Republic of Serbia
CITY OF SMEDEREVO
City Administration of the City of Smederevo
No. 02-85/2023-09
Date: 25 April 2023
SMEDEREVO
Pursuant to Articles 4, 82, 83 and 84 of the Law on Employees in Autonomous Provinces and Local Self-Government Units (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 21/2016, 113/2017, 95/2018, 114/2021, 113/2017 (other law) and 95/2018 (other law), 86/2019 (other law), 157/2020 (other law) and 123/2021 (other law)), Articles 3 and 4 of the Decree on Conducting Internal and Public Calls for Applications to Fill Positions in Autonomous Provinces and Local Self-Government Units (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 95/2016 and 12/2022) and the Ruling of the Acting Head of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo on filling a position through an internal call for applications, No. 111-14/2023-09 of 19 April 2023,
the Acting Head of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo announces the following
Internal call for applications to fill a position
I Authority in which the position is to be filled through the internal call:
City Administration of the City of Smederevo, seat: Omladinska 1, 11300 Smederevo.
II Position to be filled through the internal call
Position under serial number 198: Property and legal affairs in the Department for Property and Legal Affairs and Utility Services, 1 employee, in the rank of Adviser.
III Job description
Job description from the Rulebook on the Organisation and Job Classification in the City Administration, the City Public Attorney’s Office, the Internal Audit Office and the Chief Urban Planner of the City of Smederevo, No. 02-170/2022-09 of 9 September 2022, No. 02-1/2023-09 of 16 January 2023, No. 02-39/2023-09 of 31 March 2023 and No. 02-72/2023-09 of 18 April 2023, for the position under serial number 198: Property and legal affairs, in the rank of Adviser:
Job description: Conducts administrative proceedings and drafts rulings on expropriation for the purpose of bringing land into its planned urban use in accordance with the established public interest, conducts administrative proceedings and drafts rulings on the transfer of rights to real estate in state or social ownership to another holder of rights to real estate in social or state ownership (administrative transfer), conducts administrative proceedings and drafts rulings on the establishment of easements, conducts administrative proceedings for determining compensation for expropriated real estate by agreement, conducts administrative proceedings and drafts rulings on the annulment or amendment of final rulings on expropriation and administrative transfer, all in accordance with the law governing expropriation, conducts administrative proceedings and drafts rulings on determining the land required for the regular use of a building and drafts proposed acts for the competent City authority on granting consent to the establishment of easements on land in public ownership of the City, all in accordance with the Law on Planning and Construction, conducts administrative proceedings and drafts acts on requests for the conversion of the right of use into the right of ownership of building land for a fee in accordance with the Law, performs professional and administrative tasks for commissions in connection with the adoption of rulings under the Law on the Agricultural Land Fund, prepares reports and information in the field of property law for City authorities, and cooperates with the city and state public attorney’s offices, courts, competent ministries and other authorities and organisations. Also performs other tasks as instructed by the Head of Section.
Competences required to perform the tasks of the position
Behavioural competences (information management, task management and achieving results, orientation towards learning and change, building and maintaining professional relationships, conscientiousness, commitment and integrity).
General functional competences (organisation and work of the authorities of autonomous provinces/local self-government in the Republic of Serbia, digital literacy and business communication).
Special functional competences in a specific field of work
1) professional and operational tasks: areas of knowledge and skills (methods and techniques of observation, data collection and recording; techniques for processing data and preparing data overviews; methods of analysis and drawing conclusions on the situation in the field; procedure for preparing professional findings;
methods and techniques for preparing reports based on specific records; techniques for drafting general, individual and other legal and other acts; law of obligations; property and legal affairs) and
2) administrative and legal tasks: areas of knowledge and skills (general administrative procedure; rules for the enforcement of rulings issued in administrative proceedings; administrative disputes, enforcement of court judgments; case law and positions of the courts in administrative disputes).
Special functional competences for the specific position
- Planning documents, regulations and acts within the remit and organisation of the authority
Areas of knowledge and skills
(Statute of the City of Smederevo, Decision on the Acquisition and Disposal of Assets in Public Ownership, Decision on the Use of Public Areas in the Territory of the City of Smederevo, Decision on Fees for the Use of Public Areas for the Territory of the City of Smederevo, Decision on the Disposal and Lease of Building Land),
2) Regulations within the scope of the position: areas of knowledge and skills
(Law on Local Self-Government, Law on Public Property, Law on Planning and Construction, Law on Real Estate Transactions, Law on General Administrative Procedure, Law on the Fundamentals of Property Relations, Law on Expropriation, Law on the Conversion of the Right of Use into the Right of Ownership of Land for a Fee, Decree on the Conditions for Acquiring and Disposing of Real Estate by Direct Agreement and Leasing Assets in Public Ownership, or Acquiring Other Property Rights, and on the Procedures for Public Auction and the Collection of Written Bids, Decree on the Conditions, Method and Procedure under which Building Land in Public Ownership May Be Disposed of or Leased at a Price or Rent below the Market Value or Free of Charge, and on the Conditions, Method and Procedure for the Exchange of Real Estate)
3) Software (specific software required for work in the position): Unified Real Estate Register and the portfolio of property in public ownership of the local self-government unit.
IV Eligibility to take part in the internal call:
Civil servants employed for an indefinite period in the City Administration of the City of Smederevo may take part in the internal call.
Civil servants of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo holding the same rank, or civil servants who meet the conditions for promotion to the rank in which the position to be filled is classified, are eligible to take part in the internal call.
