Agriculture and Food Authority- AFA
Director (Technical Directorate)
Nairobi
• Kenya
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Description
The Director is responsible for providing leadership in regulatory, technical advisoryservices and market & product development and Research for the Specific Subsectorof deployment.
Requirements
(i) Minimum of fifteen (15) years cumulative relevant work experience, five (5)
years of which should have been at the grade of Deputy Director or in a
comparable position;
(ii) Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines: Agricultural Economics,
Agricultural sciences, Environmental Sciences, Law, Commerce, Business
Administration, Marketing, Agricultural/ Biosystems Engineering,
Horticulture, Agronomy, Agribusiness Management, Food Science and
Technology or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
(iii) Masters Degree in any of the following disciplines, Agricultural Economics,
Agriculture, Agriculture Engineering, Horticulture, Agronomy, Agribusiness
Management, Food Science and Technology, Social Sciences, Arts, Law,
Business Administration, Communication or an equivalent qualification from
a recognized institution;
(iv) Membership to a relevant professional body, where applicable and in good
standing;
(v) Certificate in Leadership Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks from a
recognized institution;
(vi) Proficiency in computer applications;
(vii) Demonstrated managerial, administrative and professional competence in
work performance and results; and
(viii) Exhibited a thorough understanding of national goals, policies, objectives
and ability to relate them to proper management of agriculture and food
function.
Responsibilities
(i) Representing Kenya as the competent authority on matters of
development, regulation and promotion for the specific sub-sector in
national, regional and international obligations;
(ii) Promoting best practices in and regulating the production, processing,
marketing, grading, storage, collection, transportation and warehousing of
scheduled crops produce and products;
(iii) Coordinating development of data collection tools, collation of data,
analysis and maintenance of a database for scheduled crops and produce;
(iv) Coordinating formulation, review and implementation of general and
specific policies, procedures, guidelines, standards, codes of practice and
regulations for scheduled crops and products; (v) Facilitating marketing and distribution of scheduled crops and productsthrough monitoring and dissemination of market information, includingidentification of the local supply-demand situation, domestic marketmatching and overseas market intelligence and promotion;
(vi) Overseeing capacity building of County Governments and scheduled
crops value chain players on production technologies;
(vii) Promoting fairness, efficiency and competitiveness in the trading of
scheduled crops and products;
(viii) Promoting domestic consumption and advising on strategies for value
addition for scheduled crops and products for optimization of returns;
(ix) Recommending general industry agreements between farmers and
processors of scheduled crops and products;
(x) Participating in trade negotiations and guiding on preparation of
scheduled crops value chain agreements;
(xi) Overseeing assessment on compliance processes and propose business
process reengineering and digitalization options in scheduled crops value
chain;
(xii) Developing and enforcing traceability rules and regulations for scheduled
crops value chains;
(xiii) Determining and advising generally on research priorities and innovations
in the specific scheduled crop sub sector;
(xiv) Overseeing registration and licensing of scheduled crops growers and
dealers as provided for in the Crops Act and its subsidiary legislation;
(xv) Coordinating issuance of scheduled crops value chain export and import
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