Country IT Specialist at CVPeople Tanzania
Job Overview
Country IT Specialist at CVPeople Tanzania
Country IT Specialist
CVPeople Tanzania | Full time
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Posted on 08/06/2025
Job Summary
The Country IT Specialist under the overall guidance of the Head of Finance and IT and the Regional ICT Director is strategically and operationally accountable for the Country’s ICT to ensure the innovative and effective use of ICT.
Dimensions of the Role
- Responsible for leading the strategic direction and delivery of quality ICT Infrastructure and environment services, Information Security and ICT4D services to deliver against the corporate and service plans in Country Office and PUs to meet the needs and aspirations of over 150 ICT users.
- Responsible for leading digital transformation to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Provide strategic input to the budget planning processes, advising on the allocation and control of financial resources and maintaining overall responsibility for the budgets of the department of about EURO 150K annually.
- Accountable for the delivery and managing a mix of technologies, business continuity, IT security, risk management and effective support of the County’s ICT infrastructure and systems comprising of
a) desktops, laptops, tablets, Servers, printers, routers/ switches and hubs;
b) Corporate Applications ERP, Human Resource Information System, and
c) a variety of SW licences
d) network management and troubleshooting/escalating Internet connectivity issues to ISP across all offices - Responsible for Data protection (DPO and Data Privacy Point Person)
Responsibilities
- Global ICT strategy Implementation
- Developed Country implementation plan of the global ICT strategy: Develops a framework for Country of the global ICT strategy.
- Global IT management standards
- Country ICT strategies: Leads the development and implementation of country IT Strategies
- ICT operational plans: Ensures that relevant operational plans exist to deliver country IT Strategies
- IT Business Continuity plan Framework: Develops an IT Business Continuity plan Framework for the organization’s Program Units
- ICT4D implementation plan for organization’s Programs: Develops an ICT4D implementation plan/framework to guide ICT4D projects in the organization.
- ICT Infrastructure plan: Develops an effective Country IT Infrastructure and manages IT service provision and service levels in the country.
- Prepare ICT capacity plan: Builds country ICT capacity, aligned to the organization’s strategic directions, global strategic IT plan, corporate policies and local priorities as an integral part of the Country Strategic Plan.
- Plans for the country as a member of country management: Work closely with country management on the country’s business priorities to make IT an effective strategic enabler for the implementation of CSP.
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