Vacancy title:
Post of Assistant Counseling Officer Grade 9 (Formerly Grade 7)

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Education, and Training, Category: Education]

Jobs at:
South Eastern Kenya University

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, August 8 2025

Duty Station:
Kenya | Kitui | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 17 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Job specification

The duties and responsibilities entail assisting in:

• Handling students’ issues concerning their social life by offering guidance and counselling in order to correct their undesirable behaviors.
• Conducting guidance and counselling sessions in order to address arising social issues such as misuse of drugs as a preventive measure and stopping further addiction to drugs.
• Organizing talks for students in areas already identified as need areas through sourcing for relevant speakers to address and offer public lectures to students so as to equip them with the relevant knowledge and information for more informed decisions.
• Maintaining consistent follow-up with the students in order to see to it that the positive change in behavior obtained is sustained and factors that would lead to re-occurrence of the helped issue are dealt with.
• Referring students who require specific attention to the appropriate service provider such as drug addicts who require rehabilitation services so as to exhaustively assist the students recover from the maladjustment.
• Providing spiritual guidance to students.

 Person Specification

For appointment to this grade, one must:

• Must possess Bachelor Degree in Counselling, Social Sciences, Education or its equivalent from an accredited and recognized university.
• Be a member of a counsellors’ body such as Kenya Counselors and Psychologists Association or Kenya Universities Psychologists and Counsellors Association.
• Have professional/discipline specific knowledge of theory and techniques in a specialized field, or knowledge of a number of fields acquired through tertiary education and /or considerable experience.
• Be computer proficient and conversant with use of an ERP system.
• Satisfy the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution of Kenya on Leadership and Integrity upon successful appointment.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure
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Interested applicants should send THREE (3) HARD COPIES of application letter, Curriculum Vitae (giving details of educational and professional qualifications, age, detailed work experience, present post and salary, applicant’s telephone number and e-mail address), Academic & Professional certificates and other relevant testimonials to the address below, quoting clearly the relevant reference number on the envelope.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor,

Corporate Services

South Eastern Kenya University

P.O. BOX 170-90200,

KITUI.

• A MANDATORY electronically scanned copy of the application in PDF format (as one running document).
• All applications should be sent to the above address by Friday, 8th August, 2025.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• SEKU is an equal opportunity employer and female candidates and persons living with disabilities are encouraged to apply.  

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