EXPECTATIONS AND ORGANISATION BACKGROUND

NAME: MALALU MUCHENGWA MULUNDIKA ORGANISATION: CABINET OFFICE, MANANGEMENT DEVELOPMENT DIVISION POSITION :STRATEGIC PLANNING OFFICER

SUMMARY OF ORGANISATION’S MANDATE Management Development Division is the wing in Cabinet Office responsible for the Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) which began in The Programme has three core objectives as follows: To improve government’s capacity to analyse and implement national policies and perform it ‘s appropriate functions;

To effectively manage public expenditure to meet fiscal stabilisation objective; and To make the public Service more efficient and responsive to the needs of the country’s population.

To achieve these objectives the PSRP has been divided into three components namely: Restructuring the Public Service – which is aimed at streamlining the structures, establishments and operations of the public service

Management and Human Resource Performance Improvement –which aims at introducing organisational, management and accountability systems into government’s operations to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the performance of functions by the Public Service; and

Decentralising and strengthening of the Local Government- which aims at decentralising authority and control of resource allocation and utilisation from central government to the districts and local authorities

The Division has three sections The Strategic Planning Section Organisation Design and Systems Section and the Organisation Design and Systems Section and the Performance Systems Section.

Strategic Planning Section is responsible for Conducting performance/managements audits Developing/ reviewing of Strategic Plans

Organisation and Design systems section is responsible for Developing/reviewing organisation structures Costing the structures

Performance systems section is responsible for: Developing Job Descriptions Installing the Performance Management Package which includes Annual Work Plans and Open Performance Appraisal System

LEARNING NEEDS To build capacity in monitoring and evaluation the organisation has to monitor and evaluate the Public Service Reform Programme