About the Agency

The Public Management Agency is the government agency that shapes human resources management policy in the public sector and ensures the implementation of strategic activities.  

• Attracts people with the right competences into the civil service.
• Organises and conducts competitions for the posts of heads of institution of public administration institutions and agencies as well as for other positions in the civil service (institutions have the right to organise their competitions themselves or apply to  the Public Management Agency).
• Organise centralised training for civil servants.
•  Particular attention is paid to the search of heads of institutions, their career management as well as the centralised development of senior managers.  
• Ensures the proper implementation of the Law on the Civil Service and related legislation and deals with complaints from individuals. 
• Acts as the main administrator of the Civil Service Register and the Civil Service Management Information Systems.
• Promotes progressive governance and the development of quality management methods in budgetary and public institutions.

Mission

Through continuous growth and development, we contribute to the creation and development of best practices in human resource management that will make public sector organisations more efficient.

Purpose

To participate in the shaping  and implement public policy in the fields of public administration and civil service management, enabling public sector organisations to operate more efficiently, improving human resource management and developing progressive governance.

Functions of the Agency

Provides methodological assistance and advice to institutions and individuals on the implementation of the Law on the Civil Service and related legislation: recruitment and dismissal of civil servants, preparation of job descriptions, remuneration, performance appraisal, etc.

Organises centralised selection procedures for civil servants:
- Commissions set up by the Agency select career civil servants for more than 430 Lithuanian state and municipal institutions and agencies as well as heads of institutions for about 150 institutions and agencies.
- About 30 competitions for civil servants are organised per week.

Analyses the experience of foreign countries in the field of human resources management, summarises this experience and makes proposals for improving human resources management.

Coordinates the 360-degree assessment of the qualifications of the heads of institutions, providing methodological support and monitoring the application of this method and the process of performance appraisal of civil servants.

Disseminates good practice in human resources management.

Analyses and advises on the application of organisational culture in institutions and agencies and on the introduction of organisational culture measures.

Forms centralised training for civil servants:
- Develops management and leadership competences of heads of institutions and middle managers.
- Training  of civil servants in line with priority competences.
- Implements and develops a learning organisation culture.
- Collects, analyses training needs centrally as well as provides relevant methodological assistants. 
- Provides learning opportunities for civil servants in the public sector competency development space.
- Implements the centralised training programme for the period 2024 – 2026 for the staff of Lithuanian public authorities who will carry out functions related to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2027.

Implement EU-funded projects:
- Establishment and implementation of a competency development system for civil service managers (Leadership Academy).
- "Establishment and implementation of a system for the identification, development and maintenance of strategic competences in the public sector".
- 'Modernising human resources management in the civil service'.
- 'Development and implementation of an advanced human resources management system in the public sector'.

Member of the Steering Group of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Networking Programme for Public Administration:
- Organises the dissemination of the Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Networking Programme for Public Administration in Lithuania.
- Provides relevant methodological assistants  to state and municipal institutions and agencies.

It implements the functions assigned by the Law on Delegation of Persons of the Republic of Lithuania to International and European Union Institutions or Foreign Institutions:
- Publishes information on vacancies in host institutions.
- Adopts reasoned proposals on the recognition of posts as corresponding to national priorities for secondment and on the appropriateness of covering the costs of secondment from the appropriations of the State budget earmarked for that purpose. Provides information and drawing up instructions to the public authorities on the implementation of the selection of applicants.
- Organises and conducts the selection process for seconded national experts in the various institutions. 
- Carries out, in cooperation with other public authorities, selections for the pool of secondments.

Organises the dissemination of information on the opportunities for further training of civil servants in international or foreign institutions and the selection of civil servants to be sent for further training in international or foreign institutions.