World Vision International is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. For over two decades. World Vision has been working with urban and rural communities in all the 10 Regions of Ghana to improve provision of water, promote sanitation and hygiene practices and quality education, particularly at the basic level, enhance food security and respond to disasters.

Description Of Job

World Vision Ghana (WVG) is looking for a highly qualified, proactive, motivated and resourceful person to fill the above position.

Job location: Head Office, Accra
Reports to: IT Manager

Purpose of the position:
Support and maintain the day -to-day operations of Operating Systems, Lotus Domino Servers, SQL Servers and associated hardware and business applications in use by World Vision Ghana through the provision of a client-oriented service.

Major Responsibilities:

•  Provide and maintain documentation and guidelines to help users in the efficient use of Operating Systems, servers and business applications
•  Evaluate data center hardware, Operating Systems, business applications and other services continuously and ensure these are operating optimally
•  Administration and maintenance of all Data Center servers including Windows Operations Systems, Lotus Domino Applications and Messaging servers, SQL database servers, etc
•  Configure and set-up of all new server systems required internally for WV business
•  Ensure secured business email is available and accessible nation-wide
•  Identify business application needs and business automation processes to ensure a proper workflow of data among all WV departments and Services in the National Office and Projects locations
•  Ensure daily backup of all data in the Data Center to appropriate backup media. Maintain backup logs of all backup operations and ensure these are available to WV Auditors upon request
•  Prepare regular progress reports to the IT Manager based on an established performance agreement
•  Keeps an update-to-date server monitoring Dashboard with metric including availability, performance, technical capacity, etc

Qualification Required & Experience

Job Specification:

•  Educational level required: A university degree in Computer Science or Information technology
•  Technical Training qualifications required: Qualified MSCE, MCTP or ITIL version 3 foundation
•  4 years working experience, 2 of which should have been in a Systems Administrator context
•  Experience in Lotus Domino server administration and or Microsoft SQL Server Administration
•  Service management culture and team spirit with a burning desire to achieve optimum  results ....
•  Good working knowledge of major data center systems and operating systems and computer hardware components
•  Good working knowledge of the following operating systems: - Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

How To Apply For The Job

Interested applicants who meet the above criteria should send their application letters and CV quoting only the job reference as the subject to:

ghana@wvi.org

Closing Date: 13 November, 2012

As a Child focused organisation, World Vision is committed to the protection of children and does not employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. WV is an equal opportunity employer. Women are highly encouraged to apply.