Recruitment Galore:Federal Government Begins Teachers’ Recruitment through NPower Initiative
The much awaited 500,000 teaching recruitment opportunity is finally here. This was announced by spokesman of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, on Wednesday.
According to the statement said those interested in the 500,000 Teacher Corps (called N-Power Teach), can apply through an internet portal named www.npower.gov.ng
Akande said while the portal would be live on Saturday June 11, applications are expected to start coming in on June 12.
Categories of the Recruitment that you Can Apply For
These are the recruitment categories that are available and their details
1. N-Power Teacher Corps Recruitment Programmes
The N-Power Teacher Corps will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates. It is a paid volunteering programme of a 2 year duration. The 500,000 graduates under the N-Power Corps programme will get computing devices that will contain information necessary for their specific engagement, as well as information for their continuous training and development. Participants will provide teaching, instructional, and advisory solutions in 4 key areas.
Category 1:N-Power Teach
The N-Power Teach recruitment programme will engage qualified graduates for the benefit of basic education delivery in Nigeria. They will be deployed as teaching assistants in primary and secondary schools across Nigeria. They will not replace the current teachers, but will work as support teachers, assisting with teaching, school management and other functions within the schools. They will also assist in taking basic education to children in marginalised communities.
Importantly, they will gain work experience, and acquire key competencies through academic and non-academic capacity building programmes, which will improve their competitiveness in the workplace. In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.
Core Employability Skill
- Communication
- Writing and presenting written and verbal reports
- Role Plays
- Demonstrations
- Working in groups
- Team Work
- Team or group projects
- Learning sets
- Group discussion
- Syndicates
- Communities of practice
- Problem Solving
- Case studies
- Simulations
- Investigative projects and research
- Using various problem solving tools and techniques
- Developing or designing models
- Problem solving in teams and networks
- Decision making activities
- Initiative & Enterprise
- Brainstorming activities
- Designing innovative and creative practices and solutions
- Initiating change/design change processes
- Simulation activities
- Planning and Organizing
- Research and data collection
- Developing action plans
- Planning and organizing events
- Time management activities
- Goal setting activities and scheduling tasks
- Collecting and analyzing information
- Self- Management
- Development of portfolios
- Work plans
- Using log books to record time management skills and monitor own performance
- Career planning exercises
- Learning
- Reflective journals log books, diaries
- Mentoring and coaching activities
- Self-evaluation tools
Criteria
- Currently Unemployed
- Must be a graduate in any field or profession
- Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme
- Aged 18-35
- Disposition to teaching and imparting knowledge
- Disposition to discovering knowledge
- Patience and ability to listen are good qualities to possess
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Category 2:N-Power Health
Through the N-Power Health programme, young graduates who form part of the 500,000 N-Power Corps members will be trained to work as public health assistants. They will teach preventive health to community members including pregnant women, children, families and individuals. They will also be trained to provide basic diagnostic services.
Programme participants would be trained to provide the following essential services:
- Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems.
- Diagnose and investigate basic health problems and health hazards in individuals and the community.
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues.
- Mobilize community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
- Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
- Educate on laws, regulations and policies that protect health and ensure safety.
- Link people to needed personal health services.
In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory recruitment employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.
Core Employability Skill
- Communication
- Writing and presenting written and verbal reports
- Role Plays
- Demonstrations
- Working in groups
- Teamwork
- Team or group projects
- Learning sets
- Syndicates
- Communities of practice
- Problem Solving
- Simulations
- Investigative projects and research
- Using various problem solving tools and techniques
- Developing or designing models
- Problem solving in teams and networks
- Decision making activities
- Initiative and Enterprise
- Designing innovative and creative practices and solutions
- Initiating change/design change processes
- Planning and Organising
- Research and data collection
- Developing action plans
- Planning and organizing events
- Time management activities
- Goal setting activities and scheduling tasks
- Collecting and analyzing information
- Self Management
- Development of portfolios
- Work plans
- Using log books to record time management skills and monitor own performance
- Career planning exercises
- Learning
- Reflective journals log books, diaries
- Mentoring and coaching activities
- Self-evaluation tools
- Technology
- Using the Internet, Intranets
- Using ICT skills to complete activities
- Industry relevant software, technology and equipment
- Criteria
- Currently Unemployed
- Must be a graduate ( any field or profession )
- Must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service Corps Programme
- Aged 18-35
- An interest in public health
- You should be a caring individual, interested in the health and safety of others and of good temperament
Category 3:N-Power Agro
One of the ways that the Federal Government plans to diversify our economy is attaining self-sufficiency in producing the food we consume. An effective and well-coordinated agriculture extension system is vital to the attainment of sustainable national food self-sufficiency. To establish this system, the Federal Government will engage qualified young Nigerians through the N Power Agro program.
