Job Description
ENGINEERING SECRETARY - ONE (1) POST – V/NO 149/2023
Basic Salary Scale: Ksh.180,160 - Ksh.335,450 p.m. (CSG 4)
House Allowance: Ksh.80, 000 p.m.
Commuter Allowance: Kshs.24,000 p.m.
Entertainment Allowance: Kshs.65,000 p.m.
Extraneous Allowance: Kshs.60,000 p.m.
Domestic Servants Allowance: Kshs.15,600 p.m.
Leave Allowance: As provided in the Civil Service
Annual Leave: 30 working days
Medical Cover: As provided by the Government
Terms of Service: Permanent/ Local Agreement
For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-
(i) served for cumulative period of fifteen (15) years three (3) of which should have
been in the grade Chief Engineer (Agriculture), CSG 5 or in a comparable and
relevant position in the wider Public service or private sector;
(ii) a Bachelors Degree in any of the following disciplines: Agricultural Engineering,
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering or any other relevant and equivalent
qualification from a university recognized in Kenya;
(iii) a Masters Degree in any of the following disciplines:- Agricultural Engineering,
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Environmental and Biosystems
Engineering, Engineering in Agri-Chain Management, Agro-Bioresource Science
and Technology, Agricultural Processing Engineering, Agricultural Processing,
Natural Resources Management, Agricultural Resource Management, Soil and
Water Engineering, Land and Water Management, Land Use Management,
Integrated Soil Fertility Management, Environmental Management,
Environmental Planning and Management, Project Planning and Management
or any other relevant and equivalent qualification from a university recognized
in Kenya;
(iv) been registered by the Engineers Board of Kenya;
(v) demonstrated a high degree of professional competence and administrative
capability required for effective planning, direction, control and coordination of
agricultural engineering function; and
(vi) demonstrated a thorough understanding of national goals, policies and
programmes and the ability to translate them into the agricultural engineering
function.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Engineering Secretary will be the head of the Agricultural Engineering function.
He/she will be responsible to the Principal Secretary for overall administration and
policy direction of the agricultural engineering function.
Specific duties and responsibilities at this level will include:-
(i) overseeing development, interpretation, implementation and review of national
agricultural engineering policies, strategies, standards and guidelines;
(ii) spearheading development of agricultural engineering programmes and projects;
(iii) spearheading development of strategic agricultural engineering interventions for
national food security;
(iv) initiating stakeholders’ collaboration and public private partnership investments
in agricultural engineering services;
(v) initiating climate change adaptation and mitigation actions in agricultural
engineering services;
(vi) overseeing development and management of a national Agricultural Engineering
database;
(vii) ensuring efficient management and operation of National Agricultural
Engineering Institutions;
(viii) facilitating dissemination of Agricultural Engineering technologies;
(ix) ensuring monitoring and evaluation of agricultural engineering policies,
standards and guidelines, programmes and projects; and
(x) spearheading resource mobilization and performance management.