The Civil Service Ministry has begun procedures this week to employ as many as 11,000 Saudi women in administrative posts at the Ministry of Education.
This was in line with a royal decree issued by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah last year to create administrative jobs for 11,000 women graduates in the educational sector, the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry will announce on Wednesday the names of women graduates who have submitted online applications for various posts. The ministry would then scrutinize the personal data of the applicants and verify their original documents and certificates on June 30, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Those who qualify for available jobs will be short-listed for employment at administrative posts education departments throughout the Kingdom.
The employees will be offered salary and allowances similar to that of the grade six public sector employees. Those young women who have completed their graduation either in education or other disciplines will be given priority in accordance with the higher number of academic points that they are given in the short-listing process, the ministry said.
The ministry is exerting all efforts to employ the maximum number of qualified young Saudi women. It has advised appointment of 28,000 women during the last two months. A total of 29,000 women have already been appointed, of which 28,000 were in the educational sector while the rest in the administrative sector, the statement added.
