At least 132,943 jobs are up for grabs at the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) ahead of the forthcoming National Population and Housing census exercise in May.
The statistic’s body is currently seeking 114,460 census enumerators and 18,483 census enumeration supervisors, with the online recruitment exercise ongoing until March 15th.
The census job advert released last Friday, states that the census enumeration supervisors will undertake effective census supervision of the enumeration exercise in the assigned supervision area, while enumerators are to conduct census enumeration in all the enumeration areas assigned.
Didacus Okoth, the spokesperson of Ubos, yesterday said they are prepared for the recruitment exercise since the infrastructure for the process is already in place.
He said there will be training for district officials who will be responsible for recruitment at the district level and will be able to select those who will have gone through the process.
Okoth revealed that after the recruitment exercise, the successful applicants will be taken through training on how to use the census gadgets as the exercise will be strictly online.
Okoth said since the job recruitment exercise will be done online, they don’t expect any cases of bribery before cautioning the district leaders to be transparent and honest in the exercise.
