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Compassion International

IT Support Specialist II

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Employer: Compassion International
Job Time: Full-Time
Job Type: Contract
Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia
Posted date: 1 month ago
Deadline: Submition date is over

This intermediate professional role delivers basic IT support to end users in the organization's Ethiopia office. This includes project coordination, simple software implementation and deployment, first-level IT support triage, following security protocol, and performing system backups. At this career level, the incumbent carries out simple IT support implementations and assignments or participates as a team member on more complex projects. He or she may coach the work of other specialists.

Responsibilities

  • Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all ministry decision-making, tasks, and activities. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.
  • Effectively uses project management systems and tools for monitoring and tracking deliverables and resolving issues, ensuring delivery to the project plan and budget on basic projects.
  • Carries out the implementation of systems, tools, software, and services for internal clients. Further, requirements and deliverables are gathered to ensure that each implementation and deployment is effectively delivered on schedule.
  • Cooperates with other staff to resolve complex issues and those issues that others cannot resolve; often serving as the last stop internally before seeking external help.
  • Performs hands-on fixes at the desktop level, including installing and upgrading software, installing hardware, implementing file backups, and configuring systems and applications. Applies diagnostic utilities to aid in troubleshooting.
  • Conducts security assessments of systems and applications to evaluate vulnerabilities. Further validates solutions to mediate exploitable conditions on devices such as servers and intrusion detection systems.
  • Restores files or systems by conducting regular backup procedures. Compiles and updates procedure documentation as needed.
  • Supports IT operational infrastructure such as server rooms, hosting maintenance and troubleshooting, networking, and servers.
  • May provide expertise to other professionals and support staff in the application support discipline.

Culture

  • Accountable for supporting, upholding, and engaging in Compassion's core "Cultural Behaviors" in all internal and external communication and relationships.

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field.

Experience

  • 5+ years of relevant experience working in client service IT support.
  • Equivalent education, training, and/or certification may be substituted for experience and education shown above

Working Environment

  • Office – Standard Office Environment

Physical Demands

  • Sitting, standing, and/or walking for up to 8 hours per day

Travel Requirements

  • May be required to travel up to 10% of the normal schedule