The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is inviting applications from qualified, experienced, and results-oriented professionals to fill a range of senior management and managerial positions across key departments. These vacancies present an opportunity to contribute to Kenya’s revenue mobilization mandate, strengthen tax administration systems, enhance data-driven decision-making, and support regulatory compliance and enforcement.
As a principal government agency responsible for the assessment, collection, and accounting of all revenues due to the Government of Kenya, KRA plays a critical role in national development. The Authority continues to modernize its systems, optimize operational efficiency, and strengthen governance frameworks in line with global best practices in tax administration.
Applications are invited for the following positions, all closing on 23 March 2026 (except where otherwise indicated).
- Chief Manager, Regional Audit Centre, Micro & Small Taxpayers
Ref: CM/RA/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager, Regional Audit Centre – Micro & Small Taxpayers is responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of audit operations targeting the micro and small taxpayer segment within the assigned region. The role ensures effective risk-based audits, compliance monitoring, and revenue assurance in alignment with KRA’s compliance strategy.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of audit activities for micro and small taxpayers within the region.
- Develop and implement risk-based audit frameworks to identify non-compliance and revenue leakage.
- Oversee case selection, audit scheduling, and resource allocation to optimize audit productivity.
- Provide technical guidance on tax laws, audit procedures, and compliance enforcement.
- Monitor audit outcomes, revenue performance, and compliance indicators.
- Ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements during audit engagements.
- Liaise with enforcement, legal, and intelligence units on complex audit cases.
- Drive continuous improvement in audit methodologies and tools.
- Supervise and mentor audit managers and officers within the regional centre.
- Prepare performance reports and strategic updates for senior leadership.
- Chief Manager – Data Engineering
Ref: CM/DE/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager – Data Engineering is responsible for leading enterprise-wide data architecture, integration, and engineering initiatives to support KRA’s digital transformation and analytics agenda.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Develop and implement enterprise data engineering strategies and roadmaps.
- Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data pipelines and integration frameworks.
- Ensure secure, reliable, and high-performance data platforms across the organization.
- Guide big data architecture, cloud-based data solutions, and data warehousing initiatives.
- Establish data governance controls within engineering processes.
- Collaborate with analytics, business intelligence, and operations teams to deliver actionable data assets.
- Manage vendor relationships and technology partnerships related to data platforms.
- Monitor system performance, resilience, and compliance with IT security standards.
- Lead a multidisciplinary team of data engineers and technical specialists.
- Provide advisory support on emerging data technologies and best practices.
- Chief Manager – Project Management
Ref: CM/PM/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager – Project Management is responsible for overseeing enterprise project portfolios, ensuring timely delivery of strategic initiatives aligned to KRA’s corporate objectives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Develop and enforce project governance frameworks and methodologies.
- Oversee planning, budgeting, execution, and monitoring of projects across departments.
- Manage risk, scope, quality, and change control processes.
- Provide executive reporting on project performance and milestones.
- Ensure alignment between project outcomes and corporate strategy.
- Coordinate cross-functional project teams and external consultants.
- Establish performance metrics and post-implementation reviews.
- Strengthen project management capacity across the Authority.
- Maintain project documentation and compliance standards.
- Optimize resource utilization across the project portfolio.
- Chief Manager – Strategy & Planning
Ref: CM/S/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager – Strategy & Planning leads corporate strategy formulation, performance planning, and institutional transformation initiatives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Lead development and review of corporate strategic plans.
- Coordinate annual business planning and performance contracting processes.
- Monitor strategic performance indicators and institutional scorecards.
- Conduct environmental scanning, benchmarking, and policy analysis.
- Provide advisory support on strategic initiatives and reforms.
- Facilitate cross-departmental alignment to strategic priorities.
- Drive organizational transformation and innovation programs.
- Prepare strategic performance reports for executive leadership and the Board.
- Oversee research and policy evaluation studies.
- Support risk management integration into strategic planning.
- Chief Manager – Education, Policy and Compliance
Ref: CM/EP/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager – Education, Policy and Compliance is responsible for developing taxpayer education programs, policy interpretation frameworks, and compliance awareness initiatives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Develop and implement taxpayer education strategies.
- Interpret tax policies and provide guidance on regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate compliance awareness campaigns and stakeholder engagement programs.
- Oversee production of policy briefs, technical guidance notes, and public advisories.
- Monitor effectiveness of education and compliance initiatives.
- Liaise with government agencies and professional bodies on tax policy matters.
- Provide advisory support on legislative changes.
- Supervise compliance outreach teams.
- Strengthen voluntary compliance mechanisms.
- Prepare impact assessments of policy interventions.
- Chief Manager – Investigations and Enforcement Operations
Ref: CM/IE/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager – Investigations and Enforcement Operations oversees investigative functions aimed at detecting tax fraud, evasion, and related financial crimes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Lead complex investigations and enforcement operations.
