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Deputy Commissioner – Regional Coordinator – Southern Region
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight in managing Customs operational Risks and Post Clearance Audit.
Key Responsibilities of the job:
- Support ease of doing business initiatives through review of process and effective deployment of staff in key critical areas to facilitate trade.
- Monitor and support revenue collection initiatives through identified effective strategies.
- Formulate regional administrative budgets, monitor and control expenditure approvals within the region.
- Coordinate Brand Building Initiatives, Media Engagement, and Customer Complaints Resolution in the Region.
- Coordinate Enforcement activities in the Region
- Create synergy across the departments and facilitate exchange of tax information to enhance revenue collections and service delivery.
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the region: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk Management.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on regional matters.
- Provide regular reports on regional related matters to the KRA Management.
Academic qualification:
- A Bachelor’s degree in business or related field from a recognized institution.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage.
Professional Qualifications/ Membership to Professional Bodies:
- Membership in a recognized professional body.
Work experience:
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in similar role with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization.
Competencies
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
Deputy Commissioner – Information Communication & Technology
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for providing overall strategic direction in the use of technology, support of information enterprise business systems, information systems security, formulation and implementation of IS policies and standards in the Authority.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating on resource and capacity planning for the required ICT skills in the Authority
- Budgeting and expenditure approvals and control
- Formulating and implementing ICT Policy
- Coordinating systems integration
- Coordinating identification, selection and deployment of suitable infrastructure technologies in the Authority
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on matters that relate to automation in tax administration, systems integrations and policy formulation
- Provide regular reports and technology related advice to the KRA Management and Board of Directors.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management in the division.
- Ensure conformity to ISO (9001/2015 and 27001/2013) and data security requirements.
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Academic Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications or any other IT related field.
- Post Graduate degree in IT related field will be an added advantage.
- Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies
- Certification in IT Governance in any of the following; Certified Information Security Auditor, Certified Information Security Manager, Certified Governance IT, Control Objectives for Information technologies, ITIL, Project Management (Prince II or PMP Certification)
- Membership in a recognized IT related professional body.
- Work experience.
- Minimum of ten (10) years work experience in IT practice with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization.
Competencies
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
Deputy Commissioner – Risk Management
Job Purpose
- This role is responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight in managing Customs operational Risks and Post Clearance Audit.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the development and implementation of the Customs operational risk framework.
- Coordinate collection of business intelligence data and analysis
- Oversee creation, maintenance and updating of the risk profile database.
- Oversees development of mitigation mechanisms to counter identified risks.
- Oversee monitoring and evaluation of profiled and targeted declarations.
- Oversee post-clearance audit function.
- Oversee debt management function.
- Establish and maintain liaison and working relationships with Government Agencies, Departments and other stakeholders to enhance effective Customs operations.
- Oversee analysis and implementation of legislation and policy guidelines and strategies for the smooth running of Customs operations.
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the division: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk Management.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management.
- Provide regular reports and advice on Customs operational Risks and Post Clearance Audit matters to the KRA Management.
Academic Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in business or related field from a recognized institution.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage.
- Professional Qualifications/ Membership to Professional Bodies
- Postgraduate Diploma/Certificate in Customs Administration.
- Membership in a recognized professional body.
- Work experience
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in Customs or tax operations, 5 (cumulatively) of which must have been in any of the following: audit, policy, release points, or tax stations, risk management or National Targeting Center, Document Processing Centre, Valuation, Policy or Enforcement; at least 3 years in a senior management role.
Competencies
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
- Tax Business Understanding
Deputy Commissioner – Human Resources
Key Responsibilities
- Formulation and implementation of HR strategies and policies to support the overall Corporate strategy.
- Forecasting workforce requirements, trends, variances and aligning them to the available budgetary allocations.
- Provide the Authority with an optimum number of well trained, appropriately skilled and highly motivated staff to meet its objectives.
- Drive a high performance culture.
- Maintain ethics amongst staff through employee relations and discipline management.
- Ensure compliance to internal policies and legal standards.
- Develop and maintain competitive remuneration and terms and conditions of service.
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the Division: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk Management.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on HR matters.
- Provide regular reports and HR related advice to the KRA Management and Board of Directors.
Academic Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree Human Resource Management or related field from a recognized institution.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage.
- Professional Qualifications/ Membership to Professional Bodies
- Post graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management/ Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP(K)).
- Membership in a recognized HR professional body
Work experience
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in HR practice with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization.
