Job Description
For appointment to this grade, an officer must have:
(i) served for a minimum period of ten (10) years, three (3) years of which should be at the grade of Principal Tourism Investment and Finance Officer, CSG ‘8’ and above or in a comparable and relevant position in the wider public service;
(ii) a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines:- Tourism, Tourism Management, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Eco-Tourism, Hotel and Institutional Management and Information Technology, Environmental Studies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Travel and Tour Operations Management, Travel and Tourism Management, Hotel and Hospitality Management, Sociology, Geography, Business Administration, Commerce (Marketing Option, Accounting Option ) Economics, Statistics and International Relations or equivalent and relevant qualifications from a university recognized in Kenya;
(iii) demonstrated professional competence in tourism management and gained managerial and administrative capability;
Duties and Responsibilities:
(i) interpreting and implementing tourism policies, strategies and programmes on investment and finance coordinating;
(ii) facilitating the process of profiling investment opportunities in the tourism sector;
(iii) coordinating stakeholder’s consultations, the on tourism investment and finance;
(iv) coordinating development and review of frameworks for tourism partnerships and entrepreneurship;
(v) facilitating the formulation, review and implementation of special financing schemes for the tourism sector;
(vi) coordinating capacity building through offering business and investment advisory services for tourism development;
(vii) facilitating the promotion of programmes funded under tourism funds and other development partners;
(viii) initiating the establishment and maintaining a database on tourism investments;
(ix) coordinating, monitoring and evaluation on the effectiveness of the implementation of tourism investment and finance policies, plans and strategies; and
(x) supporting the preparation and implementation of the department’s performance contracts and appraisal system for staff.