Gov’t launches Job Evaluation Project for Public Service
In a press release, Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Deputy Governor, Mrs Sharleen S. DaBreo-Lettsome said through the project, the team would utilise data on job profiles within the Public Service to determine the relative value the role brings to the organisation.
Executed jointly by the Office of the Deputy Governor and the Department of Human Resources, the project will receive a customised evaluation tool provided by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Trinidad and Tobago that will weigh the job profiles within the Public Service against international standards.
The contract for the purchase of the software and relevant training to guide the project is valued at $40,849 and was granted to PwC Trinidad and Tobago.
Project is part of ensuring efficiency & effectiveness
According to Mrs DaBreo-Lettsome, the start of the project is the next step in ensuring efficiency and effectiveness across all levels in the Public Service.
“The Job Evaluation Project allows us to carefully examine the job profiles within the Public Service, ensure they are correctly weighted, described and graded...This exercise will take us further in ensuring that we build an employment structure that adequately considers the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies required for the successful execution of all roles within the Public Service,” she said.
Over 3000 positions to be assessed
Three thousand five hundred and six (3506) position within the Public Service will be individually assessed during the six months execution of the project. All positions will receive streamlined role profiles encouraging increased efficiency and effectiveness at the end of the project period.
Human Resources Manager for the Organisational Development and Workforce Planning Unit within the Department of Human Resources, Ms Cara Christopher said the project’s completion is critical to ensuring there is a cohesive approach to roles and payment structures within the Public Service.
“We will achieve further clarity on our existing 3506 roles while forming a framework with a strong basis for pay justification. The Job Evaluation Project will allow us to establish more concise and industry-accurate structures as well as standards for the assignment of roles and responsibilities for the Public Service,” she stated.
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13 Responses to “Gov’t launches Job Evaluation Project for Public Service”
Government commissioned a study before but it has not seen the light of day. The report was favorable to politicians , so it was put on ice. It is an open secret that the civil service is bloated but deflating the bloat is suicide to politicians. Governments typically are not major employers but in small locales like the VI, they by necessity become major employers. Inarguably, the civil service provides a valuable service but it has to be right size , ie, lean and mean. It is not a secret that the civil service has a low productivity; the question is how low is it? As you noted, low productivity comes at a high cost. The civil service is not only bloated; it is non-productive.
The whole process is as $%^# up as Hogan’s goat. Why is the Deputy Governor in charge of civil service but the UK does not contribute one penny towards its operation? Is this self/goverance ? Why can’t a Virgin Islander have the Opportunity to become Governor of his/her country? Does the UK think that Virgin Islanders are capable only perhaps to be DG, serving for only a few days? It is a damn shame that a Virgin Islander cannot have the opportunity to serve as Guv. Colonialism is and has always been about exclusion, abuse, exploitation, control, supremacy, etc. The current structure is about control, is it not?
Any laying off government employees at this time of rising basic needs for survival most likely caused a spike in crime, including violent crimes. Be cautious please. Live and let live
Enjoy the remainder of this year, 2024, in God's care, and hopefully a better 2025 coming soon.
Promised reform, but progress lacks tactics.
It's run by "experts," all polished and wise,
Yet their efforts amount to hot air and lies.
What fills the ranks with degrees and acclaim,
Yet the system stays broken, the results just the same?
A cycle of cronies, with paychecks to show,
In a game where efficiency dares not grow.
If you guessed "government reform," you’re probably right—
Where evaluation's a project, not a guiding light.