ICT Manager at Maasai Mara University

REF: MMU/ICTM/02/11/2022

Job Specifications 
For appointment to this position one must have: -

• Master’s degree in ICT or its equivalent from recognized institution.
• Bachelor’s degree in ICT or its equivalent from recognized institution.
• Five (5) years working experience having served as ICT Deputy Manager or in a comparable position for at least three (3) years.
• Demonstrable exemplary work performance.

Job Description
Reporting to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration, Finance & Strategy), 

the duties and responsibilities are: -

• Monitor implementation of ICT project activities at the university to ensure that they are done according to schedule. 
• Establish and enforce ICT standards and ICT policy guidelines for the university to ensure good and quality output. 
• Responsible for maintenance of central processing and data communication systems in the ICT directorate. 
• Coordinate the university’s information system planning, utilization and performance evaluation. 
• Maintain the organizational and human resource infrastructure for technical services and assistance to all organizational units 
• Maintain relations with external ICT service providers such as internet service providers, enterprise resource planning (ERP) system vendors. 
• Source out grants to support research for short courses such as CISCO, IBM and other ICT projects.
• Develop ICT policies that give a guideline on how things operate in the Department to ensure best practices in the market are implemented.
• Prepare annual budgets estimate for funding by the University so as to meet financial obligations of the Department. 
• Prepare and monitor implementation of leave schedule to ensure that all staff get time off work equally for relaxation and re-energizing for better work performance. 
• Prepare work schedule in the Department to ensure set objectives are met according to the stipulated timeframe and work is done efficiently. 
• Allocate duties to the Department’s subordinates to ensure adequate staffing at all times and that work is done effectively. 
• Evaluate subordinates’ performance to identify training needs and promotion criteria so as to build and retain adequate skills in ICT.
• Provide input into the university’s main budget by developing budget estimates for the Department. 
• Control the budget allocation for the department to ensure that expenditures are within the budget.