The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will enhance the salaries and allowances for primary headteachers acting as Principals in junior secondary schools.
Already the Commission issued the school heads with deployment letters allowing them to exercise their management skills in the schools.
However the borne of contention has been whether the headteachers will benefit monetarily by managing the activities of the schools.
Its now emerging that TSC will move the headteachers one job group up to entice them to their new mandate.
This is after details emerged that the headteachers could act as Principals for many years as the Commission struggles to establish junior secondary management.
Most primary school headteachers are in job group C4 (TSC sclae 9) while others are in job group C5 (TSC scale 10). Those in C4 are earning a basic salary from sh. 52,308 as minimum to a maximum of sh. 65,385.
In addition TSC pays them a house allowance of sh. 13,000 (for those in other areas), commuter allowance of sh. 8,000, hardship allowance of sh. 14,650 and a leave allowance (paid once per year) of sh. 6,000.
Now C4 headteachers will be moved automatically to job group C5. Here they will earn a basic salary from sh. 62,272 as minimum to a maximum of sh. 77,840.
There allowances will also be enhanced. They will get a house allowance of sh. 15,400 (for those in other areas, commuter allowance of sh. 8,000, hardship allowance of sh. 17,100 and a leave allowance (paid once per year) of sh. 6,000.
One headteacher with junior secondary domiciled in his school and who we met in a cyber said he is happy to manage this category of school.
“Am now here with other BOM members processing a KRA pin for our school so that we can make withdrawals for the junior secondary school. There are so many thing to be attended,” said Gerald a headteacher in Taita-Taveta.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
a) Is the Accounting Officer of the school.
b) Is to set standards and targets of activities for the school.
c) Controls the finances of the school.
d) Maintains the school infrastructure and facilities.
e) Plans, develops and monitors curricular and co-curricular activities of the school.
f) Maintains discipline among staff and students of the school.
g) Ensures the keeping of statutory records of the school, adhere strictly to the approved admission and transfer list from the Ministry of Education and approves issuance of testimonials and certificates.
h) Supervises the proper completion of entry schedule of approved external examinations.
i) Monitors the performance of his Deputy Principal and Deputy-Principals.
j) Should be conversant with Government policies and regulations as they affect the school system.
k) Is to endorse all incoming and outgoing correspondences for action.
l) Maintains a functional and cordial relationship with the school community, School Management Committee, Old Students’ Association and other critical stakeholders.
m) Shall provide job description for all supporting staff.
n) Shall teach minimum of six periods per week.
What of the school deputies whom all the responsibilities are delegated to.Don’t they too deserve some monetary gain?I guess they shoulder the biggest part of the Jss duties.Kindly consider them to keep them motivated.
This promotion is most welcome because it is true that the management of two different schools in one had been overloading HTs . Now we can smile if this can be backdated to to Feb 2023
Tsc should also consider the deputies headteachers please coz they also have an extra duty in JSS
It’s a good idea but those headteachers who don’t have JSS are disadvantaged yet their learners were taken to other schools, they should be given letters as acting principals too
Thats commendable for promoting Hts for managing Jss .What of trs who are doing the donkey work and the Jss trs posted cannot handle all the subjects alone
What about deputy headteachers who do the donkey work and even deals with discipline cases in a school.
Good news for a start, effective date? When are the administrators likely to start receiving this packy? What about their deputies? Thanks 🙏
This is good and a motivation for the headteachers! What of the deputy headteachers who will be helping the headteachers to manage the JSS??
I feel they need the same treatment of being moved a job group higher. They work hard to appraise the teachers and help implement the curriculum in the schools.
I appreciate tsc for motivating acting principal s to a higher grade we promise to work with efficiency and content delivery in taking jss to another level while upholding integrity in our institutions
There aren’t many teachers who have stagnated in one job group in primary and have been in managerial posts, C2 for 6 years
Hot air. It is a carrot that is being dangled.
But youve not indicated the increments for the headteachers in C5. Youve only highlighted C4 to C5 only.
I also support the deputy headteachers promotion because they fully have a great hand in the implementation of the Jss. Infact without them it wouldn’t have been that easy. He is the disciplinarian of the whole school
I mean deputy headteachers should also be promoted to also work effectively
Have they also considered promoting the TTC Lecturer who trained the Headteachers and Jss teachers but are still languishing in C3 for over 10 yrs.?
Ohoooo na lecturers who trained these p1 htrs and jss no job group why macharia?tsc tsc mungu awaone
Veronica Kiarie
How about teachers who have been transferred from primary schools to teach JSS and they have been in grade c2 for long? Why wait for 3 years for them to go to C3 yet head teachers are promoted to next grade with immediate effect?
How authentic is this information coz most hts are in c5 not c4.
C5 cadre to be promoted to D1
So the Teachers Service Commission is going to pay primary headteachers acting as Principals in junior secondary schools more money, in an attempt to get them to take on the job. But it’s not clear whether the headteachers will actually benefit monetarily from this arrangement. Is this really the best the TSC can do?
All the administrators in primary are all working towards the success of jss.
Promoting hoi alone is demotivating the other teachers.
Some teachers are also teaching in jss yet they’re not recognized by tsc!!! What about them