ICT Consultant at Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI)

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and implement ICT Policies, Plans, Processes, Procedures and Procurement Plan to optimize application of ICT.
• Develop routine or incidental reports and reporting tools that assist with the management of the operations and strategic decision making.
• Maintain and enhance already existing databases and develop new online relational databases on need basis
• Analyze and customize proprietary systems to meet organizational requirements. Coming up with innovative ideas that enhance the utilization and performance of the systems
• Identify development and training needs of computer users
• Maintain and support computer network for reliable connectivity. Ensuring 100% uptime of the systems and general system administration of the back-office.
• Install and maintain operating systems and application software for efficient operations.
• Promote IT utilization among members of staff for maximum organizational performance.
• Upgrade IT system to optimize IT benefits for technological advancement and operational efficiency.
• Undertake security analysis and risk management. This includes; Preventing intrusion attacks, data loss and service interruptions; undertaking penetration and intrusion tests
• Systems analysis, design, development, documentations and maintenance
• System acquisition, implementation, management and support
• Prepare annual budget for ICT resource allocation and control
• Ensuring that goals and objectives of computerization are efficiently achieved, including drawing up short term and long term planning, coordination, design, implementation and control of computerized information systems, formulation and enforcement of technical operating standards for effective utilization of computer
• Performing database backups in line KNCCI backup and recovery policy
• Ensure the physical and software infrastructure keeps up with the needs of the business. Come-up with new solutions and outsource where possible.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/Computer Science/Management Information Systems.
• Minimum of five (5) years relevant experience.
• Possession of relevant postgraduate degree will be an added advantage
• Working technical knowledge in areas relevant to: MVC, PHP, Java, MySQL, Android, Python, R, AWS, CSS, SMS, IVR, HTML5, and Laravel, WordPress and Joomla;
• Experience with server and database frameworks and tools such as Linux OS( CentOS, Ubuntu), Apache, JBOSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB; IT industry skills such as CCNA, Project Management and Information Security is desirable