Job vacancy for Director of Community Computer Centre in ECOWAS

Directors in ECOWAS provide leadership and management to major sector(s) of technical activities which are substantively important to the accomplishment of the Institution’s mandate.
Objectives

• Develops, communicates, and maintains an information and communication technology vision, strategy and action plans that align with ECOWAS strategic goals
• Drives the development, review and communication of ICT policies and standards throughout ECOWAS Commission and Institutions, ensuring consistency and pragmatism in the maintenance of these policies and standards
• Directs the development of integrated short, medium and long-term plans for ICT in ECOWAS Commission and Institutions with clear indications of expected value contributions and ensuring realistic overall IT work program with clear achievable targets
• Contributes to the shaping of ECOWAS strategic objectives, ensuring that ICT requirements and opportunities/trade-offs are fully understood and grasped at the highest level within the organization
• Monitors and controls the technical content of ICT within ECOWAS to ensure business relevance, scope realism, suitability for relevant and intended purposes and timely obsolescence
• Partners with user departments in identifying business requirements in alignment with departmental operational plans and enabling return on investment on adopted technologies
• Accountable for overall direction of multiple, large, complex ICT operations or projects, which may contain significant scope, ambiguity, risk & geographical diversity
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• Evaluates resource requirements ensuring adequate provision of resources, of high availability, assuring a consistent, improved and optimized ICT environment within ECOWAS Commission and Institutions
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• Ensures that a supporting ECOWAS technical architecture is designed, built, tested and deployed in compliance with business needs and security requirements, factoring business continuity requirements

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in the Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Systems Analysis & Design, Information Systems Management or any related ICT field
• Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible and relevant experience in ICT.
• Minimum of 5 years work experience managing others, preferably in a supervisory capacity within an international organization
• Must have experience of analyzing and designing information technology and systems for large organizations in challenging environment
• Proven track record of managing and delivering highly complex information systems projects
• Must be conversant with the operations of international organizations, and the ability to adopt and work freely in a multi-cultural environment.

Application
Interested candidates should visit http://www.ecowashr.info/en/vacancies/director_ccc.php?job=ECW-COMM/REC/VPO-D/001/2010&action=online_application
Closing date is 18-Feb-2011