Job Description:

About the Job

The licensing and seaborne trade officers are responsible for coordinating and implementing strategies towards orderly development of an efficient and effective framework for provision of optimal commercial maritime services.

Responsibilities

• Reconciling submitted manifest for imports and exports.
• Creating a data base of international seaborne trade statistics.
• Creating a database of inland waterways trade statistics.
• Supervise production of statistical reports on seaborne and inland water transport trade.
• Determining and implementing the use of appropriate statistical software.
• Intervening in industry complaints relating to port operations, cargo/customs clearance and other service delivery complaints.
• Maintaining a database of industry complaints.
• Produce quarterly and annual reports on industry complaints.
• Issuing the requisite application forms and other requirements to maritime service providers.
• Receiving, recording and filing licensing applications and documents.
• Investigating violations of licensing regulations.
• Assisting in maintaining a database of duly licensed maritime service providers.
• Printing of licenses for maritime service providers.
• Keeping inventory of all licenses and ensuring their safe keeping.
• Writing minutes during vetting committee meetings.
• Communicating to maritime service providers regarding their license applications.
• Issuing, receiving, recording and filing applications and documentation on registration of shippers/service providers under method 2 of SOLAS VGM.
• Registering shippers/service providers under method 1 of SOLAS VGM.
• Assisting in maintaining a database of approved shippers/service providers under method 1 of SOLAS VGM.
• Taking minutes and writing reports during vetting of shippers/service providers under method 2 of SOLAS VGM.
• Printing of certificates to SOLAS VGM to approved shippers/service providers under method 2.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Maritime Studies, Port Management, Shipping, Transport Economics, logistics, Business Management/Administration or any other relevant qualification from a recognized institution.
• Supervisory course lasting not less two (2) weeks.
• Should have experience period of a period of three (3) years.
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.
• Proficiency in Computer Applications.