The County Government of Bomet is excited to announce an extensive recruitment initiative, offering 454 vacant positions across various departments. This hiring campaign, launched on April 10, 2025, reflects our commitment to enhancing public service delivery, strengthening community engagement, and fostering professional growth for residents of Bomet County and beyond. With a diverse range of roles spanning healthcare, education, administration, agriculture, ICT, and more, we invite qualified and motivated individuals to join our team. Applications are open until May 2, 2025, providing ample time for candidates to explore these opportunities and apply. Below, we outline each position with detailed job descriptions to help you find the perfect fit for your skills and career aspirations.
Detailed Job Descriptions
1. Sub Ward Administrator Assistant III
This role serves as a vital link between the county government and local communities. Duties and responsibilities include coordinating the distribution of financial, human, and material resources to support service delivery and project execution; disseminating information and county government policies to the public; facilitating citizen participation in policy development and service delivery; managing inter-governmental relations and conflict resolution; chairing village council meetings; implementing government policies at the sub-ward level; providing a linkage between the office and the community; reporting calamities; developing community empowerment programs; liaising with stakeholders to organize public participation forums; enhancing administrative capacity for effective local governance; identifying development projects; maintaining and upgrading office furniture and equipment inventory; facilitating asset movement; supporting logistics for meetings, conferences, and special events; and collecting and collating data on development activities.
2. Assistant ECDE Teacher III
As an Assistant ECDE Teacher III, you will play a foundational role in early childhood education. Responsibilities encompass class teaching; acting as a role model while providing guidance, counseling, mentoring, and motivation to learners; preparing reports; ensuring the safety and security of learners; organizing and facilitating play and learning activities; nurturing the spiritual, moral, social, mental, physical, aesthetic, and emotional growth of learners for holistic development; managing ECDE classes and maintaining professional and administrative records such as schemes of work, lesson plans, daily program of activities, and attendance registers; and preparing and developing play and learning materials to enhance the educational experience.
3. Assistant Animal Health Officer III (Artificial Insemination)
This position supports livestock development through artificial insemination services. Duties include carrying out artificial insemination procedures; advising dairy farmers on breeding practices and technologies; performing breeding soundness examinations on cows and aiding in selection; recording breeding services conducted on farms; and providing training to farmers and stakeholders on animal health and breeding practices.
4. Kenya Registered Community Health Nurse III
In this frontline healthcare role, you will focus on community health nursing. Responsibilities include assessing, planning, implementing nursing interventions, and evaluating patient outcomes; providing appropriate healthcare services such as Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), immunization, PMTCT, antenatal care, and delivery; offering health education and counseling to patients, clients, and the community on identified health needs; referring patients and clients appropriately; facilitating patient admissions and initiating discharge plans; maintaining records on patient and client health conditions and care; ensuring a tidy and safe clinical environment; and collecting and compiling data for health reporting.
5. Animal Health Assistant (Meat Inspector)
This role ensures meat safety and quality. Duties involve undertaking regular animal meat inspections; inspecting establishments engaged in slaughtering livestock and processing meat; verifying that ingredients used in meat processing and marketing meet purity and grading standards and are not adulterated or misbranded; inspecting processing areas to maintain sanitary conditions; issuing certificates of transport for meat transportation; providing livestock extension services; participating in disease control, surveillance, and reporting; and supervising livestock sale yards and markets.
6. Registered Clinical Officer III
As a Registered Clinical Officer III, you will provide essential clinical care. Responsibilities include taking patient histories, examining, diagnosing, and treating common ailments at outpatient or inpatient health facilities; implementing community healthcare activities in liaison with other health workers; guiding and counseling patients, clients, and staff on health issues; sensitizing patients and clients on preventive and promotive health services; carrying out minor surgical procedures as per training and skill; and referring patients and clients to appropriate health facilities.
7. Medical Laboratory Technologist III
This position supports diagnostic services in healthcare settings. Duties include decontaminating workbenches; receiving and scrutinizing laboratory requisition forms and specimens; preparing clients for specimen collection; receiving, collecting, labeling, and registering specimens; preparing reagents; examining specimens; writing and recording results; dispatching results for clinical management; preparing stains; performing blood grouping; issuing blood and blood products to peripheral health facilities; and storing blood products according to requirements.
8. Assistant Health Records & Information Management Officer III
This role focuses on managing health records efficiently. Responsibilities include receiving and documenting patients at hospital reception; registering and booking appointments for patients to clinics and consultants; storing and retrieving medical records documents; preparing clinics; updating bed bureau; editing patient case records; gathering data from various sources and capturing data from service points; maintaining record safety and confidentiality; balancing daily bed returns; creating and maintaining a master index; updating the patient master index; directing patients to relevant clinics; scheduling patients for consultants and specialty clinics; assigning codes to diseases and surgical procedures per international standards; and preparing health records and reports.
