HR director says promotions will no longer depend on academic papers but on performance
By Peter Otuoro
Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will in future only promote hard working sub-County directors (SCD), a senior official has warned.
Human Resource Management and Development director Julius Olayo said SCDs are the engine of the commission and those of who will continue working hard in their day-to-day duties will be considered for promotion to the next level.
“Your promotions will depend on your performance, not academic papers that you have, we regularly watch your performance in the field and soon some of you will rise to the next level in the process of serving the commission”, he said.
Olayo was addressing over 300 sub-County directors from all regions of Kenya at ARC Hall, Egerton University during their five-day workshop organised by TSC.
He told SCD that they were employed to serve the commission diligently in order to improve standards of education in over 300 sub-Counties of Kenya and it is their responsibility to perform that mandate.
Olayo said the commission is aware of the stagnation of the SCD for several years and the mechanism have been laid down by the commission to promote some of them but they will only consider those who work hard.
“We are aware that most of you have worked for many years without promotion but as the commission we have laid down the procedure to promote you. Now it is your responsibility to continue working so hard in the process of delivering service to the commission, the HR boss added.
“We are aware of all challenges that you are passing through from shortage of airtime, lack of office equipment to facilitate your duties ,some of you need promotion among other things ,we are in the process of addressing them one by one,but we request you to continue providing quality service to the commission,” said Olayo.
Olayo who was accompanied to the meeting by senior technical officer in HRM Directorate Bonet Sang, encouraged all SCD not to lose hope with the commission but continue offering their service so that they can boost education standards in their sub-Counties.
“Let us cooperate and work hard to improve the education standards in our respective sub-Counties to enable our teachers to enjoy teaching profession and our learners get quality education and perform well in their examinations”, he said.
He said that TSC’s Human Resource Management and Development directorate has four divisions.
The first division, he explained, deals with pension matters, second division deals with secretariat while the third and fourth divisions deal with HRM Development, which includes performance appraisal of teachers and another division dealing with Integrated Personnel Payroll Database (IPPD).
Olayo explained that the HRM Department have 434 staff who are mandated to provide various service to the commission and 340,000 teachers who are teaching in various educational institutions.
He said key policies and services provided by HRM directorate include appointment and recruitment of teachers, promotion, payroll management, management of exit from teaching service, performance management appraisal, training and development of teachers and management of the teachers’ leaves.
Other services offered by the department are online entry and exit from teaching, onboarding, decentralisation of pension and death claim process, automated leave, automated appraisal process, common cadre promotion and carrier progression guidelines.
Olayo said that 77.7 per cent of teachers have compliance in term of appraisal and he urged the remaining teachers to do so.
He advised all teachers in Kenya to ensure they only submit their document to the commission through online platform.
The commission, he added, is processing all documents through online platform, and any teacher, who will use paper works, may find themselves not being served or being given feedback by any commission’s official.
“Our teachers should know that all commission services are offered digitally through online process in our website and we want to completely discourage papers work or manual casualties”, said Olayo.
