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Punjab Safe Cities Authority Jobs 2026 — 49 Posts

Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) — Lahore (head office) and district centres across Punjab

By Muhammad Younus, Editor Posted: 26 Oct 2026 Updated: 27 Oct 2026 13 min read

The Punjab Safe Cities Authority has announced 49 posts in Lahore and district centres across Punjab, under advertisement reference IPL-11355, with applications closing on Monday 9 November 2026. The round is split into two groups: 6 contractual posts and 43 short-term contractual posts. The contractual group is small and specialist, led by an Executive Officer Data Science post carrying a monthly package of Rs 323,810, while the short-term group is large and trade-based, led by 26 driver posts spread across sixteen Punjab cities. Monthly salary packages run from Rs 40,000 for Attendants to Rs 323,810 for the data science post, and the advertisement prints those packages and the post counts. One point needs care before anything else: the advertisement itself does not print per-post qualifications, age limits or experience rules. Those details sit on the Authority's career page at psca.gop.pk/career, so every applicant must check the career page for the chosen post before applying. Applications go online through the same career page, with a hard-copy route also accepted for the five short-term posts and for the contractual Nanny post.

About Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA)

The Punjab Safe Cities Authority is the Government of Punjab body that runs the province's safe-city systems: networks of cameras, control rooms and police-response links that let an incident in a busy public place be spotted and answered quickly. Its flagship operation is the Punjab Safe Cities project in Lahore, and the Authority has been extending the same model to other Punjab cities, which is why this round places drivers, electricians and attendants in district centres far beyond Lahore. The Authority's work sits close to policing but is not itself a police force: its staff run the technology and the operations that feed information to the teams on the ground, from data scientists who find patterns in large sets of records to drivers who move operational teams and electricians who keep field equipment running. Recruitment at the Authority follows an open competitive process, and its advertisements typically separate a small specialist tier from a larger operational tier, exactly as this round does. For a candidate, the practical consequence is that the Authority is hiring for two different working lives at once: a handful of high-package specialist posts at the Lahore head office, and a large number of field and support posts spread across the province. The two groups differ in pay, in place of work, and in how to apply, so they should be read as two recruitments sharing one advertisement.

Vacant Positions — Post-Wise Details

Forty-nine posts are open across nine post titles. The contractual group holds four titles and six vacancies, and the short-term contractual group holds five titles and forty-three vacancies. The table below gives the salary package and vacancy count the advertisement prints for each post; post-wise qualifications, age limits and experience rules are published on the PSCA career page, not in the advertisement.

• Executive Officer Data Science: The highest-paid post in the round, leading data science work at the Authority; check the career page for the exact degree and experience rule.
• Deputy Executive Officer AI/ML: The artificial intelligence and machine learning specialist post, at the same package as the procurement deputy post.
• Deputy Executive Officer Procurement and Supply Chain Management: Covers procurement and supply chain work for the Authority's technology and field operations.
• Nanny / Baby Sitter (Day Care Centre): Looks after young children at the Authority's day care centre; the only contractual post for which a hard-copy application is also accepted.
• Electrician: Field electrical work in nine cities: Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, Multan, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur.
• Drivers Motor Vehicle: More than half the whole round: 26 driver posts across sixteen cities from Murree and Attock to Rajanpur, Layyah and Rahim Yar Khan.
• Mason Mistry: A single vacancy, so the contest for this trade post may be tight; hard-copy applications are also accepted.
• Plumber: A single vacancy at the same package as the mason post; hard-copy applications are also accepted.
• Attendant: Nine support posts in the same nine cities as the electrician posts; hard-copy applications are also accepted.

Eligibility Criteria — Who Can Apply

• Eligibility is post-wise and is published in the detailed job descriptions on the PSCA career page at psca.gop.pk/career; the newspaper advertisement prints salary packages and post counts only, so no degree, age limit or experience figure for any post is stated on this page beyond what the advertisement prints.
• Before applying, open the career page, find your post title, and compare the qualification, experience and age rules there with your own record, line by line.
• Candidates already in government, autonomous or semi-government service must apply through the proper channel.
• Result-awaiting candidates are not eligible to apply in this round.
• Part-time, honorary, self-employed, apprentice and internship experience will not be counted as qualifying experience.
• Applicants with a foreign degree must provide an HEC equivalence certificate, and selected candidates must provide an HEC-verified degree or transcript.
• Candidates called for interview must provide relevant documentation, experience certificates and qualifications.
• Apply for a single post only, the one that fits your record on the career page; a salary figure never proves eligibility, and a post title never proves it either.

