Vacancies at Machakos County Public Service Board

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide skilled care and support during the preoperative journey;
• Assessing, planning, implementation of nursing interventions and evaluating patient's outcomes;
• Preoperative assessment of patient;
• Receive, assess and deliver care on the patient's arrival into the post anesthetic care unit;
• Monitor the patient's health and support them. providing appropriate care and treatment until the patient has recovered from the effects of the anesthesia and/or surgery and is stable:
• Assess the patient in order to ensure they can be discharged back to a surgical ward area;
• Evaluate the care given during the Preoperative phases (anesthetics, surgery, and recovery); and
• Any other duty as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements for Appointment

• Be holder of a Diploma in any of the following disciplines: Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing, Kenya Registered Nursing, Kenya Registered Nursing/Midwifery or Kenya Registered Nursing/Mental Health and Psychiatry from a recognized institution;
• Must have an Advanced Diploma or a Higher Diploma in peri-operative
• Registration certificate issued by the Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Valid Practicing license from Nursing Council of Kenya;
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Duties/Responsibilities

• Review clarity and completeness of financial statements and disclosures in relation to applicable rules and regulations;
• Monitor effectiveness of the county performance management and performance information;
• Provide strong and effective oversight of the county internal audit;
• Provide effective liaison and facilitate communication between management and external audit
• Ensure effectiveness of both internal and external audit

Requirement for Appointment

• To serve Members of the Audit Committee, the applicant must meet the following minimum qualifications:
• Be a Kenyan citizen;
• Possess at least an undergraduate degree from a recognized university;
• Be a member and in good standing of at least one of the following professional bodies IIA, ICPAK, ICPSK, IAK, APSEA, ACFE, LSK or any other relevant professional body.
• Have at least seven (7) years of experience, three (3) of which must be in a senior management position;
• MUST NOT be a past or present employee of the Machakos County Government or served as agent or carried out any business with Machakos County Government in the last two years:
• Demonstrate understanding of Article 10 and 232 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of County Government functions and its operations
• Possesses a good understanding of government operations, financial reporting, and auditing.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinating pharmaceutical services in a health facility;
• Coordinating medicine and therapeutics committee activities in health facility;
• Developing and reviewing standard operating procedures for all pharmaceutical services in the facility;
• Conducting research on medicine utilization;
• Providing continuous professional development education to pharmacists;
• Evaluating appropriateness of donated medical supplies;
• Maintaining pharmaceutical inventories;
• Participating in facility management committees;
• Providing medicinal information in preparation of patient drug management therapies;
• Coordinating preparation of annual work plans and ensuring they are adhered to;
• Coordinating capacity building and deployment of dental personnel.

Requirements for appointment

• Have at least eighteen (18) years of experience, five (5) of which should be in public service.
• Bachelor of Pharmacy (B Pharm) degree from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poison Board;
• Masters degree in any of the following: Pharmaceutical Policy Analysis and Formulation, Pharmacognosy and Complementary Medicine; Toxicology; Clinical Pharmacy; Pharmacovigilance and Pharmaco-epidemiology; Medicine Supplies Management: Medicine Regulation; Narcotic and Psychotropic substances Control; Pharmaceutics; Pharmacology and therapeutics; Pharmaceutical Analysis; Tropical and Infectious Diseases; Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Industrial Pharmacy; Health system Management; Pharmaceutical Care; Health Informatics; Health Economics; Epidemiology; Biostatics; Medical Statistics; Drug Design and Development; Clinical Trials; Quality Assurance; Radio Pharmacy; Public Health, Microbiology, or Molecular Pharmacology from an institution recognized by the Pharmacy and Poison Board.
• Certificate of Registration by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board.
• Valid practicing license from Pharmacy and Poisons Board
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing new land survey techniques and policies
• Assessing human capacity development needs in line with the changing professional demands
• Supervising research of new and emerging technologies
• Verifying cadastral, adjudication, topographical, sub- divisional schemes, photo engineering surveys
• Carrying out quality control of astronomical, gravity, magnetic, cadastral, VLBI observations, adjudication and general boundary surveys
• Calibrating and certifying survey equipment.
• Estimating and costing of survey projects.

