Information Technology Officer Job in Habitat for Humanity Kenya

Habitat for Humanity Kenya, a Christian Non-Governmental Organization with a mission of eliminating poor housing and homelessness, wishes to recruit the following position to support its growth and expansion.

Position: Information Technology Officer

Reports to: Finance Manager

Email Application code: ICTO-2011-1

Overall Responsibility

Ensure that information systems offer the highest level of reliability and accuracy while ensuring that data integrity and security is guaranteed.

In addition, offering high level of efficient service in terms of data entry, processing and retrieval.

Job Summary

The Information Technology Officer will be in charge of all information systems of HFH Kenya.

She/he will be responsible for all aspects of information systems, technology, information technology planning and direction, systems security and database, oversee the implementation of an integrated information services system for the head office and branch network.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To maintain and support all the existing computer installations and software and recommend and oversee continuous upgrade of the systems.
• To plan, oversee and co-ordinate the development, installation and support of computing and network support services for the office and branch network.
• To oversee and/or participate in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of end user services and integrated information initiatives.
• To co-ordinate and provide leadership for new system development and implementation and current system enhancements and improvement and to review, evaluate and develop proposals for new hardware/software and/or upgrades as appropriate.
• To plan and co-ordinate the analysis design, programming, timely implementation, and testing of all information systems projects.
• To oversee the supervision of personnel, which includes work allocation, training and development and problem resolution, and to evaluate performance and make recommendation for personnel actions; to motivate employees to achieve peak productivity and performance.
• To participate in development, implementation, and maintenance of policies, objectives, short and long-range planning, to develop tracking and evaluation programs to assist in accomplishment of established goals.
• To provide on-call support for computer/network systems.
• To develop and co-ordinate programs and initiatives to ensure quality of performance and currency of skills among staff within the organization.
• To maintain a broad knowledge of state of the art technology, equipment, and/or systems to provide regular updates and reports to the management.
• To perform any other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT.
• Microsoft qualifications will be an added advantage.
• Hands on experience in computerized packages particularly SUN and Bankers Realm.
• 2-3 years’ experience in a financial services industry.

Qualified candidates should submit electronic copies of their qualifications to recruitment@hfhkenya.or.ke by or before 30th November 2011 clearly indicating the code number of the position they are applying for in the subject line of their forwarding e-mails.

Interested candidates should also clearly state their current and expected remuneration.

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