Research Officer- 5 at Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT

 For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in any of the following disciplines: law, Science, Sociology, Criminolory, Psycholory or any other relevant qualifications from a recognized institution.
• Membership to any professional body as per the discipline;
• Certificate of competence in accord processing (Ms word, word perfect), spreadsheet (Ms excel, lotus), database management (Ms Access, Dbase, Oracle, Sequential Query tanguages - SQL) operating systems (u'indors), clesktop publishing (, Photoshop) and Statistical Packages (SPSS) from a recognized institution; and
• Meet Chapter Six (6) of the constitution of Kenya 2010

This is the entry grade for this cadre. An officer at this level may be deployed to work at any of the Departments at the Headquarters, Regional or County Offices under the gui.L"ce of a senior and experienced officer. Specifically, duties and responsibilities will indude:

• Analping of court cases and legislation that have been declared unconstitutional and making proposals for review;
• Conducting intensive reseach induding academic literature reviews and empirical research;
• Preparing of a law digest for easy accessibility and reference to the laws;
• Implementing multidisciplinary r€sesrctl approadres to infonn public prosecution practice;
• Preparing and presenting concept papers and proposals from prioritized activities; and
• Colecting and collating of relomnt authorities touching on criminal law and keeping a compendium of the same.