Introduction:
Human Appeal is an incorporated UK charity and a global humanitarian and development organization. We save lives, alleviate poverty, transform and empower local communities whilst championing humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence and establishment of self-sustaining development programmes. Our vision is ‘’ to become the global agent of change for a just, caring, and sustainable world’’.
Position Summary:
The incumbent will be responsible to plan and manage the IT/MIS department functions. Includes but not limited to the software development, network management, data protection, trouble shooting, availability and security of data of the organization.
Job Description:
Network Administration:
- Assist with network access, monitoring, control, evaluation and documentation practices used to secure the organization’s network
- Responds to departments’ requests for technical assistance in a timely and professional manner
- Provides technical support for the IT Infrastructure of Human Appeal Pakistan in development and operational areas of data communications systems including technical analysis, and problem solving
- Provides configuration, design and support of corporate firewalls
- Conducts hardware/software installation including firewalls, Unix systems, routers, switches, hubs, wireless LAN access points, management tools, and other data network related devices
- Updates and resolves network, hardware and software issues as required
- Administers security policies to control access to systems
- Supports acquisition, installation, configuration, maintenance and usage of the LAN/WAN
- Responsible for continuous review of disaster recovery plan to insure completeness and accuracy to restore all applications in the event of a disaster or other interruption of processing.
- Implements security controls for detection and prevention of intrusion attempts or other malicious network activities
- Completes detailed network documentation and utilization reports
- Maintains and controls the system software library
- Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors, recommending purchases, testing and approving products.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor/management time to time.
System Administration:
- Local system configuration and global IT team cooperation.
- Support and troubleshooting for users' systems
- Configuring and maintaining printers
- Kept track of the IT equipment's
MIS Support:
- Develop and analyze software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas and implement the software development lifecycle.
- Functions as the Database Administrator and has responsibility to define all databases and maintain accuracy and consistency in the data dictionary for all applications in the Human Appeal Pakistan.
- Develop strategies/policies that are to be used in implementation of software and hardware systems in the organization.
- Performs gap analysis in software and network system to determine required changes to core systems of the organization
- Develop new models and restructure the current systems (MIQAS) in PHP.
- Strong understanding of my-SQL database.
- Working knowledge of WAMP Stack and excellent knowledge of c-Panel
- Design and develop data collection tool in KOBO
- Website admiration and maintenances
Job Requirements:
Qualification & Experience:
- Master/BS (honors) IT, software engineering, computer science from a recognized institute/university
- Hands on experience in web development/computer programming languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, Dreamweaver, visual studio code, KOBO tool box etc.)
- Minimum 2-3 years of IT/MIS experience with INGO/NGO.
