Job Description

No of Positions: 18

Position: Principal Geospatial Data Mgt. Officer

Terms of Service:   Permanent/Pensionable

Salary Scale:    Kshs.47,780 – Kshs.82,330 p.m.    (CSG 8)

House Allowance: Kshs. 15,400 – Kshs.35,000 p.m. (depending on duty station)

Commuter Allowance:  Kshs.8,000 p.m.

Leave Allowance:   Kshs.6,000 (once yearly)

Medical Cover:   As provided by the Government

Qualifications

• served for a minimum period of three (3) years in the grade of Geospatial Data Management Officer I, CSG 9 or in a comparable and relevant position in the Public Service;


• a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: – Philosophy in Technology (Printing/Geoinformatics and Information Technology) Technology in Geomatics, Geo-spatial Engineering, Land Surveying and Photogrammetry, Geomatics and Geomatic Engineering or equivalent qualifications from a recognized institution;


• affiliate/associate membership of Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK);


• certificate in computer applications; and


• demonstrated a high degree of professional competence and administrative capability.

Responsibilities

• validating metadata;


• supervising the creation and updating of geospatial files, cards and registers;


• maintaining and updating of clearing house and backup records;


• converting, analyzing and modeling of geospatial data;


• servicing and maintaining geospatial records equipment;


• supervising the processing, preservation, maintenance, cataloguing, storage, archiving and retrieval of geospatial’ records; and


• ensuring the preservation of geospatial records from public and private producers.

How To Apply

Interested and qualified persons are requested to make their applications by completing One (1) PSC.2 Revised 2016 Application Form.  The Forms can be downloaded from the Public Service Commission Website www.publicservice.go.ke

Completed application form PSC.2A (Revised 2016) together with certified copies of certificates should reach the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, P. O. Box 30450 – 00100, NAIROBI or hand delivered to Ardhi House, Registry, 11th Floor – Room 1106 on  or before  June 26, 2020.

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