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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO.
1099 - CREATION OF CAREER POSITIONS FOR PROJECT MANAGERS AND
ENGINEERS |
The Minister of the Budget
All Heads of Ministry
WHEREAS, the pressures of development objectives and programs necessitate augmentation of regular government functions with special projects requiring complex managerial and technical expertise;
WHEREAS, there must be a continuing effort to attract, retain, develop and keep directly engaged in critical projects the highly qualified people required to do the job so as to further accelerate national development;
WHEREAS, the formation of pools of agency Project Managers and Project Engineers will provide for the professionalization of such positions and ensure optimum use of available managerial and technical skills;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order and instruct the following:
1.0
Policy Objective
Positions of Project Engineers
may be created in each Ministry which implement major national projects
involving construction work. They shall be constituted into a pool in
the office of the Minister or, where the number so warrants, into a
Project Management Service.
Members of the pool shall
individually or collectively be assigned to undertake all the functions
pertinent to the management of a development project in the Ministry
and/or its component Bureaus or Agencies.
Agencies with similar
requirements in project management expertise may establish a common
pool of Project Managers/Engineers.
2.0 Definitions
2.1
A Project Manager is defined as an individual with the necessary
academic preparation and work experience to enable him to
conceptualize, plan, implement and manage a development project of the
government who is appointed to such position. Project Managers shall be
integrated into the government career service despite the temporary
nature of projects to which they are assigned.
2.2 A Project
Engineer is defined as an individual who performs duties similar to
that of project manager, but whose responsibility is lesser due to the
relatively smaller size or simpler characteristic of the project.
2.3 A
Development Project shall refer to any special activity assigned to an
agency which cannot be easily undertaken as part of its regular
operations because of a need for immediate implementation,
non-recurring nature, difficulty of operating under existing
administrative arrangements; and/or specific deadline for completion.
They may include infrastructure projects intended to accelerate the
development of identified locations, areas or population centers, as
the construction of roads/bridges and irrigation facilities.
3.1
Project Managers/Engineers shall be selected and appointed by the Head
of the Agency.
3.2 Project
Managers/Engineers shall be given permanent items and permanent status
even if the projects to which they are assigned at any one time have a
definite completion date.
3.3
Qualification guidelines shall be established by the Minister of the
Budget in consultation with the Ministries concerned and appointments
shall be attested by the Civil Service Commission.
4.1
The pool of Project Managers and/or Project Engineers may be of such
number as warranted by major projects implemented by the agency, as may
be determined by the Minister concerned with the concurrence of the
Minister of the Budget.
4.2 Major
foreign-assisted projects shall be given priority in the assignment of
project managers.
5.1
A Project Manager/Engineer may be assigned to handle any project that
may require his particular expertise in the agency. Assignments,
transfers and other movements of a Project Manager shall be the
responsibility of the Minister or his duly authorized representative.
5.2
Development projects shall be directed by the Project
Managers/Engineers constituted under this letter or by the regular
bureau/offices/agencies of the Ministry as may be determined under
existing rules and regulations.
6.1
Project Managers shall be given basic salaries commensurate with their
qualifications, and transportation and representation allowances based
on the complexity and magnitude of their current project assignments,
to be determined by the Minister of the Budget. The compensation rates
for the Career Executive Service shall be used in determining the
compensation rates. Personal services for CY 1980 shall be charged to
project funds of the agency.
7.1
Concerned agencies shall submit to the Ministry of the Budget pertinent
information relating to specialized skills, academic/work requirements
of their particular projects for purposes of drawing up qualification
standards for Project Managers.
7.2 The
Ministry of the Budget shall promulgate the necessary rules and
regulations to implement this Letter of Instructions.
Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of January in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.
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