Ministry and Executives

PHONE NUMBERS AND EMAIL ADDRESSES OF OFFICIALS OF THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR

AND SOCIAL PROTECTION OF POPULATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

Top Executives

Minister	Əliyev Anar Rəhim oğlu	(012) 526 01 01	anar.r.aliyev@sosial.gov.az
Deputy Minister	Abdullayev Hidayat Kaviz oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1093)	hidayat.abdullayev@sosial.gov.az
Deputy Minister	Mustafayev Rashad Azizagha oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1041)	rashad.mustafayev@sosial.gov.az
Deputy Minister	Aliyev Zaur Rafik oglu	(012) 526 01 01

Office of the Ministry

Head of Office	Musayev Fuad Mammad oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1092)	fuad.musayev@sosial.gov.az
Head of Labour Policy Department	Heydarov Fuad Fikrat oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1303)	fuad.heydarov@sosial.gov.az
Labour Policy Department • Carrying out work related to the rights and obligations of the Ministry in the fields of labour relations, remuneration, and occupational safety; • Initiating proposals for the creation of normative regulations and drafting legal acts in these areas; • Providing opinions on projects related to labour relations proposed by other state bodies, etc.
Head of Employment Policy and Demographic Development Department	Dayıyev Rashad Hikmat oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1403)	rashad.dayiyev@sosial.gov.az
Employment Policy and Demographic Development Department • Participating in the formation of state policy and coordinating activities in the fields of employment, labour market, and labour migration; • Participating in the development of state policy in the field of demography and population settlement; • Promoting the development of the workforce’s skills and formal employment.
Head of Social Provision Policy Department	Huseynov Babak Azar oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1503)	babak.huseynov@sosial.gov.az
Social Protection Policy Department • Implementing policy related to providing members of vulnerable groups and families with social assistance, social benefits, and various types of Presidential benefits; • Providing state social services to individuals (families) in difficult living conditions; • Ensuring the social protection rights of the families of martyrs and persons with disabilities related to war, and managing other types of social protection issues.
Head of Disability Policy Department	Gojayev Sabir Nazir oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1703)	sabir.gojayev@sosial.gov.az
Disability Policy Department • Improving legislation and administration in the field of disability and rehabilitation; • Defining policy on disability; • Conducting research and analyses on disability policy; • Identifying risks related to disability and preparing proposals for preventive measures.
Head of Social Insurance and Pension Policy Department	Abbasov Elnur Abbas oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1603)	elnur.abbasov@sosial.gov.az
Social Insurance and Pension Policy Department • Developing and implementing measures in the field of social insurance; • Preparing proposals to further improve pension provision, strengthen financial sustainability in the state compulsory personal insurance and pension system.
Head of Adoption and Alternative Care Policy Department	Alakbarov Farhad Islam oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (2903)	farhad.alakbarov@sosial.gov.az
Adoption and Alternative Care Policy Department • Participating in the formation, regulation, and state supervision of state policy in the fields of adoption and foster care; • Carrying out activities within the framework of powers established by legislation to protect the rights and interests of children deprived of parental care; • Overseeing measures for returning children from institutions to families or placing them in foster care through social support mechanisms.
Head of Strategic Planning and Innovations Department	Zalov Rashad Maharram oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (1204)	rashad.zalov@sosial.gov.az
Strategic Planning and Innovations Department • Developing social policies, collecting and analysing data to assess their impact on public welfare, and preparing analytical reports; • Preparing concepts and state programmes for socio-economic development, including the development of priority areas, in cooperation with relevant structures of the Ministry and subordinate institutions; • Analysing the outcomes of social policy measures, preparing forecasts, collecting data from relevant structures and organisations for monitoring and evaluation, and preparing reports.
Head of Law Department	Isgandarova Gulnar Firdovsi gizi	(012) 526 01 01 (1903)	gulnar.isgandarova@sosial.gov.az
