JOB OPPORTUNITY

BRAC is the world’s largest, and leading development organization dedicated to poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. Initiated in Bangladesh in 1972, BRAC now operates in 11 countries across Asia, and Africa. To counter poverty and promote social empowerment, BRAC strategically integrates development programs in microfinance, agriculture, health, education, human rights and legal aid, community empowerment, and more.

BRAC Rwanda Microfinance Company PLC is registered with Rwanda Development Board in September 2018 and was approved license from National Bank of Rwanda to operate Microfinance and other financial services in Rwanda. BRAC Rwanda is looking for competent, dynamic, and self-motivated Rwandans to fill the following regular position.

Position: Infrastructure & Cybersecurity Officer  

Job Location: Country Office.

Female Candidates are encouraged to apply  

                     Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works with Head of IT, BI IT and strategic service partners to design systems architecture, build and deploy at country offices.
• Monitors and ensures high quality IT service partner service delivery.
• Provides expert infrastructure support to all IT project implementations.
• Significantly contributes to achieving the IT department’s strategic objectives and ensures effective solutions are created and implemented to meet business requirements.
• Ensures an effective and validated Disaster Recovery infrastructure exists for each branch office.
• Develops with BI IT, and maintains a cybersecurity and infrastructure system monitoring strategy, using an effective tool portfolio.
• Creates a communication plan to ensure all team members are well-informed of architecture standards, implementation guidelines and process expectations.
• Acts as the lead systems architect for all system design and implementation activities.
• Works with BI IT to protect all cloud data via effective security, storage, backup/recovery and disaster recovery techniques.

• Adheres to audit and compliance expectations and continually seeks to improve system controls and cybersecurity.
• Ensures that all implementation initiatives follow established change management policies/ITIL compliant processes.

 ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Develop and maintain own knowledge, expertise, and professionalism.
• Keep abreast of current developments in Microfinance and the IT industry.
• Remain current with organization’s technological requirements and new developments in the industry.
• Meet personal training and development needs through relevant professional and commercial training and networking

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, and encourage others to do so.

Knowledge, Skills & Competencies:

• Effective communication skills.
• Writing and reporting skills in English are mandatory
• Computer skills.

Educational Qualifications and experience

• 5+ years of experience in managing technical and infrastructure services.
• Must have proven leadership skills and strategic planning capability.
• Must be ITIL certified and certified in Cybersecurity.
• Experience with applications and databases a plus
• Must have experience with Disaster Recovery System Design and Recovery Planning
• Experience with Enterprise Systems Monitoring and Management Tools required
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science Information Technology or any other related field 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to work effectively and maintain partnerships with service vendors.
• Requires an understanding of, and a commitment to advancing the mission and core values of BRAC International and, the ability to incorporate them into the job setting and articulate them to staff.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Change Management
• Project Management
• Persuading and influencing
• Implementation and management of infrastructure platforms or components like Unix, Windows, Storage Technologies, Databases, Middleware, Capacity Management, etc.
• Proficient in Networking and Communications

Allocate and manage the resources, support and infrastructure required for any IT projects, products and services.

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned positions, please follow the application instructions accordingly

Candidates need to send a signed Cover letter in PDF format indicating the title of the position applied for, updated CV mentioning educational and professional qualification, years of experience, and notarized scan copies of academic qualifications. All those documents should be sent through

email: [email protected] , Application deadline is 08^th April 2023 

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be called for written test and interview.