NEWS AND ACTIVITIES of the Department of Human Resources
Director of Human Resources
COLONEL GOUFAN à RIM GEORGES BERNARD
Biography
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH : 24 APRIL1974 at Douala
DATE OF ENLISTMENT : 15 JULY 1996
MARRIED AND A FATHER
MILITARY TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS :
- Diploma in military supplies at ecole du commissariat de l’armee de terre [france (montpellier): 1996 – 1998]
- Second degree advanced military studies certificate (supplies specialty) at ecole militaire superieure d’administration et de management de l’armee de terre [france (montpellier) : 2006 – 2008]
HIGHEST UNIVERSITY DEGREES :
- Executive master of business administration in strategic management (catholic university of central africa – yaoundé – 2019)
- Master in science of organisations and institutions – institutions, organisations, development. Specialty research (paul valery university – montpellier 3 – 2007)
- Dess in management control (university of montpellier 2 – iae – 1999)
EXPERIENCES ON SPECIFIC WORK AND ACTIVITIES :
- Coordination or participation as a member of commissions and special committees in charge of:
- Implementation of management control at mindef
- Budget planning for the rising forces
- Property accounting (interministerial and mindef)
- Rationalisation of the management of hccas materials
- Designing of the joint clothing catalog
- Administrative procedures manual
- Sigipes
- Commanding the civil and military parade on 20 may 2022 (in garoua)
POSTS HELD IN THE DEFENCE FORCES :
- Head of the chancellery bureau (mindef/dpcm)
- Head of monitoring basic training and continuing training bureau (training bureau) (mindef/drh)
- Head of the central service of social welfare and schools (MINDEF/DAAR)
- Head of the central pensions service (MINDEF/DAAR)
- Head of the budget and finance bureau of rmia 2
- Research officer at the budget and contract execution control brigade (department of budget and equipment)
- Head of administrative and financial service (department of military engineering)
- Head of the human resources bureau of the army staff
- Head of the budget and finance bureau of the army staff
- Head of the first bureau of rmia 3 command post and interim chief of staff of the 3rd joint military region
- Inspector of the armed forces
- Director of human resources
PARTICIPATION IN MISSIONS AND OPERATIONS :
- OPERATION DELTA (Bakassi)
- OPERATION VULTURE (Yaounde)
- TRAINING ON PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS (ACOTA)
- OPERATIONAL EXERCISE KWANZA 2010 (Angola)
- AFRICA ENDEAVOR CONFERENCES AND EXERCISES (2009-2012)
- EMERGENCE 3
Organisation
- The Department of Human Resources shall be placed under the authority of a director, an officer appointed by decree of the President of the Republic, assisted if need be, by a deputy, an officer or civil servant appointed by order of the President of the Republic. The Director of Human Resources shall have under his authority, Research Officers and Assistant Research Officers, officers or civil servants appointed by order of the President of the Republic.
- The Director of Human Resources may receive by order of the Minister Delegate in charge of Defence, delegation of signature for certain matters his
- The ranks and prerogatives of the Officers referred to in paragraph I above shall be laid down by separate instruments.
The Department Human Resources shall comprise:
– the secretariat;
– the Stores Bureau;
– the Means Bureau;
– the Initial and Continuing Training Follow-up Bureau;
– the Data-Processing Service ;
– the National Reserve Recruitment Card- index recruitment and Mobilisation Service;
– the Counselling and Orientation Service;
– the Personnel Postings and Transfer Service;
– the Chancellery Service;
Under the authority of a service head, the Data-Processing Service shall comprise :
– the Analysis Bureau;
– the Data-Processing Bureau ;
– the Codification Bureau.
Under the authority of a service head, the National Reserve,
Recruitment Card-index and Mobilisation shall comprise:
– the Recruitment Bureau;
– the National Card-Index Bureau;
– the Reserves and Mobilisation Bureau.
1°) Under the authority of a service head, the Conselling and Orientation Service shall be in charge of conceiving, preparing and implementing psychotechnical tests necessary for personnel orientation.
2°) It shall comprise Assistant Reasearch Officers appointed by order of the President of the Republic.
Under the authority of a service head. the Personnel Postings and Transfer Service shall comprise :
– the Military Personnel Management Service;
– the Civilian Personnel Management Service;
– the Trainee Follow-up Bureau.
Under the authority of a service head, the Chancellery Service shall comprise:
– the Advancements Bureau;
– the Discipline Bureau.
Organisational chart
Missions
The Department of Human Resources shall be responsible of managing
the military and civilian personnel of the Gendarmerie and the Armed Forces.
In this capacity and in conjunction with the competent services of the Gendarmerie,
Secretariat of State in charge of Ex-Servicemen and War Victims,
the Defence Staff, Army Staff, Air Force Staff, the Navy Staff and the command of the National Fire Brigade, it shall be in charge of :
general recruitment problems;
relations with the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative Reform;
– mobilisation problems;
– keeping of the National Defence Card-index;
– following up the initial training and continuing training of servicemen.