Northern Province Cooperative Development Officer Vacancies 2026 - 20 Posts
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Northern Province Cooperative Development Officer Vacancies 2026
Open Competitive Examination for Recruitment to Grade III
Northern Provincial Public Service
Vacancy Overview
- Post: Cooperative Development Officer - Grade III
- Service: Northern Provincial Public Service
- Recruitment: Open competitive examination, expected in October 2026
- Number of vacancies: 20
- Appointment: Permanent and pensionable, subject to a three-year probation period
- Salary scale: MN 3-2025 - Rs. 52,250 - 10 x 800 - 11 x 1,190 - 10 x 1,320 - 10 x 1,350 - Rs. 100,040
Required Qualifications
1. General requirements
- Must be a citizen of Sri Lanka, of good character, and physically and mentally fit to serve anywhere in the Northern Province.
- Must be at least 18 years and not more than 30 years of age on 18 September 2026.
- Must have resided continuously in the Northern Province for at least three years during the six years immediately before the closing date; or the applicant or a parent must have been born in the Northern Province and have permanently resided there continuously for at least five years.
- Residence must be proved at the interview using electoral-register records.
- All required qualifications must have been completed on or before the closing date.
2. Educational qualifications
- G.C.E. O/L: Passed six subjects in one sitting, including Sinhala/Tamil/English and Mathematics, with Credit passes in the language, Mathematics and two other subjects.
- G.C.E. A/L: Passed three subjects in one sitting (excluding the General Test), including at least one of: Economics, Agricultural Science, Combined Mathematics, Accounting, Business Statistics or Business Studies. Under the old syllabus, passing three subjects in one sitting is sufficient.
3. Professional qualification - any one
- A diploma in Higher Accountancy, Auditing or Management from the National Institute of Cooperative Development, Polgolla; or successful completion of an advanced Cooperative Development course conducted by the Northern Province Cooperative Training Institute.
- Passed the Final Stage of the Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (AAT).
- A diploma in Accounting or Management from a recognized university or recognized local/foreign educational institution.
- Passed the Intermediate Examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.
- A four-year Higher Diploma in Accountancy from an Advanced Technological Institute.
- A three-year Diploma in Business Administration from an Advanced Technological Institute.
Written Examination
- Aptitude Test: 1 hour, 100 marks - 50 multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
- General Knowledge: 1 hour, 100 marks - national/international political, social, economic and cultural knowledge, plus cooperative philosophy and business.
- A minimum of 40% in each paper is required to qualify for the interview.
- The examination is offered in Sinhala and Tamil. The selected medium cannot be changed later, and every paper must be answered in that medium.
- Expected centres: Jaffna, Vavuniya and Kilinochchi. A centre may be changed if there are insufficient applicants.
- Selection is according to the merit order of total written-examination marks, subject to qualification verification and available vacancies. No marks are awarded at the interview.
Important Notices
- Pay the non-refundable examination fee of Rs. 500 at a Divisional Secretariat in the Northern Province, in favour of the Secretary, Provincial Public Service Commission, Northern Province, and affix the receipt without obscuring it.
- Send the completed application by registered post to the address below so it arrives on or before 18 September 2026.
- Write NP/07/10/01/235 at the top-left corner of the envelope.
- The applicant's signature must be properly certified by an authorized person listed in the official notice.
- Keep a copy of the application and registered-post receipt. Copies, advance copies, incomplete applications, and applications received late may be rejected.
- An admission card does not confirm eligibility. All qualifications and supporting documents will be checked at the interview.
- Selected officers must serve anywhere in the Northern Province, complete the prescribed full-time cooperative-development course during probation, pass the required efficiency bar/departmental examinations, and obtain second-language proficiency within the stipulated period.
- If there is any inconsistency between language versions of the notice, the Tamil notice prevails.
Secretary,
Provincial Public Service Commission,
No. 393/48, Kovil Road,
Nallur, Jaffna.
සිංහල සාරාංශය
තනතුර: උතුරු පළාත් රාජ්ය සේවයේ සමූපකාර සංවර්ධන නිලධාරි III ශ්රේණිය
පුරප්පාඩු: 20 | අවසන් දිනය: 2026.09.18 | වයස: අවුරුදු 18-30 | විභාග ගාස්තුව: රු. 500
අවශ්ය සුදුසුකම්
- ශ්රී ලංකා පුරවැසියෙකු වීම, යහපත් චරිතයකින් හා උතුරු පළාතේ ඕනෑම ස්ථානයක සේවය කිරීමට සුදුසු ශාරීරික හා මානසික තත්ත්වයකින් යුතු වීම.
