The Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation (MEYR) would like to remind all interested applicants that it has zero tolerance policy towards any form of child abuse. MEYR adheres to S.L. 327.546 (Recruitment, Initial Training and Continous Professional Development of Personnel and Protection of Minors in Compulsory Education Regulations 2016) in its recruitment process.

1. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation (MEYR) invites applications for the post of Assistant Head of School (Secondary/Post-Secondary) within the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation to serve in Gozo.

2.1. This appointment is subject to a probationary period of twelve (12) months. 

2.2. The salary for the post of Assistant Head of School is Salary Scale 6, which in the year 2022 is €28,132 per annum, rising by annual increments of €596.33 up to a maximum of €31,710.

2.3. An appointee will be entitled to such other benefits and subject to such other conditions and obligations as may be stipulated in any pertinent agreement between the Government and the competent Union.

2.4. Lateral applications by public officers who already hold an appointment in the same grade being advertised are allowed only if the area of specialisation of the vacancy is different to the one held by the applicant and requires a specific related qualification as an eligibility requirement, which the applicant must satisfy.

2.5. Accepting appointment in this grade signifies that any pending applications within the Public Service are automatically considered renounced, unless the latter are applications for SAAC positions or applications for a definite position when the officer concerned holds an indefinite appointment.

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3. The job duties for the post of Assistant Head of School may be viewed in Annex A attached to this Circular.

4.1. By the closing time and date of this call for applications, applicants must be Public Officers in the Malta Public Service or Public Officers in the Malta Public Service on loan/detailed with/deployed with/on attachment to Public Sector Organizations, who: 

i. are in possession of a Permanent Teachers Warrant; AND

ii. must be confirmed in a current appointment, and who are public officers covered by the agreement between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) dated 21st December 2017; AND

iii. have not less than ten (10) scholastic years teaching experience, five (5) years of which must be in state school. Years of experience as Head of Department - Prefect of Discipline shall be deemed reckonable as part of the required years of teaching experience for the purposes of eligibility as outlined in this clause.

As provided by clause 34(2) of the Sectoral Agreement signed between the Government of Malta and the Malta Union of Teachers on 23rd August 2010, Instructors who have been re-designated as Teachers (Personal Basis) and who satisfy the eligibility criteria outlined in paragraph 4.1 (i), (ii) and (iii) above, shall be likewise eligible. It is being clarified that years of teaching experience in the grade of Instructor shall be reckonable as teaching experience in terms of paragraph 4.1 (iii) above.

4.2. Public Officers holding a grade in a particular stream, and who were granted Officer in Scale status by virtue of a Grievances Unit decision in the same scale as that of a higher grade in that stream, are eligible to apply for grades open to officers holding such higher grade within the stream that carries the same scale as that of the Officer in Scale status.

The years of service since the effective date of appointment as Officer in Scale are reckonable for the purpose of satisfying any requisite years of service stipulated in calls for applications. 

Any other eligibility requisites for the post must be met in terms of this call for applications.

4.4. Furthermore, as per the education sectoral agreement signed by the Government and the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) on 21st December 2017, the eligibility criteria mentioned in paragraphs 4.1 (i), (ii) and (iii) above, will take into consideration all previous years of satisfactory service in the relevant grade and qualifications accrued by applicants. As such, service in higher or equivalent roles by the closing time and date of the call for applications, which may include roles not regulated by the same agreement, will not exclude potential candidates in applying and gaining eligibility for equivalent and/or lower grades.

4.5. Applicants must be eligible to take up their due appointment, in terms of 4.1 to 4.4 above, not only by the closing time and date of this call for applications but also on the date of appointment.

4.6. Applicants are obliged to immediately inform the Selection Board (if result has not yet been published, in which case the application should be withdrawn by the applicant) or the HR Unit within the issuing ministry / department (if result has been published) upon any change in the status of their appointment from the date of submission of their application until the closing date, or upon being called for appointment as a result, of this call for application, as the case may be. Non-observance of this instruction may lead to disciplinary action. On its part, at the start of the interview, the Selection Board will request the candidate to declare any changes in status of his/her current appointment from the date of submission of application.

4.7. Public Officers who are ordinarily resident in Gozo, but currently work in Malta, and who hold the same substantive grade as that being advertised, may apply laterally. If selected, such officers will be transferred to the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation, carrying their respective grade and salary entitlement. It is clarified that such candidates will not be awarded additional marks in the selection process for the possession of any qualifications which are an eligibility as stated in this call for applications.