Engineering Secretary – Agriculture
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:-
- Overseeing development, interpretation, implementation and
review of national agricultural engineering policies, strategies,
standards and guidelines;
- Spearheading development of agricultural engineering
programmes and projects;
- Spearheading development of strategic agricultural
engineering interventions for national food security;
- Initiating stakeholders’ collaboration and public private
partnership investments in agricultural engineering services;
- Initiating climate change adaptation and mitigation actions
in agricultural engineering services;
- Overseeing development and management of a national
Agricultural Engineering database;
- Ensuring efficient management and operation of National
Agricultural Engineering Institutions;
- Facilitating dissemination of Agricultural Engineering
technologies;
- Ensuring monitoring and evaluation of agricultural
engineering policies, standards and guidelines, programmes and projects;
and
- Spearheading resource mobilization and performance
management.
Qualifications
For appointment to this
grade, a candidate must have:-
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Been registered by the Engineers Board of Kenya;
- Demonstrated a high degree of professional competence and
administrative capability required for effective planning, direction,
control and coordination of agricultural engineering function; and
- Demonstrated a thorough understanding of national goals,
policies and programmes and the ability to translate them into the
agricultural engineering function.
How To Apply
