Head of IT at The Confederation of African Football (CAF)

Details

Head of IT who can contribute to CAF’s overall success by handling the following duties:

• Setting the mission and vision of the IT organization to ensure realization of business objectives
• Partnering with senior business leaders ensuring alignment of the IT strategy with the business needs and facilitating its delivery
• Defining the strategy and steering the implementation of the full landscape of IT services and solutions for CAF competitions and events
• Provides direction on evaluation, selection, implementation and maintenance of information systems, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems.
• Establishing relationships and creating synergies across the organization to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions
• Providing strategic leadership and direct management for CAF’s IT organization, as well as planning and developing the annual IT budget, ensuring consistency with overall strategic objectives
• Driving the development of technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics to ensure that IT delivers value to CAF
• Determining long-term organization-wide technology needs and developing strategies to respond to them
• Ensuring adequate quality of IT services delivered to CAF in all IT areas, including IT Strategy, IT Governance, Business Relationship Management/Demand Management, Events IT, Infrastructure & Operations, Applications Development and Support, Information Security etc.
• Driving innovation and creative solutions to business challenges as well as ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational solutions and services

Requirements

• Master’s degree or similar higher education, in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field
• 15+ years overall IT experience and a minimum of 7 years of progressive experience leading multi-discipline IT teams of significant size
• Strong business acumen and understanding of how to apply current and emerging technologies to business problems
• Experience leading the reorganization and transformation of an IT organization; proven ability to take IT to the next level
• Excellent knowledge of IT concepts, technologies, infrastructures and systems
• Proven record in building, leading and motivating a multi-discipline IT team
• Solid understanding of budgeting and procurement management
• Professional certifications in the area of IT governance and project management (e.g. CGEIT, PMP, etc.)  
• Strategic thinking, ability to see the big picture and to innovate
• Ability to translate strategic plans into specific objectives, and to create and execute plans to achieve objectives
• Ability to build an organization staffed with the right people in the right roles
• Critical thinking and planning at strategical level
• Fluent in English and/or Arabic and French