Built for 911 communications centers — your first process is free

Panel Scoring for 911 Communications Supervisor Promotions

You are promoting a shift supervisor from a floor of eleven telecommunicators. Your panel sat interviews between staffing crises. The scores are on paper, the eligible list is due, and the appeal window opens right behind it.

The problem

You run a civil service process with a fraction of the staff

A communications center promotion carries every requirement a police or fire promotion does — written exam, oral panel, ranked eligible list, statutory appeal window. What it doesn't carry is a police or fire HR budget.

So the center director runs it personally, between shift coverage and a console that never stops. Panel members score on paper. Rationale gets written when there's time, which on a busy day means not at all. The written exam weighting, the veteran's preference points, and the tiebreaks all get worked out by hand, at night, after the floor is covered.

Then a telecommunicator who ranked fourth asks how the panel arrived at their score.The honest answer is that three supervisors remember the interview differently and nobody wrote it down.

1 process a year

Most centers promote to supervisor once a year, sometimes less. That is not enough repetition to build a process that runs itself — every cycle starts over from a blank scoring sheet and whatever the last director left behind.

Communications centers don't need a bigger process. They need the one they already run to leave a record.

What DispatchPromotion does

One system for the whole supervisory process

Directors, panel members, and center admins run every candidate through one place — from the scheduled interview through the posted eligible list, with a record that stands up when it is questioned.

Individual panel member logins.
Every panel member scores under their own account — standard, not optional. Every score and every written rationale is attributed to the panel member who entered it, with a timestamp. Unlimited panel members at no additional cost.
Rationale required on every score.
A panel member cannot submit a criterion score without a written rationale. Not a reminder, not a nudge — the score does not save without it. That is the single change that makes an eligible list defensible on appeal.
Dispatch competencies, not borrowed ones.
Ships with four dimensions written for this floor — crisis decision-making, leadership and supervision, SOP compliance and documentation, and interagency communication, 25 points each. Not a police rubric with the words swapped.
Written exam and oral panel, weighted.
Enter each candidate's written exam score on their record and the platform combines it with the panel score at your weighting — 60/40 out of the box, adjustable by your director to match your jurisdiction's rule.
Veteran's preference and tiebreaks, applied for you.
Veteran's preference comes pre-loaded — +5 standard, +10 disabled — applied automatically from each candidate's record. Ties break on written exam score, then seniority date, then application date. No late-night arithmetic on the eligible list.
One-click scoring record export.
Generate a Supervisory Promotional Scoring Record for a single candidate or the full process — every panel member, every criterion score, every written rationale, and the final ranked eligible list. Ready the day the appeal window opens.

Who this is for

Built for 911 communications centers

Municipal, county, and regional emergency communications centers running supervisory promotional processes. If your last eligible list was compiled by hand after your shift ended, DispatchPromotion was built for you.

Communications center directors
Promoting to shift supervisor or lead telecommunicator at a single center — where you are running the process personally, around the schedule, with no HR staff assigned to it.
Emergency communications managers
Reporting to a city, county, or joint powers authority — where the promotion has to satisfy a civil service rule written for sworn positions and applied to your floor anyway.
Regional and consolidated centers
Seating panels that draw members from multiple agencies and jurisdictions — where panel members are rarely in the same building on the same day.
Centers under a civil service commission
Certifying ranked eligible lists and answering candidate appeals — where the commission wants the underlying criterion scores and rationale, not just a final number.

The difference

Not a police tool with the words changed

DispatchPromotion is not a promotions tab bolted onto an HR system, and it is not a form builder collecting panel scores in a survey. It is also not a sworn-side promotional product sold to communications centers with "officer" find-and-replaced to "telecommunicator."

It is a purpose-built panel scoring platform for communications supervisor promotions — competency dimensions written for this floor, required written rationale, automatic written-exam weighting, veteran's preference and tiebreaks applied by rule, and an export that answers an appeal in one click. No setup, no IT department, no training required.

Pricing

Your first supervisory process is free

Run a real process end to end — real candidates, real panel, real eligible list — before you pay anything. No card, no procurement cycle, no pilot agreement. Priced for a communications center budget, not a department one.

Per process

$299per supervisory process

For centers that promote once a year or less. Pay for the process you're running, nothing in between.

  • One complete supervisory process
  • Unlimited candidates and panel members
  • Required written rationale on every score
  • Written exam and oral panel weighting
  • Full scoring record export
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Annual

$799per year, unlimited processes

For centers and regional systems promoting to more than one classification, or running processes across multiple member agencies.

  • Unlimited supervisory processes
  • Unlimited candidates and panel members
  • Everything in the per-process plan
  • Criteria reusable across classifications and centers
  • Priority support
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Get in touch

Questions about DispatchPromotion, your supervisory process, or how the platform fits your center's civil service rules? Email us directly — tell us the classification you're testing for and how your panel is seated, and we'll get back to you.

Your first supervisory process is free. There is nothing to sign up for before you write to us.