By Moneth G. Deposa
Variety News Staff

THE Public School System has created a new position — assistant to the associate commissioner for administrative services — and named Carl Allen F. Dela Cruz to the post.
Dela Cruz, 30, will help supervise administrative services programs.
Dela Cruz, a former substitute teacher at Marianas High School for four months, assumed the new position on Sept. 11 last year.
PSS is still in the process of hiring an associate commissioner for administrative services, a position which Education Commissioner David M. Borja previously held.
“I am expected to supervise all the programs the associate commissioner for administrative services is in charge of,” Dela Cruz said in an interview. “These include procurement and supply, food and nutrition, the e-rate program, the transportation division, and the media department at the central office as well as in Lower Base.”
Before joining PSS, Dela Cruz worked for a number of companies including Joeten.
“I have held previous jobs, but this is the most challenging for me,” he said.
“ I am helping in operations and personnel staff development. I am now getting instructions from and report directly to the acting associate commissioner for administrative services, who is also our human resources officer, Charlie Kenty,” Dela Cruz said.
Asked about his compensation and contract terms, Dela Cruz said his pay is subject to the 10 percent cut imposed by the austerity holiday law.
He did not disclose the terms of his contract.
He said the biggest challenge of his job is to “try to make changes because we do have a lot departments and each department is like a separate village which has its own dynamics. I want to help move them in the right direction.”
Dela Cruz is a graduate of the University of Hawaii.