Open in app Sign up Sign in Write Sign up Sign in ![\\"\\"](\\" # FALSE: This article advertising internships and jobs at KWS is inaccurate ## KWS used its Instagram account to flag the information as false and clarified that the organisation is not recruiting. ![\\"PesaCheck\\"](\\" ![\\"PesaCheck\\"](\\" PesaCheck · Follow Published in PesaCheck · 5 min read · Nov 22, 2021 \-- Listen Share ![\\"\\"](\\" A website article claiming that the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is currently recruiting interns and will have another recruitment drive on 26 January 2022, to appoint employees from all counties in Kenya is FALSE. To qualify for the internship, one has to have graduated in the past year, and have at least a diploma from a recognised institution. One must have enrolled in another internship before and be a Kenyan of between 20–34 years. You must also provide relevant certificates such as a copy of your national identity card, a valid good conduct certificate, and a Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) pin certificate. Other documents that one must present are proof of a personal accident insurance cover, an application letter, and an up-to-date curriculum vitae. ![\\"\\"](\\" The first KWS job ad, where Kenyans are asked to apply for the year-long internship. [Screenshot: worldscholarshipforum.com] The article further adds that KWS will offer the internship for a year. Some of the departments that the interns will fill are Wildlife Management/ Environmental Science, Statistics, ICT, Information Science/ Library, Procurement, Finance/ Accounting, Human Resource Management, and Communication & Public Relations. However, it’s not clear where one should send their application as the email provided is incomplete. In addition to the internships, the article further claims that KWS will have a recruitment drive on 26 January 2022. Some of the departments that KWS will be looking to fill in 2022 are Wildlife Management/Environmental Science, Statistics, ICT, Information Science/ Library, Procurement, and Finance/Accounting. The article further adds that the recruitment will be conducted transparently by KWS officers, free of charge. ![\\"\\"](\\" The second KWS job ad where people from all counties will be allegedly selected on Tuesday 26 January 2022. [Screenshot: worldscholarshipforum.com] The first red flag that this job advertisement could be a scam is the non- specific language used to describe the general requirements of applicants. “Despite the non-availability of the official recruitment requirements by KWS, we can confirm to you that the following requirements are usually demanded of applicants during every recruitment exercise,” the article states. Another red flag is the lack of proper indication as to where interested candidates should send their applications. Both recruitment drives do not have a closing date and the article claims that the KWS has not set a closing date for the job applications. We visited the job section on the KWS website and found that there are no open vacancies. The last job that was advertised expired on 29 January 2021. Through their official Instagram account, KWS has clarified that they are not recruiting and flagged the article we are fact-checking as fake. “This is to bring to the attention of the public that @kenyawildlifeservice is not recruiting as claimed in messages doing rounds in social media platforms. Please disregard such claims,” KWS wrote in an Instagram post. ![\\"\\"](\\" KWS is a state corporation mandated to conserve and manage wildlife in Kenya. PesaCheck has looked into a website article claiming that the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is currently recruiting interns and will have another recruitment drive on 26 January 2022 to appoint employees from all counties in Kenya and finds it to be FALSE. This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as _potential misinformation_ on Facebook and other social media platforms. By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds. Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content. ![\\"\\"](\\" This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker _Naomi Wanjiku_ and edited by PesaCheck chief copy editor _Rose Lukalo_. The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor _Enock Nyariki_. ![\\"\\"](\\" PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by _Catherine Gicheru_ and _Justin Arenstein_, and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: _Code for Africa_. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water / sanitation. _PesaCheck_also tests the accuracy of media reportage. 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