HEAD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOB AT BOTSWANA LIFE INSURANCE


Are you tired of being limited? Would you like a career with which your efforts dictate your earning potential? Would you like to be part of Botswana Life Insurance Limited, the market leader in the Life Insurance industry in Botswana? If your answer is yes to any of the above, then this is your chance!
HEAD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Applications are invited from suitably qualified employees for the position of Head of Information Technology

Requirements

Main Purpose of the Role
Strategic Alignment:
Development of IT strategies, policies and processes
  • Formulate IT strategies, policies and processes for the Group in line with overall BIHL business strategy to support the successful achievement of the company’s strategic objectives
  • Ensure that IT strategies and policies enable subsidiaries to provide client service in such a way that it will maximize their productivity and contribution to achieve the objectives of the company
  • Monitor IT and general technology trends and developments in the financial services sector globally, and recommend changes and amendments to the Group’s IT policies and practices accordingly
I.T Security
  • Ensure that a sufficient and relevant policy framework exists for the protection of internal and external threats to the security of BIHL business information
  • Develop processes to ensure constant monitoring of security and appropriate response to security threats as they arise
  • Conduct security audits with the assistance of neutral resources in order to establish consistent security improvement plans
Project Management and System Development
  • Ensure that the I.T department takes a leading and key role in the development of any new IT systems
  • Provide IT Project Management services to all technology projects for the subsidiaries
  • Provide and review project management standards and guidelines for IT projects and ensure that they are adhered to
Service Level Agreements (SLA’s)
  • Run the corporate server environment and provide desktop support to all subsidiaries
  • Develop and implement a framework for service performance management to ensure objective and sustainable management of individual SLA’s that have been agreed with subsidiaries
  • Constantly monitor performance against all SLA’s – whether they are between any subsidiary and internal or outsourced IT service providers
Qualifications
The ideal candidate must possess the following:
  • A relevant Bachelor’s degree is critical
  • A post graduate qualification such as a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from a recognized institution will be an added advantage
Work Experience
  • A minimum of ten (10) years post qualification experience in the IT Sector. Experience in the Financial Services Sector (life insurance business, investment funds management, banking and/or any other financial service) will be an added advantage.
  • At least five (5) years of these should have been in general management capacity or managerial leadership with responsibility for strategic planning, budgeting, recruitment, and profit accountability
  • Appreciation of technical concepts or demonstration of sound technical experience
Key competencies
  • Strategic visioning and execution
  • Business or commercial orientation
  • Team leadership and management
  • Customer orientation
  • Technical IT competency in one or more areas of specialisation
  • Stakeholder management

Closing date and application instructions

Interested applicants should submit their application and return it together with a detailed CV by 22nd April 2016 to:
Human Resources Department
Botswana Life Insurance Limited
P Bag 00296
Gaborone
Or email to recruitment@blil.co.bw with the position applied for as the subject of the email.
Note: Communication will be made to short listed candidates only.
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