Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
ICT Manager
Zambia Daily Mail Limited, an equal opportunity employer and leading newspaper Company in Zambia, inviting suitably qualified and high caliber candidate to fill the position of ICT MANAGER at Head Office.
Reports to the Managing Editor, the ICT Manager will be required to provide leading edge ICT services to the functional units of Zambia Daily Mail Limited. The incumbent is expected to be an innovator, a creative person with futuristic ‘ideas on technology, someone who is able to lead teams to develop solutions, rot just for internal usage, but to take these solutions to market as a means of generating income for the organization. It will be further expected that the individual will have demonstrable track record of all the above referenced quality traits.

Main Duties:
• Provides strategic direction and key technical oversight of ICT to support high-quality programs implementation.
• Leads the ICT team in the delivery of innovative services, supports the computing hardware, networks and software needs of numerous departments of Zambia Daily Mail Limited and provides both strategic and operational guidance to the Team.
• Drives digital innovation and serves as a cross-functional change agent across departments and units, orienting management and operations teams on trends n technology applicable to the organization.
• Manages team dynamics and staff well-being including the development of individual performance plans and monitoring of agreed performance targets forall direct reports.
• Based on insights from supervisor and management leads, the incumbent designs and implements ICT strategy by working with cross-functional teams to map and transition traditional processes to digital ones.
• Develops a clearly defined and compelling digital strategy for the organisation’s future and champion the use of digital technology and practices toengender a digital mind-set at Zambia Daily Mail Limited.
• Measures ROI on digital technology projects, provide investment in the digital tools and resources
• Works with teams across the organization to generate innovative digital solutions for services.
Supports and supervises of information management focused on data quality, security and uses.
Provides ICT strategic inputs at the Executive management level of the organization.
• Develops and tracks ICT budgets

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in relevant IT field; or at least 10 years of practical experience in similar ICT management or senior leadership roles.
• At least 5 years’ experience at Senior Leadership level with practical demonstrable accomplishments in development, deployment, Implementation and maintenance of IT systems.
• Proven leadership and strong management skills.
• Certificate in Project Management is an added advantage.
• Proficient at establishing IT services framework and T security policies.
• Must possess project and budget management skills.
• Strong grasp and understanding of ICT with forward looking preparedness of the ever-changing ICT environment.
• Good understanding of networking technologies both wired and wireless.
• Highly innovative with knowledge of Linux/Unix, Mac OSX and Windows OS

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Suitably qualified candidates are invited to apply. However only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
If you think you are the right person for this Job, please send your application letter together with a detailed CV and copies of your academic and professional certificates to the undersigned, not later that 25th October 2022.
Note: Only candidates who meet the above requirement will be considered.
The Acting Director-Human Resources & Administration
Zambia Daily Mail Limited
Longo longo Road
POBox 31421
LUSAKA

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