July 4, 2003	Friday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 3,1424

ISLAMABAD, July 3: The Central Board of Revenue has launched an official report containing draft of generic job descriptions (JDs) for positions in all cadres as a step towards professionalizing the human resources of tax administration.

The report launched here on Thursday will be formally sent to the CBR management and senior officials as well as the field formations for seeking their comments, proposals and suggestions on it.

Human resource and management member Zafar Aziz Osmani told Dawn on Thursday the report was formally launched following an approval of the Board in council meeting chaired by the CBR chairman.

He said based on feedback from the reviewers, standard generic positions would be finalized and adopted by September in the tax administration. The JDs would cover all cadres of field formations and the headquarter jobs in the directorates of intelligence, training, audit and inspection including the CBR.

These generic job descriptions would then form the base structure for developing personalized job description for each positions and individual across the CBR, he said.

Eliminating the duplications in generic positions, he said it was agreed to retain 142 JDs as models out of 180 JDs identified earlier.

Mr Zafar said the generic job description would bring the results that would focus on three dimensions for each positions — revenue or service related objectives; taxpayers or internal customers related objective; and employee development and motivation goals.

He said the generic JDs would attempt to align the role of the top tier positions towards focussing on thought leadership with the predominant involvement in the strategic thinking and providing broad strategies for the accomplishment of CBR goals.

The second tier jobs generally focus on the strategic planning and leadership responsibilities, he said and added the third tier required predominant scope on managerial and supervisory level of responsibilities, while position in the forth tier was mostly of operational nature with ownership for delivery of products and services.

Mr Zafar said the concept of JDs was given to the CBR by consultant on reform process, an HR adviser from Maxwell Stamp, Alan Gilmour. Later on a team of selected officers was provided intensive training on JDs, who successfully developed JDs for identified positions, he added.