Job Title: Systems Administrator
Organization: National Medical Stores (NMS)
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda
Ref:
NMS/2014/28
NMS/2014/28
Report to:
Management Information Officer
Management Information Officer
About NMS:
National Medical Stores is an autonomous
Corporation that was established by an Act of Parliament 1993. Our mandate is
to procure, store and distribute medicines and other medical supplies to public
health facilities in Uganda.
Corporation that was established by an Act of Parliament 1993. Our mandate is
to procure, store and distribute medicines and other medical supplies to public
health facilities in Uganda.
Job Summary: The Systems Administrator will be responsible for the
installation and maintaining working systems across the enterprise as and when
necessary, in line with the Company’s ICT strategy.
installation and maintaining working systems across the enterprise as and when
necessary, in line with the Company’s ICT strategy.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Install, support
and maintain servers or other computer systems and associated peripheral
systems. - Intuitively plan
for and respond to service outages and other problems. - Script or write
applications or utilities - In charge of carrying
out project management for systems related projects - Manage a team of
computer problems beyond the knowledge of technical support staff. - The applicant
will be the consultant or advisor for problems beyond the knowledge of
technical support staff. - Perform his or
her job well, a system administrator must demonstrate a blend of technical
skills and responsibility. - Offers user
support for desk top and server based applications.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant
should hold an honour’s degree in any of the following: Computer Science,
Computer applications, Information Technology or their equivalent. - Professional
Information Technology Certifications such as Micro soft certified
professional, Cisco certified Network Associate or their equivalent.(
constitute an additional advantage). - At least three
years post qualification experience - Prior experience
in installations, upgrades, trouble shooting and repairing of computers
and their associated peripheral devices in multi-protocol network
environment preferably a large corporate. - The applicant
should be familiar with several operating systems such as windows Server
2003/2008, Windows XP/Vista/7, UNIX/ Linux Directory, LDAP, etc. - The applicants
must be familiar with general networking, Windows Active.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested
candidates should send their updated CVs that should include names and
addresses of the last two employers with hand written applications indicating
the reference number of the position you are applying for and giving three
referees with their full time telephone contacts, email and postal addresses
indicated on the application letter.
candidates should send their updated CVs that should include names and
addresses of the last two employers with hand written applications indicating
the reference number of the position you are applying for and giving three
referees with their full time telephone contacts, email and postal addresses
indicated on the application letter.
Photocopies of the original academic
documents should be attached.
documents should be attached.
Please note that National Medical Stores
reserves the right to verify Photocopies of the academic documents attached
with the relevant awarding institutions to authenticate their validity.
reserves the right to verify Photocopies of the academic documents attached
with the relevant awarding institutions to authenticate their validity.
All applications should be addressed and
delivered to the Head of Human Resource and Support Services, National Medical
Stores (NMS), Plot 4-12, Nsamizi Road, P.O Box 16, Entebbe, Uganda.
delivered to the Head of Human Resource and Support Services, National Medical
Stores (NMS), Plot 4-12, Nsamizi Road, P.O Box 16, Entebbe, Uganda.
NB: Any
form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Only candidates who
meet the specifications indicated for the jobs will be contacted. Please note
that NMS will be closed for Christmas Break between 24th December 2014 to 5th
January 2015. Please note that if you do not hear from us within four weeks
regarding your application, consider your application unsuccessful.
form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Only candidates who
meet the specifications indicated for the jobs will be contacted. Please note
that NMS will be closed for Christmas Break between 24th December 2014 to 5th
January 2015. Please note that if you do not hear from us within four weeks
regarding your application, consider your application unsuccessful.
Deadline: 9th January 2015 by 5pm
