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Advert Number: 184/2025

Organisation Advertising: State Department for Social Protection and Senior Citizens Affairs

Designation: Director - Social Development

Job Scale: CSG 5

Area of Study:

Minimum Award Requirement: Masters

Number of Vacancies: 3

Terms of Service: P&P

Experience required? Yes No

Years of Experience Required: 15

For Serving Officers Only? Yes No

Requirements for Appointment:

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have:-

• (i) cumulative service period of fifteen (15) years three (3) of which must have been in the grade of Deputy Director of Social Development, CSG 6 or in a comparable and relevant position in the wider public service
• (ii) a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, Community Development/Management, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Business Administration, Counselling Psychology, or any other relevant qualification from a university recognized in Kenya;
• (iii) a Masters degree in any of the following fields: Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, Community Development/Management, Project Planning/Management, Public Policy, Disaster Management, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Business Administration/Management, Counselling Psychology, or equivalent qualification from a university recognized in Kenya.
• (iv) a certificate in Strategic Leadership Development Programme from a recognized institution; and
• (v) demonstrate a thorough and comprehensive understanding of Social Development matters.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities

An officer at this level will provide overall strategic direction on the implementation of the social development function. Duties and responsibilities will include:-

• (i) formulating implementing and reviewing policies, plans and strategies;
• (ii) monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes on community development, older persons and the aging, persons with disabilities family matrimonial and successional laws, volunteerism, guidance and counselling;
• (iii) implementing regional and international instruments on social development;
• (iv) facilitating capacity building or mainstreaming disability in the public and private sectors;
• (v) facilitating capacity building of communities for sustainable social economic programmes and projects;
• (vi) liaising with other institution and agencies for resource mobilization;
• (vii) coordinating, reporting and disseminating social development research findings;
• (viii) coordinating the provision of financial support to vulnerable groups and individual through grants and cash transfer;
• (ix) promoting collaboration and performance management and development matters.

• Formulating, implementing and reviewing policies, plans and strategies.
• Monitoring and evaluating policies and programmes on community development, older persons and the aging, persons with disabilities, family matrimonial and successional laws, volunteerism, guidance and counselling.
• Implementing regional and international instruments on social development.
• Facilitating capacity building or mainstreaming disability in the public and private sectors.
• Facilitating capacity building of communities for sustainable social economic programmes and projects.
• Liaising with other institutions and agencies for resource mobilization.
• Coordinating, reporting and disseminating social development research findings.
• Coordinating the provision of financial support to vulnerable groups and individuals through grants and cash transfer.
• Promoting collaboration and performance management and development matters.

• Thorough and comprehensive understanding of Social Development matters.

• Cumulative service period of fifteen (15) years, three (3) of which must have been in the grade of Deputy Director of Social Development, CSG 6 or in a comparable and relevant position in the wider public service.
• A Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines: Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, Community Development/Management, Disability Studies, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Business Administration, Counselling Psychology, or any other relevant qualification from a university recognized in Kenya.
• A Masters degree in any of the following fields: Sociology, Anthropology, Social Work, Community Development/Management, Project Planning/Management, Public Policy, Disaster Management, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Business Administration/Management, Counselling Psychology, or equivalent qualification from a university recognized in Kenya.
• A certificate in Strategic Leadership Development Programme from a recognized institution.