V Requirements for candidates
- being an adult citizen of the Republic of Serbia;
- higher education in the scientific field of legal sciences obtained at undergraduate academic studies of at least 240 ECTS credits, master’s academic studies, master’s applied studies, specialist academic studies or specialist applied studies, or at undergraduate studies lasting at least four years or specialist studies at a faculty;
- having passed the state professional examination;
- at least three years of work experience in the profession;
- not having been convicted by a final judgment and sentenced to an unconditional prison sentence of at least six months;
- not having had employment in a state authority, or in an authority of an autonomous province or local self-government unit, terminated due to a serious breach of employment duties;
VI Professional qualifications, knowledge and skills, or the required competences, assessed in the selection procedure
In accordance with Article 19 of the Law on Employees in Autonomous Provinces and
Local Self-Government Units, in recruitment all positions are available to all candidates under
equal conditions. Candidates are selected on the basis of professional qualifications, knowledge and
skills, that is, on the basis of an assessment of competences.
Special functional competences in a specific field of work will be assessed orally through a simulation.
Special functional competences for the specific position will be assessed orally through a simulation.
Software (specific software required for work in the position) will be assessed orally through a simulation.
VII Supporting documents to be enclosed with the application to the internal call
The following must be enclosed with the signed application, together with a CV and details of previous work experience:
1. diploma of the educational qualification obtained;
2. certificate of work experience in the profession with a brief description of the tasks the candidate performed, with which qualification and in which rank;
3. proof (certificate) that the candidate’s employment in a state authority, or in an authority of an autonomous province or local self-government unit, has not previously been terminated due to a serious breach of employment duties;
4. certificate of having passed the state professional examination (persons who have passed the bar examination may submit a certificate of having passed the bar examination instead of the certificate of having passed the state professional examination);
5. birth certificate;
6. certificate of citizenship (not older than 6 months);
7. proof that the candidate has not been convicted by a final judgment and sentenced to an unconditional prison sentence of at least six months (extract from the criminal records of the competent Police Administration issued after the announcement of this call);
8. ruling on assignment or transfer to a position in the authority where the candidate works, or a ruling that the civil servant is unassigned;
9. proof of meeting the conditions for promotion (performance appraisal rulings).
Note: All supporting documents must be submitted as originals or as photocopies certified by a notary public (exceptionally, in cities and municipalities where no notaries public have been appointed, the documents may be certified by basic courts, court units, reception offices of basic courts or municipal/city administrations, as a delegated task). Photocopies of documents certified before 1 March 2017 by basic courts or municipal/city administrations may also be submitted as proof.
Article 9 and Article 103 of the Law on General Administrative Procedure (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 18/2016, 95/2018 (authentic interpretation) and 2/2023 (Constitutional Court decision)) provide, among other things, that an authority may inspect, obtain and process personal data on facts recorded in official records, unless the party expressly states that it will obtain the data itself.
Attachment: Form 1 (Statement)
Documents on facts recorded in official records are: certificate of citizenship; birth certificate; certificate from the criminal records.
Together with the above supporting documents and the application, candidates must also submit a statement choosing one of the options: that the authority obtains the data recorded in official records, or that the candidate will obtain them personally.
The statement form is published together with the internal call for applications to fill the position.
VIII Place of work
City Administration of the City of Smederevo, Omladinska 1, 11300 Smederevo.
IX Deadline for applications
The deadline for submitting applications to the internal call is 8 (eight) days from the day the internal call is announced on the website or on the notice board of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo, and it runs from 26 April 2023 and expires on 3 May 2023.
X Person responsible for providing information about the internal call
Biljana Stanisavljević, telephone: 026/672-724, ext. 1613,
email: biljana.stanisavljevic@smederevo.ls.gov.rs
XI Address for submitting applications to the internal call
City Administration of the City of Smederevo, Omladinska 1, 11300 Smederevo, marked “To the Selection Commission for the internal call” and stating the position applied for.
XII Contents of the application
The candidate’s first name and surname, date and place of birth, contact telephone number, information on education, and information on work experience with a brief description of the tasks the candidate has performed up to the submission of the application and the responsibilities involved. The application must be signed by hand.
It is expressly emphasised that the supporting documents enclosed with the application to the internal call for the position applied for, together with the completed Form 1 (Statement), must be submitted marked
“To the Selection Commission for the internal call”, in a sealed envelope marked “do not open”.
XIII Selection procedure
The selection procedure is conducted by the Selection Commission for the internal call, appointed by the Acting Head of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo.
Applications that are late, inadmissible, incomprehensible or incomplete, and applications not accompanied by all the required supporting documents, will be rejected.
After the deadline for submitting applications to the internal call has expired, the Selection Commission will review all the applications received and the supporting documents submitted and draw up a list of candidates among whom the selection procedure will be conducted. The selection procedure is conducted only among candidates who meet the advertised requirements for the position to be filled. Candidates among whom the selection procedure for filling the position is conducted are notified in writing of when the selection procedure begins. Candidates are also notified by email, if an address has been provided, and by telephone. At the start of each part, candidates are informed of when the next part of the selection procedure begins. A candidate who does not respond to the invitation to take part in one part of the selection procedure is not invited to take part in the next part.
The selection procedure is conducted in several mandatory stages, in the following order: assessment of special functional competences and a final interview with the commission. Candidates are evaluated at each stage, and only a candidate who meets the predetermined benchmark for the assessment of a given competence at one stage of the selection procedure may take part in the assessment of the next competence at the same or the next stage.
The assessment will take place on the premises of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo, in Smederevo, Omladinska 1.
In the selection procedure, the Selection Commission assesses only those professional qualifications, knowledge and skills, or competences, of the candidates that are specified in the internal call, and in the manner specified in the internal call.
* All expressions, terms, nouns, adjectives and verbs in this internal call that are used in the masculine grammatical gender refer equally, without discrimination, to persons of the female sex. Date of announcement: 25 April 2023
Acting Head of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo
Goran Milentijević