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Recruitment Examination for Fiscal Year 2025 (Assistant Manager Level (Regular Service Equivalent))

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In accordance with the following guidelines, we will recruit assistant manager level (equivalent to regular service) employees who will be in charge of the implementation of administrative affairs related to Digital Agency jurisdictional administration.

  1. Job description
  2. Image of the person sought
  3. Eligibility
  4. Salary and allowance
  5. Working hours and leave
  6. Selection Schedule (planned)
  7. Planned number of employees
  8. Expected date of employment
  9. Selection method
  10. How to apply
  11. Other
  12. Contact

1. Job Description

In accordance with the following guidelines, Section Chief level (equivalent to regular service) employees who are in charge of the implementation of administrative affairs related to Digital Agency administration will be hired for each of the following four career courses.

1-1. Career Course

1-1-1. Policy Design

1-1-2. Organizational Design

  • Course Mission: Design and run your own highly productive, digital-first organization
  • Main business:
    • Smooth execution of business in each specialized area of the back office, centering on general affairs, human resources, and accounting areas
    • Planning, implementation, and management for organizational design for the realization of Mission, Vision and Values in Digital Agency
    • Development and improvement of BPR and operational manuals to review the work flow and improve the experience of various staff
    • Team building with members from various backgrounds such as central government, private companies, and local governments

1-1-3. Tech

1-1-4. Legal

  • Course Mission: Review the current laws and ordinances from the ground up and draft a new legal system in line with the digital age
  • Main business:
    • Planning and coordination of laws and ordinances and systems under the jurisdiction of Digital Agency, handling of interpretation inquiries, and liaison and coordination with parties involved in legal revisions
    • In discussions on Digital Agency such as laws and ordinances drafted by the Cabinet Office and each Ministry and Agency, compilation of opinions as Digital Agency and liaison and coordination with relevant Ministries and Agencies
  • Assign To Example:
    *After being hired for all courses, the assigned person will be determined in consideration of the skill set. In addition, the assigned person may change depending on the situation of the project after entering the office.

2. Image of Human Resources Sought

2-1. Essential Requirements

It is common to all career courses.

  • A person who has a strong interest in public service and an enthusiasm to work as a servant of the whole
  • A person who has the logical thinking ability, judgment, and expression ability to solve problems.
  • A person with strong communication skills who can coordinate with a wide range of stakeholders
  • A person who has a technique for efficient and agile execution of business and other knowledge and ability acquired through work experience
  • A person whose knowledge and skills are expected to improve through post-employment training or work experience

2-2. Welcome Requirements

It depends on the career course.

2-2-1. Welcome Requirements in "Policy Design"

  • A person with at least three years of experience as a consultant at a consulting firm, experience similar to that of a person in charge of public affairs at a private business company, or experience in planning at a public institution such as a central government agency or local public entity.
  • A person who is in charge of coordination and negotiations inside and outside a large-scale organization and who has a high ability to explain and coordinate opinions of many stakeholders.

2-2-2. Welcome Requirements in "Organizational Design"

  • Those who have at least three years of experience in back-office work at administrative organizations such as central government ministries and agencies, local governments, and incorporated administrative agencies, or public organizations such as universities and hospitals.
  • Employees who have a positive attitude toward creating a new organizational culture while positively considering working in an administrative organization that has a different organizational culture from the private sector
  • A team of people from a variety of backgrounds with strong management skills to increase productivity and engagement.

2-2-3. Welcome Requirements for "Tech"

  • A person with knowledge of QCD and experience in achieving results and achievements
  • A person who has PM experience at a business company, etc., and has any of the following successful experiences:
    • Projects with a development cost of 1 billion yen or more (outsourced or in-house)
    • Recovery and convergence of troubled projects (whether outsourced or in-house)
    • Hybrid project of outsourcing and in-house production
  • A person who is willing to actively engage in operations that are not directly related to the technology domain (budget management, requests, external explanations, etc.)

2-2-4. Welcome Requirements for "Legal"

  • A person who has the capability to conduct research on documents necessary for the interpretation, etc. of the laws and ordinances Plan and to conduct institutional design, planning, etc.
  • Those who have experience in legislative work, such as interpretation and operation of laws and ordinances, response to preliminary examination of Cabinet Legislation Bureau, and revision work of municipal ordinance.
  • A person who is willing to actively engage in other work indirectly related to the laws and ordinances (research on foreign countries, organization of conferences, etc.)

