Department of Administrative Affairs

Among the tasks within the department’s remit are facilitating efficient budget processes, ensuring good systems for skills development and personnel administration, records management and ICT, as well as ensuring sound work on safety and emergency preparedness. In addition, the department is responsible for the development and maintenance of systems for agency management, active ownership and the administration of subsidies.

Moreover, the Department of Administrative Affairs assists the political leadership and the secretary general in coordinating a wide range of matters.

The Department of Administrative Affairs consists of three sections and one unit:

• HR Section (AD1)

  The HR Section is responsible for recruitment, personnel management and payroll administration in the ministry. The section works with leadership and staff development, competence development and organisational development, and provides professional support in matters relating to the working environment, employee follow-up, and change and development processes. The section is also responsible for internal communication and for the operation and development of the ministry’s intranet.

• State Budget Section (AD2)

  The State Budget Section is responsible for coordinating and implementing the ministry’s work on the national budget and the national accounts. The section ensures coordination, quality assurance and analysis throughout the budget process, and provides professional support to the ministry’s leadership and specialist departments. Core tasks include monitoring deadlines, coordinating budget proposals, quality assuring financial data and handling ongoing work related to the national budget and national accounts.

• Administration Section (AD3)

  The Administration Section is responsible for security and emergency preparedness in the ministry. This includes preventive security, information security, physical security, personnel security and coordination of work related to societal security and emergency preparedness. The section is also responsible for developing and operating the ministry’s archive and document management systems, including mail reception and system administration for case and archive systems. In addition, the section coordinates the ministry’s work on digitalisation and technology.

• Planning and Governance Section (AD4)

  The Planning and Governance Section has system responsibility for internal control, agency management, ownership management and grant administration. The section is also responsible for the internal budget, accounts, financial procedures, matters involving The National Audit Office of Norway and annual reporting, and ensures coherent and coordinated follow-up of the ministry’s finances and governance processes. The section coordinates the ministry’s matters for government conferences, submissions and consultations. It also handles major reports to the Storting and the Office of the Prime Minister.