Deadline of this Job: 16 August 2022
To manage the implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of all Applications systems to enable the use of appropriate platform technology, as an integral and reliable component of business process within country. Drive convergence of technologies, ensure delivery of technology projects associated with Applications and liaise and negotiate with internal customers and technology vendors.The prime responsibility is for maintaining the availability and reliability of applications to ensure that IT can effectively meet service targets in accordance with planned business objectives.
Key Activities
• Provide a range of application availability reporting to ensure that agreed levels of availability, reliability and maintainability are measured and monitored on an ongoing basis
• Successfully facilitate delivery of changes to reports needed by the business and ensure that reports and their dependencies are made available for the business.
• Provide holistic support of application availability to Business Users.
• Take actions to achieve reductions in frequency and duration of incidents that impact application availability.
• Ensure shortfalls in application availability are recognized and appropriate corrective actions are identified and progressed.
• Take action on agreed appropriate actions with Line Management to maintain or improve application availability levels.
• Initiate and coordinate actions required to maintain or improve availability of applications.
• Act as a coordination point for changes to applications when needed.
• Maintain an awareness of technology advancements and best practices that support application availability.
• Accountability: Test Management
• Responsibility is to ensure that proper testing occurs for all Application changes released into the production environments as assigned to you by Line Management.
• Key Activities
• Work closely with Release Analysts
• Review releases and assign appropriate release testing tasks
• Compile and review the Testing Deliverables
• Conduct installation procedure tests
• Participate in functional, performance, and integration testing results
• Coordinate user acceptance testing
• Coordinate back out testing
• Conduct supporting documentation review
• Compile test results
• Conduct release test review
• Coordinate post release testing
• Validate and communicate results of testing activities
• Accountability: Risk Management
• Build relationship with country IT Risk and Governance team and provide support wherever required.
• Contribute and deliver to the improvement of the risk profile by delivering improved governance, risk management, controls and compliance requirements.
• Accountability: People Management
• Responsible for driving own Performance Development, collating relevant documentation, preparing for and arranging reviews.
• By utilizing skills matrix, identify training and development requirements, formulating own plan to be agreed with team leader. Responsible for ensuring own plan is completed within agreed timescales.
• Undertake all necessary training in order to perform the role to the required standards, including gaining accreditation where appropriate.
Education
• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)
Deadline of this Job: 12 August 2022
Qualifications
• Must have graduated from Secondary Education and continue
• Be a resident of the relevant District
• He should have high level analytical skills.
• Be proficient in using computer programs, especially "MS Excel" and "Access"
• Must be professional with advanced computer skills
• Be able to enter data into the computer system.
i. To advise the Director General on all matters related to ICT Systems and ICT governance;
ii. To coordinate and ensures that MSD ICT policies and guidelines are adhered to by all users;
iii. To oversee implementation of MSD's strategic plan in relations to ICT objectives;
iv. To be responsible for implementation of directorate performance contract and targets in the directorate;
v. To ensure optimal use of ICT systems in terms of value for the business units versus system related costs;
vi. To ensure that MSD staff have access to the required ICT facilities and services, and that the services are managed efficiently and periodically updates and specify user requirements;
vii. To manage security of networks, systems and organizations' information and setting organizational
x. To review and enforces Information Communication and Data Management standards, strategies, policies and procedures;
xi. To undertake statistical analysis; and to update Information Communication and Data Management infrastructures up to standards; and
xii. To perform any other related duties as may be assigned by the immediate Supervisor.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
Master Degree in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information System and Network Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information and Communication Systems Management or equivalent computer qualifications from recognized institutions.
Bachelor Degree in any of the above fields with ten (10) years working experience in related field of which two (2) years should be served at a Managerial level.
Qualifications
• Must have graduated from Secondary Education and continue
• Be a resident of the relevant District
• He should have high level analytical skills.
• Be proficient in using computer programs, especially "MS Excel" and "Access"
• Must be professional with advanced computer skills
• Be able to enter data into the computer system.
Deadline of this Job: 12 August 2022
JOB SUMMARY NA DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES i. To advise the Director General on all matters related to ICT Systems and ICT governance;
ii. To coordinate and ensures that MSD ICT policies and guidelines are adhered to by all users;
iii. To oversee implementation of MSD's strategic plan in relations to ICT objectives;
iv. To be responsible for implementation of directorate performance contract and targets in the directorate;
v. To ensure optimal use of ICT systems in terms of value for the business units versus system related costs;
vi. To ensure that MSD staff have access to the required ICT facilities and services, and that the services are managed efficiently and periodically updates and specify user requirements;
vii. To manage security of networks, systems and organizations' information and setting organizational
x. To review and enforces Information Communication and Data Management standards, strategies, policies and procedures;
xi. To undertake statistical analysis; and to update Information Communication and Data Management infrastructures up to standards; and
xii. To perform any other related duties as may be assigned by the immediate Supervisor.
QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE
Master Degree in one of the following fields: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information System and Network Engineering, Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Information and Communication Systems Management or equivalent computer qualifications from recognized institutions.
Bachelor Degree in any of the above fields with ten (10) years working experience in related field of which two (2) years should be served at a Managerial level.