ADVERTISEMENT OF VACANCIES IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT FOR LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT
Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons to fill the vacant Posts under delegated authority as appended in the table below.
Vacancies
1. House Keeping Assistant
This is the entry grade for Housekeeping Assistants cadre.
An officer at this level, will be on job training and will perform tasks under the guidance of a senior officer.
Duties at this level will include: dusting and cleaning rooms and corridors; spreading beds; washing cleaning materials and equipment; replenishing cleaning materials and supplies; washing linen; washing guest laundry; ironing guest laundry and linen; and ensuring proper storage of all equipment used.
Required
– Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) mean grade ‘D’ plain or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution
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2. Animal Husbandry Assistant
This is the entry grade into the Scheme of Animal Husbandry Assistant.
An officer at this level will work under the guidance of more experienced officers.
Duties and responsibilities will entail; Grazing, feeding and herding animals, identifying and reporting sick animals and animals on heat, maintaining cleanliness and disinfecting the livestock structures, maintaining animal fodder/garden, milking dairy animals, restraining animals during milking, docking, bleeding and other livestock routine management, reporting animal status.
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have; –
i. A form four certificate grade D
ii. Proficiency in computer application
iii. Should be physically fit
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3. Laboratory Technician
This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the supervision and guidance of a more senior and experienced officer.
Animal Health
Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail: cleaning and sterilizing laboratory glass ware, surfaces and equipment; preparing media, stains and dyes; collecting, receiving, recording packaging, dispatching, analyzing and preserving test samples and disposing laboratory waste.
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4. Animal Health Assistant
This is the entry grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a more experienced officer.
Duties and responsibilities will entail:- carrying out simple treatment of animals; participating in disease search and reporting; demonstrating on milking techniques and external parasite control techniques such as dipping, spaying and dusting; carrying out vaccination; and undertaking closed castration, de-horning, de- worming, disbudding, docking, debeaking and hoof trimming.
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5. Leather Development Assistant
This is the entry and training grade for the cadre.
An officer at this level will work under guidance of a more experienced officer.
Duties and responsibilities will involve; demonstrating to traders and skin flayers on the approximate methods of flaying, cleaning, curing and storage of hides and skins; ensuring that the hides and skins are delivered to the curing premises immediately after flaying; collecting hides and skins data on production, grading and defects and issuing dispatch notes to facilitate movement of hides and skins as a disease control measure.
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6. Livestock Production Assistant
This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer.
Duties and responsibilities will entail:- collecting livestock data and information; accompanying extension teams during firm visits and farmer training; participating in field days and agricultural shows to disseminate livestock production technologies; and carrying out practical demonstrations on livestock production technologies and techniques.
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