KPPSC Advertisement No. 08/2026: Officer, Teaching and Technical Staff Vacancies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Departments

About the role

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission (KPPSC) invites online applications under Advertisement No. 08/2026 for 87 vacancies across provincial government departments. Pakistani citizens with a domicile of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa may apply. The posts range from BPS-14 to BPS-19 and include agricultural, technical, education, accounting, forestry and cooperative societies positions.

Posts and vacancies

Agriculture Department

1. Agriculture Officer — BPS-17: 48 vacancies. Applicants must hold at least a second-division M.Sc. or B.Sc. (Hons) in Agriculture from a recognized university, representing 16 years of education. Age: 21–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. The general quota has 41 seats: merit 9, Zone-I 6, Zone-II 8, Zone-III 5, Zone-IV 5, Zone-V 4 and Zone-VI 4. There are also 4 female-quota seats, 2 minority-quota seats and 1 disability-quota seat, each filled on merit within its respective quota.

2. Assistant Director / Assistant Director Planning / Assistant Director (FO) / Assistant Director Technical/Instructor / Assistant Director Training and Water Management Officer — BPS-17: 3 leftover vacancies. Applicants must hold at least a second-class bachelor's degree in Agriculture Engineering or a second-class bachelor's honours degree in Agriculture from a recognized university. Age: 21–35 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. There is 1 general-quota seat, 1 female-quota seat and 1 minority-quota seat. The female and minority seats are filled on merit within their respective quotas.

Culture, Tourism, Archaeology and Museums Department

3. Graphic Designer — BPS-16: 1 leftover vacancy. Applicants must hold at least a second-class bachelor's degree in Graphic Designing, Fine Arts, Computer Science or an equivalent qualification from a recognized university. Age: 22–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. Allocation: merit.

Elementary and Secondary Education Department

4. Male Subject Specialist, History cum Civics — BPS-17: 1 leftover minority-quota vacancy. Applicants must hold at least a second-class master's degree in History or Political Science, or a four-year BS degree in Political Science or History. Nine months of mandatory in-service professional training at the Regional Institute for Teacher Education (RITE) or Provincial Institute for Teacher Education (PITE) is required. Age: 21–35 years. This post is for male candidates and is filled on merit within the minority quota.

Excise, Taxation and Narcotics Control Department

5. Audit and Account Assistant — BPS-14: 9 vacancies. Applicants must hold at least a second-class bachelor's degree in Commerce, such as B.Com or BBA, or an equivalent qualification from a recognized university, and have good knowledge of computer technology. Age: 20–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. All 9 seats are under the general quota, with zonal allocation.

Forestry, Environment, Climate Change and Wildlife Department

6. Statistical Investigator, Wildlife — BPS-16: 1 vacancy. Applicants must hold at least a second-division master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics or Economics from a recognized university. Age: 21–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. The seat is under the general quota.

7. Sub Divisional Forest Officer, Office of the Chief Conservator of Forest — BPS-17: 3 leftover minority-quota vacancies. Male applicants must hold an M.Sc. or four-year BS degree in Forestry from a recognized university or institute. Age: 21–32 years. The seats are filled on merit within the minority quota.

Higher Education Department

8. Male Associate Professor, Pakistan Studies — BPS-19: 2 leftover vacancies. Age: 30–45 years. Male candidates are eligible, with allocation on merit. Applicants must meet one of these qualification routes:
- A Ph.D. or equivalent qualification in the relevant subject, with nine years of teaching or research experience in a recognized college or university, or professional experience in the relevant field in a national or international organization, and a distinguished research publication as principal author in a standard journal recognized by the university or University Grants Commission.
- An M.Phil. in the relevant subject, with eleven years of teaching or research experience in a recognized college or university, or professional experience in the relevant field in a national or international organization, and distinguished research work including at least four publications as principal author in a standard journal recognized by the university or University Grants Commission.
- A second-class master's degree in the relevant subject from a recognized university, with twelve years of teaching and/or research experience in a recognized college or university.

Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperative Department

9. Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Societies Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — BPS-17: 4 vacancies. Applicants must hold at least a second-class bachelor's degree in Commerce, Economics or Agriculture, or an equivalent qualification from a recognized university. Age: 21–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. There are 3 general-quota seats with zonal allocation and 1 female-quota seat filled on merit within that quota.

10. Inspector, Cooperative Societies Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — BPS-16: 13 vacancies. Applicants must hold at least a second-class bachelor's degree or an equivalent qualification from a recognized university. Age: 21–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. There are 10 general-quota seats with zonal allocation, 2 female-quota seats and 1 minority-quota seat. Reserved seats are filled on merit within their respective quotas.

