Kirinyaga County Government
County
Public Service BoardThe
Kirinyaga County Public Service Board wishes to recruit a competent and
qualified person to fill the position of;
Director ICT Projects
– Business Systems Implementation
1
Position
Job
Group “R”
Department:
Finance,
Economic Planning, ICT & Marketing
Reports
To: County Executive Committee Member through Chief
Officer
Job
Summary: The
Director is responsible for the management and administration of all projects
related to ICT systems, services and processes.
This
encompasses the design of the Project Goals, Objectives, overall Projects
Planning and implementation.
Duties
& Essential Job Functions
Administrative
Responsibilities
Project
Planning
- The incumbent is expected to plan and set project goals
and objectives. Administration and coordination is to be carried out in
conjunction with the Service providers.
- Key responsibility will be to ensure all the Project
pre-requisites are fulfilled from County side.
Financial
- Responsible for management of the project budgets for
ICT systems & services, capital expenditures, contracting and staffing
required for the projects to be delivered
Diversity
and scope of services
- Responsible for Management, administration and
implementation of all ICT related projects & services within the
county and at sub-county level.
- This will call for a Relationship management skill to
be able to manage or maintain a working relationship with the various ICT
vendors /technology providers and service providers
Project
management and Relationship maintenance
- As a member of the Core Implementation Group (CIG),
offer technical and professional advise through-out the implementation.
- Preparation of clear roles and responsibility between
the various project stakeholders; which should be aligned to the overall
goals & objective of the project. This is to ensure the stake holders
remain focused to expected deliverables.
- Preparation of Key project milestones indicators and
share with all project indicators. This to ensure the project is well
evaluated at every implementation stage.
- Maintain the project stakeholders within the agreed
project scope & expectations. This is to ensure the set Project Plan
is strictly adhered to by all stakeholders
- Ensure effective communication and issues escalation
matrix is well maintained amongst the Project stakeholders and to the
Project sponsors/ Department.
- Ensure all project assumptions and constraints are
clearly documented and communicated amongst the project Stakeholders
- Ensure Project milestone sign-offs are clearly
documented, agreed upon by all stakeholders and signed-off
Training,
Testing and Go-live coordination
- Facilitate the required training by ensuring the
trainees are available, well coordinates and have the required training
materials from the County
- Evaluate the Training schedules and materials provided
by the Service providers and confirm if they are sufficient and serves the
County requirements & expectations
- Coordinate the Core Implementation Group and other key
project stakeholders to be fully involved in the User Acceptance Testing
(UAT). This is by ensuring the system is fully tested on both positive and
negative scenarios, and ensure system fully meets the requirements of the
County. The incumbent is also expected to coordinate preparation of all
the test cases / scenarios.
- Coordinate the Go-live stage by ensuring availability
and commitment of all project stakeholders as this is a key milestone for
the County.
- Coordinate Post-Go-live system support , by ensuring
that the Service providers are hand-holding the Systems till system
stability
- Ensure efficient project hand-over to a well trained
in-house ICT team.
Project
Management documentation & reports
- Preparation of all Project management documentations
and reports on behalf of the Department of ICT
- Ensure quality in all project deliverables as defined
in the scope.
- Preparation of status reports at all project milestones
Recommends
the selection of, and administers and coordinates the activities of any ICT
services may be required by the County, from time to time
- Continuous reviewing and recommendations on ICT
services or solutions by the County.
- Develops terms of reference for required consultant
services and guides the County in preparation of Requirement Specification
Documents.
- Administers, coordinates and evaluates all ICT
consultancy activities
Required
Qualifications
- A degree in a relevant field (ICT, Computer Science,
Computer Systems, Telecommunications or Electrical Engineering)
- Oracle Certification
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Certification
- A minimum of five (5) years experience in Projects
planning and management
- Experience in a busy ICT environment
- Team Leadership
- Excellent communication and administrative skills with
a demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate and manage teams &
budgets
- Other relevant ICT Certifications
How
to Apply
All
written applications, CVs, copies of certificates, testimonials and identity
card should be submitted in a sealed envelope clearly marked on the left side
the position being applied for and addressed to:
The Secretary,
Kirinyaga County Public Service Board, Office of the Governor,
P.O Box 260-10304,
Kutus
Hand delivered applications should be dropped at the Kirinyaga County Public
Service Board Offices, Kirinyaga County Government Head Quarters, Kutus.
