The Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) is a 100% state-owned corporation incorporated on 2nd December, 2008 under the Company’s Act, Cap 486 as a State Corporation pursuant to the Sessional Paper No. 4 of 2004 on Energy.

MANAGER, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION – SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY – (KET 4) ONE (1 POSITION) REF: KET/5/1C/40/202/VOL I – B (12/23) ON PERMANENT & PENSIONABLE TERMS

Reporting to the General Manager, Strategy, Research & Compliance,

Job purpose

This Job is responsible for providing leadership and coordinating information technology and innovation systems technology in order to facilitate stable and reliable operation of the Company’s ICT Infrastructure and Service Delivery. The Job holder undertakes development, maintenance, support, and optimization of ICT Infrastructure, Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, Data Centre, Disaster Recovery Site, corporate data backup and Internet connectivity.

Key Responsibilities;

• Designing and executing short and long-term strategic plans to assure infrastructure capacity attains current and future needs.
• Developing and executing procedures, policies and related training plans for project management and infrastructure administration.
• Managing and establishing priorities for maintenance, design, development and analysis of entire infrastructure systems inclusive of LANs, WANs, internet, security and wireless implementations.
• Leading research and recommend changes in services, products, protocols and standards to support development efforts and infrastructure procurement.
• Defining and managing IT Disaster Recovery Strategy for organization.
• Defining standards for physical and logical infrastructure in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Reporting and preparing strategies to maintain server infrastructure.
• Directing and administering systems administrators to provide leadership and direction.
• Ensuring to practice IT asset management inclusive of component inventory maintenance and associated documentation.
• Ensuring that the Company meets legal and contractual obligations relating to ICT infrastructure, services delivery and usage, complying with legislative requirements. xi. Articulating the Division’s objectives and strategies in relevant internal and external assignments relevant to the Division’s work;
• Overseeing the development, deployment and maintenance of appropriate ICT infrastructure;
• Advising and recommending ICT infrastructure requirements for procurement and distribution;
• Driving technology-enabled innovation and transformation.
• Implementing the Company’s Strategic Plan on relevant ICT objectives
• Implementing all approved work plans and policies of the system technology Division
• Coordinating the implementation of an appropriate technical support framework, including the management and delivery of service support and service delivery. xviii. Monitoring and evaluating results monthly against Performance Targets
• Supervising data centre related tasks and lead, direct and utilize knowledge on best practices in area related to infrastructure.
• Negotiating with outsourcers, vendors and contractors for infrastructure-specific products and services secure.
• Ensuring that work and projects are delivered within agreed budgets. xxii. Ensuring security of data, network access and back-up systems.
• Liaising with external bodies, contractors, and service providers in the provision of an effective and efficient ICT service.
• Advising Management on technological trends for continuous upgrades and efficient service delivery.
• Analysing and recommend ICT Infrastructure and systems solutions for deployment and implementation to the Company.

Qualifications & Skills required

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field with Bachelor’s degree in Business/Computer Science/ Management Information Systems/Business IT Administration/Economics or related field from a recognized institution
• Management Course not lasting less than four (4) weeks
• Membership and accreditation with ICT Authority.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate
• Microsoft certifications; Certified Systems Engineer/ Certified IT Professional
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation
• A minimum of eight (8) years relevant work experience.