Key Responsibilities:

• Labour inspector is responsible of ensuring decent and productive jobs through ensuring labour governance, compliance inspections, labour disputes prevention and mediation, occupational safety and health and prevention of child labour.

• Functions:

Ensuring decent and productivity-based compliance inspections Tasks/Responsibilities

• Ensuring the development of informed annual compliance plans

• Conducting compliance-based instead of traditional inspection inspections

• Building competent labour inspection personnel

• Enhancing digitalization of labour inspection systems

• Influencing the review National procurement Laws and Regulations to make Decent Work a bidding requirement

• Ensuring the establishment of partnership agreements with various Stakeholders

• Ensuring mainstreaming Decent Work into annual action plans by various Stakeholders

• Ensuring the development of reporting templates for Decent Work mainstreaming

• Conducting trainings on Decent Work mainstreaming among Stakeholders

• Establishing Decent Work mainstreaming steering committee

• Monitoring the implementation of Decent Work requirement among successful bidders

• Enhancing the role of labour inspections with priority to Decent Work indicators such as: Notification and payment of employees’ contributions to RSSB, payment of employees’ salaries through banks and other financial institutions, issuance of employment contracts to employees, etc.

• Conducting awareness campaigns among employers through media, meetings and forums on formalization of informal workers

• Enhancing the involvement and partnership with various Government Institutions, Employers and Trade Unions in the journey to formalization

• Incentivizing formalization with various opportunities

Ensuring workplace safety and health for conducive working environment, decent work and productivity Tasks/Responsibilities

• Communicating the benefits of workplace Safety and Health to enterprises through media columns, trainings, brochures, meetings, forums and other means of communication;

• Providing practical guidance and tools to support a systematic, effective and efficient management of Safety and Health;

• Developing and promote practical tools to help workplaces identify and quantify business benefits;

• Conducting research studies on workplace safety and health in the business and national development

• Reinforcing enterprises to conduct prior Risk Assessment to prevent workplace hazards;

• Promoting a systematic and effective management of Safety and Health through sector/industry accreditation/certification programmes and industry training programmes;

• Recognizing excellence in Safety and Health management through awards and other schemes

• Enhancing the effectiveness of OSH committees.

Ensuring elimination and prevention of child labour Tasks/Responsibilities

• Enhancing child labour prevention mainstreaming into decentralized entities Imihigo

• Enhancing community involvement in child labour prevention through awareness campaigns

• Enhancing the role of child labour prevention committees especially at Village level

• Enhancing the role of community opinion leaders in prevention of child labour

• Enhancing seamless coordination of stakeholders’ efforts on child labour.

Enhancing labour governance and social dialogue Tasks/Responsibilities

• Promoting workplace cooperation for better labour relations and productivity

• Promoting collective bargaining for more enhanced working conditions

• Conducting awareness campaigns among employers and employees on the importance of social dialogue practices at establishment level in conducive employment relations and productivity

• Supporting enterprises on establishment of social dialogue practices

• Enhancing the role of compliance forums in promoting social dialogue at establishment level

• Conducting awareness campaigns on the role of collective bargaining in DW attainment

• Facilitating Social Partners on collective bargaining practices

• Conducting trainings to build effective workers representatives

• Conducting awareness campaigns among employers to embrace the role of workers representatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Law

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial & Labour Relations

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Labour Administration

  0 Year of relevant experience

• Bachelor’s Degree Industrial & Labour Relations with a recognized diploma in labour law

  0 Year of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Integrity

• Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills

• Inclusiveness

• Accountability

• Communication

• Teamwork

• Client/citizen focus

• Professionalism

• Commitment to continuous learning

• Resource management skills

• Analytical skills

• Problem solving skills

• Decision making skills

• Time management skills

• Risk management skills

• Results oriented

• Digital literacy skills

• Fluency in Kinyaranda English and or French knowledge of Swahili is an added advantage

• Knowledge and understanding of labour policies and law;

• Understanding of proper inspection techniques

• Conflict resolution skills

• A transition period for professional certification requirement is three (3) years starting from 01st January, 2021. However, a new entrant without the required professional certification for a given job position shall not be eligible, one (1) year before the expiration of the transition period.