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Director, Urban Governance, Management & Resilience

Public Service Commission KenyaNairobi, Kenya

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Job title : Director, Urban Governance, Management & Resilience

Job Location : Nairobi Deadline : April 22, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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Duties and Responsibilities

The Director, Urban Governance and Management & Resilience will be responsible to the secretary, Urban and Metropolitan Development for the smooth coordination and management of urban development functions. Duties and responsibilities at this level will include : -

Developing, reviewing and ensure implementation of urban development policies, strategies, procedures, plans, standards and guidelines;

Recommending for approval reports on classification of urban areas;

Facilitating formulation and review of appropriate legislation and draft regulations on urbanization and urban development;

Approving and facilitating sensitization workshops on ongoing projects and pro-grammes for stakeholders;

Approving projects and programmes on urbanization and urban development;

Approving terms of reference for integrated urban and local area development plans, transport, water, sanitation, solid waste, fire disaster, strategic economic in-frastructure, security lighting and other related infrastructure on urban develop-ment;

Ensuring gender mainstreaming and social inclusivity in urban projects and pro-grammes;

Providing technical advice to national and county governments on matters of ur-banization and urban development;

Ensuring coordination and management of urban observatory and data bank;

Developing and reviewing strategies for domestication of international urban agen-da;

Facilitating approval of joint projects to be implemented by both levels of govern-ment in urban areas; and

Initiating proposal for technical support on twinning of urban county government and urban areas and cities.

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have :

Served for a minimum period of three (3) years in the grade of Deputy Director,

Urban Governance, Management & Resilience CSG 6;

A Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines : Urban And Regional Planning, Land Economics, Building Economics, Construction Management, Quantity Survey, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning and Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Electrical Engineer-ing, Survey and Photogrammetry, Urban Design or equivalent qualifications from a recognized institution in Kenya;

A Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines : sociology, Psychology, social development or any other relevant social Sciences from university recognized in Kenya;

A Masters degree in any of the following disciplines : Urban And Regional Planning, Land Economics, Building Economics, Construction Management, Quantity Survey, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning And Management, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Electrical Engineer-ing, Survey And Photogrammetry, Urban Design or equivalent qualifications from a recognized institution in Kenya;

Been a registered member of a relevant professional body (where applicable); and

Demonstrated high degree of professional competence, administrative capabilities and initiative in general organization and management in the field of urbanization and urban development.

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