IT Careers – Systems Administrator at National Medical Stores (NMS)

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Organization: National Medical Stores (NMS)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Ref: NMS/2014/03
Report to: Management
Information Officer
About NMS:
National Medical Stores is an
autonomous Corporation that was established by an Act of Parliament 1993. Our
mandate is to procure, store and distribute medicines and other medical
supplies to public health facilities in Uganda.
Job Summary: The NMS Systems
Administrator will primarily install and maintain working systems across the
enterprise as and when necessary, in line with the company’s ICT strategy.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Install, support and maintain servers or
    other computer systems and associated peripheral systems.
  • Plan for and respond to service outages
    and other problems.
  • Script or write applications or utilities
  • Perform project management tasks for
    systems related projects
  • Oversee and or train a team of computer
    problems beyond the knowledge of technical support staff.
  • Advise on IT problems beyond the knowledge
    of technical support staff.
  • Provides user support for desk top and
    server based applications.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The ideal candidate for the Systems
    Administrator vacancy must possess an honour’s degree in any of the
    following: Computer Science, Computer applications, Information Technology
    or their equivalent. 
  • Additional Professional Information
    Technology Certifications such as Micro soft certified professional, Cisco
    certified Network Associate (CCNA) or their equivalent will be an added
    advantage
  • At least three years post qualification
    experience
  • Past exposure and experience in installations,
    upgrades, trouble shooting and repairing of computers and their associated
    peripheral devices in multi-protocol network environment preferably a
    large corporate.
  • Good understanding and familiarity of several
    operating systems such as windows
  • Server 2003/2008, Windows XP/Vista/7,
    Unix/ linux Directory, LDAP, etc.
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of general
    networking, Windows Active Directory
How to Apply: 
All suitably qualified and interested
candidates should send their updated CVs that should include names and
addresses of the last two employers with hand written applications indicating
the reference number of the position you are applying for and giving three
referees with their full time telephone contacts, email and postal addresses indicated
on the application letter. 
Photocopies of the original
academic documents should be attached.
Please note that National
Medical Stores reserves the right to verify Photocopies of the academic documents
attached with the relevant awarding institutions to authenticate their
validity.
National Medical Stores is an
equal opportunity employer.
All applications should be
addressed and delivered to the Head of Human
Resource and Support Services, National
Medical Stores (NMS), Plot 4-12, Nsamizi Road, P.O Box 16, Entebbe, Uganda.
NB: Any
form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification. Only candidates who
meet the specifications indicated for the jobs will be contacted.
Deadline: 8th April 2014 by 5pm

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