Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 08, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
RECRUITMENT NOTICE Nº 001/12/2020
Rwanda’s health sector has grown rapidly over the past 26 years. Being a services sector, one of its core assets is skilled and devoted personnel. To enhance staff motivation, retention, the Ministry of Health (MoH) together with various stakeholders in the health sector championed the establishment of a savings and credit scheme, called Health Sector Staff Mutual Aid Group (HSS-MAG) where the health sector staff can accumulate savings and access affordable credit. Additionally, it aims to stimulate a saving culture and promote social cohesion among Health Sector staffs.
HSS-MAG wishes to recruit the competent staff and self-driven staff on the position of IT Officer on permanent basis regardless the gender, and other kind of discriminations. 1. RECRUITMENT DETAILS:
Position: IT Officer
Number of needed staff: One
Employment period: Open-ended period (Full-time)
Working place: HSS-MAG Head Office
2. JOB PURPOSE STATEMENT
An IT Officer is responsible for development; implementation; execution the support and maintenance of the system with a proper coordination among the vendors and HSS-MAG. Not only this, he/she has to create and develop applications and websites so that to carry forward the HSS-MAG system properly and smoothly. .

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop software that fully implements business requirements
• Perform adequate unit and integration testing of in-house and vendors’ software and ensure all requirements have been addressed, all basic functionalities work, and errors are handled properly.
• Troubleshoot application issues
• Enhancing the system’s effectiveness as requested by the Business department and adapting the system to new requirements, as necessary
• Deployment of developed solutions and ensure proper maintenance.
• Collaborate with consultants for the business requirements gathering and report to the management.
• Provide training to user support staff for developed applications as required • Develop API to connect with external stakeholder
• Maintain the company’s database systems including performance tuning, monitoring critical events, back-up/restore, archiving and documentation.
• Manage production, QA and development database environments.
• Monitor database systems and troubleshoot problems that may arise.
• Maintain data integrity and security by properly managing roles and permissions of database users.
• Carry on database tuning, generate traces, review execution plans, identify performance issues, deadlocks/contention and resolve them.
• Ensure regular data protection, data back-ups, data restoration and data replication are carried out on regular basis.
• Carry out network administration and troubleshooting tasks to ensure WAN and LAN are operating efficiently at all times
• Recommend changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes;
• Implement IT strategies and polices on routers, firewalls, switches
• Monitor user compliance with the policies and procedures on networks and system to ensure exposure to the business is curbed in a timely manner
• Continually improve the network by monitoring and evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency
• Plan, coordinate, and implement information security measures to protect data, software, and hardware
• Implement relevant system updates as per schedule to ensure the system capability is managed at all times
• Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations of all application and systems.
• Handle escalated technical issues to support the business
• Produce periodic reports to inform on all IT systems performance.

KEY MEASURABLE GOALS
• Planning and delivering results
• Develop staff Personal drive and effectiveness
• Ensure service standards are excelled
• High rate of data security

Skills & Competencies:
• Advanced knowledge in the software development lifecycle
• Advanced knowledge in B2B integration
• Solid programming skills in either java or net(C#))
• Thorough knowledge of financial services
• Proficiency with either SQL or Oracle database is required
• Hands-on experience with databases including MySQL
• Experience working with windows server
• Experience in routing both WAN and LAN

Requirements:
• Ambitious professional with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least three (3) years of relevant professional experience, working in a similar environment
• To be between 25 and 35 years’ old

Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

{module 312}

Job application procedure
Interested candidates should submit soft copies of the motivation letter, CV and copy of required degree, other important documents, and a Maximum of 3 persons of professional references addressed electronically to the HSS-MAG Office at the Ministry of Health, latest 24/12/2020 at 6:00 PM on the following email address: info@hssmag.rw  
Questions/clarifications may be requested by email to the following email address: info@hssmag.rw
Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the exam and interview.

All Jobs

QUICK ALERT SUBSCRIPTION

{module 317}