- Develop intelligence-led enforcement strategies.
- Coordinate joint operations with law enforcement and regulatory agencies.
- Oversee case development, evidence gathering, and prosecution support.
- Ensure compliance with legal standards and due process.
- Monitor investigation outcomes and recovery metrics.
- Manage operational risks and security protocols.
- Supervise investigative teams and field operations.
- Provide expert testimony and technical support where required.
- Prepare enforcement performance reports.
- Chief Manager – Intelligence Analysis, Production & Exchange
Ref: CM/IA/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Chief Manager – Intelligence Analysis, Production & Exchange leads tax intelligence analysis, information exchange frameworks, and intelligence product development.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Chief Manager will:
- Oversee collection, analysis, and dissemination of tax intelligence.
- Develop intelligence products to support compliance and enforcement.
- Manage domestic and international information exchange mechanisms.
- Implement risk profiling and data-driven intelligence methodologies.
- Ensure secure handling of sensitive intelligence data.
- Collaborate with investigative and audit units.
- Enhance intelligence analytics capabilities.
- Monitor global trends in tax evasion and illicit financial flows.
- Lead intelligence reporting to senior management.
- Strengthen inter-agency intelligence partnerships.
- Manager – Analytics & Strategic Reporting
Ref: M/OPS/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
The Manager – Analytics & Strategic Reporting supports data-driven decision-making by developing advanced analytics models and strategic performance reports.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop dashboards, analytics models, and performance metrics.
- Conduct predictive and prescriptive analysis.
- Support executive reporting and insights generation.
- Translate complex data into actionable intelligence.
- Collaborate with IT and business units.
- Maintain data integrity and quality standards.
- Monitor key operational indicators.
- Support performance review cycles.
- Document analytics methodologies.
- Enhance reporting automation processes.
- Manager – Enterprise Database Administration (Re-advert)
Ref: M/ED/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
Responsible for managing enterprise databases, ensuring availability, performance, and security of mission-critical systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain database environments.
- Implement backup and disaster recovery protocols.
- Optimize database performance and tuning.
- Enforce database security controls.
- Manage database upgrades and patches.
- Monitor capacity and scalability.
- Troubleshoot database incidents.
- Collaborate with application developers.
- Ensure compliance with IT governance standards.
- Document database configurations and procedures.
- Manager – Data Quality & Master Data Management
Ref: M/QMD/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
Leads enterprise data quality initiatives and master data governance frameworks.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Define and implement data quality standards.
- Establish master data governance structures.
- Monitor data accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Conduct data quality audits.
- Develop data cleansing and validation protocols.
- Collaborate with system owners and data stewards.
- Track data quality KPIs.
- Manage metadata repositories.
- Support regulatory data reporting requirements.
- Promote data governance awareness.
- Manager – Data & Big Data Operations
Ref: M/DBD/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
Oversees big data platforms and operational data processing systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage big data infrastructure and clusters.
- Oversee data ingestion and transformation workflows.
- Monitor system reliability and uptime.
- Ensure secure storage and processing of large datasets.
- Optimize big data performance.
- Coordinate incident response for data systems.
- Support analytics initiatives.
- Maintain data documentation.
- Enforce operational controls.
- Drive continuous system improvement.
- Manager – Continuous Audit
Ref: M/CA/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
Responsible for implementing continuous auditing techniques and automated assurance mechanisms.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop automated audit scripts and monitoring tools.
- Conduct real-time risk assessments.
- Identify control weaknesses and anomalies.
- Prepare audit findings and recommendations.
- Collaborate with operational units on remediation.
- Monitor corrective action implementation.
- Maintain audit documentation.
- Enhance continuous monitoring frameworks.
- Support internal audit strategy.
- Ensure compliance with audit standards.
- Manager – Digital Communication & Production
Ref: M/DPC/3/26
Closing Date: 23 March 2026
Role Purpose
Leads digital content strategy, multimedia production, and online engagement initiatives.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop digital communication strategies.
- Oversee content creation across digital platforms.
- Manage multimedia production and publishing schedules.
- Monitor digital engagement analytics.
- Ensure brand consistency and messaging standards.
- Coordinate public awareness campaigns.
- Supervise digital production teams.
- Manage website and social media content.
- Implement digital innovation initiatives.
- Report on communication performance metrics.
- Industrial Attachment Opportunities (May to July 2026 Intake)
Ref: KRAATT 05 – 2026
Closing Date: 6 March 2026
The Kenya Revenue Authority offers industrial attachment opportunities for students seeking practical experience between May and July 2026. The program provides exposure to tax administration, finance, ICT, audit, investigations, and support services across various departments.
Participants will gain hands-on experience under structured supervision, contributing to real projects while enhancing professional competencies.
Application Guidelines
Interested applicants are required to submit applications through the official KRA recruitment portal before the specified closing dates. Applicants should ensure that all required documentation is uploaded and that applications are submitted within the stipulated timelines.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
