GovDesk
Government Job Description Expertise & Knowledgebase (GovDesk) is an artificial intelligence-powered tool to support governments in creating and updating digital service job descriptions.
GovDesk is an artificial intelligence (AI) job description tool to support governments in creating and updating digital service job descriptions. GovDesk was trained specifically on government digital service job descriptions to generate outputs that reflect commonly found knowledge, skills, and abilities
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GovDesk Instructions
Generate a new job description
Use GovDesk to create a new digital service job description. Start by entering your Government Name, Job Title, and Type of Government. You also have the option to add Level of Experience, Salary and Benefits, and any additional Boilerplate Organization Language you’d like included; then, hit “generate.”
The more details provided, the more specific and accurate the results will be to your context. It will take a few minutes for your job description to generate, so don’t worry if it doesn’t appear immediately!
Once your job description is ready, you can explore its contents, including an overview of the role, key responsibilities, preferred qualifications, and any other additional specific details you provided. You can copy the job description, download it, or delete it and start over.
We recommend reviewing and revising the output to best tailor it to your organization’s needs. This may include specific information that your HR office requires for job descriptions, or other boilerplate language that appears in all job descriptions for your organization.
You’ll also have the opportunity to view the sources the tool used to generate the job description, along with a detailed explanation of the tool’s reasoning process during development.
Submit a Job Description
You can also submit your job descriptions to GovDesk to analyze and add them to our repository! Using AI, it takes a job description URL, leverages AI-powered webscraping, and provides a clean output of the job description.
Once complete, you’ll be able to copy the job description, download it, delete it and start over, or upload the job description to our repository! Contributing to our repository helps grow our source data and improve GovDesk!
FAQs
What types of roles is GovDesk best suited for?
GovDesk is optimized for digital service roles in government, such as product managers, software engineers, service designers, data scientists, and content strategists. While you can try generating descriptions for other roles, results may vary.
Can I use GovDesk for hiring outside the U.S. government?
Yes, but with any AI developed content, be sure to read and validate the content to ensure it meets your needs.
Can I edit the generated job description?
While you can’t edit the produced job description natively in GovDesk, once generated, the output can be copied into your preferred editing tool where you can revise, reformat, or add localized information.
Is GovDesk secure and private? What happens to the data I input?
Yes, GovDesk is designed to be secure and to protect your privacy. We are committed to transparency, so while your data is stored privately, it may be reviewed to help improve the tool’s performance and functionality.
Can I generate job descriptions in languages other than English?
Currently, GovDesk only supports English-language job descriptions. Multilingual support is a potential feature in future phases.
What should I do if the output seems inaccurate or biased?
We encourage you to review all outputs carefully and use your discretion before publishing. If the initial result doesn’t meet your needs, you can restart the process and add more details for greater accuracy. GovDesk is designed as a starting point, so we recommend editing and refining the generated job description to best fit your specific context. And, we want to hear from you about how to make GovDesk even better – please consider submitting your experience using our feedback form.
When I try to submit a job description, I get an error. What should I do?
If you’re receiving an error message when trying to submit a job description to our repository, there are a few solutions you can try. If the URL has any UTMs or additional parameters, remove them and retry submitting. You can also try clicking the “submit” button twice or refreshing the page. The AI used to webscrape these URLs isn’t always able to successfully access and scrape the page. We’re continuing to improve this functionality! If you have a job description you want added to our repository but aren’t able to use this function, you can email it to digitalgovhub@georgetown.edu.
Can I request features or report bugs?
Yes, we welcome your input! Please use the embedded feedback form or email digitalgovhub@georgetown.edu to suggest features or report issues.
Explore Job Descriptions
The Digital Government Hub houses hundreds of government digital service job descriptions that you can access, review, and duplicate. Navigate to the Library to search for “job descriptions” under the Format filter. The below job descriptions are a small sample of the available job descriptions in the Hub.
Digital Services Director
This is a job description for the role of Digital Services Director from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Engagement/Product Manager
This is a job description for the role of Engagement/Product Manager from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Engineering Lead
This is a job description for the role of Engineering Lead from the Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology.
Content Designer
This is a job description for the role of Content Designer from the San Francisco Digital Services.
Data Analytics Organizational Change Manager
This is a job description for the role of Data Analytics Organizational Change Manager from the State of Ohio.
AI Policy and Programs Manager
This is a job description for the role of AI Policy and Programs Manager for the State of Maryland
About the Tool
GovDesk is an artificial intelligence (AI) job description tool to support governments in creating and updating digital service job descriptions. GovDesk AI was trained specifically on government digital service job descriptions to generate outputs that reflect commonly found knowledge, skills, and abilities. This tool is intended to serve as a starting point for creating new or updated government digital service roles.
This tool builds off of the Digital Service Network’s work to include government job descriptions in the Digital Government Hub. GovDesk’s AI was trained on these government job descriptions for digital delivery roles.
GovDesk Project Goals:
- Make it easier and more reliable for governments to create new digital service job descriptions.
- Organize existing government digital service job descriptions & integrate with the Digital Government Hub.
- Leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to support our network’s government practitioners in a meaningful way.
In a future phase of this project, we hope to better organize and ingest existing government digital service job descriptions, and to fully integrate job descriptions in the Digital Government Hub alongside the GovDesk tool.
GovDesk strives to be as transparent as possible. After prompting, you’ll get a summary of the algorithm’s detailed reasoning process. This summary features things like:
- How and why the algorithm selected the five source documents for the generated job description. You can also view these source documents.
- Which aspects of each source document were used to develop your output.
- Confidence metrics on core components like qualifications