Deputy Director Climate Resilience for Water & Food Security

For appointment to this grade a candidate must have: -

• served for a minimum period of three (3) years at the grade of Assistant Director, Climate Resilience for Water and Food Security CSG 7;
• a Bachelor Degree in any of the following disciplines: Forestry, Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Hydrology, Geography, Geology, Economics, Community Development, Environmental Science, Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Industrial Engineering or Water Engineering from a university recognized in Kenya; and
• demonstrated a high degree of professional competence, managerial, administrative capability in work performance and exhibited a thorough understanding of national goals, policies and objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities will include: -

• coordinating mainstreaming of climate change action plan in the State Department as outlined in Article 15 (5) of the Climate Change Act 2016;
• sectoral climate finance mobilization and coordination for climate adaptation mitigation and implementation of climate actions for community resilience and food security;
• form partnerships and collaborations in support of Land reclamation, ClimateResilience for water and food security activities in accordance with CoK, 2010;
• monitoring, evaluation, reporting and verification of Climate Resilience Interventions and Documentation of best practices;
• coordinating the formulation and implementation of Resource mobilization strategies for climate change resilience.
• coordinating issuance of irrigation licenses for irrigation; and establishing and maintaining a register of all irrigation schemes