occupied Palestinian territory: IT Team Leader

Specific responsibilities of the IT Team Leader will include the following:

• Overseeing the development of an integrated database Materials Tracking System (MTS) to track and report on materials, from source through transit, storage, delivery and usage in final products
• Interpret and translate ICT strategic directions, policy and standards requirements into the actionable software development plans
• Review project proposals, prioritize projects, develop work plan, assign resources and track progress to completion in alignment with organizational objectives
• Establish, drive, and meet service groups’ goals that are aligned with organizational objectives
• Provide leadership to ensure the service groups’ deliverables meet development, implementation, quality assurance and maintenance requirements
• Plan and coordinate integration of standards, processes and tools into day-to-day ICT operational activities including software development life-cycle, change management, and technical monitoring
• Overseeing the server and IT solution setups for MMU unit and make sure to adapt them to UNOPS Global standards
• Plan/lead/manage and supervise the training sessions to the approved GRAMMS stakeholders
• Follow up and fix reported bugs in the GRAMMS
• Provide MMU management team with reports/statistics from the system whenever is required
• Establish and maintain coding standards, best practices, code reviews and adherence to laid down standard operating procedures
• Monitor/supervise the helpdesk functions that IT team is providing to GRAMMS stakeholders
• Consolidate and report key performance indicators obtained from local service groups
• Lead and mentor staff members and consultants and provide guidance and advice as needed
• Motivate team members, and ensure the development of their competencies
• Respond to critical issues in a timely and decisive manner and operate independently with little to no direction
• Advise system developers on design, tools, licensing, implementation and support of ICT software infrastructure
• Keep abreast of developments in the field of ICT and participate in the evaluation of new solutions and methodologies
• Perform other duties as required

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