Requirements
Applicants should have a minimum of nine (9) years relevant working experience in handling issues of pest control in plants and crop management, three (3) of which should have been served at the level of Principal Officer in Government.
- Providing technical guidance in formulation, review and implementation of agrochemical control policies, legislation, regulations, standards, strategies and plans;
- Enforcing legislation, regulations and standards on agrochemicals;
- Creating awareness on agrochemical legislation and regulations;
- Establishing and maintaining plant quarantine facilities and laboratories;
- Establishing and operationalizing collaborative mechanisms with national and international organizations on technology generation, standard setting, regulation and certification of agrochemical control;
- Building capacity of service providers/inspectors on agrochemical control;
- Establish, operationalize and maintain database on regulation and certification of agrochemicals control;
- Building capacity of service providers/inspectors on agrochemical control;
- Establishing, operationalizing and maintaining database on regulation and certification of agrochemicals control;
- Training and gazette agriculture inspectors;
- Conducting pest risk analysis (PRA)
- Any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
