Donewell Insurance LTD is seeking to recruit Head of IT

Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor the hardware and software of the company
• Develop database reports/queries that will provide information as required by management for decision making
• Provide the first line of technical support for all staff
• Assess and analyse the current IT infrastructural needs and apply available tools to ensure an efficient, supportive and user-friendly environment for non-technical users
• Provide recommendations for future systems purchase, upgrade, and usage
• Develop and maintain information technology strategies and plans
• Ensure that technological plans are aligned with the strategic and departmental business plans
• Demonstrated ability to communicate organisational and technology vision to the board, management team and staff
• Demonstrated visionary leadership and creative thinking
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships between staff, management and vendors
• Identify emerging trends in IT to grow the business and advise management, accordingly
• Generally to ensure 99.9% availability and reliability of all IT systems
• Any other duties that will be assigned from time to time

Qualification Required & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, information technology or a related field
• A master’s degree will be an added advantage
• Any IT professional qualification
• Network Admin skills
• Demonstrable wide applications support experience
• Knowledge of software development
• Project management
• In touch with current trends in procurement and utilisation of hardware and infrastructure environments
• 10 years of working experience with 2 years in managerial position