Senior Animal Health Assistant
Laikipia County Public
Service Board invites applications from competent and qualified serving officers to
fill the following vacant positions in the department of Agriculture: –
Responsibilities
Duties and
responsibilities at this level will entail: –
Enforcing slaughterhouse hygiene and meat transport regulations; training farmers on livestock records keeping; keeping records on animal breeding, animal health, milk production, dipping data, slaughter house daily kill, meat condemnation and movement permits; maintaining dairy units; rearing experimental animals; and participating in animal health field demonstrations and agricultural shows; demonstrating on milking techniques and external parasite control techniques such as dipping, spraying and dusting; carrying out vaccination, closed castration, dehorning, deworming, disbudding, docking, debeaking and hoof trimming; carrying out simple treatment of animals; participating in disease search and reporting; and undertaking artificial insemination, meat inspection and grading.
Qualifications
For appointment to this
grade an officer must have:
- Served
in the grade of Animal Health Assistant I for a minimum period of three(3)
years;
- Certificate
lasting not less than two (2) years in any of the following disciplines: –
Animal Health, Environmental Health, Animal Health and Production from a
recognized institution;
- Certificate
in computer applications from a recognized institution; and
- Shown
ability and demonstrated merit in work performance and results
How to Apply
Applications complete with a detailed resume, a
copy of the National Identity card, copies of academic and professional
certificates and other testimonials should be emailed to:
- IMPORTANT
INFORMATION TO ALL APPLICANTS
- To
be considered, your application must be received on or before 30th January
- Application
and all other attachments should be sent as ONE
PDF document of not
more than 5 MBs.
- ONLY Shortlisted candidates will be
contacted and will be required to present their original academic and
Professional documents during the interview
- Laikipia
County Public Service Board only contacts through the number indicated
above and does not charge any fee at any of the recruitment stages
- Any
form of Canvasing will lead to automatic disqualification.
- Laikipia
County Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Persons with
disability, marginalized and minorities are encouraged to apply
