Tanzanians have turned in droves for the key posts for grabs at the East African Community (EAC).
Some 84 nationals have been shortlisted for interviews out of 311 in a major recruitment drive at the regional organization for years.
All the candidates from all the six partner states will be interviewed through a video-conference system at a date to be announced later.
The 311 finalists will battle it out for 49 job slots recently advertised and open for nationals of the partner states.
Names posted on the EAC website yesterday indicate a large number of applicants were from Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
South Sudan, a new entrant to the EAC, lagged behind with only 13 candidates and none for the executive positions.
EAC announced recently that it was embarking on a recruitment drive to fill an increasing number of vacant posts.
Nine Tanzanians were shortlisted for 35 vacant positions at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ), the judicial organ of the Community.
The race appears to be stiff for the executive posts at the EAC organs and institutions spread across the region.
These are the executive and deputy executive secretaries and the directors of various departments and units at the headquarters.
Tanzania has fielded 25 candidates out of 85 shortlisted for the executive posts from the four other countries with the exception of South Sudan.
Currently, four of the nine EAC institutions had no CEOs or their deputies after the end of their five year tenure of those who held the posts.
These are the Lake Victoria Basin Commission (LVBC) at Kisumu, Kenya and the East African Kiswahili Commission (EAKC), based in Zanzibar.
Others are the East African Science and Technology Commission (Easteco) at Kigali, Rwanda and the Bujumbura-based East African Health Research Commission (EAHRC).
In the professional category, 50 Tanzanians are among the 191 candidates from the six counties cleared for interviews.
The latter cadre are experts in different disciplines who serve several departments at the headquarters and semi-autonomous institutions.
They range from administrators, engineers, economists, accountants to procurement staff and legal, health,customs and trade experts.
The post of Easteco CEO has the highest number of those shortlisted as are the positions of directors of Planning and Customs.
At the professional level, the positions of the principal administration officer, principal human resources officer and principal health officer attracted a large number of finalists.
The positions of the professionals at the EAC and its organs and institutions are largely filled on a competitive basis.
However, this is slightly different with the executive staff, especially heads of institutions and organs, who are appointed on a rotational basis.
EAC secretary general Peter Mathuki said recently that up to 20,000 candidates from across the bloc had applied for the plum jobs at the regional body.
This was the first recruitment for the EAC staff involving large numbers of workers for a period of five years.
Dr. Mathuki attributed the delay to "contentious issues" which, he said, had to be sorted out with the partner states.
EAC currently has three substantive organs and nine autonomous institutions spread across Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda.
The regional organization has about 400 employees, over a half of them working with the Secretariat at Arusha.
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