resources ✓ Interactive SFIA Summary Chart ✓ Fully translated web pages covering Levels of Responsibility, SFIA 9 Skills Directory, Generic Attributes and Behavioural Factors, Searchable Database of Skills and Attributes
📊 Implementation Tools ✓ Detailed Excel spreadsheet containing all SFIA content

• SFIA 9 Spanish 
• SFIA 9 German
• SFIA 9 Portuguese
• SFIA 9 Italian
• SFIA 9 French
• SFIA 9 Polish
• SFIA 9 Arabic
• SFIA 9 Japanese
• SFIA 9 Simplified Chinese

Beta (please contact for more information)

• SFIA 9 Russian
• SFIA 9 Canadian French

Get help from commercial partners

• Specialists provide implementation advice
• Partners provide tools, services and training

Commercially available SFIA Products and Services:

NOTE: All use of SFIA is under licence. The majority of organisations using SFIA internally do so under a Free-of-Charge licence. All commercial exploitation of SFIA (e.g building SFIA into a support tool of any kind) must be under a fee-bearing licence.

Please ensure that any supplier you use is licensed to exploit SFIA commercially.

• List of licensed SFIA Partners and consultants offering SFIA services and products