- අවසන් දිනට පෙර වසර 6 තුළ අඛණ්ඩව අවම වසර 3ක් උතුරු පළාතේ පදිංචිව සිටීම; නැතහොත් අයදුම්කරු/දෙමාපියන් උතුරු පළාතේ උපත ලබා අඛණ්ඩව අවම වසර 5ක් ස්ථිරව පදිංචිව සිටීම.
- සාමාන්ය පෙළ එක් වරකදී විෂය 6ක් සමත්ව, භාෂාව, ගණිතය සහ තවත් විෂය 2කට සම්මාන සාමාර්ථ තිබීම.
- උසස් පෙළ එක් වරකදී විෂය 3ක් සමත්ව, ආර්ථික විද්යාව/කෘෂි විද්යාව/සංයුක්ත ගණිතය/ගණකාධිකරණය/ව්යාපාර සංඛ්යානය/ව්යාපාර අධ්යයනය යන විෂයන්ගෙන් අවම එක් විෂයක් ඇතුළත් වීම.
- නිවේදනයේ සඳහන් ගණකාධිකරණ, විගණන, කළමනාකරණ හෝ සමූපකාර සංවර්ධන ඩිප්ලෝමාවක්; AAT අවසාන අදියර; CA අතරමැදි විභාගය; ATI ගණකාධිකරණ උසස් ඩිප්ලෝමාව හෝ ව්යාපාර පරිපාලන ඩිප්ලෝමාව යන සුදුසුකම්වලින් එකක් තිබීම.
වැදගත්: සම්පූර්ණ කළ අයදුම්පත ලියාපදිංචි තැපෑලෙන් යොමු කර, ලියුම් කවරයේ වම් ඉහළ කෙළවරේ NP/07/10/01/235 සඳහන් කරන්න.
தமிழ் சுருக்கம்
பதவி: வடக்கு மாகாண பொதுச் சேவையின் கூட்டுறவு அபிவிருத்தி உத்தியோகத்தர் தரம் III
வெற்றிடங்கள்: 20 | முடிவுத் திகதி: 18.09.2026 | வயது: 18-30 | பரீட்சைக் கட்டணம்: ரூ. 500
தேவையான தகைமைகள்
- இலங்கைப் பிரஜையாகவும், நன்னடத்தையுடையவராகவும், வடக்கு மாகாணத்தின் எந்தப் பகுதியிலும் பணியாற்றக்கூடிய உடல் மற்றும் உளத் தகுதியுடையவராகவும் இருத்தல் வேண்டும்.
- முடிவுத் திகதிக்கு முந்தைய 6 ஆண்டுகளில் தொடர்ச்சியாக குறைந்தது 3 ஆண்டுகள் வடக்கு மாகாணத்தில் வசித்திருக்க வேண்டும்; அல்லது விண்ணப்பதாரர்/பெற்றோர் வடக்கு மாகாணத்தில் பிறந்து, தொடர்ச்சியாக குறைந்தது 5 ஆண்டுகள் நிரந்தரமாக வசித்திருக்க வேண்டும்.
- க.பொ.த. சாதாரண தரத்தில் ஒரே அமர்வில் 6 பாடங்களில் சித்தி; மொழி, கணிதம் மற்றும் மேலும் 2 பாடங்களில் திறமைச் சித்தி.
- க.பொ.த. உயர்தரத்தில் ஒரே அமர்வில் 3 பாடங்களில் சித்தி; பொருளியல்/விவசாய விஞ்ஞானம்/இணைந்த கணிதம்/கணக்கியல்/வணிகப் புள்ளிவிபரவியல்/வணிகக் கல்வி ஆகியவற்றில் குறைந்தது ஒரு பாடம் உள்ளடங்க வேண்டும்.
- அறிவித்தலில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்ட கணக்கியல், கணக்காய்வு, முகாமைத்துவம் அல்லது கூட்டுறவு அபிவிருத்தி டிப்ளோமா; AAT இறுதிநிலை; பட்டயக் கணக்காளர் இடைநிலை; ATI கணக்கியல் உயர் டிப்ளோமா அல்லது வணிக நிர்வாக டிப்ளோமா ஆகியவற்றில் ஏதேனும் ஒரு தொழில்சார் தகைமை.
முக்கியம்: பூர்த்தி செய்த விண்ணப்பத்தை பதிவுத் தபாலில் அனுப்பி, கடித உறையின் இடது மேல் மூலையில் NP/07/10/01/235 எனக் குறிப்பிடவும்.
More Details and Application
Source: Northern Provincial Council official recruitment notice R/2026/15. Applicants should read the complete official notice before applying.
