School Health and Safety Officer

1. Carrying out the work required to turn schools into health promoting schools.
2. Implementing programmes to ensure the health and physical wellbeing of students.
3. Working to create a safe and healthy environment for students in the school, and implementing programmes to protect the school and school community from dengue and vector-borne diseases.
4. Implementing in the school the health emergency policies and principles set by the Ministry of Education and the health institutions concerned with them.
5. Ensuring that the drinking water available to students and staff is safe, and carrying out the school's WASH programme and hygiene education programme.
6. Carrying out, in line with the policy set by the Ministry of Education, physical fitness awareness and training to keep students in a healthy condition, in consultation with the school principal.
7. Ensuring that food and drinks available in the school are safe and healthy, carrying out the required work, and deciding, in consultation with the relevant parties (hospital / health centre), on health screening of specified grades at a date set by the Ministry of Education, in accordance with a procedure established by the school management.
8. Ensuring the safety and protection of students on school-run trips and competitions, and arranging for first aid to be provided.
9. Conducting student health screening and identifying and monitoring students among the school population who use long-term medication.
10. Implementing, in the school, policies on student health, mental and physical wellbeing set by the Ministry of Education and policies on school environment safety and protection, in line with the views and consultation of the school management.
11. Preparing each year a schedule of the school health and safety activities and programmes run at the school, and after the year ends preparing a report on those activities and programmes and sharing it with the relevant parties in a manner set by the school.
12. Preparing and maintaining an inventory of the school health room resources and first aid resources, and providing the health room services, first aid services and support services to all students without discrimination.
13. Ensuring that all students have completed the compulsory vaccines included in the national vaccination schedule, and arranging, in consultation with the School Health and Safety Section of the Ministry of Education, for vaccines / boosters to be given to students who have not completed their vaccinations.
14. Providing first aid training to all staff of the school and maintaining first aid in the school's evacuation drills.

1. Possess a degree at Level 7 or 8 of the Maldivian National Qualification Framework or a Bachelor's Honours degree in a field related to the post.

Career Field (related job sectors):

1. Health Services

Preferred Discipline:

Not applicable

Academic Discipline (Educational qualifications prescribed for the post)

1. Community Health
2. Environmental Health
3. Environmental Science with Hazards and Disasters
4. Health and Safety
5. Health and Safety at Work
6. Health Education
7. Health Education and Behaviour
8. Health Education and Health Promotion
9. Health Promotion
10. Health Research
11. Health-Safety and Environment
12. Industrial Hygiene
13. Occupational Safety-Health and Environment
14. Occupational Health
15. Occupational Health and Risk Management
16. Occupational Health and Safety Leadership
17. Occupational Health and Safety Management
18. Occupational Hygiene
19. Occupational Risk Prevention
20. Occupational Risks
21. Occupational Safety Management
22. Occupational Safety-Health and Wellbeing
23. Occupational Safety and Health
24. Educational and Occupational Health Psychology
25. Physical and Health Education
26. Prevention of Occupational Hazards
27. Primary Health Care
28. Public Health
29. Public Health Nursing
30. Safety Science
31. School Health Education
32. Technology-Work and Health
33. Work Health and Safety Advanced
34. Workplace Health Management

Code of discipline prescribed for the post

Not applicable

1. Application form for a full-time position (this form can be obtained from the Civil Service Commission's website and the office's website, counter and the link below.) https://www.csc.gov.mv/download/2023/51/Annex%202%20-%20Application%20form1pnd4eve.a2u.docx
2. Details of the applicant (including contact phone number and email address).
3. A readable copy of both sides of the card proving that the applicant is a Maldivian citizen (even if the validity period has expired), or if the ID card is lost, the applicant's birth certificate, passport or driving licence.
4. If a staff member with a service agreement to serve the Civil Service / Government is transferred to this position, a letter issued by the office providing the service stating that there is no objection to leaving the position.
5. Copies of educational certificates obtained;

(a) For educational certificates issued by institutions outside Maldives that have been graded by the Maldives Qualifications Authority at a certain level, copies of the educational certificate and transcript; or: in cases where there is no certificate, a copy of the letter confirming completion of the course and a copy of the assessment report and transcript issued by the Maldives Qualifications Authority.

(b) Copies of educational certificates and transcript issued by local educational institutions in Maldives; or copies of letter confirming completion of the course and copies of transcript.

6. Copies of documents as specified below demonstrating work experience:

(a) If work experience has been gained in a civil service post, in a state institution, in a government-owned company, a letter from that office stating the work undertaken, the period of work (in years, months and days), and the responsibilities of the post (if work has been undertaken in different posts in one institution, the responsibilities should be stated separately for each).

(b) For work experience within the civil service that cannot be verified from https://myaccount.csc.gov.mv/, a letter from that office stating the work undertaken and the period (in years, months and days) confirmed by that office, and stating the responsibilities of the post (if work has been undertaken in different posts in one institution, the responsibilities should be stated separately for each).

(c) If work experience has been gained in a private company or private organisation, a letter from that organisation stating the work undertaken, the period of work (in years, months and days), the responsibilities of the post (if work has been undertaken in different posts in one institution, the responsibilities should be stated separately for each) and the number of staff at the workplace.

(d) If work has been undertaken in a national or international association or society, a letter from that organisation stating the work undertaken, and the period (in years, months and days), and the responsibilities of the post (if work has been undertaken in different posts in one institution, the responsibilities should be stated separately for each). This letter should state whether the position held is a salaried position or not, or alternatively, an official letter from that organisation confirming this.

(e) If work has been undertaken in a dissolved state institution, or in a dissolved private company or private organisation, or in a dissolved national or international society or association, and a letter from that office stating the work undertaken and the period of work (in years, months and days) and the responsibilities of the post (if work has been undertaken in different posts in one institution, the responsibilities should be stated separately for each) cannot be obtained, the "Reference Check Form for Work Experience from a Dissolved Workplace" found in Table 8 of the Recruitment Rules.

7. In addition to the above, a copy of the registration/licence required for the post of Senior School Health and Safety Officer

Note: To be appointed to this post, the person applying for the position must obtain a minimum of 60 points from a total of A2 sheet.

Documents to apply for the post must be submitted at Thaajuddeen School before 14:00 on 15 October 2026. The application form and documents for the job may also be sent via email to [email protected].

And if the government announces a public holiday before the deadline of this announcement, applications can be received up to the number of days of the announced holiday.

From those who applied for this position, those with the highest points will be shortlisted based on educational qualification, experience and assessment results.

Interview (if there is an examination and presentation, these will also be included) will be held at the following place and time:

The interviews and assessments to select a person for this post will be held at Thaajuddeen School between 17 October 2026 and 7 November 2026.

Within three days of the interview being held, the "Sheet of Points Awarded to Job Applicants (A2 Sheet)" will be made public at this office and on the office's website. If there is any objection to the points awarded to job applicants, such objection must be submitted to this office within three days of the A2 Sheet being made public.

To clarify information regarding this announcement, please contact 3310626 or 7953998. You may email [email protected].

The guidelines and principles for recruitment to civil service posts, and all documents related to these principles, are available on the Civil Service Commission website under Principles > "Recruitment Principles" (https://www.csc.gov.mv/Policy/Index/51).