Transition specialist Job Career at National Social Security Fund NSSF

JOB TITLE: TRANSITION SPECIALIST (1 Position)

REPORTS TO: MANAGER IT SECURITY

DEPARTMENT: TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS

JOB GRADE: D1

Job Purpose:

The role is primarily accountable for the overall quality, improvement, execution, and enforcement of the Fund’s IT Change Control process. He/she is the main coordinator within this process and is the focal point regarding changes for IT in the organization.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Schedule changes and ensure appropriate resources are assigned to execute the requested changes.
• Identify, analyze, and prepare risk mitigation tactics for the requested changes.
• Maintain the change schedule and projected service outage.
• Perform change impact analysis, assess change readiness, and identify stakeholders for the requested changes.
• Review all change requests for compliance to required standards according to established guidelines.
• Evaluate completed change requests to ensure the change management process was followed and recommend improvements.
• Ensure all necessary communication, documentation and testing is done prior to approval.
• Maintain pre-authorized and standard change lists
• Prepare for the Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings by having the appropriate changes and respective stakeholders present/available for the meetings.
• Present the requested changes to CAB for authorization
• Ensure all necessary documentation is availed and reviewed to inform the emergency change decision.
• Obtain emergency change authorization from CAB.
• Continual review and improvement of the change process from best practice, risk/audit reviews and training.

Education Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, software engineering, Information Technology or related field
• Professional qualifications in, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), or related certifications.

Work Experience: 5 years working in a busy IT environment and 2 years in a supervisory role.

Key Competences:

• Commitment & Integrity
• Proactivity & Innovation
• Getting Work Done
• Relationship Building
• Communicating and Influencing
• Resilience & Resourcefulness
• Thinking and Problem Analysis
• Research and Investigation
• Business Process and Project Management
• Risk and Control
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Problem Solving
• Computer-aided auditing techniques

Interested individuals should click https://forms.office.com/r/Pxv1ftCfQC to fill out the application form and also send copies of their application letter, curriculum vitae and academic qualifications, addressed to the Chief of People and Culture to recruitment@nssfug.org by Friday 26th August 2022.

Women are encouraged to apply. Please note that canvassing or lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification of the candidate.