The Kisii County Public service Board
Wishes to recruit competent and qualified persons to fill the following
positions as per Section 45, 50, 51, 58 and 63 of the County Government Act of
2012.
Department of Lands, Physical Planning, Housing and Urban Development
Department of Lands, Physical Planning, Housing and Urban Development
Deputy Director Roads
JG ‘Q’
(1 Post)
Roads and Transport
Reporting to the Director Roads, the
Deputy Director Roads will be responsible for:
Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director, the Deputy
Director will be answerable to the respective for the following tasks:
- Development, implementation and evaluation of
the relevant division strategic plan, programs and projects in
collaboration with other departments and stakeholders.
- Planning and supervision of the relevant
division’s programs and activities.
- Organization, direction, control and the
co-ordination of the tasks of the division.
- Interpreting and applying national and county
laws and other related statutes in the relevant division in line with the
county goals and objectives.
- Developing appropriate county departmental
policies, legal and institutional frameworks for the implementation of the
mandate of the division.
- Handling administrative, human resource and
asset management issues.
- Oversee preparation of annual work plans and
financial budgets.
- Ensuring strict compliance with all financial,
budgetary and procurement procedures.
- Co-ordination of production, documentation and
dissemination of the relevant division’s information.
- Provide advice and guidance in recruiting,
hiring and staff development.
- Any other duty as may be assigned by the
Director.
Requirements for appointment
- Be a Kenyan Citizen.
- Be a holder of at least a first degree from a
university recognized in Kenya in the relevant field.
- A Master’s degree in the relevant field will
be an added advantage.
- Have relevant knowledge and experience of not
less than five (5) years in Public Service or the Private Sector.
- Demonstrate a high degree of professional and
technical competence as reflected in work performance and results.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of
devolution, the county development objectives and Vision 2030.
- Be conversant with policy formulation and
implementation.
- Be a strategic thinker and result oriented.
- Satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the
Constitution of Kenya 2010 on leadership and integrity.
- Be computer literate.
Senior Fire and Safety Officer
JG ‘L’
(1 Post)
Reporting to interim town
Administrator, the core purpose of this position is to ensure that the Kisii
County Fire and Rescue Services Unit fully discharge statutory duties.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Planning and supervision of the unit programs
and activities
- Providing strategic leadership and support to
rescue service operations
- Coordinate the risk and regulatory services of
the Kisii County including fire and rescue and emergency planning
- Ensuring the Fire and Rescue Unit fulfills its
statutory responsibilities and meets the county needs
- Directing and managing the operations of the
fire and rescue Service to ensure it realizing the highest operations
standards and delivers efficiency
- Leading the development of the Fire and Rescue
Service emergency preparedness plans
- Building Capacity of staff in the Unit for
realization of the capacities and resiliencies necessary for responding to
major incidents such as fire, accidents and natural disasters
- Leading the development and delivery of Fire
Preventive, legislative protection, and Response strategies, to reduce the
incidence and resulting loss from fire
- Identifying potential safety or fire hazards
and taking action to eliminate them.
- Assures that fire extinguishers, smoke
detectors, fire alarms, sprinklers systems and fire hydrants are in in
operating condition.
- Plans, Organizes and conducts fire and
emergency response drills for the unit staff to ensure enhanced
preparedness
- Coordinating employee safety and accident
prevention programs, and preliminary investigation of employees accidents
at the work place.
- Organizes training on first aid application
for the Unit staff and ensuring that the first kit are complete and upto
date
- Developing and maintaining strategic
partnership relationship with key stakeholders to support delivery of the
fire and rescue services.
- Promote and maintain collaboration with key
partners including the police and Health.
- Setting performance indicators for the unit
and ensuring all staff understand them for the effective delivery of
services
- Monitoring standards of service delivery to
ensure achievement of the performance indicators and desired and desired
performance of the unit.
- Ensuring that realistic care is taken at all
times for the health, safety and welfare for all staff and other persons
during delivery of services.
- Preparation of the incident reports for the
unit and county government.
- Any other duties as allocated from time to
time.
Requirement for appointment
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field from a
university recognized in Kenya
- Diploma/Certificate in occupational Health and
Safety will be an added advantage
- Five (5) years of relevant work experience
- Substantial and current post qualification
experience of working in a Fire and Rescue services
- Considerable experience of contingency and
emergency planning
- Ability to audit fire safety and rescue
arrangements
- Excellent understanding of current legislation
practices related to fire and rescue services as well as emergencies
- Experience of producing written reports and
statistical information using IT Software’s
- Ability to plan, organize and communicate
effectively.
