I am a public manager and a civil servant. I work in the Italian public administration as Senior Executive Officer with Director J.G. rank, and paygrade 2. At present I'm a Court Manager for the Ministry of Justice.
19 years of overall professional experience of whom
12 years of experience in the public sector (civil + military
service)
8 years of
professional experience as Court Administrator
Currently:
Court Manager to
"Tribunale di Sorveglianza di Roma" (Parole and Probation High Court
of Rome). Senior
Executive, rank Director Junior Grade, of the Ministry of Justice,
Italy.
International experiences:
Senior Expert in EU-TACIS and TAIEX projects;
Detached National Expert to the European
Commission, DG Transport and Energy, Maritime Security and International
Relations
Unit (TREN-G1);
As a Court
Manager, my position involves administrative, managerial, and public
relations work, with the responsibility for planning, organizing,
staffing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating the administrative
functions of a Jurisdictional Office of the Italian Republic (be it of
the Judicial or the Prosecutorial branch), in strict coordination with a
President of a Court or a Chief Prosecutor.
As chief of
human resources:
I have the
responsibility of supervisioning and training a work force of around 200
people including state employees (court’s clerks), judiciary police, and
contract (and volunteer) personnel performing supervisory, technical,
casework, security, and clerical functions. Occasionally, I may also be
in charge of selecting and hiring people directly for temporary jobs.
I have
disciplinary power over all civil servants depending from the Ministry
of Justice, for all misdemeanours, in the name of the Ministry.
I’m as well
responsible of occupational safety and health administration (Law 626);
I’m the chief
negotiator with Trade Unions for all local matters.
My
administrative duties involve the responsibility of ensuring:
the use of
appropriate and up-to-date technology and logistics;
the maintenance
of accurate court records;
the timely
scheduling and preparation of court hearings;
the preparation,
distribution and filing of court documents such as notices of decision,
court orders and verdicts;
the military
security of the court buildings.
As financial
and fiscal agent I’m in charge:
of e-procurement
of capital goods and services;
of the payment
of justice expenses (reimbursement of witnesses, judicial police,
experts, forensics, wiretappings) of which I’m responsible directly to
the National Court of Auditors (fonctionnaire deleguée), and of the
collection of justice fees.
My public
relations work include:
ensuring the
provision of courteous and professional assistance to all who use the
court;
representing my
Office in maintaining effective working relationships with other
Jurisdictional offices, the Bar, law enforcement agencies,
representatives of the media, prison officers and social service
agencies, local authorities such as the Mayor and the Government’s
Provincial Representative (Prefetto);
receiving
foreign delegations and preparing the ceremony of the opening of the
Jurisdictional Year, ensuring the respect of the Protocol.
As local
representative of the Ministry of Justice:
My offices are
also administrative branches of the MoJ on the territory, and as such, I
have the duty to enforce orders of the Central Administration, and to
provide citizens the issuing of public certifications.
Occasionally, I
may also superintend the organisation of public access exams for
Barristers and Solicitors.
My position
requires that I regulate and discipline the activity of my offices with
Executive Orders, which are given by law Regulatory Power and can only
be challenged in an Administrative Court.
Trainee, SSPA - National School of Public Administration - Scuola
Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (colleague)
worked with Dario
“I met Dario in 1999 when we were both admitted to the Italian
National School of Public Administration. We have worked together in
several occasion since then, and I did much appreciate his
management, human resources, IT and foreign languages skills. He has
a real eye for detail and leaves no stones unturned in his attempts
to get to the heart of issues. Imaginative and talented, with an
amazingly wide spectrum of competences and interests, Dario
contradicts the common "Yes-man" stereotype of the civil servant,
being an inspired executive that continually challenges conventional
thought and previously accepted solutions to drive the evolution of
Public Administration forward. Luckily, his serious side is balanced
by a healthy irony and sense of humour, and an ability to make
people at ease, what makes a real pleasure to work with him.”
March 1, 2009
Edgar Schiopu
counsellor, Ministry of Justice (colleague)
worked directly with Dario
“Dario is a professional with sound background in management. He
has immense potential, and the ability to combine theory and
practice to reach outstanding results. He has a vast culture and he
is able of deep insights in different cultures. And he has a great
sense of humor. Strongly recommend him.”July 2, 2008
As International Expert:
Senior Expert in Court Management
“Accountability and Effectiveness of the Ukrainian Judiciary
Functioning, Civil Service Component Project (UJFP)”
UJFP
is a major judicial reform project funded by the European Commission,
TACIS program (EuropeAid/125611/C/SER/UA), and implemented by
WYG International-led Consortium. WYG International is a
socio-economic consulting firm implementing projects funded by
international donors across the world. The project is based in Kyiv,
Ukraine. The specific objective of my assignment was to help identify
the critical areas in which procedures for the management of the
Ukrainian Courts are most needed, and help define the specific
procedures that are most important, with due regard to EU standards, in
a handbook.
