Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo): Webmaster

The Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), a subsidiary of the Volta River Authority, whose mission is to procure electricity and distribute it efficiently, safely and reliably in the northern sector of Ghana in a commercially viable manner.

Job Description

The Volta River Authority invites applications from suitably qualified Ghanaians for the position of Webmaster in its Public Relations Unit.

Job Function:
The Webmaster is responsible for the online experience of the organisation’s customers, partners, supplier and employees. By using industry standard approaches to develop, design, updating content regularly and working with the IT department to ensure optimal availability.

• Collaborate with Management and relevant departments to determine VRA Website purpose, functions, requirements and long term strategy
• Develop VRA Web page infrastructure and application related to pages with advanced graphics and features
• Design web pages including graphics, animation and functionality
• Manage the day-to-day operations of VRA website, including updates, maintenance and future development
• Establish policies and procedures around content management
• Develop and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of VRA website usability and functionality

Remuneration: Highly competitive compensation package

Required Skills or Experience

Key Job Requirements:
Preference will be given to candidates with:

• Good first degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant related field
• Not less than six (6) years relevant post qualification experience in the IT industry, especially, design and management of website
• Good command over HTML (Hyper Mark-up Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and Extensible Markup Language (XML), Ajax, Flash, C+++ or Java, etc
• Knowledge of operating systems such as open-source Unix operating system or its variants
• Capability in the use of web development applications such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft fontpage
• Good knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Good knowledge in graphic design

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience in working in web development environment
• Good presentation skills
• High levels of capacity and an eye for detail
• Ability to priorities work, and that of others and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage teams
• Well-developed interpersonal and negotiating skills

How To Apply

Interested applicants with the requisite qualifications and experience may apply, giving detailed Curriculum Vitae, copies of their certificates, together with testimonials from two referee, both of whom must be professionally connected with their work, and a contact telephone number, to reach the:

Offer valid till: 18 Jun, 2012