The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has signed another Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to recruit 10,000
qualified persons to serve the Secondary, Junior High and primary schools across the
country.
These 10,000 personnel who will be recruited under the MoU would serve as Kitchen
assistants, Security guards and Teaching assistants to augment and fill the gaps within the
GES.
Giving a short address on behalf of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of YEA, Deputy CEO
in Charge of Operations, Alhaji Bashiru Ibrahim said the current agreement is the third MoU
the Agency is signing with the GES.
He mentioned that, the YEA in 2015 and 1018, signed MoUs with the GES and having good
working relations as far as those agreements are concerned.
According to him, the latest Agreement will enable the YEA recruit 4000 kitchen assistants,
4000 security guards and 4000 teaching assistants in bid to beef up staffing situation in
schools across the country.
“This MoU is for the YEA to assist the GES to run educational services effectively; and
in doing so, they need requisite staff, hence the YEA is coming on board to assist the
GES in some respective areas by recruiting teaching assistants, kitchen assistants and
security guards for schools,” he said.
Alhaji Bashiru Ibrahim noted that persons who would be recruited as teaching assistants in
the Senior, Junior and Primary schools must have a minimum qualification of Diploma
certificate.
This set of personnel according to him, shall receive monthly allowance of GHC 1,000.00.
He averred that the YEA has recognized the qualifications within the GES, and decided to
follow that to recruit the teaching assistants under the program.
For both the Security guards and Kitchen staff, they will receive GHC500 as monthly
allowance.
He explained that, the YEA is supporting the GES with part of its entitlements under the GET
Fund and called on prospective applicants to apply for any of the vacancies listed above.
On his part, Mr Stephen Kweku Owusu, Deputy Director General (Management Service)
expressed gratitude to the YEA for assisting the Service in that regard.
According to him, the 10,000 personnel when recruited, will go a long way to help the GES
augment its staff and reduce the pressure on already existing staff.
This, he said, will boost teaching and learning for better results in our schools.
