{"id":17317,"date":"2020-07-13T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/?p=17317"},"modified":"2020-07-13T08:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T05:14:17","slug":"job-vacancies-at-east-african-health-research-commission-eahrc-senior-ict-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unistoretz.com\/magazine\/job-vacancies-at-east-african-health-research-commission-eahrc-senior-ict-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Vacancies at East African Health Research Commission (EAHRC), Senior ICT Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Overview
\nThe East African Community (EAC) is the regional intergovernmental organization of the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Rwanda, the Republic of Burundi and Republic of South Sudan with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The EAC mission is to widen and deepen economic, political, social and cultural integration to improve the quality of life of the people of East Africa through increased competitiveness, value added production, trade and investments.<\/p>\n

This is an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and result-driven professionals who are citizens of East African Community Partner States (Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan) to apply for the following position below tenable at East African Health Research Commission (EAHRC):<\/p>\n

SENIOR ICT OFFICER<\/b>\u00a0(1 post) (REF: EAC\/HR\/2020-21\/38)<\/p>\n

Department: EAHRC Department of Knowledge Management
\nCurrent Scale\/Grade: P2
\nJob reports to:\u00a0 \u00a0Principal Health Officer (Knowledge Management)
\nDuty Station\u00a0 \u00a0: Bujumbura, Burundi<\/p>\n

Position Summary:<\/b>
\nThe Senior Information and Communication Technology Officer has the functional role of planning and coordinating implementation of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Systems and Strategies of the EAHRC. This role serves to the provision of high quality and measurable ICT services to EAHRC. The key areas of responsibilities include: the web portal for health information in EAC; the East African Health Research Journal; the EAC and EAHRC conferences (e.g. the East African Health and Scientific Conference, etc.); the secretariat ICT services; the ICT services that link EAHRC with EAC Partner States and other stakeholders; and all related matters that are required for EAHRC to realize it vision, and execute its mission.<\/p>\n

Duties and Responsibilities:<\/b>
\nPlan and coordinate implementation of ICT Systems and Strategies.
\nRecommend innovative Systems that address EAHRC requirements.
\nCoordinate EAHRC wide information systems networks including coordinating and linking with other EAHRC Stakeholders in the process of designing, updating, and managing the Web Portal.
\nManage internal ICT systems involving feasibility studies, system analysis, design and development.
\nCoordinate evaluation, configuration and installations of software systems and tools.
\nManage local, intra and wide area networks, bandwidth, e-security.
\nMaintain and upgrade servers, computers, network hardware and software.
\nAssist in coordinating activities of functional department within the Commission and train end users.
\nEnsure security and backup copies of core systems and data are maintained.
\nEnsure ICT disaster recovery and business continuity plans are maintained.
\nAdminister the workflow of the EAHRC journals (e.g. EAHRJ, etc.) from electronic submission, review, to publication. Support the teams of the journals (e.g. the editors-in-chief, editorial teams, editorial boards, authors, reviewers, managing editors, etc.
\nSupport conferences organized by EAHRC (e.g. the biennial Health and Scientific Conference, Digital health summit, etc.), and when required, support conferences organized by EAHRC stakeholders (e.g. National Focal Points, development partners, etc.). The support required spans from pre-conference preparatory phase, the actual conference, and post-conference phase. The responsibilities activities include setting up and managing the conference website, registration of participants (attendees, speakers, exhibitors, etc.), submission of abstracts, live streaming of conference, social media, podcasts, etc.
\nManage the open science platform for health (big data for health).
\nOversee the overall day-to-day management, maintenance, and updating of the EAHRC web portal for health information.
\nEmbrace the Commission\u2019s vision and values and the ideals of the Commission towards service delivery.
\nPut strategies to ensure accomplishment of the EAHRC objectives.
\nUndertake any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the EAHRC management in order to meet personal, team, and EAHRC objectives.<\/p>\n

Key Performance Indicators:<\/b>
\nAll objectives of the Web portal for Health Information in EAC met.
\nRunning of EAHRJ supported.
\nICT strategies, policies, procedure and systems developed.
\nFunctional ICT systems in place and upgraded. – Backup copies of all core systems are made and maintained.
\nTimely submission of reports on implementation of ICT strategies.
\nNumber of developed systems and databases deployed.
\nNumber of Project proposals developed to mobilize funds for ICT projects.<\/p>\n

Minimum Job Requirements Academic and Professional Qualifications:<\/b>
\nA Master\u2019s of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a Master\u2019s degree in ICT administration, or its equivalent.
\nHolding a degree\/diploma\/certificate of ICT applied to health and data management, hospital management systems, health research, will be an added advantage.
\nAll candidates applying must have qualifications that are recognized by the relevant national accreditation body in their respective countries. This condition is applicable for both locally and internationally attained qualifications. Work Experience
\nMinimum of 08 years\u2019 experience with at least 03 years in managing health web site at a senior level including; processing health database, managing health-based ICT infrastructure and systems,
\nExperience in using geographic information system (GIS) for health will be an important value.<\/p>\n

Skills and competencies:<\/b><\/p>\n