Vacancy title:
Animal Health Technicians Grade, KIP 9

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Agricultural Services & Products]

Jobs at:
Kenya Institute of Primate Research (KIPRE)

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, May 22 2025

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, April 24 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Animal Health Technicians Grade, KIP 9

• Job TypeFull Time
• QualificationDiploma , KCSE
• Experience
• LocationNairobi
• Job FieldAgriculture / Agro-Allied  , Medical / Healthcare 

VACANCY No. KIP/AHT 9/2025:

For appointment to this grade, a Candidate MUST have:

• K.C.S.E certificate or equivalent from a recognized Institution;
• Diploma in Animal Science, Animal Health, Animal Husbandry, Conservation Biology, Animal Ecology, Community Conservation, Biomedical research, environmental conservation or equivalent from a recognized Institution;
• Membership to Kenya Veterinary Board;
• Proficiency in computer applications;
• and fulfill the requirement of Chapter Six of the constitution.

Key Skills and Competence

• Planning and organizing Skills
• Communication Skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Team player

Duties and responsibilities

• Performing daily husbandry (watering, feeding etc), care, restraint and observation of laboratory animals in routine and experimental programs, under supervision of a senior officer;
• Providing technical assistance in the clinical care of laboratory animals and collection of routine clinical and experimental data, under supervision of a senior officer;
• Organizing and segregating animals according to sex and breeding needs;
• Assisting in ensuring animal housing standards remain responsive to needs of the animals;
• Assisting in ensuring proper transport and storage of laboratory animal samples and biobanking;
• Assisting in maintaining and reporting the welfare of laboratory animals as per national and international standards;
• Ensuring general cleanliness/sanitation of the animal houses/cages and surrounding environment;
• Ensuring proper disposal of animal waste as per the waste management and disposal guidelines;
• Assisting in maintaining an inventory of animal species;
• Assisting in maintaining an inventory of animal feeds and other supplies for the animal house;
• Assisting in ensuring proper breeding cycles of animals;
• Making the animals available according to researchers’ needs;
• Liaising with the researchers regarding their animal research needs;
• Managing the infrastructural, operational, facility management, maintenance, and logistics coordination of research facilitation at the established institutional field site;
• In collaboration with research scientists support the field research station operations, logistical coordination of the implementation of field project activities at the site;
• Providing the necessary basic needs for researchers at the field research station for smooth implementation of projects;
• Supervising junior staff.

Work Hours: 8

Experience: No Requirements

Level of Education: bachelor degree

Job application procedure

Interested Kenyan Citizens who meet the qualifications may apply enclosing a detailed Resume, certified copy of pays lip, certified copies of academic and professional certificates including testimonials, names and addresses of at least three (3) referees and their telephone contacts and emails. Please note that successful candidates will be required to provide clearances from Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission, Kenya Revenue Authority, Directorate of Criminal Investigation (Certificate of good Conduct), Credit Reference Bureau and Higher Education Loans Board.

The candidate will be required to produce originals of their Birth Certificate, National Identity Cards, Academic and Professional Certificates and Transcripts during the Interview.

Only Shortlisted and Successful Candidates shall be contacted.

Applications should be addressed to: The Chairman, Board of Directors, Kenya Institute of Primate
Research, P.O. Box 24481- 00502, Nairobi, Kenya.

The application should be placed in a plain envelope clearly indicating the Application Vacancy number on top of the envelope and dropped in the box placed outside the Director General’s Office at Administration Block at Oloolua forest Karen, on or before the close of business on 22nd  May, 2025 at 4.30 P.M.

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