Assistant Director Agriculture at County Government of Tana River

TRCPSB/V/NO. 033/2025: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AGRICULTURE J/G ‘P’(1 POST)

Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable

Duties and responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities at this level will include:

• supervising collection, analysis and management of agriculture crops data;
• coordinating collection, and packaging of new and existing agricultural technologies;
• promoting agribusiness incubation and market development;
• managing and controlling trans-boundary pests, diseases and invasive species;
• undertaking assessment on crop, food and nutritional security situation;
• promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation and environmental management in agriculture;
• developing proposals for national agricultural programmes and projects;
• collaborating with stakeholders to identify areas of agricultural research;
• promoting access to affordable credit, crop insurance and inputs for agricultural production in collaboration with stakeholders;
• training agricultural stakeholders and preparing reports;
• providing technical support for compliance with international standards on phytosanitary and food safety;
• packaging of new and existing agricultural technologies;
• mainstreaming of international agreements and protocols in agriculture;
• supervising management and control of trans-boundary pests, diseases and invasive species;
• developing proposals for national agricultural programmes and projects;
• supervising assessment of crop, food and nutritional security situation;
• promoting agribusiness incubation and market development;
• identifying public private partnerships in agricultural investments and initiatives;
• collaborating with stakeholders in the promotion of access to affordable credit, crop insurance and inputs for agricultural crop production;
• updating and maintaining agricultural information database;
• collaborating with stakeholders to identify areas of agricultural research;
• mainstreaming environmental management and climate change adaptation and mitigation actions in agriculture; and
• any other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
• Planning and Management; Rural Management; Seed Science and Technology; Seed Science; Soil Environment and Land Use Management; Soil Science or equivalent qualification from a recognizedi nstitution;
• Certificate in strategic leadership development program (SLDP) lasting not less than six (6) weeks from a recognized Institution;
• Certificate of membership to a professional body from a recognized institution;
• Certificate in computer application skills; and
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.