Education’s huge job drive

600 non-teaching posts set to be filled include security guards, cleaners

The Eastern Cape education department has gone on a massive recruitment drive to fill more than 600 non-teaching posts that will see some schools have security guards for the first time.

Vacancies include more than 30 directors and assistant directors, security officers to safe- guard 14 schools, 17 school caretakers, cleaners for 46 schools, and 500 interns.

According to the department, the internship programmes will afford unemployed graduates the opportunity of gaining two years of much-needed experience in various fields, while earning a stipend of R5 000 a month.

The interns will be based at the education head office in Zwelitsha and the province’s 12 districts.

If you meet the qualifications and have the experience to be a director, you could earn anything between R900 000 and R1.3-million per annum as a district coordination chief director.

Some of the other director positions include eight district directors, assistant directors for various directorates and a director for inclusive education, where the successful candidate is expected to have specialised knowledge in areas of therapeutic and psychological services.

Successful security officers will be deployed at 14 schools in three districts, including De Vos Malan High in Buffalo City Metro, Willowvale Senior Secondary School in Amathole East and Bergsig Special School in Nelson Mandela.

According to the department, the security officers will be required to “patrol school grounds, escort visitors by issuing admission control cards and report incidents of theft and damage of school property”.

Caretakers are required at 17 schools such as Fort Beaufort and Bergsig.

If you think you have it in you to keep a school prim and proper, then you might want to apply for the general worker or cleaner positions available at 46 schools. Department spokesman Malibongwe Mtima said he hopes the advert will attract the right people.

“In an attempt to reach the service delivery mandate, the department has ensured people are capacitated to deliver and carry out operations.”

For more details on the required qualifications and experience on these vacancies, visit the department’s website on www.ecdoe.gov.za and click under vacancies for the bulletin. Applications close on July 20.