WEST AFRICAN HEALTH ORGANISATION
JOB PROFILE
| Job Title: | ICT Specialist (Information and Communication Technologies ) |
| Grade : | P3/P4 |
| Reports to : | Head of Division, Administration and Finance |
| Annual Salary: | USD 36,901 USD – 44,469/ USD 44,328 – USD 51,637 |
| Reference:: | ECW/WAHO-CDC/10 |
| Status : | Permanent |
| Duty Station : | Abuja (Nigeria). |
Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Head of the Division for Administration and Finance of the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Disease Surveillance and Control, the ICT Specialist is responsible for the management of IT tools to enable the Storage and timely transmission of data to produce information for epidemic prevention, detection and control.
Specific Responsibilities
Specifically, the Incumbent shall discharge duties as follows:
- Assist in assessing the Centre Staff needs in computer equipment, software and training;
- Ensure the proper functioning of the IT system (equipment, LAN/WAN and software of any kind…) ;
- Participate in the installation, configuration and maintenance of workstations and various servers;
- Installation and configuration of operating systems and other software
- Analyze, design and develop specific applications to meet the needs of the Centre; manage web platforms for managing epidemics, alerts and health information;
- Participate in the analysis of health data and disseminate health information via Internet;
- Establish a policy for the regular backup of data
- Install and maintain an anti-virus system on all workstations and servers in the Centre.
- Provide user support
- Keep an updated inventory of all computer and communication equipment
- Conduct according to the training plan resulting from the expression of the training needs, a user training on the software used and radio and communications stations.
- Perform any other duty as may be assigned by Management
- Qualifications/Experience/Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in ICT This qualification must be issued by well renown institution;
- At least five years of experience in analysis, design and development of web-based software;
- Possession of higher degree would reduce the required professional experience to three (3) years;
- Proficiency in various programming languages such as C #, Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP);
- Experience in health informatics, particularly standards of health information exchange and interoperability (eg, IHE, HL7, OASIS, X12)
- Open source platforms and enterprise database solutions such as DHIS2, iHRIS, OpenMRS, CommCare, OpenLMIS, Open HIE, RapidPro, MySQL, Oracle
- Experience in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Windows and Linux server
- Experience in: Network Virtualization (LAN, WAN, MAN -CISCO switching), Windows Server operating system (Windows Server, 2008 R2 -Windows Server 2008), Linux Operating Systems (Debian -Ubuntu) storage system.
- Ability to work in a dynamic and agile environment, including changing requirements and priorities
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to communicate on technical topics to non-technical audiences
Age
Candidate must not be more than 50 (fifty) years of age at the point of recruitment and must be an ECOWAS citizen.
Language:
Must be fluent in one of the official languages of the Community; English, French and Portuguese. A working knowledge of another would be an advantage.
