Labour Inspector Deadline Dec 2022

Job Description
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.
- Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Law0 Year of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial & Labour Relations0 Year of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Labour Administration0 Year of relevant experience
- Bachelor’s Degree Industrial & Labour Relations with a recognized diploma in labour law0 Year of relevant experience
- 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.