Vacancy title:
Senior Deputy Chief Conservator of Forests Grade 2 (Strategy, Partnership & Resource Mobilization)

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Public Administration, and Government, Category: Environment]

Jobs at:
Kenya Forest Service (KFS)

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, October 6 2025

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 18 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Entry Requirements:

An officer at this level will report to Chief Conservator of Forests

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Advising the Service on policies, strategies and programmes for forest conservation and management, forestry planning, monitoring and performance management, resources mobilization, enterprise development and marketing, risk management and compliance.
2. Preparing, directing, coordinating, organizing and planning all activities within the Directorate.
3. Liaising with Government authorities and key stakeholders on relevant policy issues relating to forestry development, conservation and management.
4. Initiating, developing and review of the KFS Strategic Plan.
5. Overseeing implementation of Strategic Plan.
6. Monitoring and reporting on progress on implementation of the strategic plan.
7. Developing and maintaining key strategic partners’ network for implementation of the strategic plan.
8. Guiding development of the departmental strategic plans and ensuring alignment with the national and corporate plans/strategies.
9. Guiding development/ review of performance monitoring tools and framework.
10. Overseeing preparation of annual work plans, operational plans and the performance contract based on the organization’s strategic objectives.
11. Providing strategic leadership in the management of the performance contracting process for the Service.
12. Providing strategic leadership in initiating and implementing performance re-engineering programmes for improved service delivery.
13. Provide strategic leadership in developing content for KFS input in the national and sectoral planning (MTP) and budgeting (MTEF) processes.
14. Provide strategic leadership in the KFS planning and resource mobilization activities.
15. Guiding and overseeing the formulation/ review of policies, strategies and programs for planning, monitoring and performance management.
16. Guiding and overseeing formulation/review of policies, strategies, and programmes for partnership development and resources mobilization.
17. Provide strategic forestry input in the development and review of projects and programs proposals for resource mobilization
18. Provide strategic input in the formulation of policies, strategies, procedures and systems for identifying alternative sources of revenue for the Service;
19. Overseeing development and implementation of strategic partnership and resource mobilization mechanism/framework.
20. Provide strategic review of...

Additional Information:

Person Specification

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry or relevant qualification from a recognized institution
2. Masters degree in any of the following disciplines; Forestry, Forest Economics, Biostatistics, Forest Planning, Business Administration, Natural Resources Management, Social science or its equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
3. A minimum of twelve (12) years relevant work experience four (4) of which must have been in a senior management position in the public or private sector;
4. Certificate in Strategic Leadership Development Course lasting not less than six (6) weeks from a recognized institution;
5. Professional qualifications where applicable
6. Member of the relevant professional body where applicable;
7. Member of the relevant professional body where applicable;
8. Proficiency in Computer Applications

Skills and attributes

1. Good Communication skills
2. Strong interpersonal skills
3. Strong analytical skills;
4. Strategic and innovative thinking;
5. Ability to mobilize resources;
6. Strong leadership skills and
7. Negotiation skills
8. Sound knowledge of institutional and government donors and funding policies;
9. Experience with working in Public Private Partnership environment;
10. Excellent relationship building and relationship management skills with both internal and external stakeholders;
11. Experience in goal setting, planning, budgeting, monitoring and reporting, as well as legal/contractual aspects of cooperation;
12. Demonstrated thorough understanding of the national development goals, policies and  objectives and ability to align them toKFS’ policies and programs.
13. Good understanding of the national planning and budgeting processes
14. Good understanding of the national, regional and international obligations in the Forest Sector.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 144

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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