Assistant Director - Tourism, Investment and Finance at Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:

• served for a minimum period of  eight (8) years, three (3) years of which should be at the grade of Senior Tourism Investment and Finance Officer, CSG ‘9’ and above or  in a comparable and relevant  position in the wider  public service: 
• a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines:- Tourism, Tourism Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Eco-Tourism, Hotel and Institutional Management and Information Technology, Environmental Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Travel and Tour Operations Management, Travel and Tourism Management, Hotel and Hospitality Management, Sociology, Geography, Business Administration, Commerce (Marketing Option  Relations, Economics, Statistics or equivalent and relevant qualifications from a university recognized in Kenya;
• demonstrated professional competence as reflected in work performance and results.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• carrying out the interpretation and implementation of tourism policies on investments and finance;
• coordinating the process of profiling investment opportunities in the tourism sector;
• organizing stakeholder’s consultations on tourism investment and finance;
• coordinating  development and review of frameworks for tourism partnerships and entrepreneurship;
• coordinating the implementation of tourism incentives and disincentives schemes;
• coordinating the formulation of tourism incentives and disincentives schemes;
• coordinating the formulation, review and implementation of special financing schemes for the tourism sector;
• coordinating capacity building through offering business and investment advisory services for tourism development;
• coordinating the promotion of programmes funded under Tourism Funds and other development partners;
• supervising the establishment and maintaining a database on tourism investments;
• monitoring and evaluation on the effectiveness of the implementation of tourism investment and finance policies, plans and strategies.