Vietnam: What are the standards for senior inspector ranks?

What are the standards for senior inspector ranks? (Illustration)

The standards for the senior inspector rank are stipulated in Article 7 of Decree 97/2011/ND-CP as follows:

1. Responsibilities:

Senior inspectors are professional officials of the Government Inspectorate, ministry inspectorates, ministry-equivalent agencies, inspectorates of provinces and central-affiliated cities. They implement inspection decisions and other tasks of state inspection agencies. Senior inspectors are directly assigned to lead inspections on large-scale cases with very complex details involving many sectors and fields. When conducting inspections, they must comply with the law and are responsible before the law and the direct management superior for the assigned tasks.

2. Duties:

• Lead the planning and organization of inspections, resolve complaints, denounce corruption as assigned;
• Directly perform or organize coordination with relevant agencies and units to collect evidence and relevant documents pertaining to the inspections, complaint resolutions, and corruption prevention and control as assigned;
• Prepare inspection result reports, inspection conclusions, clarify each inspected content; determine the nature and extent of violations, causes, responsibilities; propose solutions to rectify management activities regarding various sectors or localities;
• Lead or participate in summarizing and evaluating broad and complex inspections or large-scale inspections as assigned;
• Lead and participate in developing inspection procedures, resolve complaints, denounce corruption; train and develop professional skills for inspectors and chief inspectors;
• During inspections, exercise the rights and duties stipulated in Articles 47 and 54 of the Law on Inspection;
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the state inspection agency's superior authority.

3. Competence:

• Master the policies and directives of the Party, laws of the State, strategic goals for economic, cultural, and social development in various periods, sectors, and fields;
• Deeply understand the domestic and global socio-economic situation; fully grasp the principles, regimes, policies, and State regulations in state management, economic management, and cultural and social management;
• Possess wide and deep knowledge of multiple disciplines and fields; be capable of handling the responsibility of leading and deputy leading inspection teams for large-scale, very complex cases involving multiple sectors and fields; capable of organizing and managing chief inspectors to perform assigned inspection tasks;
• Lead the summarization and theoretical research on inspection work; participate in drafting laws on inspection, complaint resolution, denouncing, and anti-corruption;
• Participate in developing programs, compiling professional materials for training and fostering inspectors, chief inspectors, and managers of inspection organizations;
• Have the analytical, generalization, and synthesis capabilities for issues within the management scope of multiple sectors and fields.

4. Qualification and work experience requirements:

• Hold a university degree or higher suitable for the specialty in the sector or field being worked in;
• Hold a certificate or diploma in professional training for senior inspector rank;
• Hold a certificate or diploma in state management training for senior officer ranks;
• Hold an advanced political theory diploma;
• Possess a certificate or diploma in a foreign language at level C or higher in one of the five languages: English, French, Russian, Chinese, German;
• Be proficient in office computing or hold a certificate in office computing;
• Have a minimum of 6 years working experience in the chief inspector rank or its equivalent, except for cases where officials, public employees, army officers, and police officers working in other agencies, organizations, or units, holding ranks equivalent to senior inspector, are transferred to the state inspection agency.

For further details, please refer to Decree 97/2011/NĐ-CP, effective from December 15, 2011.

Thuy Tram

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