Senior ICT Officer Job at East African Community

• Plan and coordinate implementation of ICT Systems and Strategies.
•  Recommend innovative Systems that address EAHRC requirements.
•  Coordinate EAHRC wide information systems networks including coordinating and linking with other EAHRC Stakeholders in the process of designing, updating, and managing the Web Portal.
• Manage internal ICT systems involving feasibility studies, system analysis, design and development.
• Coordinate evaluation, configuration and installations of software systems and tools.
• Manage local, intra and wide area networks, bandwidth, e-security.
• Maintain and upgrade servers, computers, network hardware and software.
• Assist in coordinating activities of functional department within the Commission and train end users.
• Ensure security and backup copies of core systems and data are maintained.
• Ensure ICT disaster recovery and business continuity plans are maintained.
• Administer 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.
• Support 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.
• Manage the open science platform for health (big data for health).
• Oversee the overall day-to-day management, maintenance, and updating of the EAHRC web portal for health information.
• Embrace the Commission’s vision and values and the ideals of the Commission towards service delivery.
• Put strategies to ensure accomplishment of the EAHRC objectives.
• Undertake any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the EAHRC management in order to meet personal, team, and EAHRC objectives.

Qualifications and Experience:

• A Master’s of Science Degree in Computer Science, Information
• Technology or a Master’s degree in ICT administration, or its equivalent.
• Holding a degree/diploma/certificate of ICT applied to health and data management, hospital management systems, health research, will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with at least 3 years in managing health web site at a senior level including; processing health database, managing health-based ICT infrastructure and systems,
• Experience in using geographic information system (GIS) for health will be an important value.

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Application Deadline: 25th February 2022.