Lead Business Support needed at Road Accident Fund

Key Performance Areas

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Customer Service

• Prioritize and allocate work to technicians.
• Develop and maintain relationships with customers and third party.
• Manage IT Incidents and requests.  
• Hold Service Level Management meetings with management team.
• Train users on Technology used (Informal).
• Establish and facilitate user forums.
• Adopt a proactive approach to prevent problems from arising.
• Assist in the gathering of business requirements.
• Ensure IT Service availability and continuity.
• Implement and enforce ITIL based processes for IT support processes.
• Ensure that business service requirements are defined and actively managed.
• Act as an escalation point for any ICT service issues within the region of responsibility.

Research and Development

• Research solutions that best support the business.
• Research on new problems/challenges as they occur.
• Share information with technical staff and document solutions found.
• Offer feedback on future product development, features and functions.

Business Support Administration

• Manage SLA.
• Attend service/contract management meetings.
• Budget input for area of responsibility.
• Manage budget.
• Manage processing centre and CEC ICT assets.
• Manage ICT Risk register. • Address audit findings.
• Manage Projects
• Assist with Pre-Procurement documentation and Technical Evaluations

Reporting

• Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop reports/ procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s Strategy.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.
• Prepare proposals, briefings, presentations, reports, and other documentation and provide management information both verbally and in report format.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders and progressively manage the relationships
• Manage relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.
• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.  
• Represent the Fund in relevant external activities and events.

People Management

• Ensure that good employee relations are maintained.
• Provide ongoing operational support to employees.
• Ensure that allocated resources are used optimally through enforcing monitoring systems in place.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in Information Technology related qualification.
• Certification in ITIL Foundation V3 or Higher.

Experience

• Relevant 5-7 years’ experience in ICT support environment of which 2 years must have been on supervisory level/area of expertise..