DSWD to hire more than 800 personnel for new program

A total of 806 vacant positions need to filled before June this year for a new program under the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office VII.

The job opportunity for Central Visayas is for its Kalahi-CIDSS – National Community-Driven Development Program (KC-NCDDP).

The national program will be officially launched in June 2014, so the successful applicants have to be on board by then.

Bohol applicants may proceed to the conference room of the Governor’s Mansion in Tagbilaran City, Bohol this April 29.

Negros Oriental applicants should proceed to the Office of Senior Citizens Affair, fronting Silliman University Medical Center in Dumaguete City, the following day.

Available positions include 72 area coordinators whose applicants must have at least 3 years of supervisory experience in social development projects, 93 deputy-area coordinators who must be civil engineering graduates, 93 municipal financial analysts who must possess business courses degree preferably management or accounting and 548 community facilitators who must be social science graduates with experience in community organizing and community development work

KC-NCCDP will cover 108 municipalities in the island provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental and Siquijor. Out of the 108 areas, 72 municipalities which have been prioritized as disaster affected areas of typhoon Yolanda and Bohol earthquake will begin its implementation this year. The remaining 36 areas compose municipalities with poverty incidence rates greater than 26.5% will start next year 2015.

For more details on the KC-NCDDP hiring, you may contact DSWD Office at (032) 232-6581 or 232-9509 loc 123 or you may visit our official Facebook fan page at DSWD Central Visayas. — Jessa J. Agua/ATO