Ukrainian banks have started hiring women as cash-in-transit collectors

Due to a shortage of men, many of whom are being actively mobilized into the army, the state-owned PrivatBank has begun recruiting women into its cash-in-transit service.

PrivatBank’s press service told Strana that it has already hired 11 female cash collectors who completed preliminary training.

“We are conducting the necessary training, have re-equipped the changing rooms, and modified the uniforms. We also ordered special women’s body armor for them,” the bank said.

The bank also added that it has not formed entirely female cash-collection crews. The 11 female collectors work together with men and are stationed in different regions. PrivatBank has a total of 1,100 branches across Ukraine.

A standard cash-in-transit crew at the bank consists of three people: a driver, a collector, and a guard. Each of them must know how to use firearms. Women are being hired specifically for the collector role.

On PrivatBank’s official website, such vacancies are formally listed as “cash collector-driver” and fall under the cash and collection division.

PrivatBank says that the salary of a female collector does not differ from that of a male one, provided their experience and workload are comparable. The bank did not specify the exact pay, but judging by open vacancies on the Work.ua website, the amount depends mainly on the region of Ukraine and ranges from 29,900 hryvnias in Uman to 42,100 hryvnias in Kyiv. The listed professional qualities include stress resistance, providing security, attentiveness, multitasking, and initiative.

PrivatBank says it will continue hiring women as cash collectors, and their number in the collection unit may grow.

In addition to the cash-in-transit service, PrivatBank has also started hiring women into its technical division, which repairs payment terminals installed in retail outlets. It has already hired 32 women with engineering skills for that unit.

Two years ago, Ukraine launched a pilot project to train women as truck drivers amid a shortage of men.

Shortly before that, the taxi service Uber began sending Ukrainian women job offers to work as drivers.