Engineering Secretary - Agriculture at Public Service Commission Kenya (PSCK)

Duties and Responsibilities

• The Engineering Secretary will be the head of the Agricultural Engineering function. He/she will be responsible to the Principal Secretary for overall administration and policy direction of the agricultural engineering function.

Specific duties and responsibilities at this level will include:- 

• Overseeing development, interpretation, implementation and review of national agricultural engineering policies, strategies, standards and guidelines; 
• Spearheading development of agricultural engineering programmes and projects; 
• Spearheading development of strategic agricultural engineering interventions for national food security; 
• Initiating stakeholders’ collaboration and public private partnership investments in agricultural engineering services; 
• Initiating climate change adaptation and mitigation actions in agricultural engineering services; 
• Overseeing development and management of a national Agricultural Engineering database; 
• Ensuring efficient management and operation of National Agricultural Engineering Institutions; 
• Facilitating dissemination of Agricultural Engineering technologies; 
• Ensuring monitoring and evaluation of agricultural engineering policies, standards and guidelines, programmes and projects; and 
• Spearheading resource mobilization and performance management. 

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

• Served for cumulative period of fifteen (15) years  three (3) of which should  have been  in the grade Chief Engineer (Agriculture), CSG 5 or in a comparable and relevant position in the wider Public service or private sector; 
• A Bachelors Degree in any of the following disciplines: Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering or any other relevant and equivalent qualification from a university recognized in Kenya; 
• A Masters Degree in any of the following disciplines:- Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering,  Environmental and Biosystems Engineering, Engineering in Agri-Chain Management, Agro-Bioresource Science and Technology, Agricultural Processing Engineering, Agricultural Processing, Natural Resources Management, Agricultural Resource Management, Soil and Water Engineering, Land and Water Management, Land Use Management, Integrated Soil Fertility Management, Environmental Management, Environmental Planning and Management, Project Planning and Management  or any other relevant and equivalent qualification from a university recognized in Kenya;
• Been registered by the Engineers Board of Kenya;
• Demonstrated a high degree of professional competence and administrative capability required for effective planning, direction, control and coordination of agricultural engineering function; and
• Demonstrated a thorough understanding of national goals, policies and programmes and the ability to translate them into the agricultural engineering function.