eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2020-05-19 8 5 286 292 10.12691/education-8-5-10 EDUCATION20208510 article Using the Competency Framework According to Employment Position to Assess the Competence of University Specialists Pham Dinh Manh manhpd@vinhuni.edu.vn 1 Pham Le Cuong 1 Pham Minh Hung 1 Nguyen Nhu An 1 Vinh University, Vinh City, Viet Nam The paper has built a competency framework of university specialists according to employment position, including 6 basic competencies: Academic and professional competence; Advisory capacity; Information literacy competence; Implementation capacity; Capacity for teamwork; Informatics and foreign languages competence. From there, this framework is used to assess the competence of specialists at Vinh University, as a basis for recruitment, employment and training specialists of the university. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/8/5/10/education-8-5-10.pdf specialist employment position competency competency framework university