Assistant Director, Civil Registration Service at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government

No of Positions: 50

V/No.184/2020

Salary Scale:Ksh. 87,360-Ksh.121,430 p.m.(CSG 7)

House Allowance:Ksh.16, 800 –45,000p.m (depending on duty station)

Commuter Allowance: Ksh. 12,000p.m

Leave Allowance: As existing in the Civil Service

Annual Leave: 30 working days per financial year6

Medical Cover: As provided by the government

Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-

• served for aminimum period of nine (9) years and currently serving at the grade of Senior Civil Registration Officer, CSG 9and above or in a comparable and relevant position in the wider public service;
• a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Information Science, Sociology, Statistics/Economics, Government/Political Science, Public Administration, Population Studies, Law, Anthropology or equivalent qualifications from a university recognized in Kenya;and
• demonstrated administrative and managerial capabilities in work performance and results
• .Duties and Responsibilities
• monitoring and evaluating civil registration activities at the area of jurisdiction;
• undertaking research and innovation on Civil Registration;
• implementing provisions ofCivil Registration Statutes;
• Implementing departmental strategic plans;
• coordinating awareness sensitization campaigns on registration of births and death;
• approving foreign births and deaths registration applications, signing of birth and death certificates;
• initiating training programmes for civil registration staff capacity building and development;
• preparing civil registration periodic reports;
• authenticating birth and death certificates issued in Kenya to foreigners and foreign birth and death certificates issues to Kenyans;
• monitoring the supply and utilization of registration materials; and
• maintaining safe custody of registration materials and births and deaths records.