Family Medical Leave Act-Faculty and Staff Disability Services

Essential and Marginal Job Function Analysis (Purpose and Use)

It qualifies a position, describing the purpose and needs within the department
It is a comprehensive job description describing both the tasks performed and the physical and cognitive needs of the job.
It accompanies all permanent and temporary merit requisitions when they are advertised.
It maximizes interview information to determine the candidate's ability to perform the Essential Functions.
It identifies performance evaluation criteria.
It is sent to Principal Insurance Company with Worker's Compensation repetitive motion claims.
It is sent to Des Moines with all Long-Term Disability claims.
It is sent to the Worker's Health Clinic for all on-the-job injuries.
It is required for all job accommodation requests when a health condition necessitates ADA modification/accommodation.
It must accompany all new positions that need to be advertised and a reclassification request if the position is currently vacant and needs to be advertised.
The form is available for download as a Word document. You need to download this file to your desktop in Microsoft Word. This allows you to fill out the form using Word and utilize pop up "help keys" accessed by depressing your F1 key on any field. You can fill out and save to your shared or local drive as a "word.doc" and allows for editing at a later date.