Assistant Director Physical Planner at Mandera County Government

REF MCPSB/MOL/2025/01/01

Terms of service – Contract 5 years

Duties and responsibilities

• Initiating, preparing and monitoring the implementation of county and local physical and land use development plans.
• Providing advice on development applications and development control matters.
• Implementations and providing feedbacks on physical and land use planning guidelines and standards.
• Managing physical and land use data.
• Preparing action plans for specific projects such as residential housing schemes, shopping centres, industrials estates and recreational facilities.
• Undertaking thematic regional studies on matters relating to physical and land use planning.
• Preparing annual state of physical planning and report on county and local physical and land use development plans.
• Set agenda and convene physical planning liason committee meeting.
• Keeping records of deliberation and communicate decisions of the physical planning to relevant stakeholders.
• Any other duty that may assigned by the supervisor

Requirements for appointment

• Bachelor degree in any of the following disciplines: urban and regional planning, urban planning or town planning or equivalent from a university recognised in Kenya.
• Must be a registered physical planner, registered by the Kenya physical planner’s registration board.
• Be a cooperate member of the Kenya institute of planners architectural association of Kenya (town panning chapter).
• Have relevant knowledge and experience of not less than six (6) years in professional field.
• Senior management course lasting not less than four weeks (4) from recognised institutions will be added advantage.
• Have demonstrated merit and shown ability as reflected in work performance and result.
• Be proficient in computer skills.