Management has noted that there are several misinterpretations regarding the issue of Responsibility Allowance within the Service, especially among staff, and wishes to offer the following clarifications:
Teaching Staff
1. Responsibility Allowance is payable only to professional teachers in the following ranks:
Deputy Director
Assistant Director I
Assistant Director II
Principal Superintendent
2. Responsibilities that attract the allowance among teaching staff include:
School Head (Basic)
Headmasters/Headmistresses (SHS)
Assistant Headmasters/Headmistresses (SHS)
Chaplains/Imams
Form Master/Mistress (Class Master/Mistress)
Guidance and Counselling Coordinators
Heads of Department (Programme Heads)
House Master/Mistress
Frontline Heads (at District and Regional levels)
Unit Heads (Headquarters)
For the avoidance of doubt, “Head of Department” refers to the following departments:
a) Agricultural Science
b) Business
c) Technical
d) Home Economics
e) Visual Arts
f) General Science
g) General Arts
h) Languages
i) Mathematics and ICT
Non-Teaching Staff
Non-teaching staff entitled to Responsibility Allowance are:
a) Principal Accountant (Substantive)
b) Principal Internal Auditor (Substantive)
c) Principal Administrative Officer (who has duly been posted as Head of the Administrative Unit by the Regional Director of Education to a school or office)
Staff are also to note that their respective responsibilities are factored into the salary level under the Single Spine Salary Structure. Therefore, there is no separate salary line for Responsibility Allowance on the payslip.
It is the belief of Management that these clarifications will lay to rest some of the agitations among sections of staff.
Thank you.
ADJOA VAN VICKER (MRS.)
DIRECTOR, HRMD
For: DIRECTOR-GENERAL
Cc:
The Director-General, GES, Accra
The Deputy Director-General (MS), GES, Accra
The Deputy Director-General (Q&A), GES, Accra
The Chief Internal Auditor, GES, Accra
The Head, IPPD Unit, GES, Accra