By Tobias Lengnan Dapam
The National Population Commission has launched an online E recruitment Portal for 2023 census.
Speaking while launching the portal on Monday at the headquarters of the Commission in Abuja, the Chairman, Nasir Isa Kwarra, said the portal is much improved 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. The need to be fair and transparent in the recruitment process has led the Commission to introduce the online e-recruitment portal and train 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 that will be needed to prosecute the next Census: Facilitators, Training Centre Administrators, Monitoring & Evaluations Officers, Data Quality Managers, Data Quality Assistants, Supervisors and Enumerators.
“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 States.
“To ensure a fair, efficient and transparent recruitment selection process, the Honourable Federal Commissioners (HFC) will, in addition to the existing team at the State level, constitute a Local Government Area Recruitment Team (LRRT) which will comprise of 3 persons; a) The Comptrollers (Chairperson), b) One NPC staff who has NPC file number (as Desk officer/Secretariat), C) Local Government Officials.
“The State Recruitment Review Team (SRRT), who are already profiled, are to train the Local Government Area Recruitment Team (LRRT) in conjunction with officer that will be sent from the headquarters. The Local Government Recruitment Team will work to ensure that prospective applicants in hard-to-reach areas, difficult terrains and areas with no network coverage have the opportunity to apply to serve as census functionaries and are appropriately accommodated on the recruitment portal.
“The Headquarters Recruitment Team (HRT) in conjunction with State Recruitment Review Team (SRRT) will train the Local Government Area Recruitment Team and monitor the recruitment exercise in the LGAs. The Commission assures Nigerians that the advertisement requesting for application will be placed in national print and electronic media, as well as the Commission’s dedicated website and social media platforms.”
