Assistant Director, Slum Upgrading at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

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

• served for a minimum period of three (3) years at the grade of Principal Housing Officer CSG 8;
• been registered by any of the following bodies; Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors, Engineers Registration Board, Institution of Surveyors of Kenya, Physical Planners Registration Board, Valuers Registration Board, National Environment Management Authority Board, any other relevant and recognized professional body;
• a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Valuation, Property Management, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design, Civil/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Land Economics, Real Estate And Land Administration, Building Economics, Estate Management, Sociology, Community Development, Statistics, Environmental Studies, Geography or equivalent from a recognized university in Kenya; and
• demonstrated administrative and leadership capabilities in work performance and results.

Duties and Responsibilities

• An officer at this level will be deployed at the headquarters or in a regional office.

Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:

• coordinating and supervising implementation of slum up-grading programmes;
• collecting ,analyzing and dissemination of slum up-grading best practices;
• ensuring the undertaking of informal settlements surveys for policy decision making supervision of pre and post contract work in the construction of physical and social infrastructure;
• identifying locally available resources for slum re-development;
• facilitating liaison between communities and microfinance and credit institutions;
• and guiding, supervising and development of staff.