9. Radiographer III
Radiographers provide critical imaging services. Duties include providing radiographic services to patients; processing, verifying, and maintaining information relating to patients; and ordering and maintaining records of radiographic and photographic supplies.
10. Program Assistant III
This administrative role supports county programs. Responsibilities include maintaining periodic public needs assessments and researching thematic areas; mapping county government agendas, projects, programs, and interventions for effective communication to the public; assisting in preparing and consolidating progress reports on county initiatives; participating in developing annual work plans and budgets with technical officers; engaging in assigned community support programs; and undertaking special duties in public gatherings as assigned.
11. Medical Social Worker III
This position addresses psychosocial needs in healthcare. Duties include assessing and recording patients’ and clients’ psychosocial histories; identifying needy clients for psychosocial support; verifying supportive documents provided by patients and clients; collecting biodata including relevant interventions; and sensitizing and enabling client enrollment in health insurance covers.
12. Assistant Community Oral Health Officer III
This role promotes oral health in communities. Responsibilities include participating in oral health demonstrations, exhibitions, and lectures for communities and schools; collecting data for fluoride testing in water samples, analyzing and interpreting results, and advising relevant authorities; and diagnosing and treating common dental conditions, including temporary and permanent restorations, reducing simple jaw fractures, performing extractions and disimpactions, draining dental abscesses, suturing to stop bleeding, and prescribing analgesics and antibiotics.
13. Assistant Physiotherapist III
Physiotherapists aid patient rehabilitation. Duties include providing physiotherapy services to inpatients and outpatients; assessing patient rehabilitation needs; verifying and maintaining patient information and records; screening, assessing, and providing therapeutic exercises, manual therapy, electrotherapy, and hydrotherapy per treatment plans; collecting data for operational research; sensitizing the community on physiotherapy issues; and preparing periodic reports.
14. Pharmaceutical Technologist III
This role supports medication dispensing under supervision. Responsibilities include dispensing drugs and medicines to patients; receiving, interpreting, and processing prescriptions; recording prescriptions in a pharmacy unit; pre-packing, repacking, and writing instructions on labels; counseling patients on drug usage; maintaining drug registers and books; and conducting monthly stocktaking of drugs and medicinal devices.
15. Library Assistant II
This position supports library services. Duties include preparing materials for binding; arranging shelves; providing reference services to readers; filing catalogue cards and press cuttings; and charging and discharging library materials.
16. Inspector (Civil/Structural)
This role aids civil and structural projects. Responsibilities include preparing preliminary drawings; reading and interpreting engineering drawings in relation to architects’ sketches and incorporating details into preliminary drawings; and maintaining accurate project documentation, including drawings, reports, and correspondence.
17. Budget Officer III
Budget Officers manage financial planning. Duties include gathering, compiling, and analyzing information on commitment and expenditure trends and initiating corrective actions; compiling and formatting financial estimates; taking initial action on budget monitoring; and preparing reports and briefs on budgetary policy issues.
18. Medical Social Worker II
This advanced social work role supports medical clients. Duties include identifying needy clients for social medical support; evaluating and assessing clients; sensitizing and enrolling clients to SHIF; counseling patients; conducting home visits to discharged patients; disseminating treatment literacy information; forming part of a health team addressing psychosocial effects of diagnoses; and facilitating psychosocial support groups at facility and community levels.
19. Counsellor II
Counselors provide emotional support. Duties include conducting client intake and individual counseling sessions and keeping appropriate records.
20. Human Resource Management & Development Officer II
This HR role supports staffing needs. Duties include verifying information related to recruitment, appointments, transfers, HR records, and complement control; processing cases for the County Human Resource Management Advisory Committee; assisting in implementing committee decisions; supervising and guiding clerical staff; and performing additional assigned duties.
21. Environment Officer I
This position promotes environmental sustainability. Duties include implementing and evaluating departmental strategic plans, programs, and activities; representing the department in forums; ensuring public participation in service delivery; handling waste management and sanitation; collecting grassroots information on environment and natural resources for policy formulation; supervising environment, natural resources, and agroforestry programs; and compiling regular reports.
22. Medical Laboratory Officer
This advanced lab role enhances diagnostics. Duties include receiving and scrutinizing requisition forms and specimens; preparing clients for specimen collection; receiving, collecting, labeling, and registering specimens; preparing stains and reagents; recruiting, preparing, and bleeding blood donors; performing blood grouping and storing blood products; screening for transfusion-transmissible infections; issuing blood products to peripheral facilities; preparing blood products; collecting and analyzing data; processing specimens per SOPs; supervising disinfection and sterilization; and mentoring trainees.
