Job Opportunities at Nyandarua County - 3 Positions

Job Description

Be a holder of first degree in any of the following areas: Arts, Human Resource Management, Public Administration, Strategic Management, Community Development, Political Science, Linguistics, Law or in any other closely related area.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement transformative strategies within the Public Administration;
• Enhance Capacity Building in the County Public Service;
• Develop strategies for in-service staff training for skills up-grading;
• Formulate and implement County Policies to manage and improve service delivery in all the Sub-County Administration Units including Enforcement Unit;
• Work with stakeholders to facilitate availability of necessary ICT infrastructure that include Fibre Optic, VIRSAT, WAN, etc;
• Digitize, automate, and maintain equipment for delivery of essential services of the County such as revenue collection, licensing, planning and development, to name a few;
• Coordinate interdepartmental and county ICT services;
• Provision of firefighting service and disaster management;
• Coordinate civic education and public participation; and
• Prepare periodic reports and linkages with the Office of the County Secretary.

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Requirements

• Holds a first degree in any of the following areas: Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, General Agriculture, Horticulture, or any other closely related area;
• Ability to integrate this sector’s planning activities with the others in the County for maximization of food security, value chain, marketing and Healthy Living; and
• Proven ability to apply systems approach in Agricultural Production.

Responsibilities

• Promote integrated holistic Research and Extension Service that addresses Crop Production, Value Addition (agro processing), and Marketing, so as to move farmers from subsistence to commercial farming;
• Design programs that shall make Crop Husbandry a sustainable economic activity of choice and major employment and income generating sector;
• Inculcate change management such that the youth and unemployed middle aged citizens can take up farming as a viable economic activity;
• Design programmes and projects that will ensure sustainable and economical utilization of idle land;
• Establish cold storage, warehousing, and drying silos to cater for seasonality, regulate demand and supply of the farm produce and protect farmers from seasonal price fluctuations;
• Establish benchmarked quality control, weights and measures to standardize packaging of local produce;
• Enhance contracted farming with guaranteed markets and use mechanization starting with County tractor hire services that will charge for farm operation services at cost;
• Introduce high value crops to complement existing food crops;
• Enhance access to farm inputs and subsidized services like fertilizer, high breed seeds, soil testing;
• Advise farmers on best practices in crop protection;
• Diversify farming through collaboration with research institutions such as KEPHIS to commercialize new and adapted crop breed;
• Encourage tillage practices that enhance soil and water conservation and environment protection in accordance with county and national government policies ;
• Encourage innovative crop production technologies such as green house and hydroponic;
• Give advisory on crop zoning in the county in accordance with comparative advantage;
• Link with National Agricultural Research Stations; and All in all, develop strategies to ensure sustained food security and excess for export.

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Requirements

Be a holder of first degree in any of the following areas:

• Accounting, Finance, Statistics, Financial Management, Banking, Business Administration, Commerce, or any other closely related field;
• Must be a holder of CPA (K) or its equivalent;
• Be conversant with National and County Government revenue sources;
• Be conversant with tax management;
• Be conversant with laws relating to Financial Management; and
• Have excellent skills in Computer operations and accounting packages and good understanding of the IFMIS environment.

Responsibilities

• Management of Finance Department;
• Prepare County Budget, Financial Management and Accounting;
• Mobilization of County Revenue and Maximization of resources utilization;
• Inspire and sustain County Economic growth;
• Institute Integrated Financial Management Systems so that all sectors of the County are updated regularly; and
• Be a Member of Building Plans approving team.