About Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS)
Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) is the government parastatal whose responsibility is to assure the quality of agricultural inputs and produce to prevent adverse impact on the economy, the environment and human health.
Vision:
Healthy plants, safe trade and sustainable aggro-envi... read moreronment for a prosperous Kenya.
Mission:
To provide a science based regulatory service by assuring plant health, quality of agricultural inputs and produce for food security, globally competitive agriculture and sustainable development.
Core values
Customer focus
Professionalism and Integrity
Teamwork
Results oriented
Innovation and Creativity
Corporate social sustainability
Strategic Objectives
To protect plants from pests, weeds and invasive species.
To facilitate review and strengthening of the policy, legal and regulatory framework, so that it is in tandem with both local and international agricultural sector emerging issues.
To contribute towards improved levels of agricultural productivity.
To support compliance to market requirements.
To build adequate technical and infrastructural capacity to facilitate efficient and effective delivery of the KEPHIS mandate.
To mobilize adequate financial resources and ensure optimal allocation and utilization to enable full implementation of planned programmers and activities.
To enhance synergies through information and resource sharing with stakeholders and partners.
To enhance the visibility and corporate image of KEPHIS
Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) Jobs in Kenya
Job Specification
Duties and Responsibilities:
Sampling of agro-inputs, agricultural produce and products and environmental samples for quality and safety analysis;
Sampling of agricultural p
Job Specification
Duties and Responsibilities:
Receiving, Directing and relaying telephone messages;
Directing visitors and customers to the appropriate staff member when they come to KEPHI
Job description
Preparing audit test procedures, notifications and request for information memas;
Conducting preliminary reviews of the areas to be audited;
Carrying out audit tests on
Job Specification
Handling customer complaints;
Updating and managing the Service's website and social media accounts;
Keeping a data book of complaints and ensuring prompt responses in
Duties and responsibilities:
Coordinating and conducting pest risk analysis of plants, plant products, other regulated articles and biological articles and control agents, pest listing, reviewin
Duties and Responsibilities:
Conduct chemical and biological testing on agricultural produce and agro- inputs for compliance to market requirements and standards for realization of the instituti
REF: VA/10/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
KSCE Certificate D+ or its KNEC accepted equivalent and
Compliance with chapter 6
REF: VA/9/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
KSCE Certificate D or its KNEC accepted equivalent
Clean driving license free from any endors
REF: VA/8/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Diploma in secretarial studies prefarably in KNEC from an institution in kenya
Fluency in bot
REF: VA/7/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Accounting Technician diploma (ATD) or certified public accountant (CPA) part one and;
Meets
REF: VA/6/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Bachelors degree in any of the following field; library and information science, or records and
REF: VA/5/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Relevant degree (public administration, business administration, office administratio
REF: VA/4/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Maintaining registers or fixed assets, and debtors
Cllecting and compilling information requi
Ref: VA/3/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Bachelors Degree in any of the following disciplines: Finance, Accounting, Business Administrat
Ref: VA/2/10/2022
Person Specification
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:
Bachelors degree in law from a recognized university in kenya; post graduate Diploma in law
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Ref: VA/1/10/2022
Person Specification:
Bachelor of science in agriculture, biotechnology, entomology, crop protection, molecular biology, seed science , Horticulture, Agronomy, botany or its
REF: VA/1/5/2020
Job Description
The Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) is a State Corporation under the KEPHIS Act No. 54 of 2012. The Service is a regulatory agency under the min
Ref: VA/1/12/2018
Major duties and responsibilities
Coordination of farmer advisory services through stakeholder awareness meetings.
Coordinate and facilitate identification of pests and di