1. IFMIS Business Process Management Specialist Team Leader
Job Description
Provide technical support to develop/review system processes and business requirements for the IFMIS and integration with other systems to determine any necessary validation or alignment
Ensuring that developers obtain required support, input and technical guidance on functionalities being developed.
Ensuring that the IFMIS application build complies with all internal and external solution design requirements including statutory requirements and industry best practice.
Assisting with the development, agreement and implementation of a data conversion and consolidation strategy for the IFMIS modules. This will ensure that appropriate security and internal controls are implemented including all application and processing controls.
Providing guidance and coordinating the activities of Capacity Building team, including appropriate training for IFMIS user.
Continuously review and actively influence the Project Plan, the training content/materials and plan, and the change management plan to ensure that the weaknesses and recommendations are carried out and implemented.
Development and administration of End user’s forum to Enhance knowledge sharing and Communication
Providing guidance and Coordinating the activities of Help Desk team
Monitor the Progress of the resolution of incidents and provide regular feedback to the originators on the status of their support calls
Provide technical expertise in the reforms undertaken by GoR aimed at improving public sector accounting and financial management activities and resolving key accounting and financial management problems existent in Government. This will include temporary coverage of existing skills gaps in financial management and the development of accounting and financial management capacity. This will include (but not limited to) the provision of expertise in classification schemes/chart of accounts and streamlining cash management arrangements.
Ensuring government planning processes are well integrated through IFMIS to produce annual action plans for central and local government
Ensuring that the national investment and projects monitoring processes are embedded into IFMIS in order to produce quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports on the performance of projects and programs.
Facilitate the national budget set up by providing an automated framework with flexibility to accommodate all the required reforms.
Identify requirements and opportunities for interoperability with other government systems
Establish professional working relationships with key personnel in Central and Local Governments to ensure knowledge transfer and assist in training and capacity development as considered necessary.
As may be necessary, provide Technical input in the update, development/implementation and documentation of policies and procedures, monitor and keep up to date with new changes in public financial management
Create a culture of ownership of the IFMIS by the respective government entities
Carrying out any such other duties that will be assigned by the IFMIS Project Manager in line with the improvement of financial management for GoR.
Minimum Qualifications
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Master’s in Finance
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Accounting
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Accounting with ACCA Foundation Level (Completion of ACCA Applied Skills papers)
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Finance with ACCA Foundation Level (Completion of ACCA Applied Skills papers)
3 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration with specialization in Finance
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree of Business Administration-Accounting
5 Years of relevant experience
Competency and Key Technical Skills
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Integrity
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Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
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Inclusiveness
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Accountability
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Client/citizen focus
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Professionalism
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Commitment to continuous learning
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Experience in ICT project management, including planning, organizing, and managing resources
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IT skills, particularly in Financial software (SMART IFMIS)
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Having API/PFM Certificate with experience in Public financial management related field
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Having at least 3 years of experience in Government accounting including the use of the Government’s Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS)
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Knowledge: the incumbent must have knowledge and understanding of the organization and roles of the different levels of the GoR health system, GoR legislation, and practice relating to PFM(Public Financial Management) Guidelines.
2.Senior Network Security Engineer
Job Description
Provide security guidance and drive infrastructure decisions in collaboration with other technical and management team, ensuring Security principles are being upheld and no violations of Security Policy is taking place
Support security systems deployment, management, and maintenance, including Firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and infrastructure monitoring and reporting
Conduct computer security incident analysis, computer forensics operations, evidence gathering and preservation, incident containment, and incident recovery
Reporting security analysis findings and incidents to the IFMIS Project Manager
Compile information from various sources (log analysis, incident reporting, event analysis, etc.) into comprehensive monthly reporting detailing historical and trend information
Track and correct any applicable information security deficiencies, conditions, weaknesses, findings, and gaps identified by audits, reviews, security control assessments, and tests
Engage in ongoing research of emerging security trends and new technologies which may benefit different final financial software projects under MINECOFIN
Assist with security awareness training for other technical and management teams
Carrying out any such other duties that will be assigned by the IFMIS Project Manager in line with the improvement of financial management for GoR
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Information and Communication Technology
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
5 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Computer Science
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Information and Communication Technology
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
3 Years of relevant experience
Competency and Key Technical Skills
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Integrity
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Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
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Inclusiveness
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Accountability
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Client/citizen focus
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Professionalism
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Commitment to continuous learning
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Ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot network infrastructure devices, including wireless access points, firewalls, routers, switches, controllers
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Strong understanding of network infrastructure and network hardware
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– Ability to implement, administer, and troubleshoot network infrastructure devices, including wireless access points, firewalls, routers, switches, controllers
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– Knowledge of general-purpose scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, and Perl, which are the most popular for enterprise-grade networks
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Demonstrated strong skills in networking and IT systems Security
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– Familiar with different types of networks and architectures (including WAN, LAN, WLAN, DNS, Firewalls, Network Security, MPLS, VoIP) and how they can be integrated into an existing system
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Ability to manage and troubleshoot TCP IP networking issues
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Networking knowledge
3.Senior System Administrator
Job Description
Manage end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with best practices
Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations. Escalate incidents as necessary.
