Job Description
– Communicating the benefits of workplace Safety and Health to enterprises through media columns, trainings, brochures, meetings, forums and other means of communication;
– Providing practical guidance and tools to support a systematic, effective and efficient management of Safety and Health;
– Developing and promote practical tools to help workplaces identify and quantify business benefits;
– Conducting research studies on workplace safety and health in the business and national development
– Reinforcing enterprises to conduct prior Risk Assessment to prevent workplace hazards;
– Promoting a systematic and effective management of Safety and Health through sector/industry accreditation/certification programmes and industry training programmes;
– Recognizing excellence in Safety and Health management through awards and other schemes
– Enhancing the effectiveness of OSH committees
– Ensure M&E of all occupational safety and health activities
– Coordinate all stakeholders’ efforts on occupational safety and health
– Conduct researches to inform policy making on occupational safety and health.
– Enhancing mainstreaming of child labour elimination and prevention into policies and plans of decentralized entities and other stakeholders
– Enhancing community involvement in child labour prevention through awareness campaigns
– Enhancing the role of child labour prevention committees especially at Village level
– Enhancing the role of community opinion leaders in prevention of child labour
– Enhancing seamless coordination of stakeholders’ efforts on child labour.
– Ensure M&E on child labour activities
– Coordinate stakeholders efforts on elimination and prevention of child labour
– Develop research based policies and strategies to eliminate and prevent child labour.
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Safety and Health
Experience: 3
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Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Safety;Occupational Safety and Health;Industrial Hygiene;Occupational Psychology;Occupational Psychology;
Experience: 3
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Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Hygiene
Experience: 3
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Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Psychology
Experience: 3
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Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Health Sciences
Experience: 3
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Master’s Degree in Occupational Safety and Health
Experience: 1
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Master’s Degree in Industrial Safety
Experience: 1
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Master’s Degree in Industrial Hygiene
Experience: 1
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Master’s Degree in Occupational Psychology
Experience: 1
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Master’s Degree in Environmental Health Sciences
Experience: 1
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Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial & Labour Relations
Experience: 3
Competency and Key Technical Skills
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Integrity
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Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
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Inclusiveness
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Accountability
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Client/citizen focus
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Professionalism
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Commitment to continuous learning
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Resource management skills
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Analytical skills
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Problem solving skills
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Decision making skills
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Time management skills
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Risk management skills
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Results oriented
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Digital literacy skills
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Fluency in Kinyaranda English and or French knowledge of Swahili is an added advantage
