JOBS: Education Ministry to Hire Over 2,000 Teachers; See How to Apply Online

The Ministry of Education and Sports, through the Education Service Commission (ESC), has announced a recruitment exercise for over 2,500 personnel, including teachers (education officers).

The education ministry says it has over 2,500 jobs available to qualifying Ugandans.

These include 54 headteachers, 17 deputy headteachers, 734 graduate teachers, and 1,436 grade V teachers.

Government also plans to recruit 27 bursars, 57 stenographers, 60 library assistants as well as 47 nurses.

Application for these jobs will be done online and will end on November 22, 2021.

Read the ESC statement on the use of an e-recruitment system:

STATEMENT FROM THE EDUCATION SERVICE COMMISSION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTRONIC RECRUITMENT SYSTEM

The Education Service Commission is established by Article 167 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda of 1995, and Article 168 defines the functions of the Commission, and in particular Article 168 (1) (b) defines the function of appointment of persons in the Education Services.

The scope of work in the perspective of appointment of personnel covers all officials of the Ministry of Education and Sports Headquarters, all Government Secondary Schools and Tertiary Technical, Teacher training and Business training institutions, all Education Service personnel under Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and other Ministries.

The Education Service Commission also supports Local Government Service Commissions with technical support in the appointment of personnel in the District Education Services.

Overall, the Education Service Commission directly or indirectly takes care of about 70% of the Public Service of Uganda. This 70% of the Public Service constitutes a big number of staff especially during the recruitment process.

Occasionally, when the Commission advertises for about 3000 to 5000 vacancies, we receive about 40000 (Forty thousand) hard copy application forms in triplicate [equal to 120,000, (one hundred and twenty thousand) sets of hard copy applications].

These applications have always been delivered by individual teachers from all parts of the country. Then the papers are followed up by our staff without any loss to follow up, at all stages even for those not appointed.

In order to improve on the efficiency of the application and recruitment process, and with financial support from the United Nation Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), and with guidance from NITA-U, the Education Service Commission has developed an Electronic Recruitment System.

The Electronic Recruitment System broadly aims to provide digitized intervention for the recruitment function of the Commission. My At the Education Service Commission, we fully recognize the role of technology in the transformation of the recruitment function.

Digitization will facilitate timely service delivery to the clients of the Commission, and this will allow a short turnaround time for decision making.

To all our clients, the system allows flexibility in the time of submission of applications because an applicant can submit his/her application any time of the day up to 12:59 pm of the last date of submission.

ACCESS

The E-recruitment System requires that every intending applicant must create a personal user profile. This process requires an active email address which will always be used as a user name, during access (signing in) into the system.

Through the same email address, a client will be able to receive feed backs. Once the applicant creates a personal profile, he/she will be able to access the system, and the online application form.

Access to the system can be through any internet browser of the applicants’ choice e.g. Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Firefox etc.

For any internet browser the applicant is required to enter: https://erecruitment.esc.go.ug.

Alternatively, the applicant can access the system through the official website of the Education Service Commission www.esc.go.ug or by typing ‘Education Service Commission’ into any internet browser of choice.

On the Home page of the Education Service Commission, the applicants will directly access the E-Recruitment System through selection of the ‘Job Adverts’.

All new applicants will be required to “sign up” to begin the process of creating personal user profiles, while those with personal profiles will always ‘log in’ using their emails addresses as a ‘user name’.

Once an advert is uploaded on the system, only applicants with profiles will be able to apply for jobs advertised on the system.

The Education Service Commission therefore invites all clients to start creating user profiles in the system. The process is quick, efficient and easy to understand.