Makueni County Public Service Board is a body corporate established under Section 57 of the County Governments Act 2012 whose mandate includes appointing persons to hold or act in the offices of County Public Service.
Terms of Service: Three (3) years contract
Salary: KShs. 100,000/=
Responsibilities
The unit head will be responsible for the following:
- Initiating and preparing departmental advisory meetings;
- Following-up on counselling development projects in the field;
- monitoring implementation and evaluation of accounting and management systems as well as guidelines for counselling;
- Providing counsellor supervision to field officers to ensure that counselling activities are conducted efficiently;
- keeping appropriate records;
- Conducting research in counselling and supervising staff working under the officer;
- In addition, the officer will; provide guidance and counselling services to employees;
- promote personal and social development appropriate to career development;
- Provide appropriate interventions to assist employees/clients with psycho-social related problems;
- Identify employees or other stakeholder with social, psychological or health related problems;
- Organize seminars and workshops on guidance and counselling matters;
- Training and supervision of other psychologists;
- Performing any other duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Requirements
- Be a Kenyan citizen;
- Be a holder of Master’s Degree in Counselling or a Master’s Degree in any of the Social Sciences with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling from a recognized institution;
- Served in a similar or a comparable position for at least three (3) years;
- Attended a strategic Leadership Development Course lasting not less than six (6) weeks;
- Attended counsellor Supervision Course lasting not less than four (4) weeks;
- Attended Trainer of Facilitation Course in Psychological Counselling lasting not less than two (2) weeks;
- Attended a Psychological Debriefing Course lasting not less than one week;
- Proficiency in Computer Applications;
- Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results;
- Be a registered member of the Kenya Counsellors and Psychologists Association;
- Satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 on Leadership and integrity.
Other requirements
In addition to the above requirements, the person must have the following personal qualities:
- Ability to articulate and implement departmental mandates;
- Organizational, analytical, managerial and decision making skills;
- Creativity and innovation;
- Technical problem solving;
- Resource management skills;
- Interpersonal and communication skills;
- Integrity and commitment to producing results;
- Leadership, advocacy, relationship building and collaboration, result oriented, self-driven;
- Appreciation and application of technology in the work environment;
- Passion for continuous professional development;
- Initiative to achieve expected results;
- Ability to keep confidentiality of clients information; and,
- Ability to provide counsellor supervision to individuals;
- People management;
- Financial management;
- Policy implementation;
- Planning;
- Coordinating; and,
- Strategy implementation
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