Job title : Officer, IT Operations

Job Location : Bayelsa Deadline : January 03, 2026 Quick Recommended Links

About the Role

The Officer, IT Operations role combines the provision of front-line support and superior customer service to our schools and support teams with the responsibility for one of our key functional areas in IT Operations, including asset management, problem management, and support office support.
The Officer role rotates between these functional areas, bringing fresh energy and insights to each area, while gaining experience over the different aspects required to ensure our Tech investments deliver on our ambitious mission.
It will involve rolling up your sleeves to get the day to day done with ensuring overall delivery excellence for your assigned area.
The role reports to the Manager, IT Operations, who has broad oversight over the programme, and involves mentoring and developing Associates.

Responsibilities
What will you do:

Ensure delivery against one of our key functional areas for IT Operations:
Teacher Tablets: ensuring high availability of teacher tablets, including proper assignment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Smartphones and Tablets - ensuring high availability of school leaders and field staff devices, including proper assignment, monitoring and management (mobile device management), and procurement.
Problem Management - ensuring that all Tech issues ("incidents") are properly tracked and regularly analysed to identify our key "problems" (recurring incidents) - and to work on sustainable solutions
Support Office Support: ensuring the support office is high-functioning - working IT Assets (laptops, printers, etc.), network, firewall, PBX, etc.
Provide first point of IT support contact for all staff, covering all hardware, software, and associated peripherals.
Proactively troubleshoot using reports and data analytic tools provided - and also contribute back to their evolution and improvement.
Deploy IT assets and associated peripherals, including new installations and redeployment of existing equipment.
Manage service desk tickets, planning and prioritising systematically to minimise backlog and ensure operational efficiency.
Visit schools to understand pain points and receive feedback.
Expedite the repair of hardware faultYs and software configuration problems, notifying or forwarding to the relevant suppliers in a timely manner.
Supervise, train, and mentor junior staff members in all of the above.
Provide technical assistance to project teams and undertake technical project roles when required.
Demonstrate commitment to and promotion of a culture of service excellence and continual improvement within the IT Department.

Requirements
What you should have:

A Degree from a recognized university with top marks in a relevant discipline
Suitable IT/industry work experience
Experience working within a fast-paced environment
Excellent technical knowledge of IT hardware, including laptops, mobile devices (esp. Android), and peripherals
Software and hardware troubleshooting ability
Experience working and training on a variety of IT subjects and applications
Analytical capability - ability to analyze data sets and be data driven. Advanced analytical capabilities, such as SQL, a plus.
Strong writing and oral communication skills
Research skills, including ability to identify and propose solutions to issues/crisis.