The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is set to conduct a nationwide recruitment exercise of rangers and assistant wardens.
The five-day nationwide exercise will be held beginning April 15 this year.
In an advertisement appearing in the weekly paper-MyGov dated March 19, KWS says it will be recruiting 1, 350 rangers and 150 cadets (assistant warden I) to join the service.
“The service operates in a remote environment and seeks to recruit dynamic individuals…who can endure the condition for training and deployment to various conservation areas in response to the wildlife protection challenges currently being experienced in the country,” reads the notice.
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.
They must also be aged 28 years with no criminal record.
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.
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.
On April 16, action will move to Tana River, Meru, Makueni, Kirinyaga, Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu, Laikipia, Homabay and Nyamira.
The exercise will be held in Kilifi, Wajir, Tharaka Nithi, Murang’a, Elgeiyo Marakwet, Kajiado, Bomet, Bungoma and Kisumu on April 17.
National Youth Service (NYS) graduates as well as persons with disability, women and those from marginalized areas and minority communities have also been encouraged to apply.
During a past event, President William Ruto instructed that 80 per cent of recruits to all national security agencies and services in the country will be from NYS.