Angara orders exhaustive measures to expedite hiring, fill all DepEd vacancies
Secretary Sonny Angara directed the Department of Education (DepEd) offices to take every necessary measure to fill all vacant positions to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of basic education services at every level of governance.
Under DepEd Memorandum No. 42, s. 2024, DepEd bureau and service directors in the Central Office, regional directors, and schools division superintendents are instructed to exhaust all measures to expedite the hiring and fill all vacant DepEd-authorized positions, including newly created teaching and school-based non-teaching positions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.
As of May 2024, the Department of Budget and Management-Government Manpower Information System (DBM-GMIS) reported that DepEd has 46,703 vacancies, or 4.53 percent of the total 1,030,897 authorized positions, due to various factors identified in the reports.
The remaining vacancies pose significant challenges to the operations and absorptive capacity of DepEd.
In response, DepEd directed all field offices to develop a catch-up plan.
Completed plans must be submitted to the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development-Personnel Division on or before Aug. 9.
All DepEd offices are also required to promptly update the Personal Services Itemization and Plantilla of Personnel and the DBM-GMIS database.
Other monitoring tools, including the Program Management Information System, Quick Count for FY 2024 items, and the Deployment Monitoring Tool for school-based non-teaching items, must also be kept current.