ValidateSkills
Assessment Platform (VSAP)
The Skills Intelligence Engine for framework and complience-led competence.
The Validate Skills Assessment Platform powers skills and competency frameworks including SFIA, CIISec, GCAF, and bespoke organisational frameworks, all from a single skills intelligence engine. Validateskills standardises role expectations, supports structured assessment, and captures evidence to produce workforce intelligence leaders can act on in real time.
What it does
Our ValidateSkills Assessment Portal (VSAP) is a framework-led assessment and evidence platform designed to measure role readiness and organisational capability against recognised standards such as SFIA, CIISec and other custom models.
Assessments are evidence-based by design. Role expectations, practitioner inputs, and supporting artefacts are linked into a governed, auditable record, ensuring capability judgements are defensible and suitable for assurance, compliance, and operational decision-making.
Real-time reporting converts assessments and evidence into actionable workforce intelligence, enabling leaders to identify capability gaps, manage risk, and plan workforce development with confidence.
Assessments
Framework-aligned role and competence assessments
Audits
Evidence capture with assurance-ready audit trails
Reporting
Cross-framework reporting from a single skills intelligence engine
Analysis
Real-time visibility of capability, gaps, and organisational risk
Designed for assurance-led organisations
ValidateSkills is designed for organisations that need confidence in capability decisions, not just data capture. It supports assurance-led operating models by aligning role expectations to recognised frameworks, embedding evidence at the point of assessment, and producing outputs suitable for audit, compliance, and governance review. This makes our skills management portal, particularly well suited to regulated environments and public sector organisations where defensible judgement, transparency, and accountability are critical.
Our other services
Training
We are SFIA Approved Trainers: SFIA Practitioner & Consultancy courses; workshops (Manager delivery, Role Mapping, Implementation, Admin, Town Halls).
Consultancy
Experts in Skill Management implementation, Framework Design, Role Mapping; Project Management, Employee, Manager engagement and Training.
Choose your framework
Understand, map, assess and develop your organisation’s skills with confidence
SFIA
As a SFIA (Skills Framework for the Information Age) Global Partner we can offer you a full suite of SFIA services. Pick and mix your way to success with us by selecting from any of our services.
CIISec
The CIISec Skills Framework describes the range of competencies expected of Information Security and Information Assurance Professionals in the effective performance of their roles.
GCAF
The Governance Competency Assurance Framework defines professional competence for governance, risk, assurance, and management system roles. It provides a structured, level-based model that helps organisations describe, assess, and develop governance capability with clarity and consistency.
Bespoke Frameworks
We give you the power to go beyond known skills frameworks like SFIA and create a fully bespoke skills architecture tailored to your business. Let our trained skills professional help you design and build you own skills or capability framework.
Our Process
The essence of our process steps
Use cases
British Army
Royal Signals first set out to increase our knowledge of SFIA and how it could help us as we had identified a need to better track skills within our workforce.
We were aware of Assess Management Ltd’s work and through a selection process appointed Kevin as our senior advisor for SFIA approved training
Capt Neil Donaghy, CEng MIET | SO3 Plans | Project DADUCEUS | Army HQ
Ricoh Global Services
At Ricoh GS we’ve had the pleasure of working with ValidateSkills.com and using their services and products for a number years now. Initially, they helped us to map our IT roles to SFIA, enabling us to build SFIA job role profiles which highlighted the skill set we needed to run our business. They then went on to deliver a full online assessment service, which we consider to be a very useful tool for recruitment and for identifying skills gaps. Throughout all, we have found ValidateSkills.com to be helpful, creative, professional and able to understand our needs fully.
Mike Smith, Operations Director EMEA, Ricoh Global Services
How we can help
We offer free advice on how SFIA can make a difference in your organisation.
Submit a no-obligation enquiry and one of our SFIA consultants will contact you.
Public Sector IT Capability
Adopt SFIA 9 and DDaT-aligned content to standardise skills across digital/data teams.
Digital & Technology Teams
Blend SFIA 9 with CIISec v3.0 for cyber roles and AI-related skills.
Professional Services & Consultancies
Create portable skill signals to staff projects faster and align rates to real competence.
Organisational design
Re-design organizational structure with skills in mind, supporting implementation.
Skills-Based Transformation
Shift from jobs to skills-based organisations with ontology-powered insights.
Training & L&D Teams
Target learning to measured gaps; integrate completions as evidence.
Pay Progression & Reward Frameworks
Use verified skills and levels to underpin fair, transparent progression.
Resource Deployment & Project Staffing
Match individuals to project needs using adjacent skills and verified competence.