After a first phase of training, N-Power Agro volunteers will start to function as intermediaries between research and farmers. They will operate as facilitators and communicators, helping farmers in their decision-making and ensuring that appropriate knowledge is implemented to obtain the best results on farms. N-Agro will also rely on the use of technology as the country aspires to identify soil types, farm sizes, irrigation data, and ensure that our farmers are operating optimally.
In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.
Category 4:N-Power Community Education
The 4th category under this recruitment opportunity is community Education. Some members of the N-Power Teacher Corps Programme will be deployed nationally to instruct on:
- Civic Education
- Adult Education.
Civic Education is imperative for the development of an informed, effective, and responsible citizenry. Nigeria can only be truly sustained by citizens who have the requisite civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The programme will focus on the core values that are vital to nation building such as promoting patriotism, integrity, productivity, ethics, and efficiency. Civic education is essential to sustaining our objectives to build a strong and competitive nation. The habits of the mind, as well as “habits of the heart,” the dispositions that inform the national ethos, are not inherited. Each new generation is a new people that must acquire the knowledge, learn the skills, and develop the dispositions or traits of private and public character that undergird a productive nation and a constitutional democracy. Those dispositions must be fostered and nurtured by word and study and by the power of example. The values that build a nation must be consciously reproduced, one generation after another. This is what the programme intends to inspire in our nation through the N-Power Community Education instructors.
Adult Education will provide instruction that enables young as well as mature adults (above 18 years) to improve or supplement their knowledge and skills within general subjects. From literacy to numeracy, to other skills, this programme will also enhance adults’ ability to improve their future job and educational possibilities. The target group to benefit from the instruction are young as well as mature adults who have no formal education or have never completed junior secondary education or who have a need to improve or supplement their basic education.
In addition, successful applicants will also benefit from a compulsory employability and entrepreneurship skills development programme.
2. N-Power Knowledge Programmes
The N-Power Knowledge programme is the Federal Government’s first step towards diversifying to a knowledge economy. This programme will work alongside the planned eight innovation hubs across the country to provide incubation and acceleration of the technology and creative industries. The programme is a ‘Training to Jobs’ initiative, essentially ensuring that participants can get engaged in the marketplace in an outsourcing capacity, as freelancers, as employees and as entrepreneurs.
Category 1:N-Power Creative
The N-Power Creative programme will train and develop 5,000 young creative talents. The strategy is to put our creative industry on the global radar as exporters of world-class services and content. Training will last 3 months, made up of 1-month in-class and a 2-month hands-on group project, across selected Nigerian cities. The participants will be trained and certified in one of the following courses:
- Animation
- Graphic Design
- Post-production
- Script Writing
At the end of the training, some participants will get local and international internship opportunities while others will be linked to job and market opportunities. In addition, all participants will receive computing devices that will ensure that they master their skills during and after the training.
Category 2:N-Power Tech Hardware
The N-Power Tech. for device technicians program will train and facilitate tooling for at least 10,000 technicians to boost the device servicing and manufacturing industry. The output of this program will serve as a critical catalyst for the expansion of local capacity to service and produce mobile phones, tablets, computers and other relevant devices to serve the local and international market. Participants will undergo a hands-on training experience wherein they will be exposed to practical processes and tools to assemble and repair devices of varying specifications. At the end often program, participants will be armed with the requisite technical skills to service devices in there local communities as well as work in a device assembly plant. The program will take 3 months of training and 1 month of assessment , graduation and setup. Participants will be advised on opportunities to acquire tools to practise.
Category 3:N-Power Tech Software
The N-Power Tech for developers programme will train, tool and position 10,000 hands-on software developers for the local and international software development market. Participants will undergo a project based model to training wherein they will be exposed to foundational software development tools as well as resources to thrive as a modern day software developer entrepreneur. The programme will seek to establish the foundation knowledge, tools and platform upon which participants can pursue a career as software development entrepreneurs. Training will last 11 weeks and culminate with job fairs to link participants with placement opportunities within their respective localities. The programme will also offer a continuity platform to support participants with learning and engagement opportunities on a continuous basis. Participants will be enabled with a device to continue the practice and exploration of opportunities after training.
3. N-Power Knowledge Programmes
The third category is the N-Power Build. N-Power Build recruitment program is an accelerated training and certification (Skills to Job) programme that will engage and train 75,000 young unemployed Nigerians in order to build a new crop of skilled and highly competent workforce of technicians, artisans and service professionals.
The focus industries include:
- Building Services
- Construction
- Built Environment Services
- Utilities
- Automotive
- Aluminium and Gas