The Eastern Cape Department of Education invites unemployed youth to apply for their Examination Assistant Vacancies (EAs). The closing date for applications is the 2nd May 2025
TEMPORAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Online applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for temporary positions as Examination Assistants (EAs) in the Nov/Dec 2025 National Senior Certificate (NSC) and May/June 2026 Senior Certificate (SC) Examinations at Marking Centres, Capturing Centres and Head Office Examination Depot.
Applicants are required to carefully read all instructions contained in this form before filling in the online form.
DEFINITION OF AN EXAMINATION ASSISTANT
An Examination Assistant is a person who works for the Department of Education on a temporary capacity at Marking Centres, Capturing Centres and Head Office Depot where examination related work is performed.
CRITERIA FOR EMPLOYMENT AS AN EXAMINATION ASSISTANT
Persons eligible to be employed as Examination Assistants will be:
- Second Year Full-time students at Tertiary Institutions including TVET colleges.
- Second Year Full-time students at Tertiary Institutions and unemployed youth holding matric certificate must have passed Maths at level 3 or Maths Literacy or Technical Mathematics at level 4 and above.
- Unemployed graduates in possession of university degree or diploma may apply without Maths or Maths Literacy as a requirement in their matric certificates.
- Unemployed youth (holding a Matric Certificate) passed in 2023 and below.
- Applicants must be South African citizens and in possession of a green bar-coded identity document/smart card.
- Applicants must be between the ages of 18 — 35.
THE FOLLOWING MUST BE NOTED:
- Applicants must not be in any form of employment for remuneration at the time of applying, including stipend received when in a learnership program or as an intern. If you happen to be employed at the time of the commencement of the examination duties, kindly inform Examinations and Assessment Chief Directorate in writing, so that you are not considered for this temporary job.
- An applicant must not be an educator/educator assistant/ AET lecturer.
- Applicants must not have worked as Examination Assistants in 2021 to 2023.
- Applicants must be willing to perform reasonable manual tasks requested of them, such as carrying boxes/bins and tidying working areas, etc.
- Applicants must select only one marking centre per application form.
- Applicants must have completed their examinations at tertiary institutions before the period of employment as an Examination Assistant commences.
- All the applicants will apply online using the link and clear guidelines provided.
- Applicants are expected to read carefully all the instructions given and follow then until the application forms has been submitted.
- All applicants must make sure that all certified PDF copies of the relevant documents needed are available and ready as they must be uploaded into the online system.
- All the completed application forms must be submitted online with certified documents attached. Certification must be done at SAPS only.
- Please ensure that the provided contact numbers and emails are correct and up to date. The Department shall not take responsibility for the applicant’s unavailability if the contact numbers and email address provided are incorrect and or have subsequently changed or whatsoever.
- Fraudulent information supplied on application form will lead to the applicant being disqualified.
APPOINTMENT PROCESS:
- Applicants who meet the requirements set out in the advertisement will be shortlisted.
- Shortlisted applicants will be invited to undergo an online Competency Test in a specified date and time. Test will be administered online and will be opened and closed for a specific writing period only.
- Shortlisted candidates who will participate in the Competency Tests shall be telephonically contacted / SMSs/ EMAIL will be sent through the cell phone numbers and email provided. Please ensure that the correct cell phone numbers and emails are provided. The Department will not be liable/ not accommodate inconveniences caused by the loss of cell phone or change of the numbers or email or any other cause.
- Only successful applicants will be contacted and informed of final employment.
SCOPE OF WORK OF AN EXAMINATION ASSISTANT
At the Marking Centre:
- To control scripts that have been received by Marking Centres.
- Control scripts that are issued to Chief Markers and are returned to the Control Room after marking.
- To carry bins from control room to chief marker control room also to centralized control room and marking venue.
- To check scripts that have been completely marked by markers by counting the ticks for each question on the answer book.
- To check that marks are correctly transferred from the marked pages of the script to the outside cover of the marked answer scripts
- To check that the marks on the outside of the answer script are correctly tabulated and added.
- To check that the marks on the outside of the answer script are correctly transferred into the accompanying mark sheet.
- To sign on the script to indicate that the work has been completed accurately.
- To sign the accompanying mark sheet in the appropriate place, after it has been signed by one of the markers.
- To receive mark sheets from capturers; to sort them according to districts and centres; and to file them in subject boxesffiles.
- To perform any other reasonable task, as may be allocated to him/her from time to time, by the management team/officials at a Marking Centre.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT OF EXAMINATION ASSISTANT
- Examination Assistants at the Marking Centre will be managed by the Script Control Room Officer.
- Examination Assistants at the Marking Venues will be supervised by Chief Marker, DCM and Senior Markers.
- Examination Assistants at the Capturing Centre will be supervised by the Lead Capturer.
- NO ACCOMMODATION WILL BE PROVIDED TO EXAMINATION ASSISTANTS EMPLOYED AT ANY MARKING CENTRE/WORKSTATION.
- Examination Assistants employed at the Grade 12 NSC/SC; Marking Centres will be provided with morning and afternoon tea, lunch, and supper only. No breakfast will be provided.
- Working hours will be from 08h00 to 20h00 daily, from Monday to Sunday, including public holidays, unless the flow of work dictates otherwise. This gives the total of 12h00 including tea, lunch and dinner breaks but the total number of working hours is 10. (12h00 -2 hrs for meals=10 working hours)
- Payment is based on the hourly tariff as set out in the Personnel Administration Measures (PAM) document as amended.
- No overtime will be paid to Examination Assistants.
- No leave will be granted to any Examination Assistant during the working session.
- No transport will be provided for Examination Assistants to and from their Marking Centres.
- Examination Assistants are to provide their own black pens, lead pencils, erasers, Calculators, etc when they arrive at the Marking Centre workstation.
- Examination Assistants must be able to work under pressure and must be physically fit.
- Examination Assistants who were involved in irregularities will not be appointed during the 2024/25 marking cycle.
APPLICATIONS:
- Applicants will apply online on the following link: https://constantlink.co.za/login.php
- Applicants are required to select one Marking Centre per application form as expected and the system is programmed like that.
- No applications will be hand submitted/ courier/ or emailed to the district offices or head office. All processes will be done through the online system.
- A Competency Test will be written by shortlisted candidates only on the date to be communicated specifically to the shortlisted candidates.
- No sharing of competency test link by shortlisted candidates to unqualified candidates.
- Successful applicants must bring a Completed bank form when they report for duty at the Marking Centre. The form will be emailed to applicants before the reporting date. Failure to do so may delay the appointment and remuneration process.
DOWNLOAD THE EXAMINATION ASSISTANT (EAs) VACANCIES ADVERT HERE
CLOSING DATE: 02 MAY 2025
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