The Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al, has ad­vised that the Civ­il Ser­vice Job Eval­u­a­tion Ex­er­cise that start­ed on the 1st of Ju­ly, 2020, is well on track.

The ex­er­cise is part of an agree­ment signed be­tween the Per­son­nel De­part­ment (PD) in the Of­fice of the CPO and Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers (PwC) Lim­it­ed to pro­vide Con­sul­tan­cy Ser­vices for the con­duct of a Job Eval­u­a­tion and Com­pen­sa­tion Ex­er­cise for of­fices in the Civ­il Ser­vice.

The project, which in­cludes the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly and Statu­to­ry Au­thor­i­ties is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed with­in two (2) years.

In a re­lease the CPO not­ed that his of­fice has al­ready re­ceived five (5) sta­tus re­ports and in­di­cat­ed that “over the last six months, the Con­sul­tant PwC has been heav­i­ly en­gaged in de­liv­er­ing the re­quired plan­ning doc­u­ments and has been as­sist­ing with the nec­es­sary roll out to key project stake­hold­ers with the sched­uled Ori­en­ta­tions Ses­sions and ini­tial Con­sul­ta­tions.”

In a re­cent in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, the PwC part­ner lead­ing this project—Zia Pa­ton said it would pro­vide the ba­sis to ease the bur­den on the civ­il ser­vice and pro­pel it in­to greater ca­pac­i­ty and strength.

Pa­ton ex­pressed that the civ­il ser­vice is “un­der great strain.” She added that as the job eval­u­a­tion is com­plet­ed it would be “the im­pe­tus to re­liev­ing that strain, be­cause this ex­er­cise is tru­ly foun­da­tion­al to a mod­ern and prop­er­ly func­tion­ing civ­il ser­vice.”

In the state­ment by the of­fice of the CPO, it not­ed that be­tween the 16th to the 18th of De­cem­ber 2020, the Per­son­nel De­part­ment col­lab­o­rat­ed with the PwC team to fa­cil­i­tate the re­quired job analy­sis train­ing ses­sions.

This in­volved train­ing an ini­tial twen­ty-sev­en (27) job an­a­lysts to pre­pare job de­scrip­tions that would as­sist in the analy­sis of the 1653 po­si­tions to be re­viewed dur­ing the job eval­u­a­tion ex­er­cise.

The cost of en­gage­ment of the con­sul­tan­cy ser­vices to be pro­vid­ed for the project is $24.9 mil­lion.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease: “This is in keep­ing with Gov­ern­ment’s Vi­sion 2030 De­vel­op­men­tal Theme of ‘Pro­mot­ing Good Gov­er­nance and Ser­vice ex­cel­lence’, where the cen­tral ob­jec­tive of this project is the in­stal­la­tion of a mod­ern Job Eval­u­a­tion and Com­pen­sa­tion Sys­tem, which is crit­i­cal to ef­fec­tive­ly sup­port­ing pub­lic ser­vice trans­for­ma­tion and strength­en­ing the Civ­il Ser­vice to be­come more com­pet­i­tive and de­liv­er­ing a high­er lev­el of ser­vice to our cit­i­zens along with the coun­try’s vis­i­tors and in­vestors.”

It is en­vis­aged that, at the end of the project, the Civ­il Ser­vice will have a new Job Eval­u­a­tion and Com­pen­sa­tion Sys­tem that would as­sist in at­tract­ing and re­tain­ing the best qual­i­fied em­ploy­ees and con­tribute to pro­duc­ing high­er lev­els of em­ploy­ee mo­ti­va­tion, job sat­is­fac­tion and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.