Vacancies at Merit Telecoms

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Send your CVs to [email protected] if your qualifications fits the following.


HR Manager
Duties/functions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Employment law - working conditions, disciplinary and grievance procedures, equal opportunities, redundancies, paternity pay and maternity rights
• Recruitment - hiring staff, producing job descriptions, placing adverts, working with recruitment consultancies, organising interviews and running assessment centres.
• Training and development - putting together a staff training programme and identifying suitable courses for staff.
• Salary reviews - researching salaries and ensuring they are in line with legal requirements and industry standards
• Documentation - writing staff handbooks, contracts, staff memos, and issuing written offers of employment, promotion etc.
• Staff welfare - providing counselling facilities and sports and social activities for staff.
• You may also work closely with company lawyers and trade unions.
• You must make sure that the organisation is employing the right people, with the right kills and qualifications for the job.
• You'll need an excellent understanding of how your organisation operates, its business requirements and commercial objectives.
• You'll work very closely with other departments and provide an information resource for both employees and senior management.
• Developing, advising, implementing and communicating management policies.
• Employment legislation, training requirements and graduate recruitment.

Skills and Interests
A human resources manager should have:
• 3 - 4 years (minimum) experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Diplomatic and negotiation skills
• The ability to work on your own initiative
• Outstanding organisational skills
• The ability to work under pressure
• The ability to work with personnel from all levels
• Tact, and the ability to deal with difficult situations
• Numerical and budgeting skills
• IT skills
• Knowledge of Nigeria employment legislation.
• An interest in career development and training within the workplace.


Legal Officer

• 1-2 years (minimum) relevant working experience
• Coordinating Resources - As well as organizing her own department, a legal officer is responsible for working with other departments within the organization.
• Research - involves looking for laws that will either help the organization achieve its goals or that could be problematic.
• Drawing Up Contracts - responsible for drawing up legal contracts. This includes employment contracts between the company and employees, contracts of sale and lease and contracts outlining responsibilities of subsidiary companies and partners.
• Provide Advice - provide senior staff/management with legal advice on any issue related to the business of the organization. This may include creating documents such as booklets or outlining the effects new legislation will have on the organization.
• responsible for making presentations on a legal issue if requested by a senior management.
• address any legal issues that her employer may have.
• carrying out legal research, drafting legislation and drawing up contracts.
• prepare a report on the legal implications involved before an organization enters into a new area of work and makes a major decision


IT Support Engr

? 2 years (minimum) relevant working experience
? installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications;
? monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks;
? talking staff/clients through a series of actions, either face to face or over the telephone;
? troubleshooting system and network problems and diagnosing and solving hardware/software faults;
? replacing parts as required;
? providing support, including procedural documentation;
? following diagrams and written instructions to repair a fault or set up a system;
? supporting the roll-out of new applications;
? setting up new users’ accounts and profiles and dealing with password issues;
? responding within agreed time limits to call-outs;
? working continuously on a task until completion (or referral to third parties, if appropriate);
? prioritising and managing many open cases at one time;
? rapidly establishing a good working relationship with customers and other professionals (e.g., software developers);
? testing and evaluating new technology;
? conducting electrical safety checks on computer equipment.




IT Support Engineer (Systems Administrator)

Primary Responsibilities
Manage all IT systems, including LAN, WAN, CRM, telephone and related systems.

This includes:
o Support, monitor, test and troubleshoot hardware and software problems.
o Performing and coordinating effective installation and performance of advanced operating system hardware and software on servers.
o Install new software releases, system upgrades, evaluate and install patches and resolve software related problems.
o Support and maintain end user requirements, including troubleshooting, account maintenance and training.
o Plan and perform appropriate procedures, documentation, inventory assessment, and other procedures related to IT.
o Maintain, monitor, analyze system components and make recommendations regarding computer system security, monitor network, computer and disk utilization.
o Play a lead role in developing and implementing an IT disaster recovery plan.
o Inventory and provide accounting for MERIT resources including software, server, workstation and lap top systems.
o Conduct software and hardware evaluations, provide technical analysis and implement systems to meet the company’s IT goals.
o Undertake and manage research, development and implementation of a new MERIT web presence.
o Develop a strategic IT plan to meet the requirements of MERIT overall growth plan to be reviewed on a regular basis with

Management and adjusted as necessary.
o Work with a team to automate management tasks, streamline processes and perform standard administration functions as needed.
o Be responsible for managing the IT system to meet strategic goals.
o Obtain and/or maintain technical certifications necessary for continued MERIT growth and success.
o Perform additional duties as assigned by management.
o Maintain professionalism, good attitude and appropriate behavior with MERIT personnel and clients.

Skills
Terminal Servers
Veritas backup Software
Trend Micro Anti-virus or Similar
Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS
Experience with operating system imaging technology (Drive Imaging).
Self-starter that requires minimal supervision and can provide oversight for any assigned projects Provide mentoring of supervised employees.
Thorough knowledge of good server and system administration principles
Working knowledge of SQL-Server, Microsoft server and client Architecture
Working experience with Anti-Spam technologies
Working experience with CRM solutions
Working experience with Backup solutions
Development of IT Policies and Procedures
Development of IT VISIO 2000-2003 diagrams
Maintaining PBX system and upstream vendor relationships
Monitoring IT infrastructure use and providing accountability

Qualifications
BA/BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience *MCSA / MCSE certified preferred
4+ years experience with Microsoft Windows Administration, with 3+ years in a Windows 2000/2003
environment supporting 40+ users, experience with Group Policies: Software, Security, Login and logout functions, support of remote users via VPN technologies
2+ years experience operating Windows 2000/2003 Exchange Infrastructure 1+ years experience Internet Information Server, Web, FTP, SMTP
Experience building and maintaining systems including:
Architecting and implementing storage & data management solutions.
Must have practical exposure to storage and data management products, Intel based servers and storage and NAS technologies.
Maximize system availability and performance through fault-tolerant configuration, efficient network architecture, and proactive server
monitoring.

Responsible for maintenance, modification and uptime on Mitel PBX system

Addl:
Outstanding customer service skills, as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Demonstrated ability to be a team player and a willingness to lend a hand with any project