23. Clinical Officer (BSC)
This role provides advanced clinical care. Duties include taking histories, examining, diagnosing, and treating patients; guiding and counseling on health issues; referring patients to appropriate facilities; assessing and presenting medico-legal reports; coaching and mentoring students; performing surgical procedures; organizing health management teams; and collecting data for clinical research.
24. Health Promotions Officer I
Health promotion drives community wellness. Duties include collecting data for health promotion research; developing and implementing Health Operation Plans; mapping stakeholders; developing and disseminating health education materials; steering health promotion in facilities; creating disease prevention awareness; training Community Health Assistants; mobilizing and educating community groups; mobilizing resources for health programs; organizing shows and exhibitions; and compiling and disseminating reports.
25. Internal Auditor I
This role ensures financial integrity. Duties include assisting in audit assignments; preparing internal audit working papers; recording proceedings of entry and exit meetings with auditors; collecting and analyzing data; verifying and certifying periodic financial returns; and carrying out spot checks on revenue and receipt collection points.
26. Registered Nurse I (Specialized Nurse): Nephrology
This specialized nursing role focuses on kidney care. Duties include providing specialized care in clinics/units; monitoring patients from operating theaters and relevant units; ensuring adequate treatment and follow-up; assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing interventions; providing healthcare services like IMCI and immunization; offering health education and counseling; referring patients appropriately; managing patient admissions and discharge plans; maintaining health records; ensuring a safe clinical environment; collecting and compiling data; and performing additional assigned duties.
27. Registered Nurse I (Specialized Nurse): Critical Care
This role supports critical care patients. Duties mirror those of the Nephrology Nurse, tailored to critical care settings, including monitoring and specialized interventions.
28. ICT Officer I
This ICT role drives technological advancement. Duties include installing and maintaining computer systems; configuring Local Area and Wide Area Networks; developing and updating application systems; conducting systems analysis, design, and program specifications with users; repairing and maintaining ICT equipment and peripherals; drawing up hardware specifications; verifying, validating, and certifying ICT equipment; and overseeing configuration of new ICT equipment.
29. Medical Officer
Medical Officers provide comprehensive care. Duties include diagnosing, caring for, and treating diseases; performing medical and surgical procedures; preparing for and responding to emergencies; managing medicines and equipment; providing health education; maintaining medical records and data; counseling patients and relatives; teaching and coaching students and interns; and preparing registration documents.
30. Senior Training & Management Analyst
This role enhances management systems. Duties include coordinating collection, processing, management, and storage of data on staff training and development; preparing appraisal reports; carrying out skills inventories; managing complement control; and designing management information systems.
31. County Legal Counsel II
This legal role supports county governance. Duties include researching assigned legal issues; representing the county in courts and tribunals; supporting legislative drafting; providing legal opinions; drafting, vetting, and interpreting documents; handling grant applications and related legal matters; and performing additional assigned duties.
32. Senior Human Resource and Development Officer
This advanced HR role oversees staffing matters. Duties include handling all human resource management matters within established policies, rules, and regulations, and supervising and guiding staff.
33. Principal Human Resource and Development Officer
This senior HR position shapes workforce strategy. Duties include collecting, collating, and analyzing HR data from departments; analyzing HR issues and initiating action; monitoring HR policy effectiveness; planning and coordinating HR services; analyzing staffing levels for succession planning; advising on HR utilization and deployment; analyzing staff progression for career development; and interpreting and implementing HR regulations.
34. Medical Specialists: General Surgeon
This senior role provides surgical expertise. Duties include undertaking general diagnosis, care, treatment, and rehabilitation; providing specialized clinical care and clinical services; offering psychosocial interventions; training, consulting, and performing surgeries; conducting forensic and medico-legal services; coordinating disease surveillance, prevention, and control; promoting health education; implementing health projects; maintaining health information systems; monitoring treatment provision; undertaking health research; and analyzing medical reports.
35. Medical Specialists: Urologist
This role mirrors the General Surgeon’s duties, specialized in urology.
36. Medical Specialists: ENT
This role mirrors the General Surgeon’s duties, specialized in ear, nose, and throat care.
37. Medical Specialists: Physician
This role mirrors the General Surgeon’s duties, specialized in internal medicine.
38. Deputy Director Information and Public Communication
This leadership role oversees public communications. Duties include identifying county events for media dissemination; organizing forums to promote county policies and projects; gathering information on policies and events for public sharing; projecting the county’s corporate image; researching press for interventions; liaising with communication offices; engaging media for public relations; maintaining an updated website; and facilitating publicity material printing.
How to Apply
Seize this opportunity to join the County Government of Bomet. Applications must be submitted online by May 2, 2025.
