The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc (NAHCO) is Nigeria's foremost aviation ground handling company. As part of its ongoing business transformation and re-engineering programme, nahco aviance seeks to recruit a vastly experienced and versatile professional to fill the position of Head, lCT for an initial contract period of two years.
Reporting to Executive Director, Finance and Strategic Planning, the successful candidate will ensure proper alignment of Information Technology systems to support the company's business strategy and promote maximum automation of business processes, optimal use and functionality of ICT system infrastructure in line with our corporate business objective.
Position: Head, Information & Communication Technology (ICT)
The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company PLC (nahco aviance) is Nigeria's foremost aviation ground hand.ling company. As part of its ongoing business transformation and re-engineering programme, nahco aviance seeks to recruit a vastly experienced and versatile professional to fill the position of Head, lCT for an initial contract period of two years.
Reporting to Executive Director, Finance and Strategic Planning, the successful candidate will ensure proper alignment of Information Technology systems to support the company's business strategy and promote maximum automation of business processes, optimal use and functionality of ICT system infrastructure in line with our corporate business objective.
• Develop an ICT Strategy to support business requirements of the company.
• Lead the teams that define, develop and maintain operational plans for all Business Applications and Web Solutions
• Have the overall responsibility for consideration and implementation effort and success of any Business Applications and Web Solutions
• Work closely with business partners to analyze their business needs and strategic goals, ensuring that the right applications and technology are utilized to improve corporate processes and support critical business strategies.
• Act as high level escalation point for issues and problems associated with Business Applications performance and deliverables.
• Develop budget estimates for needs in the applications and web services areas and provides significant input into the annual IT planning process.
• Ensure industry standard practices in all aspects applications development and maintenance activities.
• Manage outsourced vendor relationships (if any) to ensure that vendor work is consistent with departmental and organisational standards.
• Play a key role in company-wide project priority setting process and participate in the setting of strategies and directions for Business Applications and Solutions.
• Establish technical design and standards for infrastructure throughout the Company in conjunction with the IT Steering Committee
• Be responsible for implementing and operating a high availability computing
infrastructure.
• Implement and test Disaster Recovery plans
• Develop and enforce ICT policies and procedures.
• Ensure appropriate Human Capital compliment to drive ICT process is in place and manage them to deliver results.
Qualification, Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science with professional certification in Information Technology. Possession of other relevant post-graduate qualifications and experience in project management will be added advantage.
• Minimum of Eight (8) years hands-on experience in ICT and project management, three of which must be in management of medium to large scale ICT facilities in a blue-chip company.
• Possession of strong analytical and interpersonal skills, good personal attributes, excellent communication, problem solving and database administration skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the design, implementation and maintenance of strategic applications (Oracle Applications, Hermes, Workbridge and Web Design)
• Ability to direct competing customer demands through prioritization and negotiation
• Experience with networking (LAN and WAN), telephony, VOIP, and videoconferencing
• Experience in the design, implementation, and management of high availability/high reliability global networks.
• Experience in managing teams to deliver results.
Application:
To apply, please send in detailed resume to vacancies@nahcoaviance.com
Closing Date: Thursday, 29th April, 2010
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interview