This round's eligibility rule is unusual and must be understood before any application is made: the advertisement gives salary packages and post counts only, and it deliberately sends every reader to the Authority's career page for post-wise eligibility. That means this page cannot honestly state a degree, an age limit or an experience figure for any of the nine posts, and any page that does so is guessing. The safe procedure is fixed. First, open psca.gop.pk/career and find your post title in the list. Second, read the detailed job description and the terms and conditions for that post in full. Third, compare the qualification, experience and age rules there with your own record, line by line, before touching the application form. The advertisement does print several general rules that apply across the round. Candidates already in government, autonomous or semi-government service must apply through the proper channel. Result-awaiting candidates are not eligible at all. Part-time, honorary, self-employed, apprentice and internship experience will not be counted as qualifying experience, which matters most for the trade posts, where applicants sometimes count informal work. Applicants with a foreign degree must provide an HEC equivalence certificate, and on final selection an HEC-verified degree or transcript is required. Note also that as of the evening of 26 October 2026 the October round was not yet listed on the career page, so if a post title cannot be found there yet, re-check the page rather than treating the absence as the round being closed.

Salary & Benefits

Unlike most government advertisements, this one prints a monthly salary package for every post, so the pay picture is unusually clear. The contractual group runs from Rs 48,500 per month for the Nanny/Baby Sitter post to Rs 323,810 for the Executive Officer Data Science post, with both Deputy Executive Officer posts at Rs 200,000. The short-term contractual group runs from Rs 40,000 for Attendants to Rs 51,347 for Electricians, with Drivers at Rs 47,424 and Mason Mistry and Plumber at Rs 45,945 each. The spread tells the story of the round: the specialist tier is paid roughly four to eight times the operational tier, which reflects the market for data science and AI skills against trade and driving work. Candidates should still read the packages as monthly packages, not as basic pay scales with allowances, because the advertisement calls them salary packages and does not break them into allowances. No separate fee, and no test date, is stated in the advertisement, so neither is quoted here. For queries about a package or a post, the advertisement gives the telephone numbers 042-99051606-8 and the email recruitment@psca.gop.pk.

Selection Process

Selection follows an open competitive process. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interview, and later tests and interviews will be run by the Authority. Candidates called for interview must provide relevant documentation, experience certificates and qualifications, and on final selection an HEC-verified degree or transcript is required, with an HEC equivalence certificate for a foreign degree. No travel allowance or daily allowance will be paid for a test or interview. Vacancies may rise or fall at any time without notice, so the counts in this article are the advertised counts, not a promise of final appointments, and the Authority may accept or reject an application, or halt the process, at any time.

Documents Required

• Updated CV or resume, as required by the online application form on the PSCA career page.
• Computerised National Identity Card (CNIC), valid and clearly scanned.
• Degree, diploma or certificate matching the chosen post's job description on the career page.
• HEC equivalence certificate, where the qualification is a foreign degree.
• HEC-verified degree or transcript, ready for the final selection stage.
• Experience certificates for the experience claimed, noting that part-time, honorary, self-employed, apprentice and internship experience will not be counted.
• Driving licence and relevant trade certificate, where the chosen post (driver, electrician, mason, plumber) requires one under its career-page description.
• Domicile certificate, where the post's job description requires one.
• No Objection Certificate or proper-channel clearance, for candidates already in government, autonomous or semi-government service.
• Recent passport-size photographs, as specified on the application form.
• A record of the online submission, and a copy of any hard-copy application, kept for follow-up.

Terms & Conditions

All 49 posts are contractual: 6 on a contractual basis and 43 on a short-term contractual basis, and none is a permanent government post. Only shortlisted candidates will be called for interview, and no TA/DA will be paid for tests or interviews. Candidates called for interview must provide relevant documentation, experience certificates and qualifications, and on final selection an HEC-verified degree or transcript is required, with an HEC equivalence certificate for a foreign degree. Result-awaiting candidates are not eligible, and part-time, honorary, self-employed, apprentice and internship experience will not be counted. Applications that are by hand, incomplete or late will not be entertained. The Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any application, to change the number of vacancies without notice, and to halt the process at any time. Candidates in government, autonomous or semi-government service must apply through the proper channel.

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