I’m
a registered TAIEX
expert. As such in 2010 I held two seminars in Kiev, under the auspices
of the State Court Administration of Ukraine and the European
Commission. The first was a "Seminar on Court Management" (JHA 40497),
the second was a workshop on “Workshop on Methods of collection and
processing of statistic data in the courts of Ukraine. EU Standards.” (JHA
41511)
Furthermore, I was a
candidate Key Expert:
by
Planet S.A. in the tender for the project “Assistance to the
Implementation of the National Judicial Reform Strategy - Technical
Assistance to the establishment of the High Judicial Council and the
High Prosecutorial Council of Serbia (EuropeAid/125037/D/SER/YU)”
In
2001 I served as Detached National Expert (END) at the European Commission, DG TREN
(Directorate
General for Transport and Energy),
in the team of M.
Michaux, Head of the
Maritime Policy and
International Relations Unit.
(TREN-G1).The mission of the Unit is to take care of the International Maritime
Relations. One of my duties was to
study the provisions of the draft Maritime Agreement between EU and
China.
In March 2008. I had the opportunity to represent MoJ in the first
pilot training course of the
European Senior Civil Servant project, which is an initiative implemented within
the framework of the Agreement between the Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica
(Italian Department of Public Administration) and the Scuola Superiore della
Pubblica Amministrazione - SSPA (Italian Civil Service College), entitled “The
promotion of coordinated initiatives to implement the Lisbon 2000 objectives for
training senior civil servants from the Italian State and other European Union
countries”.
It follows the positive
experience of the Patent Project (Public Administration Training European
Network for the Harmonization of Training Approach) funded by the Leonardo Da
Vinci programme of the European Commission.
The
aim of
the project is to develop shared
knowledge, key skills and competences among middle rank civil servants of
National Public Administrations in order to increase and improve collaboration
and civil servants mobility within the European Union countries.
Training included an e-learning part from Feb. 1st to 29th 2008, followed by an
intensive 5-days course in Caserta Italy in the period from March 3rd to
7th 2008 (24 hours e-learning followed by 27 hours in-class). Germany, Greece, France, Bosnia Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania, Uk, Poland, and
several departments of the Italian Governemnt sent their participants, for a
total of 27.
The training was organized by a consortium of the following institutions:
1. Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione (IItaly) 2. London School of Economics and Political Sciences (UK) 3. National School of Government (UK) 4. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) 5. Krajowa Szkoła Administracji Publicznej (Poland) 6.
Ecole Nationale d’Administration (France) 7. Associazione delle Giovani Classi Dirigenti delle Pubbliche
Amministrazioni (Italy)
The International Training Course in
Security Policy
In
2004 I was nominated by my government to take part to the nineteenth
International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC19),
held at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP),
representing the Ministry of Justice of Italy. The course took place from the
4th October 2004 to 27th May 2005. There were 30 participants from 25 countries.
The primary activity of the GCSP is to provide expert training in comprehensive
international security policy for midcareer diplomats, military officers and
civil servants. The
ITC is an intensive 8 month course about the most important aspects of current
international security policy.
Between 1999 and 2001 I was a Senior Executive trainee at the
Italian Civil Service College, which is a top-level cultural and
training school for high ranking civil servants, directly dependant from
the Office of the Prime Minister, of whom it is a special branch.
Through an extremely selective national competition, I was awarded a
bursary to attend a 30-month fast stream experimental program of studies
to enter Civil Service directly as Senior Executive with rank Director
j.g.
In 1992 I was trained as an officer cadet in the
Navy Academy
in Leghorn, achieving
Officer Patent, speciality Harbour Master Officer, the Naval Licence and
the rank of
Midshipman.
I was then posted to the
Coast Guard
National Highquarters - Rome, were
I
mainly served as Staff Officer in the Nato Control Point Situation Room during
the embargo against former Yugoslavia. I completed my Military Service in 1994.
I'm now in the reserve role as Lt. J.G. (OF-2)
On
December 27th, 2007, I was
awarded by the President of the Republic the Cross of Knight of the
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della
Repubblica Italiana) for contributions in the field of public service.
Managerial
and leadership experience in the private and public sector, both on
national and international level.
Some
experience with entrepreneurial start-up
Organisational and planning skills
Familiarity with IT
Effective
communication skills, fluency in written and spoken English and
French
Ability to
work cross-culturally
Willingness to travel extensively
Ability to
relocate when necessary in any foreign country
Goals:
my aim is to develop my career in the International
relations sector, focusing in the field of the Administration of
Justice, Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, European and Euromediterranean cooperation. This field has an enormous growing
expectance, and offers a wide number of opportunities for people with
managerial and legal skills trained with a cross-cultural and
multidisciplinary approach.
In
2001 I served as Detached National Expert (END) at the European Commission, DG TREN
(
"The
European Senior Civil Servant" course 
