Open competition for appointment to the position of:
Higher Executive Officer ICT
in
The Law Reform Commission & The Office of the Attorney General
Closing date: 12 noon on 26/03/2024
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Introduction
The Law Reform Commission
The Law Reform Commission is a statutory body established by the Law Reform Commission Act 1975. The Commission has five members - the President, the Full-time Commissioner, and three part-time Commissioners. Its role is to keep the law under independent, objective, and expert review, to make consequent recommendations for law reform and to make current law accessible for all.
The Office of the Attorney General
The Attorney General is advisor to the Government in matters of law and legal opinion and a Constitutional Officer. The Office, therefore, is the central legal service of the State, providing advice and draft legislation and supervising conduct of litigation involving the State.
The Role
The principal duties attaching to the post will be:
- Management of the Office's ICT services, software systems, website and infrastructure.
- Operational responsibility for modern, secure end-point management and monitoring, e.g. MDM.
- Management of first line response to cyber security threats, e.g. phishing, credential theft, anti-virus/malware detections and monitoring.
- Assist in infrastructure and network support, technical and user support, operations and server support, ICT security, and Cloud computing.
- Oversight of daily standard operating procedures and monitoring tasks, e.g. backup monitoring, endpoint monitoring, mail filtering.
- Procurement of IT hardware, software and IT consumables.
- Management of budget, vendors and contractors.
- Representing the Office on appropriate groups, committees and fora.
- Assistance in the creation of ICT policies and procedures. Ensuring their adherence.
- Identifying and providing training to staff where necessary and the creation of training manuals.
- Providing reports to management
- Any other functions that may arise from time to time.
Appointments from Panels
The LRC and the AGO will establish panels of suitably qualified individuals to fill vacancies, which may arise in either organisations. The panel will remain in place for eighteen months.
If a candidate is offered and accepts a position, they must be available to take up that position within a reasonable time frame. The LRC and the AGO has no foresight as to how many vacancies may be filled over the lifetime of the panel and potentially candidates may not be reached in the order of merit.
Qualification and placement on a panel is not a guarantee of appointment to a position. Once reached on a panel, candidate will normally be considered for one position only. Once assigned to a position, a candidate will be removed from the panel will no longer be considered for any future positions. Please note that once an offer of appointment has been accepted a candidate will be removed from the panel and no further offers of appointment will be made.
Please note that placement on a panel is not a guarantee of appointment to a position.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential Requirements:
Candidates must on or before 16/03/2024 have:
- Minimum of 5 years’ relevant professional experience in a technical role.
- Experience of administrating core Microsoft technologies relevant to this role. including AD, Exchange, MS Teams, Group Policy, Windows Updates.
- Excellent understanding of cyber-security threat mitigation, especially as it relates to user-facing threats, e.g. phishing, credential theft, anti-virus detection and monitoring.
- Have the knowledge and ability to discharge the duties of the post concerned.
- Be suitable on the grounds of character.
- Be suitable in all other relevant respects for appointment to the post concerned.
Desirable further skills:
Ideally, candidates will also have one or more of the following:
- High level of IT proficiency and working knowledge of the Microsoft suite of applications/operating systems.
- Experience of day-to-day monitoring of backup, disaster recovery.
- Experience of troubleshooting networking issues.
- Experience liaising with users and vendors in providing ICT support.
- Experience of mobile device management, anti-virus/anti-malware.
- Familiarity with technical/configuration elements of fixed phone systems, smart mobile phone devices and print/copier devices.
- Experience of procurement and licensing.
- Responsive and flexible approach to work, with a “can-do” attitude to requests and tasks.
- Be self-motivated and prepared to work on own initiative.
- Be a team player, yet highly self-driven and ambitious.
- Works effectively as part of a team and on own initiative.
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