Senior ICT Officer at Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK)

Job reference: NCK/03/07/2022

Summary

The Nursing Council  of Kenya wishes to recruit highly competent, passionate, dedicated and self-driven individuals to fill the following vacant position(s): NCK Senior ICT Officer 

Terms and Remuneration

• Terms of Service – Permanent and Pensionable
• Salary: from KES. 137,607 – 162,609 per month

Job specifications

Duties and responsibilities entail:

• Infrastructure and Communications
• Implementing ICT policies, procedures and controls programmes;
• Providing technical support for the ICT infrastructure and telephony systems including hardware, software support and help desk services;
• Initiating the design and review of ICT architecture, networks including documenting internal ICT standards, policies and procedures;
• Implementing ICT standards in line with the emerging needs of the Council;
• Implementing security penetration testing, disaster recovery and business continuity simulations;
• Developing various systems documentation;
• Overseeing the process of receiving, installing, configuration, certification of new or upgrading of the ICT Systems and equipment;
• Managing and reporting on compatibility status of existing systems and ICT infrastructure;
• Configuration and managing the ICT network, i.e. Local Area and Virtual Private Networks;
• Performing monitoring, detection and reporting on ICT equipment performance, and implementing performance fine-tuning analysis and reporting on ICT resource usage
• Overseeing servicing and maintaining ICT equipment and associated peripherals;
• Undertaking preventive repairs or refurbishment of ICT equipment to restore usability;
• Maintaining an up to date user-specific Information Systems (IS), user access rights and systems credentialing;
• Overseeing and performing data integrity and interrogation routines including programming, coding and testing ICT systems;
• Overseeing and updating the Service’s Website, Intranet and Databases;
• Performing Servers administration and management activities including on Domain Controllers,
  Active Directory and Exchange Server, including troubleshooting analysis;

Person specifications

For appointment to this grade, a candidate must have: –

• Served in the grade of an Information Communication Technology Officer for a minimum of three (3) years or three (3) years’ experience;
• Bachelor’s degree in any of the following disciplines: Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Technology or a related field from a recognized institution; CISA, CISM, ITIL, PRINCE2, CCNA, MCP or its equivalent qualification;
• Membership to CSK, ISACA or its equivalent;
• Shown merit and ability as reflected in work performance and results;
• Fulfill the requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution

Key Competencies & Skills

• Integrity
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Organizational skills
• Ability to work in a team
• Attention to details
• Business acumen and ability to lead significant change
• Diagnostic, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to explain technical concepts to inexperienced users.
• Extensive knowledge of IT Security protocols, processes, policies and standards, information security