About US:
The Government of the Republic of Uganda under the Ministry of Health has received funding from the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to support among other things recruitment of key staff to assist in improvement of the Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) grant performance. The goals of the Health Systems Strengthening grant are to:
· Strengthen the Procurement and Supply Management (PSM) system
· Support improvements in the Management Information Systems and Monitoring and
· Support community involvement in the delivery of health services
Additionally, the National TB and Leprosy Program (NTLP) is under the department of the National Disease Control (NDC) in the Ministry of Health. NTLP’s overall functions are to establish country wide quality diagnosis and treatment services for TB and Leprosy and to coordinate the implementation of TB and Leprosy control activities. Under the National Program is a National TB Reference Laboratory whose functions are; to provide technical guidance to all TB diagnostic facilities and standardization of Laboratory TB and Leprosy provide technical supervision and training of laboratory staff on TB and Leprosy Diagnosis Techniques, Confirmation of drug resistant TB and provide follow up culture and drug susceptible tests as a national referral facility. It also supports coordinated drug resistant TB surveillance and technical support roll out of new laboratory technologies and support their uptake and utilization. It also carries out operational research activities.
Job Summary: The System Administrator will be responsible for providing day-to-day technical assistance to the RC division for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure. This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. This individual ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers and partners. This System Administrator will support project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology. These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis and design; and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions. The SA will ensure smooth transitioning of projects from development to production phase. This individual will be accountable for the following systems: Linux and Windows systems that support 6IS infrastructure; Linux, Windows and Application systems that support Asset Management; Responsibilities on these systems include System Administration engineering and provisioning, operations and support, maintenance and research and development to ensure continual innovation.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Support the Resource Centre Division:
SA Engineering and Provisioning
· Engineering of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs.
· Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
· Install and configure systems such as supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications.
· Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
· Actively contribute to and maintain system standards.
· Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks, identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.
Operations and Support
· Carry out daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
· Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
· Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
· Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.
· Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
· Provide Tier Ill/other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
· Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
Maintenance:
· Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
· Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs
· Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
· Carry out periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
· Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
· Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
2. Provide the Resource Centre department with technical and strategic oversight for GF implementation.
· Work closely with the FCO, PD and HCSS coordinator to ensure proper interpretation of the grant letters and fund release budgets in coming up with the in-country grant implementation work plans; this includes proper interpretation of the GF Budgets through quality assurance of requisitions to prevent risky consequences, track fund absorption (through monitoring absorption at the SDAs) and anticipate tides ahead and advise on speed of implementation.
· Undertake evaluation of the National Information Portal implementation on an annual basis
· Support the reporting to the Global Fund HCSS Grant implementation activities
3. Report on progress both qualitatively and quantitatively according to the annual work plans and log frame focusing on the achievement of the following results:
· Work closely with MoH/RC responsible officers on the preparation of plans at the field level and recommend corrective action, if any, to streamline the process
· Ensure the timely submission of required reports by Ministry of Health Resource Centre under the overall guidance1 of the ACHS/RC
· Support the identification and documentation of links, synergies, lessons learnt and best practices that can be useful in the institutional learning process and results im the project.
4. Support and work with other program Information specialists to conduct National Health Information Portal Enterprise Architecture review in collaboration with other partners such as Academia and WHO among others
5. Act as liaison between information technology and data users.
6. Develop National eHealth Architecture that supports the various HMIS platforms in the National Health Data Warehouse within agreed framework ensuring standards, integration and interoperability
7. Ensures Program knowledge management and capacity development on results- based management:
· In charge of the preparation of quarterly and annual programmatic progress updates on program based on GF requirements
· Ensures training and other capacity development initiatives to strengthen program and district capacity in results-based management, monitoring and evaluation
· Facilitates strategic information sharing across departments, sub national levels and sectors related to GF support
· Ensures development and updating of databases with pertinent program data and reports, evaluations, etc.
· Perform any other duties assigned by the Assistant Commissioner Health Services/ RC
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The applicant should preferably hold a good Degree in Computer Science or related field from a recognized University.
· At least five years’ experience in administering complex computer system in a large organization.
· A minimum of five years’ experience in a SA role
· Systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix and Microsoft
· Extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
· Previous work experience with the health sector will be an added advantage
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to send their applications addressed to the Permanent Secretary, MOH to the address below;
Ministry of Health,
Plot 6 Lourdel Road, Room D213, Block D, 2nd Floor.
P.O. Box 7272, Kampala,
Kampala. Uganda.
Deadline: 11th September 2015.