The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) operates an internal transfer list to facilitate, where possible, staff moves between the various offices of PER, the National Shared Services Office and the Office of Government Procurement. There are currently four staff on the list seeking a transfer to a different location, one of whom is based in Killarney while the other three are based in Clonskeagh, Dublin.
A request to move location is covered by the terms of the Department's Mobility Framework. Under this framework, staff who have been in their current role for at least two years can apply for a transfer. Staff must be
- committed to their own career development;
- able to assume new or different responsibilities; and
- able to take the initiative to show that they are ready to learn new skills.
Staff whose performance has been rated as unsatisfactory under the PMDS process or who are subject to disciplinary proceedings are not eligible to apply for a transfer.
The final decision on whether an individual staff member can be moved is one for divisional management taking account of business needs in both the current office and the proposed new location. Given the numbers involved, it has not been necessary to rank applications on the transfer list. Rather, all requests for transfer are reviewed at regular meetings of the Department's Workforce Planning Group to determine whether any given request can be facilitated.
DPER does not maintain an external transfer list for staff seeking a move to a different location but seeks to support such mobility, where appropriate, through redeployment; the circulation of notices offering secondment opportunities across the Civil and Public Service; and the facilitation of "head to head" transfers arranged by individual staff members.
