Productivity Secretary at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

Job Details

• served for a cumulative period of eighteen (18) years, of which an aggregate of at least three (3) years must have been in the grade of Director of Productivity, Job Group ‘S’ and/or Deputy Director, Productivity Job Group ‘R’, or in a comparable and relevant position in the public service;
• a Bachelors Degree in any of the following disciplines:- Economics, Engineering, Education, Information and Communication Technology, Environmental Science, Commerce, Accounts, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Development, or any other relevant Social Sciences from a recognized institution;
• a Masters degree in any of the following disciplines:- Economics, Commerce, Accounts, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship Development, Education, Environmental Science, Human Resource Development/Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or nay other relevant Social Sciences from a recognized institution;
• a valid registration and membership to relevant professional body (where applicable);
• a certificate in Strategic Leadership Development Programme lasting not less than six (6) weeks from a recognized institution;
• a thorough understanding and appreciation of dynamics of the productivity movement nationally, regionally and globally; and
• shown outstanding professional and executive capability in coordinating productivity improvements at organizational, sectoral and national level, matched with proper appreciation of the country’s productivity management needs and strategies of meeting them.

Responsibilities

• overseeing the formulation and implementation of national productivity policies, strategies and programmes;
• identifying and evaluating opportunities for the country’s regional and global competitiveness;
• building awareness on productivity mindset;
• coordinating the mobilization of resources for productivity programmes and projects;
• ensuring the establishment and maintenance of productivity data bank;
• ensuring productivity mainstreaming in national projects and programmes; and
• providing strategic leadership and policy direction on productivity issues;
• coordination, preparation and implementation of the Centre’s strategic objectives, performance appraisal systems and performance contracts;
• overseeing the financial and asset management issues of the Centre;
• instituting operational accountability; and
• overall supervision, control, discipline, recruitment, training and development of the Centre’s staff.