Vacancy title:
Livestock Production Officer - BA- Scale -K - 2 Posts

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

Jobs at:
Makueni County Public Service Board

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, July 10 2025

Duty Station:
Kenya | Makueni | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, June 20 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Requirements for appointment
For appointment to this grade, candidates must have;

• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines; Animal Science, Animal Produc-tion, Agriculture, Apiculture, Food Science and Technology, Agribusiness, Range Man-agement, Natural Resource Management, Livestock/ Agricultural Economics, Dairy Technology or Agricultural Education and Extension from a recognized institution; and Land and Environmental Management, Land and Water Management; Soil Environment and Land Use Management; Soil Science or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution;
• Certificate in computer applications from a recognized institution.

Duties and responsibilities

• This is the entry and training grade for this cadre. An officer at this level will work under the guidance of a senior officer. Duties and responsibilities at this level will entail; preparing live-stock technical information; providing technical advice in animal production, livestock market-ing, range management, apiculture, and ranching, promoting economic livestock farming; par-ticipating in organizing extension activities which include field days, agricultural shows, field demonstrations, farmer field schools and farm visits; participating in collaborative research ac-tivities; disseminating livestock production technologies such as construction of livestock hous-ing and structures, milk production, pasture and fodder production and conservation, farm plan-ning, gross margin analysis, on farm feed formulation; implementing livestock production pro-grammes/projects in such areas as dairy cattle farming, beef cattle, sheep , goats, pigs, poultry, rabbits, camels, donkeys breeding programmes, fodder production and conservation, value addi-tion to livestock products, apiculture, emerging livestock and other animal husbandry interven-tions; and capturing , maintain and storing livestock data.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to Makueni County Public Service Board on kazi.makuenipsb.go.ke to apply

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