Competencies
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
Deputy Commissioner – Trade Facilitation
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for provision of strategic oversight and management of the Human Resources function in the Authority
Purpose of the job
- This role is responsible for provision of strategic oversight of trade facilitation initiatives in compliance with national and international trade treaties and conventions
Key Responsibilities of the job
- Overseeing trade facilitation programs and initiatives, management of remissions and exemption regimes.
- Oversee customs bonds management.
- Oversee coordination of departmental taxpayer services programs.
- Establish and maintain liaison and working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enhance effective Customs operations.
- Oversee analysis and implementation of legislation and policy guidelines and strategies for smooth running of Customs operations.
- Mobilize revenue collection arising from trade facilitation.
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the division: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk Management.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management.
- Provide regular reports and advice on trade facilitation related matters to the KRA Management
Academic qualification:
- A Bachelor’s degree in business or related field from a recognized institution.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage
Professional qualification / Membership to Professional Bodies:
- Postgraduate Diploma/ Certificate in Customs Administration.
- Membership in a recognized professional body.
- Work Experience
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in similar role with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization.
Competencies.
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
Deputy Commissioner – East & South of Nairobi (Tax Service Office)
Purpose of the job
- This role is responsible for provision of strategic oversight to all revenue collection in East & South of Nairobi.
Key Responsibilities of the job
- Lead the formulation and implementation of strategic plans, policies, procedures and best practice with departmental heads and policy unit.
- Overseeing the revenue mobilization and collection activities to meet the set targets.
- Overseeing Taxpayer Base Expansion activities to meet the set targets.
- Participate in the departmental policy making activities
- Coordinating revenue collection work plans through feedback reports so as to achieve set targets.
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the division: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk Management.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on revenue matters.
- Provide regular reports and advice on revenue related matters to the KRA Management.
Academic qualification:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Economics or related field from a recognized institution.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage.
Professional qualification / Membership to Professional Bodies:
- Tax Training
- Membership in a recognized professional body
Work experience
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in similar role with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization.
Competencies.
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
- Tax Business Understanding
Deputy Commissioner – Revenue & Regional Coordination
Purpose of the job
This role is responsible for provision of strategic oversight for Customs Revenue Mobilization, Trade Facilitation and Administration within KRA.
Key Responsibilities of the job
- Oversee, direct and monitor regional operations in the division to enhance revenue mobilization.
- Oversee development and implementation of a comprehensive annual work plan for effective revenue mobilization operations.
- Oversee analysis and implementation of legislation and policy guidelines and strategies for smooth running of revenue mobilization operations.
- Establish and maintain liaison and working relationships with local, regional and international stakeholders for effectiveness of revenue mobilization.
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the division: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk Management.
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management.
- Provide regular reports on customs revenue related matters to the KRA Management.
The job holder should possess the following minimum qualifications:
Academic qualification:
- A Bachelor’s degree in business or related field from a recognized institution.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field is an added advantage.
Professional qualification / Membership to Professional Bodies:
- Postgraduate Diploma/ Certificate in Customs Administration.
- Membership in a recognized professional body.
- Previous relevant work experience required:
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in similar role with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization.
Competencies.
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk
Deputy Commissioner – Supply Chain Management
Purpose of the job:
This role is responsible for provision of strategic oversight of the Supply Chain Management function in the Authority as provided for by the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act 2015.
Key Responsibilities of the job:
- Coordinating on resource and capacity planning for the required Supply Chain Management skills in the
- Development and control of Supply Chain Management policies, procedures and process in line with Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act
- Review and consolidate the Annual Procurement and Disposal Plans prior to KRA Management and Board of Directors approval.
- Identification and implementation of cost saving and cost reduction opportunities
- Ensure effective inventory management and
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on matters that relate to Supply Chain Management
- Provide regular reports and procurement related advice to the KRA Management and Board of
- Drive initiatives to improve ethics, culture and facilitate change management in the
- Facilitate implementation of corporate initiatives in the Division: Audit, Integrity, QMS and Risk
The job holder should possess the following minimum qualifications:
Academic qualification:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or related field from a recognized
- A master’s degree in a relevant field is an added
Professional qualification / Membership to Professional Bodies:
- Professional Level Diploma MCIPS(UK) / CPSP-K (Kenya) or equivalent
- Member and Licensed Practitioner KISM (Kenya Institute of Supplies Management
Previous relevant work experience required:
- Minimum of 10 years work experience in Supply Chain Management practice with at least five (5) years at a senior management level in a comparable organization
Competencies
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills.
- Excellent leadership and people management skills
- Strong decision making and problem-solving skills
- Independent minded, ethical and of high integrity
- Ability to identify and deal with operational risk