Mines and Minerals Development Department

11. Database Administrator — BPS-17: 1 leftover vacancy. Applicants must hold a master's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent qualification from a recognized university, together with a one-year diploma in Geographical Information System from a recognized institute or university. Age: 21–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. The seat is under the general quota.

12. Assistant Director (Geologist), Directorate General Mines and Minerals — BPS-17: 1 vacancy. Applicants must hold at least a second-class master's degree in Geology, a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Geology, or an equivalent qualification from a recognized university. Age: 21–32 years. Male and female candidates are eligible. Allocation: merit.

Eligibility

Eligibility will be determined under the relevant service rules, provincial government and departmental instructions, and the Commission's Regulations, 2017, available on the KPPSC website. Qualifications, diplomas, experience certificates and testimonials must be from recognized institutions. Where an equivalent qualification is claimed, an equivalence certificate issued by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) is required. A higher qualification in the same subject or field may establish eligibility under the KPPSC Regulations, 2017.

Candidates must be Pakistani citizens domiciled in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Candidates holding dual domiciles on the closing date will be rejected. A married female candidate who is not already in government service may use her husband's domicile or retain her own; the choice made in the online application is final. Applicants married to foreign nationals must produce government relaxation orders.

Age is calculated on the application closing date. Upper-age relaxation is available as follows:

• Up to 10 years for persons with disabilities, divorced candidates, widows and government servants who have completed two years of continuous service.

• Up to 3 years for candidates from backward areas covered by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Initial Appointment to Civil Posts (Relaxation of Upper Age Limit) Rules, 2008. In addition to this automatic relaxation, eligible backward-area candidates may receive one applicable relaxation available to government servants, general candidates or candidates with disabilities.

• Automatic relaxation of 5 years for minority candidates.

• For eligible current or former employees of provincial development projects, or federal development projects under the administrative control of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, relaxation equal to project service, up to 10 years. This cannot be combined with another age-relaxation provision.

Except for the stated backward-area provision, candidates may claim relaxation in only one applicable category. Shortlisted overage candidates who are otherwise eligible must obtain age-relaxation orders from the competent authority before completion of the interview schedule.

Where experience is required, it must ordinarily be full-time work in the relevant field acquired after the prescribed qualification, certified by the competent authority and verifiable from government or recognized-institution records, unless the relevant service rules provide otherwise.

For Elementary and Secondary Education posts involving experience, certificates must be verified by the relevant authority:

• School and private intermediate-college experience up to 2016: Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE); from 2017 onward: Private Schools Regulatory Authority (PSRA).

• Graduate-level college experience up to 2016: BISE; from 2017 onward: Higher Education Regulatory Authority (HERA).

• University-level experience: the concerned university's Registrar or Additional Registrar.

• Government employees of Elementary and Secondary Education in BPS-15 and below: District Education Officer or Deputy District Education Officer; BPS-16 and above: Director or Additional Director.

• Government employees of Higher Education: Director or Additional Director.

The government reserves the right to leave posts unfilled or fill fewer posts than advertised.

How to apply

Apply online at J92LINK0X. Pay the application fee of Rs. 500, excluding service charges, through the 1 Bill option in banking applications such as NBP, HBL, ABL, BOK and BoP, or microfinance applications such as Easy Paisa, Jazz Cash and Upaisa.

Submit one application for each advertisement serial number. Candidates applying under different quotas must specifically enter the relevant serial and sub-serial numbers. Information entered in the online application will be treated as final.

Submit supporting documents after qualifying the test, within 15 days of the result announcement. Failure to meet this requirement will result in rejection without further notice. Candidates applying under the disability quota must submit a certificate issued by the Provincial Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons, based on the Standing Medical Board's assessment and identifying the specific disability, when required before the interview. Minority candidates must submit a minority certificate from their respective institution or authority.

Employees of government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies may apply directly and must submit a Departmental Permission Certificate (DPC), using the form on the KPPSC website, when required. For Elementary and Secondary Education employees, the DPC must be countersigned by the District Education Officer for BPS-15 and below, or the Director/Additional Director for BPS-16 and above. Higher Education employees require the Director/Additional Director's countersignature. Employees of other departments require countersignature by their respective authorities.

Test call letters will be placed on the KPPSC website; candidates should check it regularly. The passing threshold for ability tests is 33%. Where applications substantially exceed vacancies, shortlisting may use a subject written test, a general knowledge or psychological general ability test, or academic and/or professional records, as decided by the Commission.

KPPSC contact office: 2-Fort Road, Peshawar Cantt.

Telephone: 091-9214131, 091-9213563, 091-9213750, 091-9212897.

Important dates

• Application deadline: 7 August 2026 at 5:00 PM.

• Document submission after qualifying the test: within 15 days of the result announcement.

• Age assessment date: 7 August 2026.