The role of Principal at the Itugururu Agricultural Institute (equivalent to Deputy Director Agricultural Services) involves executive leadership and management of the institute's academic, administrative, and research activities, reporting directly to the County Director of Agriculture.
Duties and Responsibilities
The responsibilities at this senior level will entail:
- Organizing and leading regular meetings of Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) staff.
- Ensuring a departmental committee structure which enables the business of the department to be conducted with Agricultural Training Institute input.
- Ensuring Agricultural Training Institute input in decisions impacting the department.
- Developing and implementing a department/school strategic plan including metrics for evaluating progress and assessing progress annually.
- Providing leadership in curriculum development and revision.
- Ensuring that the department has valid student learning outcomes for all of its courses and academic programs, that they are regularly assessed and that the results of assessment are used for continuous improvement.
- Preparing for and organizing the periodic reviews of the department's academic programs.
- Developing clear guidelines for Agricultural Training Institute recruitment, retention and promotion.
- Ensuring a productive environment for research and scholarly activity.
- Promoting opportunities for internal and external support of research and scholarship.
- Supporting trans-disciplinary collaboration.
- Providing budgetary oversight.
- Recommending the assignment of space for departmental needs according to university policy.
- Assigning and supervising teaching programs/activities.
- Ensuring sufficient technical support.
- Supervising professional development of office and support unit staff.
- Seeking approval for Agricultural Training Institute searches.
- Articulating the policies, processes and expectations for tenure and promotion.
- Providing prompt, meaningful, fair and written annual performance evaluations.
- Maintaining collegial relationships with other department heads as well as Alumni, County and National Government administrators.
- Performing any other duty that may be assigned from time to time.
Requirements for Appointment
Candidates must meet the following criteria:
Education and Professional Qualifications:
- Be a Kenyan Citizen.
- Hold a Bachelor of Science degree in any of the following disciplines or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution: Agriculture, Agronomy, Agribusiness Management and Enterprise Development, Agribusiness Management, Agribusiness, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Marketing, Agricultural Resource Management, Agriculture and Extension, Agriculture and Home Economics, Agriculture and Human Ecology, Agriculture Economics, Crop Protection, Dry-land Resource Management, Dry-land Agriculture and Enterprise Development, Farm Management, Home Economics, Horticulture, Human Ecology, Food Science and Technology.
- Hold a Master’s degree in any of the following disciplines or equivalent qualification from a recognized institution: Agribusiness Management, Agribusiness, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural and Natural Resource Management, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Information and Communication Management, Agricultural Marketing, Agriculture and Applied Economics, Agriculture and Rural Development, Agriculture Economics, Agriculture Extension, Agricultural Studies, Agro-Bio Resource Science and Technology, Agronomy, Agro-processing, Biotechnology, Crop Production, Crop Protection, Dryland Integrated Land Management Systems, Dry- land Resource Management, Dry-land Agriculture, Dry-land Agro Pastoral Systems, Dry-land Farming, Entomology, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Planning and Management, Farm Management, Floriculture, Food Science and Post-harvest Technology, Food Science and Technology, Applied Human Nutrition, Home Economics, Home Science, Home Management, Horticulture, Hydroponics, Integrated Soil Fertility Management, Land and Environmental Management, Land and Water Management, Plant Biotechnology, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Plant Breeding, Plant Health Science and Management, Plant Pathology, Project Planning and Management, Rural Management, Seed Science and Technology, Seed Science, Soil Environment and Land Use Management, Soil Science.
- Five (5) years’ experience.
- Certificate of membership to a relevant professional body.
- Certificate in computer application skills.
Integrity Clearance
Successful applicants are expected to get clearance from the following bodies:
- Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)
- Credit Reference Bureau (CRB)
- Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
- Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC)
- Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI)
- For those with higher education certificates (degrees) from outside Kenya, a letter of recognition of qualifications from the Commission of University Education.
