After successfully launching the official Turks and Caicos Islands 2017-2018 Recruitment Drive in April 2017, the Office of the Deputy Governor has now embarked on the 2nd recruitment drive for 2017/2018.
April 13th 2017, marked the initial launch of what would turn out to be a highly effective recruitment drive that included a number of positions throughout the TCI Civil Service, largely focused on the area of law enforcement.
The process closed on April 27th 2017 with TCIG having received a total of 640 applications for some 40 positions advertised across government. This was highlighted by the reception of: 249 applications for the new 11 Primary and Secondary Teacher roles in the Ministry of Education; 115 applications for the 6 new Customs Officer roles in the Ministry of Finance; 127 applications for the 6 new Immigration Officer roles in the Ministry of Border Control and 48 applications for the 2 new Fire Safety Officer roles in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The Human Resource Directorate along with the various ministries responsible, is now in the process of conducting the necessary shortlisting and interview process for appointments and numerous announcements will be made regarding these upcoming appointments over the course of the next few weeks.
Deputy Governor, Hon. Anya Williams commented on the accomplishments of the opening drive for 2017-2018 and the potential leading into the second exercise: “As a part of our plan to ensure that all positions across government are filled within a reasonable time frame and that departments are able to efficiently deliver on their mandate, our 2017-2018 recruitment drive commenced very early in the new financial year and has already begun to reap success through a significant number of positive responses.
Whilst we complete the shortlist and interview process for Drive 1, we are now pleased to move into our second drive where we will be releasing a further 40 positions in various fields across government including Road Safety, Planning, Emergency Services, Finance, Border Control and other departments and will be looking forward to similar responses as well. However, whilst we are pleased with the level of responses, we wish to use this opportunity to encourage both current and prospective civil servants to fully utilize the training and other development opportunities that are available to them through the Turks and Caicos Islands Community College and other institutions, as the continued high volume of applications demonstrates that there is a keen interest in TCIG roles and that persons must adequately prepare themselves to compete for these roles.
As the 2017-2018 Scholarship Application process is also underway we wish to encourage potential students to pursue the area of Teaching and Education which remains an under subscribed field of study in the Turks and Caicos Islands and still relies heavily on overseas recruitment.
The Turks and Caicos Civil Service boasts of over 90% local employment across government and over 75% locals in senior management positions, however, as there are still gaps to be filled in the area of Teaching, Engineering, Agriculture and Nursing, we encourage Turks and Caicos Islanders to further pursue studies in these areas which are vital to government.
