Southern Province MSO Grade III Application 2025

Southern Provincial Public Service Commission

Open Competitive Examination for recruitment to Grade III of the Southern Provincial Management Service Officers’ Service – 2025.

01.0 It is hereby notified that the open competitive examination for recruitment to the posts in Grade III of the Southern Provincial Management Service Officers’ Service will be conducted by the Southern Provincial Public Service Commission in October 2025. The application for this examination has been published on the official website of the Southern Provincial Public Service Commission at www.psc.sp.gov.lk, and applications shall only be submitted online. The closing date for applications is 01st September 2025.

Note: The online application receipt will be open from 9:00 a.m. on August 11, 2025, and close at 11:59 p.m. on September 1, 2025.

This examination will be conducted only at examination centers established in the towns mentioned in Schedule I. All candidates must select the town where they expect to sit for the examination according to that schedule, and when completing the online application, the desired town for sitting the examination must be correctly mentioned according to schedule I.

The selected town for sitting the examination will not be allowed to change later.

02.0 The candidates who have met the qualifications based on merit, according to the results of the written examination to be conducted by the Southern Provincial Public Service Commission, will be selected for appointment to the posts in Grade III of the Management Service Officers’ Service, based on the district population ratio.

03.

(a) The total number of vacancies expected to be filled is 143.

(b) The number of appointments to be made and the effective date of the appointments will be determined by the appointing authority. The appointing authority reserves the right not to fill any number of vacancies or all the vacancies.

(c) Selected candidates shall be appointed to a post in Grade III of the Service subjected to the general conditions governing appointments in the Public Service and the terms and conditions stipulated in the recruitment procedure for the Southern Provincial Management Assistant – Non-Technical – Multi-duty – Segment I Category of Service, as approved by the Hon. Governor of the Southern Province under No. 192 dated 2014.09.11 and to any amendments made or to be made hereafter to the said recruitment procedure, and provisions of the Establishment Code and Financial
Regulations/ Southern Provincial Financial Rules and Procedural Rules of the Public Service Commission published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 2310/29 dated 14.12.2022.