The government through the Teachers Service Commission(TSC) on Tuesday announced the hiring of additional Junior Secondary Teachers.
According to the TSC announcement made on the dailies on October 29, the commission seeks to employ the 20,000 teachers on internship basis for a period of 12 months.
Interested candidates were advised to apply through the TSC website by not later than November 4 midnight.
The teachers will be deployed to help in implementation of the Competency Based Curriculum(CBC) and will teach at Regular Schools . They will also be deployed to teach at the Special Needs Education(SNE) schools.
To qualify, all applicants must be Kenyan citizens with a minimum grade C+(plus) in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education(KCSE) and on the two teaching subjects. They must also be registered with the TSC.
"Qualified and trained teachers with Technical Learning Areas/Subjects with TSC Registration Numbers are highly encouraged to apply." TSC added on the announcement.
"The Commission's guideline for the recruitment of intern teachers for the financial year 2024/2025 shall apply."
TSC also added that it will only accept online applications, and that manual applications will not be acceptable.
Further, successful applicants will be allowed to teach in any of the schools in the areas they have applied from or any other part of the country that a vacancy exists.
TSC also announced that only teachers with no teaching record with the commission or any disciplinary issues will be considered.
The commission plans to pay the interns a monthly stipend of Ksh20, 000 which will be subject to any government deductions.
Applicants will be required to submit their copies of TSC Certificate, national identity card, National Council for Persons with disability card for the differently abled applicants, KRA PIN and two passport size photos.
