The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued advertisements for a set of senior professional appointments at the level of General Manager. It has also opened the engagement of sixteen young professionals through the Pratibha Setu portal of the Union Public Service Commission. NTA in a statement said that these measures represent the first concrete step in the institutional rebuild of the agency that is being implemented in line with the recommendations of the High-Level Committee of Experts chaired by Prof. K. Radhakrishnan.
NTA has notified four Positions for General Manager on contract, each for an initial term of three years. The General Manager, Assessment Research and Development and Psychometrics, will head NTA’s academic and measurement-science function. The General Manager, Test Centre Network and Operations, will lead NTA’s nationwide test-centre footprint, spanning over five hundred cities and select international centres, with responsibility for empanelment standards, capacity planning, and centre quality. The General Manager, Information Security, designated as NTA’s Chief Information Security Officer, will head the cyber-security function of the Agency. The General Manager, Vigilance, Investigation and Forensics, will head NTA’s internal vigilance, investigations and digital forensics function.
The NTA said that the engagement of Young Professionals is being undertaken for the first time. The Agency added that further recruitment and empanelment actions across the ten functional verticals recommended by the High-Level Committee of Experts will follow in the coming weeks.
