Key Job Responsibilities 

• To contribute as a member of the Executive Management Team.
• Formulating and directing the Company's IT strategy and ensure implementation.
• Aligning IT with Business initiatives with business objectives.
• Communicate and market the value of IT and manage the value perceptions.
• Manage IT economics to drive down operational costs, creating capacity for initiatives and innovation (both business and IT).
• Drive technology effectiveness and efficiency to improve information management and enable rapid response to changing business requirements.
• Transforming business processes for automation and adaptability, modernizing business applications for services re-use, and providing a cost-efficient, flexible IT infrastructure.
• Manage risk through ensuring IT continuity, resilience, compliance and security to safeguard assets and help minimize negative financial exposure.
• Create an information platform that becomes the powerhouse of the organization providing updated and comprehensive data management.
• Responsible for establishing the organization's information technology vision and leading all aspects of technology development, according to NHLS strategic direction and objectives.
• Responsible for the databases and applications across the enterprise - the interpretation and/ implementation thereof.
• Set key performance indicators for technology delivery and introduce progressive measurement opportunities and tools.
• Responsible for IT Governance and Management Framework.
• Position the organization competitively as a leading healthcare data powerhouse through the development of innovative and progressive IT strategies and business solutions.
• Responsible for IT best practices and ensure IT systems availability, incident and problem management, capacity and configuration management, maintenance and support.
• Manage IT sourcing, vendor management and ensure cost efficiency and value add. Manage and maintain optimal relationships with all stakeholders.
• Stay a breast of IT changes and deveiopmentsand work with other members of tihe executive team to ensure implementation of new technologies in line with specific business needs.
• To develop and oversee the management of operational and capex expenditure and budgets within IT, to ensure the most effective utilisation of financial resources in accordance with the PFMA

Minimum Key Requirement & Key Competency

• Relevant Master's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent qualification.
• Fifteen (15) years of IT experience with a proven track record.
• Of which five (5) years must have been spent at a senior management level within the IT environment.
• ITIL foundation or related certification will be an added advantage

Attributes 

• Inspire a sense of vision, purpose and direction.
• Build organizational capability to deliver greater results.
• Exemplifies personal drive and integrity by adhering and promoting NHLS values and aligning processes accordingly.
• Understand organisation's direction and role within government and align activities with NHLS strategies