Deputy Director, Agricultural Research and Innovation - 4 Positions at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

Duties and Responsibilities
The Deputy Director, Agricultural Research and Innovation will be responsible to the Director, Agriculture Research for  providing leadership, organization and management in  Horticultural and Industrial Crops,  Natural Resource Management,  Emerging Technologies and  Post-Harvest and Marketing.  Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Managing the development, implementation and review of policies, plans, strategies, guidelines, standards, programmes and projects for research and innovation; 
• Guiding the formulation and implementation of resource mobilization strategies for research and innovation; 
• Mainstreaming agricultural research projects into national programs; 
• Promoting commercialization of research technologies and innovations; 
• Supporting mobilization of support to the establishment of centers of excellence in research and innovation; 
• Promoting public private partnership in agricultural research and innovation; 
• Supervising data and information management on agricultural research and innovation; 
• Leading teams in undertaking agricultural research, feasibility studies and monitoring and evaluation; 
• Guiding transfer of modern and appropriate technologies and innovations to value chain actors; 
• Facilitating capacity building and skills development related to agricultural research and innovation; 
• Supervising the human resource in the section including carrying out performance management; and
• Managing implementation of performance contract targets for agricultural research and innovation section.

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:- 

• Served for a minimum period of ten (10) years, three (3) of which should have been at the grade of Assistant Director,  Agricultural Research and Innovation, CSG 7 or in a comparable and relevant position s in the wider public service; 
• A Bachelor of Science degree in any of the following fields: Agriculture, Agriculture and Home Economics, Agricultural Information Communication Management, Agriculture and Human Ecology, Horticulture, Agriculture Economics, Agribusiness, Agriculture and Extension, Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Resource Management, Dryland Agriculture and Enterprise Development, Food Science and Technology, Food Nutrition and Dietetics or any other relevant and equivalent qualification from a university recognized in Kenya;
• Membership to a relevant professional body and in good standing (where applicable).