Assistant Director Physical Planning at Embu County Government

VACANCY NO. CPSB 29/24 (E)
Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable

Duties and Responsibilities

• Preparing county, metropolitan, regional, urban, rural physical development plans.
• Providing guidance on data requirements for the various categories of physical development plans.
• Implementing physical planning policies, strategies, standards and programmes.
• Conducting thematic regional and national studies on matters relating to physical planning such as human settlement patterns, urbanization patterns and urban sprawl.
• Inducting the physical planning liaison committee members.
• Conducting public education on physical planning and development control matters.
• Setting agenda and convening physical planning liaison committee meetings.
• Keeping record of deliberations and communicating decisions of the physical planning liaison committees.
• Advising liaison committees and overseeing the enforcement of resolutions.
• Preparing annual state of physical planning reports on county, metropolitan, regional, urban, rural physical development plans.

Requirement for appointment
For appointment to this grade, an officer must:-

• Have served in the grade of Principal Physical Planner for a minimum period of three (3) years.
• Have a Bachelors degree in any of the following disciplines:- Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Planning or Town Planning from a recognized institution.
• Have a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Planning or Town Planning from a recognized institution.
• Be a corporate member of Kenya Institute of Planners or Architectural Association of Kenya (Town Planning Chapter)
• Be a registered by the Physical Planners Registration Board