Information Technology Officer Job at Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries - Career Opportunity in Uganda

Vacancy title:
Information Technology Officer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Public Administration, and Government , Category: Computer & IT ]

 

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Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries

Deadline of this Job:
02 February 2020  

Duty Station:
Within Uganda , Entebbe , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
The Mission of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries is to "Transiom' Subsistence Farming to Commercial Agriculture”. The Ministry seeks to eradicate interceptions for its horticultural exports including flowers, fresh fruits, and vegetables to the foreign markets and to reduce presence of the hamtful organisms and high chemical residues among flood crops sold to the citizens ofthe country.
In order to address this, the ministry has found it necessary to expand its Human Resource capacity by urgently recruiting inspectors and one [1] lnformation Technology {IT} Officer on contract terms lo beef up its existing work force.
Applications are now invited from suitably qualified Ugand ans to fill 20 vacant positions for Agricultural Inspectors and one [1] Information Technology (IT) Officer.
These positions are to be filled initially on a short tem1 period of 6 months with a possibility of extension for another one year.
Job Title: Information Technology Officer
Departrnent: Crop Inspection and Certification
Report to: Senior lnformation Technology Officer
Salary: Attractive
Number of Positions: One (1).

Key Functions/Duties:
The specific tasks of the IT Officer will include:
• Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of the department ICT based plalfom
• Monitoring and cnntrolling servioe level of systems networks and other related hardware suppliers and overseeing aoquisition of required hardware and software
• Working closely with departmental staff, and relevant authorities to review existing ICT facilities and Identify priority areas that are relevant to lhe deparlrnent of orop Inspection and Certification
• Generate, automate and produoe operational reports and management infomation adhering to defined templates and ensuring compliance with infomation security prototnls.
• Deal with systems queries and process requests in relation to problem solving, systems cnnfiguration and technical faults,
• Maintain and support users through a help desk service Assist with processes relating to systems upgrades, including reviewing release notes, formulating and running system lesls, troubleshooting among others
• Assist management ofthe system as required in temts of documenting and cnnfiguration of systems, functionality of data prooessing and process flows, add, remove or update user account infomtation and resetting passwords.


Academic Qualifications:
The following specific qualifications are required:
• An honors Degree in Computer Scienoe, lnfonnation Systems, or lnfomation Technology or lnfomation Communications Technology
• A minimum of 3 years of in establishment/maintenance of ICT platforms.
• A valid professional certification in system and database administration is an added advantage


Job Experience Requirements: 3 years

Job Skills: Not Specified

Job Qualifications: Not Specified

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Job application procedure
Applicants should fill Public Service Fom 3 which should be submitted to the Security Registry of Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, P. O. Box 102, Entebbe, not later than 5:00pm of 2nd February, 2020.

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 02 February 2020
Duty Station: Entebbe
Posted: 23-01-2020
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 23-01-2020
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 23-01-2064
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