Ainur Abdyrakhmanova has been appointed Vice Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population. She previously headed one of the ministry's departments, infohub.kz reports.
According to NUR.KZ, citing the ministry's press service, the government's press service announced on 4 November that Viktoria Shegai had been relieved of her post as Vice Minister of Labour and Social Protection. The same day, the press service of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection clarified that, by government decree, Ainur Abdygakarovna Abdyrakhmanova had been appointed Vice Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population.
Before her new appointment, she served as Director of the Department of Social Assistance at the Ministry of Labour.
Ainur Abdyrakhmanova was born in 1984 in Akmola Region. She graduated from D.A. Kunaev University, the Kazakh University of Economics, Finance and International Trade, and the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
She began her career in 2005 at the Korgalzhyn district department of employment and social programmes in Akmola Region.
From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a chief specialist, acting head and head of the Division of Social Standards and Social Assistance at the state institution "Department of Employment and Social Programmes" of the Tselinograd district of Akmola Region.
From 2008 to 2014, she was an expert and chief expert in the department of social assistance and social services at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 2014 to 2017, she was chief expert in the social support department of the Department of Social Assistance at the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 2017 to 2020, she was chief expert and head of the department at the Department of Social Assistance of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 2020 to 2022, she was head of the department and chief expert at the Centre for the Development of Labour Resources joint-stock company.
From 2022 to 2024, she was deputy director of a department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 2024 until now, she has held the post of Director of the Department of Social Assistance at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan.