The French state spends too much on firms and service providers for its digital projects. He needs to internalize more skills. This is what the IGF and the General Economic Council recommended last June.
They believe it is necessary to recruit 2,500 digital specialists each year. But the civil service also needs to train and retrain internally. It is to these challenges that the new service offering announced by Dinum responds.
Training for all and retraining path
The name of this initiative: the Public Digital Campus. The approach pursues 5 objectives, listed by Stéphanie Schaer, interministerial director of digital and by Cornelia Findeisen, head of the HR department of the State’s digital sector.
The ambition is to train all volunteer public agents in digital technology. The motivation is to instill “digital excellence in administration”. The Campus also aims to evaluate and develop the digital skills of 100% of agents.
How ? Through the deployment of PIX in all ministries. PIX is a public online service intended to assess, develop, and certify digital skills. Through the campus, Dinum also wishes to experiment with retraining courses and reskilling.
Create a common digital culture
Finally, it involves launching professionalization courses to transform the management of digital projects and engaging public decision-makers in digital transformation via a one-year training plan.
“To make the State more efficient, simpler and more sovereign, our ambition, within DINUM and the State, is to create a common digital culture among all agents and to disseminate it widely,” underlines the interministerial direction.
External recruitment is therefore no longer the only avenue explored by the administration to gain digital skills and maturity. Training and reskilling are also developing in the private sector, particularly for reasons of costs and hiring tensions.
Simplify the recruitment of digital talents
However, the State is not drawing a line under recruitment. Proof of this is that it has just published its remuneration benchmark for the 55 professions in the digital sector. The State wishes to “streamline the recruitment of these profiles and the renewal of contracts”, and to do so simplify the procedures concerned.
The new version of the framework (the first dates back to 2019) applies to all state administrations. It sets salary values for all professions, with low and high ranges.
“Each high range is also a threshold below which budgetary control is no longer necessary and the procedure is thus simplified in the context of the recruitment and renewal of contractual agents,” specifies Dinum.
For the State IT department, this framework constitutes a “reference document” aimed at promoting “the policy of attractiveness of the State’s digital sector in a digital job market that has become highly competitive.”