Monrovia – The Civil Service Agency’s recruitment exercises seem not to be focusing solely on governmental ministries and agencies as places to look for talent.
Report by Edwin G. Genoway, Jr – edwin.genoway@frontpageafricaonline.com
They are said now to be recruiting professionals from different places apart from the government, such as the President’s Young Professional Program (PYPP).
The PYPP was launched in 2009 by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and is now a premiere capacity building program for youth leadership in public service.
The PYPP has trained over 70 college graduates and turned them over to the Civic Service Agency (CSA) for the transformation of Liberia.
The CSA was established in 1973 by a legislative act to increase efficiency in the Civil Service and to act as the central personnel agency for MACs.
The CSA is independent of all other Ministries and Agencies of Government and serves as the central government agency responsible for managing the Civil Service.
It is responsible for improving human resources, service delivery, and the effectiveness and efficiency of the Service.
Doing that entails the planning of human capacity needs, recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, and career development of civil servants.
Additionally, the CSA provides policy advice to the government of Liberia in key areas of the Civil Service including organization, staffing, pay and benefits, pension, conditions of service and human resources development.
Ultimately the CSA ensures that the Liberian Civil Service is competent, professional and motivated and that it meets the workforce needs of the government while delivering quality and efficient services to the people of Liberia.
At the seventh nduction ceremony of the PYPP program held at a local resort in Monrovia, the Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Dr. Anthony Chan, assured the new PYPP graduates of USAID support in sustaining the initiative and ensuring that more college graduates are professionalized.
Dr. Chan urged the graduates to take full advantage of the wonderful opportunity to develop themselves saying that Liberia needs professionals.
“Amidst all of the development challenges, Liberia faces at the moment, remember that this country has great potential.”
“It needs your vigor, energy, dynamism, and sense of purpose for its development,” Dr. Chan said to the graduates.
“There is a fertilized savannah land, which is capable of producing a range of food crops for local consumption and exports.”
“In the north, there are scenic rolling hills and mountains that are storehouses of bountiful riches. Even the various rivers that crisscross Liberia offer up countless treasures,” he said.
Dr. Chan told the graduates to seize the moment, work hard and to wisely use the gifts with which nature has generously blessed this nation and its people.
“There are great forests that are literal reserves of vast riches,” he said.
PYPP Executive Director Hh K. Zaiyay in an overview described the PYPP as a prestigious program that places Liberian college graduates in an important role in government.
Director Zaizay said that the PYPP mentorship and performance management components have been proven to add value to the already existing talents that these young professionals bring with them to the various ministries, agencies, and commissions.
He said that the program is intended to strengthen public service, good governance and more by placing talented young people into the government. Director Zaizay stressed that the program helps to add value to many college graduates across the country and turns them over the CSA and rather than sending them to non-governmental organizations.
Claudius J. Broderick Jr. from the CSA lauded Director Zaizay for the initiative and promised to work with the organization to bring more young professionals into government.
“Today, we can celebrate the progress of having young professionals in our various ministries and agencies.”
“We want to encourage you to remain committed to whatever tasks given to you to perform.”
“The government needs you and hope that you will do your almost best to deliver,” Mr. Broderick said.