Curriculum support officers (CSOs) have requested the Teachers service commission (TSC) to increase the number of promotional slots in D1 and D2 job groups as it will avert the current stagnation that has continued to demotivate them in the field.
Their clarion call has come at a time when the employer has, in the recent advert, begun implementation of the 2019 career progression guidelines (CPG) for curriculum support officers.
The officers who shared their views on last week’s TSC promotional advert, commended the commission for listening to their incessant pleas on the full implementation of the 2019 CPG.
Under the 2019 arrangement, CSOs; both regular and SNE were to have job group C5 as the entry point. The support officers were to rise through competitive interviews after every three years until they reach job group D3 (Chief Curriculum Support Officer).
For the first time since 2019, TSC has advertised for promotional slots for the officers to rise to Scale D2. The move has ignited mixed reactions from the CSOs, many of them praising the acting TSC Chief Executive Officer Evaleen Mitei for revisiting the ranks through which the officers were to rise as contained in the abandoned CPG where CSOs were to start at CSO 2, then CSO 1(senior CSO) followed by CSO 3(Chief CSO).
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In what many officers agreed to be contravention of the 2019 CPG, TSC has not advertised for movement from job group D2 to D3. The officers were ready to point out that none of them in the field was at job group D2 as it should have been.
The officers lamented that the employer should have increased the slots after years of stagnation in job group C5 and D1.
For the first time, TSC has locked out headteachers from what the CSOs have always described as horizontal promotion which doesn’t attract salary adjustments.
TSC released promotional advert for all job groups including CSOs. In the advert, TSC is set to recruit 111 and 134 regular and SNE CSOs. A further 56 slots is up for grabs for those wishing to move to job group D1 and 19 for those who wish to move to D2.
There are over 1300 curriculum support officers under the commission’s payroll. CSOs play a very important role in ensuring that the commission’s mandate is fully implemented in the field.
By Naboth Murunga
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