Summary
Date Posted: Monday, November 14, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Responsible for:
• Senior Land Management Officer Senior Environment and Wetlands Officer Senior Forestry Officer

Job Purpose:
• To coordinate, manage the sustainable exploitation and conservation of Natural Resources in the District.
Key Outputs
• District natural resources exploited sustainably;
• National Policies and regulations on Natural Resources Management implemented;
• Bye laws and ordinances on natural resources management initiated;
• Provision of extension services on natural resources coordinated and managed;
• Security of land tenure ownership and lease holdings managed;
• Technical proposals appraised and environment impact assessment done;
• Work plans and budgets for the Natural Resources sub sector prepared, submitted and managed;
• Advice on natural resources tendered;
• Departmental staff supervised and appraised; and
• Performance reports prepared and presented to District Council and other stakeholders.

Key Functions
• Enforcing the implementation of National Policies, Rules, Regulations and Council byelaws on sustainable exploitation of natural resources;
• Managing the provision of extension services on natural resources;
• Appraising work plans and technical proposals in regard to environment impact assessment;
• Preparing and submitting work plans and budgets for the Natural Resources subsector;
• Tendering technical advice to the District Council and other stakeholders;
• Managing issues of land tenure ownership and lease holdings in the district;
• Appraising and ascertaining compliance to land use regulations and the district infrastructure designs.
• Initiating and advising Council on natural resources bye laws and ordinances;
• Supervising and appraising the performance of the departmental staff; and
• Preparing and presenting performance reports to the District Council and other stakeholders.

Person Specifications
• Qualifications: An Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in either Forestry; Wetlands Management; Environmental Studies; Land Management or any other relevant Science Degree plus a Post- Graduate Qualification in management studies from a recognized institution.
• Working experience At least 9 years working experience 3 of which at a Principle level in a natural resources management environment.
• Competences: Planning, organizing and coordinating; Human resource management; concern for quality and standards; Accountability; Communication; Concern for quality and standards; and Time management

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 108

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Applications are invited from suitably qualified Ugandans to fill the following posts that exist in the service of Kakumiro District Local Government.

Application forms PSC form 3 (Revised 2008) can be obtained from the following offices; Public Service Commission, District Service Commissions Country wide or downloaded from https://www.kakumiro.go.ug/jobs 

Filled forms in Triplicate together with their recent passport size photographs of those who meet the stipulated requirements below must reach the office of the Secretary, District Service Commission P.O. Box 522, Kakumiro not later than 14th December 2022.

Serving officers must route their application through their Heads of Departments who should observe closing date. Application must bear the post title applied for as well as the Reference number. Only photocopies of Academic certificates and transcript fully certified by the awarding institutions as a must and NOT originals must be attached to the application.

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