Programme Worker Post 

As announced by the Chief Executive in the 2007-08 Policy Address, the government will create 3 000 new temporary posts, namely Programme Worker (PW), to enhance employment support for young people aged between 15 and 29 from 2008-09 to 2010-11 subject to budgetary approval by the Legislative Council. The new PW posts are created for helping young people to gain working experience so that they could eventually find jobs in the labour market thus achieving the goal of open employment.

Social Welfare Department (SWD) is responsible for allocating these 3 000 new PW posts to subvented non-governmental organizations ( NGO ) for assisting social workers to deliver/enrich service/programmes in various service settings to serve different target groups, such as children and youth, secondary students, at-risk youth, young drug abusers, young offenders, elders, persons with disabilities and their family members.

Operating NGOs are responsible for the actual operation of the PW posts including recruitment, posting arrangement, training and supervision. They have been notified of the allocation of PW posts and the employment arrangements by SWD at end of February 2008.

Young people, who are interested in applying for these posts, may find the recruitment advertisements of these posts put up by operating NGOs in the newspaper. The contact phone numbers of operating NGOs can be downloaded here.

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