General Manager, Compliance, Enforcement and Quality Assurance at National Construction Authority

 Duties and Responsibilities.
These will entail: -

• Coordinating the development, implementation and review of policies, strategies, legislations, guidelines, frameworks, norms, regulations, plans and programmes on compliance, enforcement, occupational safety and health and quality assurance;
• Spearheading provision consultancy and advisory services with respect to compliance and quality assurance;
• Ensuring quality assurance in the construction industry;
• Overseeing standardization and improvement of construction techniques and materials;
• Overseeing regulation of contractors’ professional undertakings;
• Ensuring other regulatory requirements by other agencies in the construction industry are adhered to;
• Overseeing development, review and publication of the code of conduct for the construction industry;
• Ensuring implementation of standards for the design, construction, operation, inspection and maintenance of construction works;
• Ensure implementation of standards for infrastructure services, works and disaster management at a construction site;
• Ensuring implementation of standards for the safety and security of the users and occupants of a building;
• Ensuring products, elements and systems conform to statutory requirements and standards
• Spearheading preparation and implementation of business continuity plan for the directorate;
• Ensuring maintenance of a Risk Management Register for the directorate;
• Promoting Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) at the directorate; and
• Facilitating stakeholder engagement and foster corporate culture that promotes ethical practices and good corporate citizenship.
• Providing technical advice on matters relating to chemical and physical behavior of materials;
• Overseeing testing services using non-destructive test methods for structural and mechanical integrity of structures;.
• Providing laboratory test results to support investigations and prosecution cases;
• Coordinating identification, evaluation and control hazardous factors in the construction sites which may affect the safety and health of persons employed in the construction industry;
• Overseeing investigation of occupational accidents, dangerous occurrences and cases of occupational diseases with a view to preventing recurrence in the construction industry;
• Overseeing inspection of construction works;
• Overseeing provision of one stop shop for all services offered in the construction industry to all clients and stakeholders; and
• Overseeing registration of all projects and payments of construction levies.

Requirements for Appointment

• Cumulative service period of fifteen (15) years’ work experience, five (5) of which should have been in a management position or a in a comparable position;
• Bachelor’s Degree in any of the following: - Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Master’s Degree in any of the following fields: - Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Membership to any of the following; Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK), Institute of Quantity Surveyors of Kenya (IQSK), Institution of Engineers of Kenya (IEK), Institute of Construction Project Managers (ICPM), Association of Construction Managers of Kenya (ACMK), or relevant professional body and in good standing;
• Registration as a professional to any of the following regulatory bodies: Board of Registration of Architects & Quantity Surveyors (BORAQS), Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK) or relevant professional regulatory body under the relevant law;
• Valid professional practicing license;
• Certificate in leadership course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a recognized institution;
• Proficiency in computer applications;
• Demonstrated managerial, administrative and professional competence in work performance and results; and
• Exhibited a thorough understanding of national goals, policies, objectives and ability to relate them to NCA’s mandate.