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Figure 14 Post Establishment as at 31 March 2023
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Director PBO
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Deputy Directors
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POSTS
Filled posts
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Post establishment as at 31 March 2023
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Analysts
Office Manager
Personal Secretary to the Director
Vacant posts
Office Coordinator
Table 9 Post establishment: full establishment as at 31 March 2023
The post establishment reflects the total number of posts relating to filled and vacant posts.
Elevated efforts were activated to fill the vacant funded Economic Analyst and Deputy Director Finance posts with the Economic Analyst post estimated to be filled during the first quarter of the 2023/23 financial year. Heightened efforts will be pursued with the HR Division to expedite the filling of the Deputy Director Finance post during the 2023/24 FY. Nonetheless, the Deputy Director Finance, Economic Analyst remained vacant funded as at 31 March 2023 while the Policy Analyst post remained vacant unfunded. The organisational design and development (ODD) process that the Office embarked on, will strengthen, once implemented the technical and administrative capacity of the Office through the enlistment of additional manpower.
As at 31 March 2023, two Graduate Trainees were enlisted in the PBO as part of Parliaments Graduate Development Programme. As at 31 March 2023, seven PBO officials on the D salary band were employed on the 5-year employment contracts framework. Two officials and five officials were respectively employed on the D3 and D1 salary bands with two employees on the C salary band employed on permanent employment contracts.
The Deputy Directors: Senior Analysts and the Analysts constitute the entire PBO workforce responsible for the execution of the legislative mandate of the Office. The renewal and appointment of the Parliamentary Budget Office employees is approved by the Director in line with the section 15 of the Money Bills Act and Related Matters Act.
4.2.1 Human Resources Management
The Director provides strategic leadership by marshalling the personnel towards the attainment of the legislative mandate of the Office. The Director must lead, manage, and administer the Office to ensure that it operates optimally and provides the best possible technical support to Parliament on complex public finance oversight matters.
The Director thus has ultimate service delivery accountability regarding discharging the legislative mandate of the Office. 4.2.1.1 Staff complement and demographic composition as at 31 March 2023
As at 31 March 2023, the PBO has twelve filled posts, that is, warm bodies that comprised of five females and seven males staff members. The overall demographic profile is presented in Tables 10. and 11.
Post establishment: full establishment as at 31 March 2023
Director
Deputy Directors: Senior Analysts
Analysts & Graduate Trainees
Corporate Services
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Total staff complement:12
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