Mobility

Civil Service Mobility allows officers to apply for a transfer through an open, fair, and transparent system if they are in the following grades: clerical officer (CO), executive officer (EO), higher executive officer (HEO) and administrative officer (AO). The scheme comes under the remit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and is administered by the NSSO.

This single scheme has replaced the central application facility, central transfer lists and head-to-head transfers, which are no longer available.

Local HRs will be the lead administrators of the scheme in circumstances where an offer is under consideration, or one has been made.

They will promote awareness of mobility across their organisation and comply with the conditions of the scheme. They will have the main roles in the transition of all mobility moves to and from their organisation.

The mobility project team in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform owns the Civil Service Mobility scheme and has decided and agreed the relevant policy. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s mobility page has more information and documentation about the policy.

The Central Mobility Team in NSSO administers civil service mobility. If you have any further questions, you can send them to NSSO through the case management system. The Central Mobility Team can take certain actions on request of a mobility applicant or their HR; these include the following:

Replicating self-service actions on behalf of officers without access to the system

This includes making an application, placing an application on employee hold, removing an employee hold, confirming interest, cancelling an application, and accepting or declining an offer of mobility.

Manually amend eligibility criteria on existing applications

In certain cases, an applicant may ask to change their eligibility status, but this change usually requires an instruction from Local HR.

Reinstate application with original details

In the case that an application for mobility should be reinstated according to the policy, the CMT will do this. An example of where this may arise includes where an applicant has reverted to the grade their original application was made in (within a year of the change).

Verify the legacy date on an application

CO and EO mobility applicants who applied on the system in the first 60 workings days of the scheme (between 13/11/2017 and 08/02/2018) had the option to include their date of application to a previously existing transfer mechanism (CAF, Central Transfer List, and Internal Transfer List).

AO & HEO Mobility applicants who apply on the system in the first 40 workings days of the scheme (between 18/01/2021 and 12/03/2021) have the option to include their date of application to a previously existing transfer mechanism (CAF, Central Transfer List, and Internal Transfer List).

This date requires verification before the application can be transacted on the system. All legacy dates for AO and HEO applicants have been verified in 2021.

For information on how to use the mobility system as Local HR View, the how-to guide can be sourced from the Central Mobility Team at mobility@nsso.gov.ie

For more information see the Local HR mobility guide.