Law Department • Organising and improving work related to legal regulation and normative legal support; • Providing methodological and practical guidance for normative legal support within the Ministry’s structural divisions; • Organising and ensuring work related to legal analysis, expertise, and normative legal support concerning the activities of the Ministry’s structural divisions and subordinate institutions.
Head of Internal Control and Audit Department	Imanov Heybat Rahil oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (2104)	heybat.imanov@sosial.gov.az
Internal Control and Audit Department • Organising and conducting internal control measures and internal audit activities in the Ministry’s structural divisions; • Developing and improving the normative-methodological base regulating the internal control system; • Exercising general oversight over the implementation of Presidential decrees, orders, and other instructions, including national projects and strategies, state programmes, development concepts, action and activity plans, as well as strategic roadmaps.
Head of Civil Service and Human Resources Issues Department	Bayramova Narmin Ernest gizi	(012) 526 01 01 (2217)	narmin.bayramova@sosial.gov.az
Civil Service and Human Resources Department • Recruiting highly qualified specialists for the Ministry’s structural divisions, selecting and placing personnel; • Forming a personnel reserve for administrative positions; • Organising professional development, additional education, and social protection for civil servants; appointing staff to relevant positions in subordinate bodies; • Conducting staff evaluation (attestation), analysing personnel data, etc.
Head of International Relations Department	Usubova Irada Jafar gizi	(012) 526 01 01 (2304)	irada.usubova@sosial.gov.az
International Relations Department • Developing drafts of international agreements in the fields of labour, employment, and social protection; • Coordinating the process of joining international conventions, recommendations, and other international instruments; • Coordinating the preparation of reports on ratified Conventions and other international documents; • Establishing and developing cooperation with international organisations and relevant state bodies of foreign countries within the Ministry’s areas of activity.
Head of Department for Citizens’ Reception	Aliyev Arif Musa oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (3903)	arif.aliyev@sosial.gov.az
Citizens’ Reception Department • Organising and regulating citizens’ reception in accordance with modern innovations; • Organising citizens’ reception and consideration of appeals, as well as supervising the reception process within the Ministry’s structural divisions; • Monitoring the implementation of decisions made based on citizens’ appeals during the reception process.
Head of Department for Work with Documents and Citizens' InGuiries	Nasibova Gunel Rasim gizi	(012) 526 01 01 (2426)	gunel.r.nasibova@sosial.gov.az
Documents and Citizens’ Appeals Department • Organising clerical work, electronic document circulation, and archiving in the Ministry; • Organising and improving work related to handling citizens’ appeals in accordance with legislation; • Ensuring effective control over the implementation of the “Document Circulation” subsystem (SDAS) of the Ministry’s Centralised Electronic Information System.
Head of Public Relations Department	Talıbov Fazil Habib oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (2519)	fazil.talibov@sosial.gov.az
Public Relations Department • Organising and expanding public relations activities of the Ministry; • Implementing cooperation with media entities and NGOs; • Informing the public about the Ministry’s activities; • Forming and managing the Ministry’s PR strategy; • Expanding public participation in the Ministry’s activities, establishing and managing communication.
Head of Finance and Overview Budget Department	Jafarova Shalala Ziyad gizi	(012) 526 01 01 (1104)	shalala.jafarova@sosial.gov.az
Finance and Consolidated Budget Department • Implementing measures to improve the financial and economic activities of the Ministry’s Apparatus and strengthen its material-technical base; • Organising financial operations to ensure timely financing of social payments envisaged from the state budget based on demand; • Ensuring efficient use of budgetary, extra-budgetary funds, loans, and other financial resources allocated for maintaining the Ministry’s Apparatus.
Head of Department of Economy	Mammadov İlkin Zabil oglu	(012) 526 01 01 (2605)	ilkin.z.mammadov@sosial.gov.az
Economics Department • Accounting for property and liabilities to regulate financial and economic activities of the Ministry’s Apparatus, ensuring the targeted expenditure of state budget allocations for social and other payments; • Recording expenses of budgetary and extra-budgetary funds allocated for maintaining the Ministry’s Apparatus, summarising results, and submitting prepared financial reports to relevant state bodies in accordance with legislation; • Carrying out organisational measures in accounting, procurement, and supply.