Interim Town Administrator
JG ‘P’
(1 Post)
Reporting to the Chief Officer, the
interim town Administrator will be responsible for:
Duties and Responsibilities
- Planning and Supervision of the Town’s
programs and activities.
- Initiate the development of policies and plans
for use within the town
- Coordinate development and maintenance of
infrastructure and facilities of public services
- Facilitation and coordination of citizen
participation in the development of policies and plan and delivery of
services.
- Staff supervision, training, monitoring and
evaluation of performance
- Coordinate implementation and evaluation of
the town’s integrated strategic urban development plan, programs and
projects in collaboration with other department and stakeholders.
- Initiation and drafting of the town’s
procedures and policies
- Interpreting and applying national and county
laws and other related statutes in the department in line with the county
goals and objectives.
- Handling administrative, human resources and
assets management issues.
- Preparation of annual work plans and financial
budgets.
- Ensuring strict compliance with all financial,
budgetary and procurement procedures.
- Co-ordination of production, documentation and
dissemination of the town’s information and reports.
- Provide advice and guidance in recruitment and
staff development.
Requirement for appointment
- Be a Citizen of Kenya;
- Bachelor’s Degree from a university recognized
in Kenya or its equivalent
- Proven experience of not less than five (5)
years in administration or management either in the public or private
sector.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of
devolution, County Development objectives and Vision 2030.
- Be conversant with policy formulation and
implementation.
- Be a strategic thinker and result oriented.
- Be a computer literate
Interim Deputy Town Administrator
JG ‘N’
(1 Post)
Reporting to the Interim Town Administrator, the interim deputy town Administrator will be responsible for:
Duties and Responsibilities
- Management of the traffic flow in urban areas
- Reorganization of parking and hawking
activities in urban areas,
- Assisting to coordinate citizens participation
in the development of policies and plans and service delivery,
- Preparation and management of duty roasters
for fire and emergency response departments,
- Coordinating the Integrated urban areas cleaning
program,
- Participates in the preparation of annual work
plans and financial budgets,
- Monitoring implementation of work plans and
preparing status reports,
- Liaising with Kenya Police to enforce traffic
and other laws applicable to urban areas,
- Performing duties of the Interim town
Administrator in his/her absence.
Requirement for appointments
- Be a citizen of Kenya,
- Bachelor`s degree from a University recognized
in Kenya,
- Proven experience of not less than five years
in administration or management either in the public or private sector,
- Demonstrate thorough understanding of
devolution, County development objectives and vision 2030,
- Be conversant with policy formulation and
implementation,
- Be strategic thinker and result oriented,
- Be computer literate.
Urban Development Engineer
JG ‘N’
1 Post
Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of Urban
Development, the Urban Development Engineer will be responsible for
coordinating development of the urban areas infrastructure.
The key responsibilities are
- Preparation of specifications, designs,
constructing and maintaining streets walkways, street lighting, water
supply networks, sewers, urban solid waste management and disposal,
- Estimate quantities and cost of materials,
equipment, or labour to determine project feasibility,
- Developing specifications, design,
constructing and maintaining public parks and motor cycle paths,
- Coordinating, designing , construction and
maintenance of urban roads and drainage systems,
- Working with relevant sectors to manage the
underground utility networks for urban areas local distribution networks
of electrical and communications services,
- Optimization of garbage collection and bus
park services networks,
- Participation in Development control
activities in all urban areas within the County
- Liaise with other engineers, Public Health
department and other ministries in promoting good practice
- Manage and direct staff members and the
construction, operations, or maintenance activities at project site
- Provide technical advice regarding design,
construction, or program modifications and structural repairs to managers
- Inspect project sites to monitor progress and
ensure conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation
standards,
- Prepare or present public reports on topics
such as bid proposals, performances, environmental impact statements or
property and right-of-way descriptions,
- Carry out a review of traffic patterns or
environmental conditions to identify engineering problems and assess
potential project impact,
- Direct or participate in surveying to lay out
installations or establish reference pints, marks, or elevations to guide
construction,
- Plan and design transportation systems
following government standards,
- Coordinate, develop and prepare engineering
terms of reference and tender documents,
- Perform liaison duties with various interest
groups to minimize potential disruption.
Requirement for Appointment
- Be a citizen of Kenya.
- Bachelor`s degree in Civil Engineering from a
University recognized in Kenya
- Have relevant work experience of not less than
five years in the public service or the private sector.