3. Eligibility

Persons who have graduated from a university, junior college, college of technology, or high school, or who are recognized as having academic ability equivalent or superior to these, and who have a certain level of work experience (as of April 1, 2025 (including estimates), persons who have graduated from a university will have at least 8 years of work experience, persons who have graduated from a junior college or college of technology will have at least 11 years of work experience, and persons who have graduated from a high school will have at least 13 years of work experience);
*In order to confirm whether or not the qualifications are met, final successful candidates will be required to submit a Certificate of Employment, etc. Please note that the period during which a Certificate of Employment, etc. cannot be submitted will not be counted as work experience. In addition, if a Certificate of Employment, etc. cannot be submitted or a Certificate of Employment, etc. containing a false statement is submitted, the employment offer may be revoked.

Please note that the following persons are not eligible to apply.

  • Persons without Japanese nationality
  • A person who may not become a national government officer pursuant to the provisions of Article 38 of the national government officer Act
    • A person who has been sentenced to imprisonment or severer punishment and who has not yet served out the sentence or ceased to be subject to the sentence
    • A person who has received a disciplinary dismissal and for whom two years have not passed since the date of such dismissal
    • A person who, on or after the date of enforcement of the Constitution of Japan, has formed or joined a political party or any other organization advocating the overthrow by force of the Constitution of Japan or the Government established thereunder;
  • A person who has been sentenced to quasi-incompetence under the provisions of the Civil Code prior to the revision in 1999 (except for those who have been sentenced due to diminished capacity)
  • Persons who have reached the mandatory retirement age stipulated in Article 81-6 (Retirement at the Mandatory Retirement Age) of the national government officer Metropolitan Law by the scheduled date of employment (the mandatory retirement age in FY 2025 was 62 years old)

4. Salary and Allowance

  • The monthly salary at the time of hiring is determined in consideration of a balance between the number of years of experience of the hired employee and the monthly salary received by employees hired through the national government officer Hiring Regular Service Examination (university graduate) or the national government officer Hiring II Examination who have the same number of years of experience as the hired employee.
  • Allowances include dependent allowances, housing allowances, commuting allowances, overtime allowances, year-end and diligence allowances (bonuses), and allowance for employees on unaccompanied postings, which are paid according to the actual situation of the employee.
  • Model example: Section Chief level at headquarters (Gyo (I) Level 3, from 335,860 yen per month)
    *Includes regional allowances and operational adjustment allowances at headquarters.

5. Working Hours and Leave

  • Working hours per day are 7 hours and 45 minutes. In principle, the Company is closed on Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and other holidays.
  • In addition to the annual leave of 20 days a year (in the case of employment on April 1, 15 days in the year of employment. The remaining number of days is carried over to the following year up to 20 days), there are sick leave, special leave (summer, marriage, childbirth, bereavement, volunteer work, etc.), nursing care leave, etc.
  • In addition, there is a childcare leave system as a support system for work-life balance (balancing work and family life).

6. Selection Schedule (planned)

We hire throughout the year. It takes about 3 months from application to informal decision.
*The schedule may change due to social conditions and other factors.

7. Number of Employees

A few people for each course

8. Scheduled Hiring Date

As a general rule, from May 1, 2025
*The specific timing will be adjusted individually.

9. Selection Method

9-1. Selection Content

  • First selection
    • Document screening (career evaluation)
    • Essay test (a test to judge whether or not a person has the ability necessary to perform his / her duties)
  • Second selection
    • Aptitude tests (tests that measure basic abilities and personality)
    • Multiple interviews (regarding personality, interpersonal skill, etc.)

9-2. Test Site

It is scheduled to be conducted online using Microsoft Teams and face-to-face at the Digital Agency office.

10. How to Apply

10-1. Entering the Application Form

Please apply for your desired course below.
List of Selected Jobs - Digital Agency (HERP Hire)

10-2. Submission of Required Documents

Please attach the required documents when filling out the application form.
*Application documents will not be returned. Personal information contained in the application documents will not be used for purposes other than the procedures related to this employment.

  • Resume (Word/37KB)
  • Resume (Word/26KB)
  • Essay (Word/27KB)
    Please refer to the most recent "Priority Plan for the Realization of a Digital Society," list the fields and measures that you are interested in, and describe your awareness of the issues and methods for solving the issues in detail based on your learning from past work experience (2000 characters or less).

11. Other

An archive (video) of business briefings and events held by Digital Agency in the past. If you are interested in Digital Agency, please watch it.

12. Contact

Digital Agency Recruiter
Email: saiyo _ atmark _ digital. go. jp
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