The Job Eval­u­a­tion Ex­er­cise in the civ­il ser­vice, in­clud­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly and Statu­to­ry Au­thor­i­ties, sub­ject to the Statu­to­ry Au­thor­i­ties Act, Chap­ter 24:01 en­tered the fourth Phase since com­menc­ing on Ju­ly 1, 2020.

In a state­ment Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Dr Daryl Din­di­al said the Per­son­nel De­part­ment, the Con­sul­tant PwC, and the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion con­tin­ue their work in this crit­i­cal stage of the project, to ul­ti­mate­ly en­able rec­om­men­da­tions to be sub­mit­ted for the con­sid­er­a­tion of the Cab­i­net.

Din­di­al said it is a sig­nif­i­cant phase of the Job Eval­u­a­tion Ex­er­cise as it seeks to score the job po­si­tions based on the Job Eval­u­a­tion Method­ol­o­gy to de­ter­mine their rank­ing, rel­a­tive to the oth­er po­si­tions un­der re­view.

He al­so said that the Com­pen­sa­tion and Mar­ket Sur­vey ex­er­cise com­menced in Sep­tem­ber 2022 and is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed in March 2023. He not­ed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 50 per cent of the Mar­ket Sur­vey has been com­plet­ed.

He al­so ac­knowl­edged the project’s grad­ual pro­gres­sion and not­ed that the PwC and the Per­son­nel De­part­ment have com­plet­ed a num­ber of key ac­tiv­i­ties and de­liv­er­ables through­out the first three Phas­es of the project.

In its cur­rent phase, the Job Eval­u­a­tion of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 1600 job po­si­tions is ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed by Ju­ly 2023 with the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion play­ing an ac­tive and crit­i­cal role in the eval­u­a­tion of the job po­si­tions.

The CPO un­der­scores the crit­i­cal role of this ex­er­cise, as it sup­ports the mod­erni­sa­tion of the Civ­il Ser­vice and the im­prove­ment of ser­vice de­liv­ery to all stake­hold­ers, and re­it­er­ates the Gov­ern­ment’s com­mit­ment to achiev­ing this goal.