Manage vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure software products and services
Installs, configures, tests, integrates and administers systems, using system monitoring and management software tools; using applicable tools and utilities
Monitors system performance, including systems utilization and availability
Performs performance tuning to achieve optimal system speed, reliability and performance
Researches, troubleshoots and resolves complex and ambiguous problems often involving a combination of hardware, operating system, internally developed and vendor application software and database structure configuration, resource conflicts and/or interoperating problems
Installs and tests operating system patches, releases, upgrades and fixes
Assesses system capacity issues, evaluates software and other alternatives and recommends system upgrades or replacements.
Manage end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations in accordance with best practices
Anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and correct hardware and software issues on servers, and workstations. Escalate incidents as necessary.
Manage vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure software products and services
Installs, configures, tests, integrates and administers systems, using system monitoring and management software tools; using applicable tools and utilities
Monitors system performance, including systems utilization and availability
Performs performance tuning to achieve optimal system speed, reliability and performance
Researches, troubleshoots and resolves complex and ambiguous problems often involving a combination of hardware, operating system, internally developed and vendor application software and database structure configuration, resource conflicts and/or interoperating problems
Installs and tests operating system patches, releases, upgrades and fixes
Assesses system capacity issues, evaluates software and other alternatives and recommends system upgrades or replacements.
Assists database administrators with database performance issues
Assist with backup and recovery processes
Participate in the evaluation of new software and technologies to determine their functionality, interoperability, reliability, availability and supportability and prepares periodic reports on new trends
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
5 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Information Technology
3 Years of relevant experience
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Linux/Unix servers
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Information Technology
5 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Applied Information Technology
3 Years of relevant experience
Competency and Key Technical Skills
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Integrity
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Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
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Inclusiveness
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Accountability
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Client/citizen focus
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Professionalism
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Commitment to continuous learning
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Knowledge of Server environments (window, Linux, UNIX);
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Strong understanding of cryptography and SSL Certificate lifecycle management;
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Strong experience and knowledge with various DBMS (i.e. Oracle 10g/11g/12c, MS SQL and MySQL);
4. IFMIS Principal Senior Software Developer Team Leader
Job Description
Managing the continuous improvement process within the software product’s lifecycleAdhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and on budget
Ensure MINECOFIN IT security policy appliance in Smart FMS software development lifecycle
Assist in the collection and documentation of user’s requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans. Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of software
Working closely with IFMIS Project Manager, Principal Software Architect, IFMIS Software Developers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and manage the transition from analysis through to design and delivery
Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security
Under the guidance of Principal Software Architect, describe and document external interfaces with the IFMIS in terms of functional, non-functional, data format and technical terms. These are expected to represent communication channels with other external business partners
Assist in the identification of issues and problems in the IFMIS application build and the finding of suitable solutions. Furthermore, and throughout the duration of the project
Execute ongoing software development plans. Ensure ongoing functionality and maintenance
Contribute to strategy for platform evolution and integration
Document all designs and solutions and maintain ongoing development plan and production schedule
Manage client and server-side development, ensuring best practices and quality code production
Capable of understanding and contributing to the IFMIS technical solution from design through to code level
Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
Participate in reviews and meetings and provide updates on project progress
Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely to the required quality standards
Ensuring a detailed understanding of these needs of validation and testing the software products against international, national and local standards with the team, and providing mechanisms to validate products against the required quality standards by establishing good practices and habits
Maintain project plans for both software and hardware development and report back to management on the progress of projects
Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the Software Development Team
Carrying out IFMIS Software Developers appraisals, skill sets reviews and general professional development by running the regular in-house and outside training courses
Carrying out any such other duties that will be assigned by the IFMIS Project Manager in line with the improvement of financial management for GoR
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Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering
5 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
5 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
3 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Computer Science
3 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology
5 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Information Technology
3 Years of relevant experience
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Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Information Technology
5 Years of relevant experience
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Master’s Degree in Applied Information Technology
3 Years of relevant experience
Competency and Key Technical Skills
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Integrity
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Strong critical thinking skills and excellent problem solving skills.
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Inclusiveness
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Accountability
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Client/citizen focus
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Professionalism
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Commitment to continuous learning
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Hands on development with C, C++, ASP.Net/C#. HTML, Active Server Pages, JavaScript J2EE, Servlets, Struts, Spring and Hibernate
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Experience in developing mobile applications using popular mobile development tools and frameworks including but not limited to React Native, Xamarin, Ionic, QT, Mobile Angular UI…with developing application programming interfaces (APIs) to support mobile functionality
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Certification in leading database technologies (including but not limited to Oracle, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop HDFS, Maria DB) is an added advantage
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Strong grasp of business concepts, deal analysis and structuring;
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Proficient in the required computer programs and database systems
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Preferably having working knowledge of JSP,Javascript,Web services,XML,ASP,PHP,UNIX,LINUX,Redhat Linux
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Experienced in Web 2.0/3.0 tools & other social networking tools
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