KWS Announces 1500 Job Vacancies. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is planning to hire assistant wardens and rangers around the country.
This year, the five-day countrywide drill will start on April 15.
KWS announced in an advertisement in the March 19 edition of the weekly tabloid MyGov that it will be hiring 1, 350 rangers and 150 cadets (assistant warden I) to join the force.
The advertisement states that the service works in a remote setting and looks to hire motivated people who can withstand the requirements for training and deployment to different conservation regions in response to the difficulties the nation is now facing with wildlife protection.
To be enlisted to join as a cadet, one must possess a degree of second class honors lower division in wildlife management, natural resources management, environmental science, range management, veterinary medicine, criminology, and security management, tourism management, education, sociology or community development.
Those interested are required to download the prescribed application form or obtain it from the KWS National Park station.
A duly completed application form including relevant academic and professional certificates and detailed curriculum vitae is to be delivered no later than April 8.
Successful candidates will undergo mandatory paramilitary training for nine months.
KWS Announces 1500 Job Vacancies
Those seeking to be enlisted as rangers, on the other hand, are required to have a minimum mean KCSE grade D plain or its equivalent from an examination body recognized in Kenya.
They must be aged 8-26 years.
“Successful candidates will be required to undergo a mandatory paramilitary training for six months and thereafter deployed to the field,” the notice states.
On the recruitment date, they are expected to present a duly filled prescribed form together with all relevant academic certificates and a national ID for verification.
Recruitment will be conducted in at least 12 counties which include Lamu, Marsabit, Isiolo, Embu, Kitui, Machakos, Turkana, West Pokot, Samburu, Nandi, Migori and Kisii on April 15.
Tana River, Meru, Makueni, Kirinyaga, Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu, Laikipia, Homabay, and Nyamira will be the new locations of action on April 16.
Kilifi, Wajir, Tharaka Nithi, Murang’a, Elgeiyo Marakwet, Kajiado, Bomet, Bungoma, and Kisumu will all host the drill on April 17.
Applications have been invited from people with disabilities, women, people from underprivileged communities, and recent graduates of the National Youth Service (NYS).
President William Ruto previously issued an order mandating that eighty percent of new hires for all national security agencies and services in the nation come from New York State.
KWS Announces 1500 Job Vacancies