TO ensure effective and efficient delivery of basic education services in all levels of government, Education Secretary Sonny Angara instructed to fill all vacant positions in DepEd offices.
According to DepEd Memorandum No. 42, s. 2024 DepEd Bureau and Service Directors in the Central Office, Regional Directors (RDs), and Schools Division Superintendents (SDSs) are instructed to do all means to accelerate the hiring and filling of all vacant positions in all authorized positions in DepEd, including the new teaching and school-based non-teaching positions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.
Based on the Department of Budget and Management-Government Manpower Information System (DBM-GMIS) as of May 2024 DepEd has 46,703 (4.53%) vacant positions out of 1,030,897 total authorized positions that can be associated for various reasons according to the compiled report.
The identified remaining vacancies challenge the operations of the offices and the absorbent capacity of the Department.
In addition, the DepEd is also instructing all field offices to produce the catch-up plan which can be downloaded thru the link: bit.ly/HiringCatchUpPlan The full catch-up plan must be submitted to the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development-Personnel Division (BHROD-PD) using the link: . bit.ly/UnfilledCatchUpPlan. on or before March 9th of August, 2024
Furthermore, all DepEd offices are also instructed to always update the Personal Services Services Itemization and Plantilla of Personnel and the DBM-GMIS database. Other monitoring tools such as Program Management Information System, Quick Count for FY 2024 items, and the Deployment Monitoring Tool for school-based non-teaching items need to be updated as well.
Editor’s Note: This article has been sourced from the DepEd Philippines Facebook Page.
