The National Population Commission (NPC) has announced the opening of online E-Recruitment Portal for the 2023 population and housing census exercise.
The Federal Commissioner NPC Katsina Zone, Engineer Bala Almu Banye who had earlier launched the E-recruitment Portal for the conduct of the 2022 trial census, acknowledged the huge success recorded.
He said: “Lessons have been learnt and today we are inaugurating a much improved E-recruitment portal for the successful conduct of the next Population and Housing Census in April, 2023.
“To carry out the gigantic task of conducting accurate and reliable Census, there is the need for the recruitment of manpower that will carry out this exercise.
“Also the need to be fair and transparent in the recruitment process has led the Commission to introduce the online e-recruitment portal and the training of the officers that will superintend over this important census recruitment process.
“I am happy to inform Nigerians that the Commission will through the online recruitment process request for applicants from the following categories of field staff: Facilitators, Training Centre Administrators, Monitoring & Evaluations Officers, Data Quality Managers, Data Quality Assistants, Supervisors and Enumerators.”
The Commissioner explained the number of functionaries to be recruited in each category will depend on the number of available vacancies in each State, which will be derived largely from the total number of Enumeration Areas (EA) in the State.
To ensure a fair, efficient and transparent recruitment selection process, he announced that Federal Commissioners will in addition to the existing team at the State level, constitute a Local Government Area Recruitment Team comprising of three persons; namely: the Comptrollers, Chairperson, One NPC staff who has NPC file number as Desk officer/Secretariat as well as Local Government Officials.
The Commissioner assured Nigerians that the bulk of personnel for the 2023 Census exercise will be drawn from the communities where they were resident to remove huge logistics of moving personnel across the Federation.
Credit: thenationonlineng.net
