Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, July 05 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC) is an inter- governmental regional organization that fosters and strengthens regional cooperation and capacity to address the health needs of its nine member states namely Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. ECSA-HC has strong collective political, administrative and professional support of all its member states, regional and international organizations and occupies a unique position to provide leadership on various health sector issues in the region. Established in 1974, ECSA-HC has more than 40 years of experience providing technical assistance in health and strong support from all of its member states.

ECSA-HC is looking to recruit a Senior Accountant to join its financial management team. The Senior Accountant position is mainly to support the Director of Finance. The Senior Accountant shall be responsible for the management of financial activities and processes, performing day-to-day accounting tasks, and supervising the work of Finance officers. The senior accountant will also provide technical support in financial management to managers, program officers, and other stakeholders.

3.0 Overall Purpose of the Job:
To provide IT management function of the College. The IT Assistant will play a leading role in the management of technological aspects of the College, including online and offline IT infrastructure and developing content for the college social media handles. He/she will also support the planning, coordinating and delivery of all College Examinations. The IT Assistant’s role involves supporting the Examination and Credentials Committee and the entire College leadership in providing in-depth IT expertise as well as handling all the day-to-day IT tasks which include addressing complaints and resolving problems; IT security, development, infrastructure, technical analytics, and systems support.

4.0 Duties and Responsibilities:
4.1 ICT management:
1. Custodian of all software including salesforce
2. Responsible for driving implementation of best practices for optimizing IT infrastructure and operation costs and improving systems performance
3. Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations, and outages.
4. Designing training programs/orientations and workshops for staff on ICT systems
5. Provides technical guidance and assistance to other staff.
6. Develop and operationalize the College information technology strategy.
7. Recommend short- and long-term IT goals and objectives to the College.
8. Provide expert and strategic advice to members of the leadership team on all technology matters affecting the College.
9. Provide leadership and guidance to IT department to achieve secure, reliable, and costeffective operations of IT infrastructure and applications.
10. Preserves IT assets, information security and control structure, Manages the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, hardware, software, peripherals, and e-Learning platforms
11. Information Technology support for the development of the college through new systems as well as providing IT support and expertise to the secretariat, to trainees, to trainers and for new developments for efficient work. E.g., in-person Examiner verification system.

4.2 Database Management
1. Updating COSECSA’s Databases and performing data clean up. These include trainee, exam candidates, examiners, fellows, members and partners
2. Generating and providing data upon requests from partners, Council and approved research proposals with support from secretariat.
3. Developing and storing various college reports and minutes to support College activities.
4. To strategize further expansion and improvement of college database
5. To produce reports as and when needed.

4.3 Branding and Communication:
1. Manage the College Social Media Accounts
2. Generate and maximize positive media coverage
3. Manage a bank of messages for social media platforms
4. The focal person on the College social media platforms
5. Liaise with the Collaboration Partners on joint communications and announcements
6. Act as a liaison between the College, the public, and the media (where necessary) to ensure that the image remains top of mind.
7. Send out communications to target audiences on various opportunities.
8. With support from the administrative officer, Develop and send the COSECSA E-
Newsletter
1. Graphic Designing of promotional material for the College (banners, Fliers, Annual Reports, Brochures, booklets, Designs for the website and social media and annual events.)
2. Media coverage in terms of photography/ minor videography at the College annual events and other workshop if available
3. Admin support on various Whatsapp groups.

4.4 College Website Management
1. Write, edit, and distribute content, including website content and other material that communicates the College’s activities
2. Maintain the college website in terms of posting news, events and updating the website information as well as developing new modules as they will be needed.

5.0 Qualifications and Work Experience
5.1 Education
1. Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field
2. A Master’s degree in a related field will be an added advantage
3. A certificate in graphics design, database management will be desirable

5.2 Work Experience and Knowledge
1. At least 5 years of relevant, progressive experience in information technology management
2. At least 3 years of Data engineering, design and maintenance of data systems and databases
3. Demonstrated track record and experience in branding and communication
4. Excellent working knowledge of social media content development
5. Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics Navision ERP system installations and user support.
6. Support in user account access provisioning.
7. ICT Equipment repairs maintenance.
8. Support in configuring data collection tools and relevant devices.
9. Capacity to manage a busy office and coordinate with various offices
10. Excellent working knowledge of standard IT systems and databases
11. Experience in developing and implementing systems and processes

6.0 Essential Skills and Competencies Required
1. Demonstrate poise, tact, integrity, and professionalism
2. Proficient in development content for social media
3. Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
4. Excellent knowledge of report writing and presentation skills.
5. Excellent organizational and time management skills
6. Capacity and experience to work in a multicultural environment
7. Capacity to perform multiple tasks and work under pressure

7.0 Language
Fluency in both spoken and written English

8.0 Age
Applicants must be aged between 25 and 40 years of age

9.0 Contract Appointment;
This will be a two-year contract appointment renewable upon satisfactory performance and subject to the availability of funds.

10.0 Remuneration Package
An attractive package at the Assistant level will be offered to the right candidate.



Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Candidates who wish to apply for the post should do so by submitting the following:-
• A brief application letter stating why the candidate feels suitable for the post.
• A detailed Curriculum Vitae.
• Copies of Educational and Professional Certificates.
• Completed ECSA HC application form obtainable from the ECSA-HC websit
• Names of three (3) referees with their addresses including Telephone, Fax and E-mail.
Applications that have not met all of the above set criteria will not be accepted.
Only candidates who have met all the requirements of the post and have been selected for an interview will be contacted.

Deadline for Applications:
Applications should reach the address below, not later than 11:59 pm (EAT), 21st July 2023
The Director General
East, Central and Southern Africa-Health Community
Plot 157 Oloirien, Njiro Road
P.O. Box 1009 Arusha, Tanzania
E-mail: vacancies@ecsahc.org with copies to dg@ecsahc.org ; doid@ecsahc.org 

Application Document(s):
• Advert
• Employment Application Form

The East, Central and Southern Africa- Health Community is an equal opportunity employer and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

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