Mwanza District Council
Local Government Service Commission is inviting applications from suitably qualified Malawians for the following vacancies existing at Mwanza District Council’s Establishment.
Job title: PRINCIPAL ICT OFFICER
Grade: G/ M5
Duties
- Lead the ICT team at the council
- Advising management on computer related needs
- Prepare detailed system requirements, impact analysis as well as user cases
- Advising management on new computer developments and system improvements to existing systems.
- Conduct reviews with system analysis and other users
- Involve and manage change control procedures and issue related matters
- Define application problems and develop solutions viii. Coordinating production with programmers
- Formulate and implement systems development and documentation standards
Qualification
Applicants must be serving ICT officers (Grade H/M6) with a minimum of four (4) years’ experience in Local authorities with at least for years’ experience at that grade
Job title: SENIOR ASSISTANT TRADE OFFICER
Grade: J/ M7
Duties
- Revoking trade licenses
- Regulating trading activities
- Handling trade related grievance and forwarding the same to higher authorities
- Processing trade permits applications
- Supervise collection and banking trade related revenues
- Formulating work plans for the Section
- Allocating premises to traders
- Ensuring that traders / business register is being maintained
- Supervise subordinate staff
Qualifications
Applicants must be serving officers in Local Authorities at Grade K with four years’ work experience.
Job Title: PRINCIPAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATOR
GRADE: G
Responsible to : Chief Health Services Administrator (Grade F)
Duties:
- The Co-ordination and control of administrative human and financial resources of the hospital
- Controlling and supervising financial and material allocations to various health centers under the hospital charge.
- Advising administrative staff on Public Relations relating to employees patients and other welfare personnel at the hospital.
- Providing Secretarial services to the hospital Advisory Committee.
- Advising the procurement committee on food and fuel requirements for the hospital and other health units under its charge.
- Controlling and directing all Executive, Secretarial, Clerical and Subordinate Staff working under his charge.
- To advise management on an efficient and effective health information system for the hospital;
- To supervise recruitment, selection and induction of new staff, career development, conditions of service etc.
- To re-enforce the hospitals; health and safety regulations and ensure implementation thereof;
Qualification
Applicants must be serving Health Services Administrator Grade I with a minimum of four (4) experience at that grade in Local authorities
Job title: Senior Assistant Community Development Officer
Grade: K
Reports to: Community Development Officer
Purpose of the job
Works with community level structures, households and individuals to promote social change and enhance wellbeing by providing technical support to communities in their endeavor to improve their economic and social wellbeing.
Duties:
- Explains Government social and economic development priorities and ensures that community-based initiatives are within the national development priorities and directly addressing social and economic concerns of communities.
- Plans, organizes, supervises and monitors the work of community volunteers involved in community development programs and ensure that they conform to standards and guidelines in performing their tasks.
- Mobilizes communities and facilitates the process of problems identification, solution seeking and implementation planning in a participatory manner to ensure entrenchment of ownership.
- Carries out programs on local leadership training at community and household levels by planning and mounting short courses and preparing implementation reports according to established guidelines as may be determined from time to time
- Works with community to develop appropriate Information, Education and Communications materials for dissemination of information in areas such as human and women rights, HIV/AIDS prevention, nutrition, home management and economic empowerment.
- Keeps a register of all community activities and liaises with other stakeholders involved in rural development activities at community level in order to guide, share or learn experiences on implementation of program activities and delivery of services.
- Ensures that adult literacy, resilience building and other self-help programs are adequately supervised and are directed towards poverty reduction and wealth creation at household level.
- Carries out needs assessment on various community development programs and services and ensure the results inform capacity. development interventions being implemented by various stakeholders at community level.
- Coordinate with other community development workers (CSOs, CBOs, and NGOs, Ministries, and departments) to jointly prepare work plans and periodic reports for submission to supervisor and other stakeholders in line with established guidelines and procedures.
- Maintains records concerning local conditions, traditions and developments which could positively influence or hamper the success of community development and social welfare interventions and ensures that these are shared with other stakeholders while engaging communities on how to address such conditions.
- Keeps a database of potential sources of assistance and directs community-based organizations and other development structures to other areas of assistance and giving them tools they require to access such help.
- Performs any other duties as the supervisor may from time to time deem necessary.
Qualifications:
Applicants must be Serving Assistant Community Development officers (Grade K/M9) with a minimum of 4 years’ experience at that grade in Local Authorities.
MODE OF APPLICATION
Those meeting the required qualifications and experience should send their application letters together with copies of relevant certificates and Curriculum Vitae clearly indicating post on the envelope to:
The Executive Secretary
Local Government Service Commission
P.O Box 766
LILONGWE
The closing date for receipts of applications is on 10th June, 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be acknowledged and invited for interviews.