Invitation of applications for appointment as Young Professionals and
Consultant in the Department of Economic Affair, Ministry of Finance.
The Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) proposes to engage Young Professionals and Consultant in various Divisions of DEA for attending to specific and time-bound jobs of this Department. Only persons with requisite qualification and experience as prescribed would be hired as Young Professionals and Consultant. Each applicant has to specify for which post & Division is he/she applying for. Application not sent through Web portal httpsr/ /mofapp.nic.in/cadre will not be consider. The only means of communication between the department and candidates shall be email. The details of the advertisement are as follows:-
1. Qualification and Age Limit:
The Consultants are classified into two (2) Categories. The Qualification, age limit and remuneration for each of the category is given in the table below:-
In all the positions, persons WIth additional qualifications, research
experience, published papers and post qualification experience in the relevant field
would be preferred.
For the post of Consultant, research experience while doing PhD will also be counted as post qualification experience.
2. Division wise breakup:
Division wise breakup of vacant positions of Young Professionals and Consultants in the Department, along with a brief work profile for each of the vacancies may be seen at Annexure-I.
Candidates are required to indicate category of post they are applying (YPsor
Consultant) as well as the Division for which they wish to be considered for.
3. Tenure of Appointment & Promotion:
• The Maximum continuous tenure of a Consultant would be 3 years (1+ 1+ 1) (subject to performance and presence of the professional in the division concemed being highly useful). However, a Young Professional if further selected as Consultant can work for further 3 years, subject to a maximum period of 4 years in both positions together.
4. Other Entitlements / Conditions:
4.1. Remuneration:
Remuneration for Consultants and Young Professionals shall be as follows:
completion.
No other facilities such as DA, accommodation, residential phone/ conveyance/ transport, foreign travel, personal staff, medical reimbursement, CGHS etc. would be admissible to the Young Professionals and Consultants.
7. Attendance & Working days:
• The working hours of the professionals shall be same as regular Government employees working in DEA. No extra remuneration shall be allowed for working beyond office hours or on Saturdays/ Sundays/ Gazetted holidays. Compensatory leave in such cases shall be at the discretion of the JS of the concerned division.
• The attendance shall be marked in the Biometric system by the YPs and
Consultants.
8. Leave:
• Consultants shall be eligible for 8 days leave in a single year of consultancy.
• The leaves shall accrue to them on completed month basis calculated from their date of joining on pro-rata basis.
• An YPjConsultant shall not draw any remuneration in case of his/her absence beyond 8 days in a year (Calculated on pro-rata basis).
• Un-availed leave in tenure of single year cannot be carried forward to next tenure of 1 year.
• The intervening Saturdays, Sundays or Gazetted holidays during a spell of leave shall not be counted against the 8 leaves.
9. Service Condition:
• The Consultant/YP shall not, except with the previous sanction of Department of Economic Affairs, in the bonafide discharge of his duties, publish a book or a compilation of articles or participate in a radio broadcast or representing any private entity in legal or commercial matters or contribute an article or write a letter to any newspaper or periodical, either in his own name or anonymously or pseudonymous in the name of any other person, if such book, article, broadcast, uses any information that he may gather as part of this Consultancy jYP assignment.
10. Confidentiality and Secrecy:
• During the period of assignment with Department of Economic Affairs, the
Consultant would be subject to the provisions of the Indian Official Secret Act,
1923 and will not divulge any information gathered by him during the period of his assignment to anyone who is not authorized to know the same.
• Selected candidates shall provide integrity certificates from 2 references known to them.
• A self-undertaking shall be provided by the candidate to the effect that he / she has no criminal record or criminal case in any court is pending against them.
11. Termination of Services and requirement of notice:
• In case a professional wishes to resign from his/her position, he/she shall furnish at least one month's notice period or salary in lieu thereof. Secretary (EA) may waive off the condition for notice period/ salary in lieu thereof, in deserving cases.
• DEA shall have powers to terminate any or all the professionals at any time without assigning any reason, with the approval of the Secretary (EA).
• Absence from duty for a continuous period of 8 days, without any information or any valid reason shall lead to automatic termination of contractual engagement.
12. Submission of application:
The application shall have to be submitted indicating the post and Division for which the candidate wishes to apply. The application should be submitted through the Web portal URL https: II mofapp.nic.in I cadre on or before
20.04.2021.