Institutions within the structure of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population

Head of State Labour Inspection Service	Guliyev Vali Eldar oglu	(012) 525 55 45	vali.guliyev@sosial.gov.az
State Labour Inspection Service Preparation and implementation of state policy in the field of state supervision over compliance with labour legislation, Participation in improving the legislative framework in this area, Providing methodological assistance in the application of labour legislation in workplaces and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.

Institutions under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population

Chairman of the Board Agency for Sustainable and Operative Social Provision (DOST)	Mammadov Farid Eldaniz oglu	(012) 525 50 26	dost_info@sosial.gov.az
Sustainable and Operative Social Security Agency (DOST) Management of DOST centers, supervision, and evaluation of their activities, Taking measures to ensure that services in DOST centers are provided based on the principles of “one-stop shop,” efficiency, citizen satisfaction, transparency, politeness, responsibility, and convenience, Ensuring the development of DOST centers, improvement of service quality, digitalization of services, and implementation of innovations and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Chairman of the Board of State Social Protection Fund	Mirzayev Zaka Agil oglu	(012) 434 55 86	zaka.mirzayev@sosial.gov.az
State Social Protection Fund Submitting proposals for the development of social protection and implementing state policy in this field, Providing citizens with labour pensions, social benefits, targeted state social assistance, stipends, compensations, and other payments defined by legislation, Registering and deregistering participants of compulsory state social insurance, registering insured persons and employers for unemployment insurance, maintaining and supervising personal records and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Chairman of the Board of State Employment Agency	Abbasov Hasil Vasif oglu	(012) 371 75 76	hasil.v.abbasov@sosial.gov.az
State Employment Agency Ensuring employment of jobseekers and unemployed persons, Organizing vocational guidance and professional training for jobseekers and unemployed persons, Supporting self-employment and access to small business for jobseekers and unemployed persons through the self-employment program, managing unemployment insurance funds, and ensuring their proper use and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Chairman of the Board of State Medical-Social Expertise and Rehabilitation Agency	Rzayev Ramin Alik oglu	(012) 568 46 25	ramin.a.rzayev@sosial.gov.az
State Medical-Social Expertise and Rehabilitation Agency Participation in shaping state policy in the field of disability assessment and rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, Conducting medical-social expertise and disability assessment services, Implementing measures for medical, vocational, psychological-pedagogical rehabilitation and development of social skills of persons with disabilities, and improving the quality of disability and rehabilitation services and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Chairman of the Board of Social Services Agency	Behbudov Vugar Shafa oglu	(012) 525 41 30	vugar.behbudov@sosial.gov.az
Social Services Agency Participation in the formulation of state policy on social services, organization and provision of social services to individuals (families) in need of such services as defined by legislation, Implementing preventive measures against child neglect, as well as regulations related to adoption and foster families, Taking measures to provide housing or private houses to persons with disabilities caused by defending the territorial integrity, independence, and constitutional order of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as to families of martyrs, under state programs and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Observatory for Labor Market and Social Protection Issues	Safarli Elnur Novruz oglu	(012) 525 87 48	elnur.safarli@sosial.gov.az
National Observatory on Labour Market and Social Protection Issues Assessing the current and future state of measures and programs implemented in the field of labour market and social protection, and studying development trends, Organizing monitoring and surveys for these purposes, Preparing analyses and forecasts to support effective management decisions, studying best practices, and developing proposals and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Director of the Social Support Center	Israfilov Ismayıl Tofig oglu	(012) 525 10 97	ismayil.israfilov@sosial.gov.az
Social Support Center Creating workplaces and conducting activities to increase knowledge and skills, social adaptation, and employment of persons with disabilities, unemployed, jobseekers, and other socially vulnerable groups, Implementing measures for the social protection and social security of these individuals, Implementing various social support projects related to these groups and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Director of “DOST İş Mərkəzi” Limited Liability Company	Jabrayilov Firudin Qachay oglu	(055) 204 91 97	firudin.jabrailov@sosial.gov.az
DOST Job Center Recruiting unemployed persons for paid public works, assigning them to such work, and financing their salaries as defined by legislation, Submitting proposals to ensure the development of this field and the formation of related state policies, Taking measures to increase transparency, improve service quality, and digitize processes and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Director of “DOST Digital Innovations Center”	Akperov Kenan Eyvaz oglu	142	kanan.akparov@sosial.gov.az
DOST Digital Innovations Center Managing and resolving information and communication issues of the Ministry and its subordinate institutions, both within and outside the Ministry’s structure, Defining the Ministry’s IT policy, ensuring integration between state and non-state information databases, Organizing electronic services and ensuring the sustainability and development of the Ministry’s information systems and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Director of “DOST Inclusive Development and Creativity Center”	Ansari Elnara Mammad gizi	(012) 526 94 59	elnara.ansari@sosial.gov.az
DOST Inclusive Development and Creativity Center Organizing activities to teach and develop knowledge, skills, and competencies of persons with disabilities, family members of martyrs, children of persons with war-related disabilities, orphans, and socially vulnerable individuals in various fields, Providing socio-psychological support to beneficiaries to help reveal and develop their artistic, creative, and craftsmanship abilities, Organizing events, social projects, and incentive programs where beneficiaries can demonstrate their artistic and creative talents, and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Director of DOST Call Center 142 LLC	Mammadov Bakhtiyar Nadir oglu	(012) 525 50 26 (97 600)	bakhtiyar.n.mammadov@sosial.gov.az
“DOST Call Center 142” LLC Operating a call center in areas related to the activities of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population, ensuring prompt and complete responses to citizen inquiries, Providing advisory services in labour, employment, social, and other related areas, Delivering educational and promotional services and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.
Director of DOST Infrastructure Center	Mammadov Azar Masim oglu	(012) 525 26 27	azar.m.mammadov@sosial.gov.az
DOST Infrastructure Center Supervising the timely, high-quality execution, and commissioning of construction and installation works in facilities belonging to the Ministry and its subordinate institutions, ensuring their compliance with approved project-estimate documentation, Overseeing initial design, preparation of project-estimate documents, and obtaining necessary expert opinions, Coordinating and supervising contractors involved in the construction process and carrying out activities in other directions defined by law.