About the position
Our client, based in the Sundays River Valley is seeking to employ a experienced and business minded Chief Information Officer (CIO) to their dynamic team.
This is a senior role with formal reporting to the Board of Directors on all matters related to IT -Strategy, Governance, Risks, Cybersecurity and Projects.
A wonderful career opportunity awaits you.
Requirements:
- Post Graduate qualification in Information Technology.
- 8-10 years’ experience within the corporate IT environment.
- All-round and sound knowledge of IT Applications, systems, and infrastructure.
- 3+ years of working with MS SQL Server, SQL Scripting & Data schemes.
- Strong client service orientation.
- Strategic and Leadership skills.
- Professional communication skills.
- Developing, coaching, and mentoring talent.
- Strong aptitude for problem solving.
- Organisational skills and ability to run multiple tasks.
- Report writing.
- Ability to function well under pressure and work to deadlines.
Responsibilities and expectations but not limited to:
- Strategic Planning: adapt, implement, and maintain the IT Strategy within the company’s business goals/strategy.
- Financial Management which requires the management and monitoring of Capital and Expenditure budgets as well as management and oversight of Vendor agreements.
- Human Resource management of both the IT Systems and Technical teams.
- Ensuring IT Governance excellence by enforcing IT policies/standards, maintaining the IT Risk Register, and overseeing the implementation of Cybersecurity Measures and Disaster Recovery plans.
- Oversee the management of all IT applications’ life cycles to ensure employees can perform their duties optimally.
- Oversight and management of the company’s IT infrastructure for optimal performance and support of department goals, including LAN, WAN, and remote access.
- Formal reporting to the Board of Directors on all matters related to IT -Strategy, Governance, Risks, Cybersecurity and Projects.
Please note should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying you may assume that your application was unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- Information Technology
- SQL
- stratergy
- expenditure
- comliance
- lan
- wan
