Overview
Responsible for delivering a reliable, secure and fit-for-purpose IT foundation essential for DRC to deliver high-quality assistance and maintain critical documentation for refugees and displaced people worldwide. Sets strategic priorities for DRC’s IT landscape, working closely with top management and operational leaders.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership of Global IT across HQ and Country Offices, with a strong focus on prioritisation and value-for-money
- Ensure a lean, fit-for-purpose IT organisation that supports DRC’s humanitarian mandate within existing resource constraints
- Ensuring continued operation and support of DRC’s ERP system (Dynamics 365), BI-system and ongoing automation initiatives
- Leading the design, operation and support of core IT systems that meet essential organisational needs
- Driving enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, cyber security efforts and GDPR compliance at a realistic and sustainable level
- Acting as a trusted partner to senior leaders, ensuring clear communication on what IT can deliver, what it cannot, and where trade-offs are required
- Managing annual IT budgets, ensuring that all investments are aligned with DRC’s strategic objectives and resource limitations
- Providing leadership, coaching and direction to the IT management team and staff reporting directly to you
Required Experience
- Have several years of leadership experience in a global IT environment
- Have solid experience in large, global organizations, influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders effectively across the organization and within complex contexts
- Demonstrated successful execution of strategy and strategic planning, organization design and development
- Proven experience in leading large, complex and transformational initiatives in dynamic environments and taking advantage of digital opportunities to innovate business models and enable the digitalization of the organization
- Have interpersonal and intercultural skills and a strong ability to collaborate and network
