With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Key Responsibilities:

Major responsibilities

Promote and fulfill the mission and vision of VFR. Provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems for VFR network.

IT Strategy Development and Implementation

• Lead strategic planning for the IT Team and in collaboration with cross-departmental teams to achieve the organization’s goal.
• Implement the IT strategic plan and technology maturity framework across the VFR branches, including regular reporting of progress towards goals.
• Educate VFR leadership, staff, and partner leadership on the impact of new technologies and IT trends and their applicability to VFR requirements.
• Serve as a lead strategic advisor on banking technology and digital applications within a cross-departmental technology team.
• Design and implement strategic information technology plans and budgets for cost-effective procurement, utilization and maintenance of computer software and hardware

IT Team Management

• Directly supervise the staff and activities of the IT team, investing in the personal and professional development of support staff.
• Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal resources and external entities, including vendors and partner organizations.
• Manage IT team budgeting processes and advise leadership on technology related budget matters.

Infrastructure and Network Management

• Lead ongoing development, management, and optimization of the digital infrastructure of the organization in compliance with key technology infrastructure standards and organizational needs.
• Directs the IT team in the efficient acquisition and maintenance of hardware, software, IT consulting resources, and maintenance contracts. This includes leadership for the IT team in implementation of device management protocols and software.
• Ensure maximum systems uptime through system performance monitoring practices and helpdesk support operations.

Information System, Application Development and Management

• Serve as a lead liaison between technical staff and business leadership to create technological solutions for operational goals and challenges.
• Lead and advise the acquisition, development and implementation of new IT systems and applications across the organization. This includes vendor and consultant management as related to IT applications and services, and delivery of those services to internal and external clients.
• Maintain and ensure continuous delivery of IT services and support through VFR helpdesk operations, system performance monitoring, and service level agreements with end users.
• Support the activities of the customer relationship management team through IT team staffing, vendor management, and technical guidance as needed.

IT Governance and Risk Management

• Lead ongoing development, improvement, and implementation of IT governance policies and procedures in conjunction with Risk team, Management and Staff.
• Direct delivery of strong cyber security operations throughout the network, including continuous improvement of security and disaster recovery planning and monitoring.
• Perform internal control reviews, in coordination with Risk team and internal audit resources, to ensure the integrity of IT systems and operation

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Full commitment to VisionFund'Rwanda s Vision, mission, purpose, values, procedures and objectives.
• Strong understanding of all elements of IT architecture (e.g., Infrastructure, applications, data management, redundancy, and disaster recovery) and systems development life cycles, with hands -on expertise from initiation through implementation. Prior experience in software selection, implementation, integration, and testing is required.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or international equivalent)
• Experience of at least 5 years in a leadership position in commercial banking or a sound Microfinance company
• Experience with digital banking applications, Central Bank Electronic Dataware House and Core banking services.
• Skills in a governance process such as designing, implementing and reporting on processes, and key performance indicators at a Board level.
• High level of project management skills and customer focus, with a history of successful, on -time, on -budget technology deployment.
• Experience working in multi-cultural organizations
• Having Oracle Professional certifications (OCA, OCP) is an added value
• Acceptable knowledge to setup and maintains Firewall and Virtual Private Network
• Having Linux professional certifications is is an added value
• General understanding of the underlying operating systems especially Linux and Windows server 2016
• General understanding of storage technologies, memory management, disk arrays, SAN Storage and networking
• Cloud computing services i.e. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google etc
• General understanding of routine maintenance, recovery, and oracle replication for business continuity
• Knowledge of system reports design and development using crystal reports

• Promote and fulfill the mission and vision of VFR. Provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems for VFR network.
• Lead strategic planning for the IT Team and in collaboration with cross-departmental teams to achieve the organization’s goal.
• Implement the IT strategic plan and technology maturity framework across the VFR branches, including regular reporting of progress towards goals.
• Educate VFR leadership, staff, and partner leadership on the impact of new technologies and IT trends and their applicability to VFR requirements.
• Serve as a lead strategic advisor on banking technology and digital applications within a cross-departmental technology team.
• Design and implement strategic information technology plans and budgets for cost-effective procurement, utilization and maintenance of computer software and hardware
• Directly supervise the staff and activities of the IT team, investing in the personal and professional development of support staff.
• Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal resources and external entities, including vendors and partner organizations.
• Manage IT team budgeting processes and advise leadership on technology related budget matters.
• Lead ongoing development, management, and optimization of the digital infrastructure of the organization in compliance with key technology infrastructure standards and organizational needs.
• Directs the IT team in the efficient acquisition and maintenance of hardware, software, IT consulting resources, and maintenance contracts. This includes leadership for the IT team in implementation of device management protocols and software.
• Ensure maximum systems uptime through system performance monitoring practices and helpdesk support operations.
• Serve as a lead liaison between technical staff and business leadership to create technological solutions for operational goals and challenges.
• Lead and advise the acquisition, development and implementation of new IT systems and applications across the organization. This includes vendor and consultant management as related to IT applications and services, and delivery of those services to internal and external clients.
• Maintain and ensure continuous delivery of IT services and support through VFR helpdesk operations, system performance monitoring, and service level agreements with end users.
• Support the activities of the customer relationship management team through IT team staffing, vendor management, and technical guidance as needed.
• Lead ongoing development, improvement, and implementation of IT governance policies and procedures in conjunction with Risk team, Management and Staff.
• Direct delivery of strong cyber security operations throughout the network, including continuous improvement of security and disaster recovery planning and monitoring.
• Perform internal control reviews, in coordination with Risk team and internal audit resources, to ensure the integrity of IT systems and operation

• Strong understanding of all elements of IT architecture (e.g., Infrastructure, applications, data management, redundancy, and disaster recovery) and systems development life cycles, with hands -on expertise from initiation through implementation.
• Prior experience in software selection, implementation, integration, and testing is required.
• Experience with digital banking applications, Central Bank Electronic Dataware House and Core banking services.
• Skills in a governance process such as designing, implementing and reporting on processes, and key performance indicators at a Board level.
• High level of project management skills and customer focus, with a history of successful, on -time, on -budget technology deployment.
• Acceptable knowledge to setup and maintains Firewall and Virtual Private Network
• General understanding of the underlying operating systems especially Linux and Windows server 2016
• General understanding of storage technologies, memory management, disk arrays, SAN Storage and networking
• Cloud computing services i.e. AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google etc
• General understanding of routine maintenance, recovery, and oracle replication for business continuity
• Knowledge of system reports design and development using crystal reports

• Full commitment to VisionFund'Rwanda s Vision, mission, purpose, values, procedures and objectives.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or international equivalent)
• Experience of at least 5 years in a leadership position in commercial banking or a sound Microfinance company
• Experience working in multi-cultural organizations
• Having Oracle Professional certifications (OCA, OCP) is an added value
• Having Linux professional certifications is is an added value