Job Description:

About the Job

The State Department for Livestock Development is looking for a Senior Principal Assistant Animal Health Officer to manage and coordinate animal health services. This position involves strategic planning, field operations, and enforcing regulations to ensure animal well-being and public health.

Responsibilities

Advising and managing dip designing, sitting and apprising construction.
Inspection and verification of imports and export of consignments.
Managing veterinary farms.
Cold chain facilities and quarantine status in quarantine stations and holding grounds.
Planning training farmers training on milking techniques and external parasite control techniques.
Leading big vaccination teams, carrying out simple treatment of animals.
Participating in disease search, collecting, collating, analyzing data and writing technical reports.
Keeping records on animal breeding, animal health, milk production, dipping data, slaughter house daily kill, meat condemnation and movements permits.
Organizing animal health field demonstrations and agricultural shows.
Managing sample collection, packaging and dispatch.
Inspecting livestock stock routes and issuing of livestock movement permits.
Managing artificial insemination services, meat inspection and grading.
Enforcing slaughterhouse hygiene and meat transport regulations and inspection of retail outlets of foods of animal origin and advising in construction and maintenance of farm structures and coordinating uptake of new technologies in animal/ health to stakeholders.

Requirements

Served for a minimum period of three (3) years at the grade of Principal Assistant Animal Health Officer CSG 8 or in a comparable and relevant position in the public service.
A Higher Diploma in any of the following disciplines; Animal Health, Animal Health and Production, Environmental Health, Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Diagnosis, Poultry Science, Veterinary Public Health and Meat Technology or Animal Husbandry from a recognized institution.
Registered by Kenya Veterinary Board.
Demonstrated a high degree of professional competence, administrative animal health services.