Senior Compliance and Quality Assurance Officer

The Warehouse Receipt System Council (WRSC), a State Corporation established under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, seeks to recruit a Senior Compliance and Quality Assurance Officer. This role is vital for ensuring the integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness of operations within the Warehouse Receipt System (WRS).

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Overview of Functions:

• Implementing policies, strategies, guidelines, standards, frameworks and regulations on compliance and quality assurance.
• Ensuring the operations of the Warehouse operator promote efficiency, effectiveness and integrity.
• Enforcing commodity standards, quantity and quality assurance for the warehouse receipting system.
• Issuance, suspension or revocation of registration or licenses issued under the Act.
• Levying fees and other charges, payable for the examination, inspection, issuance and renewal of registrations and licenses under the Act are paid.
• Undertaking inspection of warehouse operators using the standard approved system and inspection tools.
• Preparing guidelines on the minimum qualifications and competencies required of graders and weighers.
• Ensuring effective warehouse operators service delivery to the depositors.
• Maintaining the list of names for publication of warehouse operators and collateral managers who have been issued with licenses and those whose licenses have been suspended.
• Preparing the list for Gazettement of warehouse receipt system inspectors.
• Undertaking inspection of Warehouse operators for compliance.
• Preparing compliance and quality assurance reports in a timely manner.
• Preparing Programmes for incorporation in the division's work-plans.
• Mentoring and coaching staff under supervision.
• Ensuring compliance with principles of good governance, transparency, accountability, ethics and integrity.
• Ensuring full implementation of operational and technical manuals by the stakeholders.
• Preparing guidelines and qualifications for appointment of warehouse inspectors.

Person Specifications

Mandatory requirements:

• Have served for cumulative six (6) years, three (3) of which must have been in the grade of a Compliance and Quality Officer I or equivalent qualification in a comparable institution.
• Have a Bachelor degree in any of the following disciplines: Agriculture, Agricultural Economics, Agribusiness, Food Science and Technology, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Commerce, Management Information Sciences or its equivalent qualification.
• Be a Member to a relevant professional body where applicable and in good standing.
• Be Proficient in computer applications.
• Have shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results.