- Be registered member of a professional body
such as Engineers Board of Kenya and has valid membership for the current
year
- Demonstrate a high degree of professional and
technical competence as reflection in work performance and results
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of
devolution, county development objectives and vision 2030
- Be a computer literate
- Ability to communicate effectively ,both
orally and in writing
- Ability to work with Contractors, consultants,
property owners and the general public
Assistant Director - Geographic
Information Systems (GIS)
JG ‘P’
(1 Post)
Duties and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of Physical
Planning and Urban Development, the Assistant Director-GIS will be responsible
for:
- Planning ,organizing, implementing and
communicating the GIS activities in the County
- Performing complex cadastral and GIS data
maintenance, manipulation, analysis, extraction and generation
assignments;
- Designing, implementing, and testing
configuration changes in packaged software
- Creating and maintaining files of digital
pictures of streets and street problems for department use;
- Coding and digitizing maps and geographical
feature data into various layers ;
- Preparing projects and data for archival
storage;
- Managing GIS records and inventory;
- Documenting and filing data source and map
files for future reference;
- Responding to requests from various county
departments for mapping data;
- Responding to emergency mapping and
information requests
- Preparing, planning, producing, maintaining
and updating a variety of maps, drawings, plans and other graphic
representations
- Displaying layers and attribute data from
databases, using cartographic techniques to represent spatial data;
- Developing and maintaining data layers, using
GIS tools, CAD tools and relational databases;
- Performing detailed spatial analysis including
notifications, buffering, and zone consolidation;
- Manipulating images for electronic mapping;
enters attribute data pertaining to specific features into a relational
database;
- Incorporating maps, charts, date files,
spreadsheet data, documentation and text into reports.
Requirements for Appointment
- Be a Kenyan Citizen.
- Bachelor`s Degree with major in GIS, or
computer science or a closely related subject from a University recognized
in Kenya
- GISP certification or GIS certificate.
- Have a relevant experience of not less than
five years (5) in the Public Service.
- Thorough understanding of GIS concepts and
analytical techniques, including computerized mapping and digital data
conversion, manipulation and analysis.
- Knowledge of GIS software tools and
applications including but not limited to ArcGIS, ArcIMS, ArcSDE, AutoCAD
suit, MS vision and applications of MS office suit
- Ability to plan, organize, integrate, monitor,
and maintain a comprehensive GIS and its related applications to meet
Kisii County mapping and customer service objectives, including developing
long-range GIS system goals.
- Able to analyze complex problems, evaluate
alternatives and make sound independent decisions within established
guidelines
- Ability to train others in the in the use of
GIS applications
- Able to organize, plan and complete projects
efficiently
- Demonstrable ability to work collaboratively
and effectively with project teams including user representative and
outside resources and other encountered in the course of work.
- Communicate effectively, orally and in
writing.
- Able to establish and maintain effective
working relationships with those encountered in the course of work
Director of Housing
JG ‘R’
(1 Post)
The Director of Housing will be
answerable to the Chief Officer and will be responsible for the following
tasks:
Duties and Responsibilities
- Staff supervision, training, monitoring and
evaluation of performance
- Development, implementation and evaluation of
the Department`s strategic plan, programs and project in collaboration
with other Departments and stakeholders.
- Planning and supervision of the departments programs
and activities.
- Organization, Direction and co-ordination of
the tasks of the department.
- Initiation and drafting of the department`s
procedures and policies pertaining to housing, programs and staff
management
- Interpreting and applying national and county
laws and other related statutes in the housing department in line with the
county goals and objectives.
- Handling administrative, human resource and
asset management issues.
- Preparation of annual work plans and financial
budgets.
- Ensuring strict compliance with all financial,
budgetary and procurement procedures.
- Co-ordination of production, documentation and
dissemination of the department`s information and reports
- Perform any other duties as assigned from time
to time.
Requirements for appointment
- Be a Kenyan citizen
- Bachelor`s degree in Architecture or relevant
field from a university recognized in Kenya
- A Master`s degree in the relevant field will
be an added advantage
- Have relevant work experience of not less than
seven (7) years in the public service
- Be a registered member of a professional body
such as the Architectural Association of Kenya
- Demonstrate a high degree of professional and
technical competence as reflected in work performance and results.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of devolution,
county development objectives and vision 2030
- Be conversant with policy formulation and
implementation
- Be a strategic thinker and result oriented
- Satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the
Constitution of Kenya 2010 on leadership and integrity
- Be computer literate.
How to Apply
All applications should be
accompanied by a copy of National ID Card, a detailed CV and copies of all
relevant certificates and testimonials.
They should be submitted in a sealed
envelope clearly marked on the left side the position/specific area you are
applying for to reach on or before 26th November, 2014, and be addressed to:
The Secretary
Kisii County Public Service Board
P.O Box 4550-40200, Kisii, Kenya
Or through email as follows:
psb@kisii.go.ke
Hand delivered applications should be handed over at the Kisii Public Service Board offices situated at Mwalimu House 3rd Floor
Kisii county is an equal opportunity employer