5 new job position categories for civil servants

Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra has just signed and issued Decree No. 361/2025 of the Government regulating civil servant job positions, effective from December 31, 2025.

The list of job positions is determined according to the lists issued with the Decree, including 5 groups.

Of which, 89 positions are for civil servants in leadership and management positions in administrative agencies and organizations at the ministerial and provincial levels; 690 positions are for professional and technical civil servants in administrative agencies and organizations at the ministerial and provincial levels; 22 positions are for support and service in administrative agencies and organizations at the ministerial and provincial levels; 28 positions are for civil servants in the Office of the National Assembly Delegation and Provincial People's Council; 45 positions are for civil servants in administrative agencies and organizations at the commune level.

The Government requires civil servant employers to be responsible for determining specific job positions used in their agencies; developing job description and capacity framework for each job position; determining the ratio of civil servants to be arranged for each job position in their agencies and organizations.

At the ministerial level, the Decree clearly states that the rate of civil servants arranged according to job positions does not apply to the job positions of civil servants in leadership and management positions as deputy ministers and equivalent or civil servants holding high-level expert positions according to the regulations of competent authorities.

The rate of civil servants arranged according to job positions is classified as senior experts and equivalent:

For the Department and equivalent, it is an organization performing the function of providing in-depth consultation on state management for each field: The rate does not exceed 40% of the total number of positions of the unit assigned by competent authorities. For the Department and equivalent, the organization performing the function of general consulting or consulting on internal management work: The rate does not exceed 30% of the total number of positions of the unit assigned by competent authorities.

For type 1 Departments: The rate does not exceed 25% of the total number of employees of the unit assigned by competent authorities. For type 2 Departments: The rate does not exceed 35% of the total number of employees of the unit assigned by competent authorities. For the Ministry Office: The rate does not exceed 20% of the total number of positions of the unit assigned by competent authorities.

The rate of civil servants arranged according to job positions is the main specialist rank and equivalent:

For the Department and equivalent, it is an organization performing the function of providing in-depth consultation on state management for each field: The rate does not exceed 40% of the total number of positions of the unit assigned by competent authorities.

For the Department and equivalent, which is an organization that provides general consultation or internal management consultation: The rate does not exceed 50% of the total number of employees of the unit assigned by competent authorities;

At the provincial and commune levels, the rate of civil servants arranged according to job positions is classified as senior experts and equivalent:

For the leadership and management job position of the head of a professional agency under the province: The rate is 100%. For the leadership and management job position as deputy head of a professional agency under a province: The rate does not exceed 50% of the total number of deputy heads of all professional agencies under a province according to the regulations of competent authorities.

The rate of civil servants arranged according to job positions is the main specialist rank and equivalent:

For specialized agencies under the province: The rate does not exceed 50% of the total number of civil servants of each specialized agency under the province assigned by competent authorities.

For specialized agencies under the commune: the leadership and management position is the head of the specialized agency under the commune, the rate is 100%.

For the leadership and management job position as deputy head of a professional agency under a commune, the rate does not exceed 50% of the total number of deputy heads of the entire professional agency under a commune as prescribed by competent authorities.

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