ORGANIZATION DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

ORGANIZATION DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

The Organization Design & Development Department is one of the Departments under Service Policies & Strategies Office. It is structured into three Divisions, each headed by a Director. The Divisions are namely: Organizational Design; Workforce Planning; and Job Design & Development.

FUNCTIONS

• Organization structure definition & change
• Operational processes and systems improvement
• Interventions to improve staff productivity
• Custodian of Policies
• Development and review of conditions of service and public service rules
• Clarification of laws, Rules and Regulations relating to the Civil Service
• Ensure compliance to approved organizational structures (of MDAs)
• Workforce planning, audit and monitoring
• Manning levels
• Initiating and implementing policies on Establishment Matters
• Determine the number, level and occupational cadres of the staff in the Federal Civil Service for each budget year and conducts yearly manpower budget exercise
• NCE Secretariat
• Job evaluation methodology
• Definition and evaluation of jobs
• Competency model and schemes of service
• Certificate evaluation for proper salary placement
• Review of the Schemes of Service to accommodate newly created, elongated, amended and designated cadres

ACHIEVEMENTS OF ORGANIZATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

• The restructuring of the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to five (5) Offices;
• Restructuring of the National Agency for Great Green Wall;
• Restructuring of the Nigeria Immigration Service;
• The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria;
• The restructuring of National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA);
• The restructuring of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN);
• The restructuring of Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Registration Board;
• Developing and Organisational Structure for the Nigeria Institute of Soil Science;
• The restructuring of Corporate Affairs Commission;
• The restructuring of National Agency for the Control of AIDS;
• The restructuring of Directorate of Technical Aids Corps;
• The restructuring of Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiation;
• The restructuring of Federal Character Commission;
• The creation of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Department in the Ministry of Health;
• Restructuring of Surveyors Registration Board of Nigeria;
• Restructuring of Michael Imodu National Institute for Labour Studies;
• Creation of Braillist cadre in the Schemes of Service;
• Creation of Sign Language Interpreters Cadre in the Schemes of Service;
• Creation of Schemes of Service of National Post Graduate Medical College of Nigeria;
• Creation of Cadres to fit into the new Department of Water, Environmental, Sanitation and Hygiene (WESH) in Local Government Schemes of Service;
• Reviewing of Scheme of Service of Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMIT);
• Creation of Scheme of Service for Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiators;
• MDAs that fulfill the conditions provided in the extant Circulars are granted waiver for recruitment to enable them fill existing vacancies;
• Creates awareness on government policies;
• Ensures compliance with Public Service Rules;
• The 2017 Manpower Budget Workshop was held in Edo State with the theme “A tool for a Robust Succession Planning and Improved Productivity in the Public Service.”
• Successfully regularized officers are issued with letter/Gazette of First Appointment.