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -

• Have at least eighteen (18) years of experience of which five (5) should be in Public Service
• Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Land surveying and photogrammetry, Geomatic, Geomatics Engineering. Technology in Geomatics, Technology in Geo-informatics, Geo- spatial Engineering. Philosophy in Technology (Survey) from a recognized institution.
• Masters in any of the following disciplines: Land Surveying, Land management. Cartography, Photogrammetry, Photolithography, Geomatic, Geomatic Engineering, Technology in Geomatics. Technology in Geoinformatics, Geo- spatial Engineering, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Urban or Regional Planning, Geodesy, Hydrography. Environmental Science, Information Science or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution.
• Full membership of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (MISK).
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution;

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Enforcing relevant provisions of various statutes relating to valuation;
• Undertaking Stamp Duty valuations;
• Undertaking investigations on valuation disputes and appeals;
• Generating, collecting and remitting revenue from valuation services;
• Preparing valuation case briefs and responses to County assembly issues;
• Attending courts and tribunals on valuation matters;
• Coordinating valuation of assets for Departments in the County;
• Coordinating assessment of ground rent during sub-divisions and alienations.
• Preparing research proposals on emerging valuation trends and issues;
• Preparing reports on the impact of infrastructural projects on land values;
• Representing the public sector Valuers in the Valuers and Estate Agents Registration Boards
• Coaching and mentoring of staff

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -

• Have at least eighteen (18) years of experience of which five (5) should be in Public Service
• Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Land Economics, Real Estate and Property Studies or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Masters degree in any of the following disciplines: Property Valuation, Estate Management. Property Studies, Real Estate or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Been registered by the Valuers Registration Board;
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution;

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Performing complex and advanced clinical patient management in area of specialization
• Coordinating training, coaching, and mentoring of health personnel
• Managing health stores including essential medicines and/ or plant and equipment
• Managing larger facilities/ hospitals
• Developing medical standards operating procedures (SOPs) and protocols
• Coordinating emergency response and clinical care
• Coordinating health projects and programs
• Managing health information systems
• Carrying out health surveys and research
• Monitoring the provision of forensic and medical legal services
• Give medical education, explain tests and procedures to the patients.
• Participate in Occupational Safety and Health Work programs.
• Perform medical and Surgical operations.

Requirements for appointment

• Have at least eighteen (18) years of experience five (5) of which should be in public service.
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B. Ch. B) degree from a recognized university
• Masters degree in Medical oncology or any equivalent qualification from an institution recognized by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board;
• Certificate of Registration by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board:
• Valid practicing license.
• Certificate in computer application skills from a recognized institution

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 Duties and Responsibilities

• Set the agenda for each meeting with the committee members.
• Arrange for a periodic review of the effectiveness of the audit committee.
• Demonstrate independence and impartiality in decision-making, which accord with legal, constitutional, and policy requirements.
• Provide clarification to members on the audit committee's responsibilities

Requirement for Appointment

• To serve as Chairperson of the AUDIT committee, the applicant must meet the following minimum qualification:
• Be a Kenyan citizen.
• Bachelor's degree in any of the following: Accounting, Auditing, Risk Management, Finance, Economics, Commerce, Business Administration (Accounting option) from a university recognized in Kenya.
• Possession of relevant Master's degree will be an added advantage.
• Have at least 10 years of experience in a senior management position, where their scope of work covered the entire organization they were working with.
• Be a member and in good standing of at least one of the following professional bodies: IIA, ICPAK, ICPSK, IAK, APSEA, ACFE, LSK or any other relevant professional body.
• Have a minimum of ten (10) years' experience in Financial Management/ Accounting or its equivalent, five (5) of which must be in senior management position;
• Be an independent, proactive leader with confidence and high integrity.
• Demonstrate competence in leadership and business management.
• Possesses a good understanding of government operations, financial reporting and auditing
• Possess excellent working knowledge of an audit committee's functions and risks management framework
• Possess strong interpersonal skills and time available to develop and monitor the committee agenda.
• Not a holder of a political office
• MUST NOT be past or present employee or agent which has carried out any business with the Machakos County Government in the last two (2) years;

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing plans for strategic county projects and programmes
• Interpreting county policies
• Formulation of strategies
• Contacting thematic issue research on matters relating to strategic county project and programmes
• Supervising preparation of county urban and rural plans
• Implementing strategies for public education
• Participation and engagement
• Preparing annual state of physical planning reports on county projects /programmes
• Providing guidance to liaison committees and secretariats

Requirements for Appointment

For appointment to this grade, an officer must have: -

• Have at least eighteen (18) years of experience of which five (5) should be in Public Service
• Have a Bachelor degree in any of the following disciplines Urban and Regional planning. Urban planning or town planning from a recognized institution
• Have a Masters degree in urban and regional planning, urban planning, or town planning from a recognized institution
• Be a corporate member of Kenya Institute of Planners or Architectural Association of Kenya (Town planning chapter)
• Be a registered by the physical planners Registration Board
• Have certificate in computer from a recognized institution