Republic of Serbia
CITY OF SMEDEREVO
City Administration of the City of Smederevo
No.: 02-86/2023-09
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), 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. 111-10/2023-09 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 an internal call for applications:
City Administration of the City of Smederevo, registered office: Omladinska 1, 11300 Smederevo.
II Position to be filled through the internal call for applications
Under serial number 85. Software maintenance: System engineer II in the Department for Finance: 1 employee, in the rank of associate.
III Job description
Job description from the Rulebook on the Organisation and Systematisation of Positions 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 85. Software maintenance: System engineer II, in the rank of associate:
Job description: Provides users with software support in their work; installs, configures, tests and monitors application and system software; keeps records of installed software; takes care of and collects documentation on the legality of software; takes part in preparing for and carrying out the procurement of hardware for users; connects peripheral devices and hardware, and installs and configures the necessary software; replaces worn-out and faulty components; maintains the internal cleanliness of hardware. Also performs other tasks as instructed by the Head of the Department.
The competencies required to perform the duties of the position are
Behavioural competencies (managing information, managing tasks and achieving results, orientation towards learning and change, building and maintaining professional relationships, conscientiousness, commitment and integrity).
General functional competencies (organisation and work of the bodies of autonomous provinces/local self-government in the Republic of Serbia, digital literacy and business communication).
Special functional competencies in a specific field of work
- IT affairs: areas of knowledge and skills (information security;
TCP/IP and DNS, and server operating systems (MS Windows, Linux); databases; resource sharing systems; hardware)
Special functional competencies for the specific position
- Planning documents, regulations and acts within the competence and organisation of the authority: areas of knowledge and skills (Statute of the City of Smederevo) and
- Regulations within the remit of the position: areas of knowledge and skills
(Regulations in the field of IT: Law on Information Security, Decree on the Detailed Content of the Act on the Security of Information and Communication Systems of Special Importance, the Method of Checking and the Content of the Report on the Security Check of an Information and Communication System of Special Importance, Rulebook on the Security of the Information and Communication System of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo).
IV Eligibility to take part in the internal call for applications:
Employees with permanent employment in the City Administration of the City of Smederevo may take part in the internal call for applications.
Employees of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo in the same rank, or employees who meet the requirements for promotion to the rank in which the position to be filled is classified, are eligible to take part in the internal call for applications.
V Requirements for candidates
- being an adult citizen of the Republic of Serbia;
- having higher education obtained through undergraduate academic studies of 180 ECTS credits, undergraduate vocational studies, or studies lasting up to three years: a college of computer science, a college of organisation and informatics, a college of electrical engineering or a technical college of industrial management;
- having passed the state professional examination;
- having at least three years of work experience in the profession;
- not having been convicted by a final judgment and sentenced to an unconditional prison term of at least six months;
- not having had their employment terminated in a state authority, or in an authority of an autonomous province or local self-government unit, due to a serious breach of employment duties;
VI Professional qualifications, knowledge and skills, or the required competencies, assessed in the selection procedure
Professional qualifications, knowledge and skills, or the required competencies, assessed in the selection procedure:
Pursuant to Article 19 of the Law on Employees in Autonomous Provinces and
Local Self-Government Units, all positions are available to all candidates under equal conditions
during recruitment. Candidates are selected on the basis of their professional qualifications, knowledge and
skills, that is, on the basis of an assessment of competencies.
Special functional competencies in a specific field of work will be assessed orally through a simulation
Special functional competencies for the specific position will be assessed orally through a simulation.
Interview with the commission
Motivation to work in the position and acceptance of the values of the local government authority will be assessed through an interview with the commission.
VII Supporting documents to be enclosed with the application to the internal call for applications
The following must be enclosed with the signed application, together with a CV and details of previous work experience:
1. diploma of the qualification obtained;
2. confirmation of work experience in the profession, with a brief description of the duties the candidate performed, with which qualification and in which rank;
3. proof (confirmation) that the candidate’s employment has not previously been terminated in a state authority, or in an authority of an autonomous province or local self-government unit, due to a serious breach of employment duties;
4. 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 term of at least six months (an extract from the criminal records of the competent Police Department, issued after this call for applications was announced);
8. ruling on assignment or transfer to a position in the authority in which the candidate works, or a ruling that the employee is unassigned;
9. proof of meeting the requirements for promotion (performance appraisal rulings).
Note: All supporting documents are to be submitted as originals or as photocopies certified by a public notary (exceptionally, in cities and municipalities where no public notaries have been appointed, the documents enclosed may be certified by basic courts, court units, reception offices of basic courts or municipal/city administrations, as an entrusted task). Photocopies of documents certified before 1 March 2017 by basic courts or municipal/city administrations may also be enclosed as proof.
Articles 9 and 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 the 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)
The documents on facts recorded in official records are: certificate of citizenship; birth certificate; certificate from criminal records.
In addition to the application and the supporting documents listed above, the participant 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 do so 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 submitting applications
The deadline for submitting applications to the internal call for applications is 8 (eight) days from the date on which the internal call for applications was 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 for applications
Biljana Stanisavljević, telephone: 026/672-724, ext. 1613,
email: biljana.stanisavljevic@smederevo.ls.gov.rs
XI Address for submitting applications to the internal call for applications
City Administration of the City of Smederevo, Omladinska 1, 11300 Smederevo, marked “To the Selection Commission for the internal call for applications” and stating the position applied for.
XII The application contains
The candidate’s first name and surname, date and place of birth, contact telephone number, details of education and details of work experience, with a brief description of the duties the candidate has performed up to the submission of the application and the responsibilities in those jobs. The application must be signed by hand.
Please note in particular that the supporting documents enclosed with the application to the internal call for applications for the position applied for, together with the completed Form 1 (Statement), are to be submitted marked
“To the Selection Commission for the internal call for applications”, in a sealed envelope bearing the words “do not open”.
XIII Selection procedure
The selection procedure is conducted by the Selection Commission for conducting the internal call for applications, appointed by the Acting Head of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo.
Late, inadmissible, incomprehensible or incomplete applications, and applications not accompanied by all the required supporting documents, will be rejected.
After the deadline for submitting applications to the internal call for applications has expired, the Selection Commission will review all the applications received and the supporting documents submitted and draw up a list of the candidates among whom the selection procedure will be conducted. The selection procedure is conducted only among candidates who meet the announced requirements for work in the position to be filled. Candidates among whom the selection procedure for filling the position is conducted are sent written notification 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 competencies and a final interview with the commission. Candidates are evaluated at each stage, and only a candidate who meets the predetermined criterion for the assessment of a particular competency at one stage of the selection procedure may take part in the assessment of the next competency at the same or the next stage.
The assessment will be carried out 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 competencies, of the candidates that are specified in the internal call for applications, and in the manner specified in the internal call for applications.
* All expressions, terms, nouns, adjectives and verbs in this internal call for applications that are used in the masculine grammatical gender apply equally, without discrimination, to women. Date of announcement: 25 April 2023
Acting Head of the City Administration of the City of Smederevo
Goran Milentijević