ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF QUALIFICATION IMPROVEMENT OF CIVIL SERVANTS

The article considers the organizational and legal principles of advanced training of civil servants (PKDS). The classification of normative-legal documents regulating the issues of PKDS is covered. It is determined that advanced training is one of the forms of additional professional training. The essence of the concept of advanced training of civil servants is revealed (the process of updating knowledge and improving the skills of civil servants in order to master new ways of solving professional problems). It was found that the main organizational mechanism for managing the system of additional professional training of public services is the mechanism of state procurement for PKDS. Peculiarities of PKDS organization in educational institutions of higher professional or additional education are highlighted. Types of programs and terms of advanced training are considered. It is noted that professional development according to professional programs helps civil servants to improve and update professional knowledge, acquire skills. A list of competencies inherent in civil servants of Ukraine as a result of appropriate professional training has been formed. Developed on the basis of a systematic approach, the organizational and legal mechanism for ensuring PKDS, which includes the following components: legal documents governing the training of civil servants; elements of the advanced training system; purpose, tasks, principles and functions of professional development; external and internal factors affecting the PKDS system. Measures are proposed to improve the organizational and legal framework of the PKDS system (establishing legal consequences for civil servants who have improved their skills; creating an effective system of incentives for additional professional education that combines personal, collective and public interests; adoption of regulations that provide direct connection of advanced training of the civil servant after training with his official promotion, official status, establishment of allowances to salaries after confirmation (in particular, by the attestation commission) of his new, higher qualification).