The office of the UN World Food Programme, Accra invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the vacancy above.<\/p>\n
Vacancy Announcement:<\/strong>\u00a0No. WFP\/GHA\/HR\/SITA\/007\/2013 Under the direct supervision of the Head of Finance and under the overall supervision of the Country Director, the Senior Information Assistant will be responsible for the following duties:<\/p>\n Major Duties and Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Guide, train and supervise staff maintaining inventory of material and\/or database of information, such as, compute related equipment, communications equipment, website content, training material, etc; Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n Knowledge, Skills and Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A degree, Diploma, or Professional Certificates in IT, supplemented by technical training in electronic or telecommunications, computer-technology or other related field. Language:<\/strong>\u00a0Fluency in both written and oral English<\/p>\n Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n How To Apply For The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n Applicants should submit their applications with 3 references including Curriculum Vitae in sealed envelopes marked \u201cSenior Information Technology Assistant, G7 Accra<\/strong>\u201d and sent to the address below or hand-delivered to\u00a0WFP Office<\/strong>, located after the\u00a0Fire Service traffic light towards Flair Catering<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Kumodzi Hospital<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The Human Resource Unit<\/strong> Closing Date:<\/strong>\u00a003 June, 2013<\/p>\n ONLY SHORT-LISTED CANDIDATES MEETING THE CRITERIA WILL BE CONTACTED. QUALIFIED FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The office of the UN World Food Programme, Accra invites applications from suitable candidates to fill the vacancy above. Vacancy Announcement:\u00a0No. WFP\/GHA\/HR\/SITA\/007\/2013 Duration:\u00a01 year fixed Term (Renewable) Post Grade:\u00a0GS 7…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[210],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/jobs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-2Og","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDuration:<\/strong>\u00a01 year fixed Term (Renewable)
\nPost Grade:<\/strong>\u00a0GS 7<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Guide, train and supervise staff maintaining logs or archives of information, such as computer related logs, trouble tickets, directories, website publications, registeries, data warehouses, reports, etc;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Deploy and\/or disseminate standard material, such as, computer hardware and\/or software, applications, programs, directories, telephony web content, publications, database content, training material,etc;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Maintain systems and equipment by carrying out specialized tasks and supervising staff carrying out routine tasks, such as backing up data, monitoring network and systems, servers and peripherals, running systems diagnostics, patch management and system optimization, removing viruses and bad data, etc;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Monitor systems, databases and applications;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Resolve a variety of problems and\/or assist in resolution of problems by identifying and forwarding issues the appropriate person;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Maintain web pages, electronic documents, statistical databases; maintain information and knowledge Management (IKM) applications and procedures and provide support to IKM users;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Train and support users of technology and systems, such as audio\/videoconferences, meetings, databases, registeries, networks, etc;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Evaluate, develop, recommend procedures, Participates in disussions one new\/revised procedures and practices; interprets and assesses the impact of changes and makes recommendations on follow up actions;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Perform other related duties as required<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 At least six years of progressively responsible job related experience in information technology or telecommunications or information management, such as, WAN\/LAN networking, operating systems, telephone services, radio unit, web design, registery or similar and at least one year at the G6 level or equivalent. Some experience in client support, such as, a Help Desk or User Support Unit, web design team, telephone maintenance service, e-marketing group, hotline, or similar.<\/p>\n
\nUN World Food Programme<\/strong>
\nNo. 7, 7th Rangoon Close, Cantonments<\/strong>
\nP. O. Box 1423<\/strong>
\nAccra, Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n