During the past month, UNTAET’s Central Recruitment Office has interviewed more than 180 East Timorese for three public service departments of the East Timor Transitional Administration and has hired more than 100 as permanent civil servants.
Since Libório Pereira took the oath as the first permanently hired civil servant on August 2, nine Timorese were appointed for the Procurement Office and Labor and Social Affairs Office, 80 for the Central Fiscal Authority and another 22 for the Central Payments Office.
For Water and Sanitation, interviews are being conducted at national and district level. Every district will appoint five to six people.
The Central Recruitment Office advertised the vacancies nationally in February.
These positions include all levels and fields such as Water and Sanitation, Information Technology, Post and Telecommunication Services, Agriculture, National Records and Archives, the Land & Property Commission, Judicial Affairs and the Public Service Commission. The vacancy announcements also include positions for Deputy District Administrators and District Administrators.
SRSG VISITS LIQUICA
SRSG Sergio Vieira de Mello visited Liquica district today and participated in a three-hour town hall meeting with 200 local residents and also attended by the deputy World Bank representative Ron Isaacson, Ana Pessoa, Cabinet Member for Internal Affairs, and Emilia Pires, economical advisor to the CNRT President Xanana Gusmão.
SRSG visited the Liquica Medical Center recently rehabilitated by the crew of a Portuguese frigate, and went to the sub-district of Maubara, where he visited two Quick Impact Projects – a bamboo furniture workshop and a market of handicrafts made by women.
