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Job Title: Database Administrator (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: National Medical Stores (NMS)
Duty Station: Entebbe, Uganda
Job Ref No. NMS/2023/36
Reports to: Senior Database Administrator
About US:
National Medical Stores is an autonomous Corporation that was established by an Act of Parliament in 1993. Our mandate is to Procure, Store and Distribute medicines and other medical supplies to health facilities.
Job Summary: The Database Administrator will be responsible for supporting the Senior Database Administrator to ensure availability, stability, access, functionality and usability of all NMS database management systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Installation, Maintenance, Capacity Planning, Performance Management and Tuning of all database management systems.
- Data extraction, transformation, loading and specialized handling
- Database Backup, Testing, Archiving, Restoration and Disaster Recovery Implementation
- Database Security, System and User Access Management/Authentication
- System Troubleshooting, Knowledge Transfer, Training and Preparation of Technical Reports.
- Provide technical support for Projects, Software Development, Core Systems (ERP) and IT helpdesk.
- Identify any risks noted during execution of duties and formally report to the immediate supervisor.
- Any other duties that may be assigned by the supervisor
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold an Honor’s Bachelor’s degree in either Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology and Computing, Management Information Systems, Statistics with Computing Option, or Mathematics with Computing Option or any related field.
- Two years of experience in an IT environment of a busy Corporate Organisation
- Demonstrated experience in any of or a combination of the following: MySQL Database Administration, Oracle Database Administration, Microsoft SQL Server Administration, IBM DB2, Postgres/Enterprise DB
- Experience with ERP systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAGE, SAP, Oracle, IFS etc shall be an added advantage
- Self-drive and accountability
- Problem solving
- Operational excellence
- Teamwork
- Agility and attention to detail
- Planning skills
How to Apply:
All interested applicants should submit an Online Application. Please scan your academic qualifications: Degree or diploma qualifications, Curriculum Vitae, Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, Uganda Certificate of Education, Membership to the professional body and other relevant academic documents and National Identity Card (both faces), and submit them online: Click Here. Failure to attach any of the listed required documents shall lead to automatic disqualification of the applicant.
The application letter should be addressed as below and should be signed, scanned and sent online:
The Chief Human Resource and Administration Officer,
National Medical Stores,
P.O Box 16, Entebbe,
Kajjansi Town Council, Uganda.
Note:
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you don’t hear from us, one month from the date of closure of receipt of applications, consider your application unsuccessful.
- Candidates should attach all relevant academic documents as PDF Files
- National Medical Stores reserves the right to verify documents attached with the relevant awarding institutions to authenticate their validity.
- Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification
- National Medical Stores is an equal opportunity employer. Qualifying female candidates are encouraged to apply
Deadline: 20th September 2023 by 5: 00pm.
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