Senior Assistant Placement Coordination/Career Services Officer at Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service

Job Purpose

KUCCPS is seeking to recruit competent and self-driven individuals with an innate dynamism for the positions described below. The successful candidates to fill the positions will join a high-performing team and should be not only strategic thinkers but also objective, innovative, and analytical. In addition, the should be individuals of integrity and emotionally intelligent with effective leadership, interpersonal, communication and organization skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in collecting data for stakeholders for criteria development;
• Assisting in collecting students’ KNEC data;
• Assist in collecting data of registered eligible institutions and their programmes for placement;
• Receiving and compiling the declared capacities for universities and colleges programmes;
• Assist in guiding of students on the application process;
• Processing of Placement of students to Universities and Colleges;
• Validating the Placement of students to Universities and Colleges;
• Receiving the Inter Institution Transfers applications;
• Receiving and compiling placement returns from Universities and Colleges; and
• Packaging and issuing materials during stakeholders’ engagement.

Minimum Job Qualification

• Minimum Requirements
• Have a minimum of three (3) years’ experience in relevant work in the Public Service or in the Private Sector;
• Have a Diploma in any of the following fields: Education, Business Administration, Public Administration, Social Studies or Development Studies or other relevant and equivalent qualifications from a recognized Institution; and
• Be proficient in computer applications. Or (As a management trainee)
• Bachelor’s Degree; and
• Proficiency in computer applications