Futures Group Senior ICT Technical Manager Job Vacancy in Tanzania

Futures Group provides Management Information System (MIS) support to the
Government of Tanzania’s Department of Social Welfare (DSW) and USAID. Under
the MEASURE Evaluation Associate Award, the Futures team provides a range of
technical assistance including: support for the continued development,
innovation and implementation of the national Most Vulnerable Children (MVC)
MIS strategy; improving information flow to enhance the delivery of timely data
of good quality to guide policy and program decisions; create linkages between
the DSW MVC MIS and other government MISs that support vulnerable children, and
build capacity of local IT staff to manage, update and change the system.

The Deputy COP/ Senior Technical Manager for ICT will advise and provide
technical expertise to the Chief of Party, and broader project team. He/she
will lead the project’s redesign of the national MIS for MVC, roll-out to the
field, on-going supervision and capacity-building for full transfer to the DSW.
Key responsibilities include coordination of hardware and software
specifications, developing the strategy for and implementation of supportive
supervision, mentorship, and training for key stakeholders and partners
including DSW, the Prime Minister’s Office for Regional and Local Government,
district social welfare officers and para-social workers, implementing partners
and other government and donor agencies.

The work requires innovation and strong leadership skills. Work is very
technical in nature and knowledge is specialized. Extensive prior experience in
large-scale IT deployments for health and/or social welfare programs is
absolutely required.

Key Responsibilities
Senior Technical Manager is chief designer, thought leader and responsible for
full redesign, execution and implementation of MVC MIS
Work with Futures ICT and M&E teams and DSW on re-designing/strengthening
the current national MVC MIS
Provide technical advice to COP and DSW on rolling out the new system to
districts in Tanzania
Provides technical advice to senior management regarding capacity building
strategy and implementation plan for various target audiences.
Senior Technical Manager is fully accountable for successfully implementation
and execution of all aspects of the MVC DMS MIS solution
Providing input related to appropriate staffing levels, and training of a small
yet highly effective team on-the-ground to pursue and support the IT-related
work.
STM will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the appropriate processes
and tools for planning, implementing, and monitoring progress, leadership and
management of processes.
Mentors, trains, and manages assigned staff to successfully work on the
projects to leverage proposed outcomes and meet/exceed quantitative target
commitments to donors.
STM will have technical expertise to demonstrate innovative, new technologies
that could improve the data collection and use process for the MVC program
based on limitations in Tanzania infrastructure.
Conduct supportive supervision with district offices including receiving
feedback from users of the system.
Conducts assessments of trainees to interpret baseline understanding and assess
training needs
Designs and facilitates MVC MIS trainings
Develop training curricula and presentations
In collaboration with the MVC M&E TWG, organize and implement activities
such as workshops, on the job training and sharing of good practice that
provide capacity building opportunities to district social welfare officers,
para social workers, and staff of local institutions to enhance institutional
effectiveness
Coordinate and build capacity of DSW, districts social welfare officers,
partner organizations and Futures Group staff in Information systems,
leadership, strategic planning, partner and stakeholder coordination, human
resource tracking, and database development.
Participate in other ICT activities that arise as assigned by the COP

Qualifications
5-7 years Expert knowledge in IT domains and ability to design and conduct
trainings on related topics
Operating Systems and platforms
PC hardware and software
Local and Wide Area Networking
Databases systems including MS Access, MS SQL, MySQL
Cloud and Web technologies – PaaS, SaaS, IaaS
Contributed to at least one paper or article on informatics security, PC,
networking
At least five (5) years of experience in Health IT databases, migration,
deployment and maintenance
At least eight 5-7years of experience in international Health IT context.
5 -7 years proven experience leading and manage large scale health IT
deployments in support of USG funded program
Strong and demonstrated knowledge of SQL Server 2005 / 2008 administration and
Tools.
Experience in relational database technologies such as: MS SQL, MySQL or
equivalent.
Demonstrated technical experience DSW MVC management information system
Demonstrated technical experience in mhealth and mobile computing solutions
University Degree in Informatics or Information Technology
Expertise in facilitation and training for various target audiences including
technical experts (i.e. data entry specialists / data analysts) and policy
makers
A broad and extensive knowledge of IT principles, methods and techniques;
analytical skills and superior knowledge of project management principles to
manage projects and work with multi-disciplinary teams
Verbal skills are required to communicate technical information to audiences
with varying levels of technical expertise as referenced above
Good writing skills are required to design capacity building strategies and
implementation plans and develop training curricula.
Understanding of the most vulnerable children system in Tanzania.
Experience with varied training approaches and methodologies.
Proven experience facilitating training events.
Ability to synthesize information and utilize communication approaches to
disseminate that information.
Analytical skills are required to conceptualize the development of IT
architectures and frameworks
Work related to the management and oversight of donor-funded project budgets
and financial reporting is of value.
Must be available for domestic and international travel for up to 40% time

Deadline: 03-06-2013

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