Principal Assistant Animal Health Officer at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

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Requirements

• Must have served for nine (9) years cumulative service three (3) of which must have been in the grade of Chief Assistant Animal Health Officer/Senior Assistant Animal Health Officer, Job Group ‘M’/’L’.
• Have a Diploma in any of the following disciplines:- Animal Health, Animal Health and production, Environmental Health, Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Diagnosis, Poultry Science, Veterinary Public Health and Meat Technology or Animal Husbandry from a recognized institution.
• Have a certificate in Management Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution.
• Be registered by the Kenya Veterinary Board.
• Have a certificate in computer applications from a recognized institution, and
• Have demonstrated merit and shown ability in work performance and results.

Job Responsibilities:-

• Advising and managing dip designing, sitting and construction
• Inspection and verification of imports and export of consignments
• Managing of veterinary farms,
• Ensuring maintenance of cold chain facilities
• Maintaining quarantine status in quarantine stations and holding grounds
• Coordinating farmers’ training on milking techniques and external parasite control techniques
• Leading large vaccination teams, carrying out simple treatment of animals
• Participating in disease search, collecting, collating, analyzing data and writing technical reports
• Keeping records on animal breeding, animal health, milk production, dipping data, slaughter house daily kill, meat condemnation and movement permits, organizing animal health field demonstrations and agricultural shows
• Supervising equipment sterilization, sample collection, packaging and dispatch
• Inspecting livestock stock routes
• Issuing of livestock movement permits
• Coordinating artificial insemination, meat inspection and grading
• Enforcing slaughterhouse hygiene and meat transport regulations and inspection of retail outlets of foods of animal origin and advising in construction and maintenance of farm structures and implementing uptake of new technologies in animal health to stakeholders