Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

This European Architecture and Engineering practice have been in the Middle East for over 30 years and have a very secure practice delivering a range of Retail, Commercial and Residential buildings for major Developers.

They seek an IT Manager to assist them with the following:
- Provide the practice with the most appropriate hardware and software for the practice to deliver the required product on time and in the format to suit client expectations.
- Enquiries and proposals
- Assist the Director by providing all necessary information required in order to submit fee proposals should equip. This could be an overview, scope, brief etc.
- Appraisals and brief
- Provide a full and detailed appraisal of the existing and proposed Software and Hardware twice annually in June and December and ensure all Software and Hardware is numbered and logged against a user. This should be detailed enough to offer a full understanding of the Practice requirements to maintain and improve existing standards. This element is to be discussed in detail with the Director.
- Post contract
- Assist Post-Contract staff with IT related issues.
- Develop along with the Post-Contract staff a method by which to contra charge the Contractors for these services.
- Set the pace and Lead by example of team work, helpfulness and hard work.
- Attend a weekly meeting with the Director to agree the Action List for the upcoming week.
- Ensure service providers are utilised to their full extent.
- Help staff to achieve their professional ambition by providing an IT environment that matches in quality the expectations the Practice places on its staff to achieve.
- Encourage staff to take responsibility for their software and hardware and to gain a better understanding of the systems we are employing.
- The general performance of staff software and hardware is to be constantly reviewed.
- Maintain an inventory of all Software and Hardware.
- Review all relationships with Suppliers in terms of performance and cost on an annual basis.
- Understand the operational standards and adhere to and implement them.
- All expenditure for equipment to be fully substantiated by the IT Manager and presented as a proposal to the Director for Approval by the Managing Partner.
- All expenditure on consumables to be logged into Union Square by the Accounts Assistant in Purchase Orders.
- Must communicate ideas and project implementations to enable work to become more efficient, better coordinated etc.
- Ensure licensed software is available for staff members to use.
- Ensure all staff members have the correct hardware for the project.
- Ensure constant liaison with the Managing Partner, Senior Management Team, Suppliers, Service Providers, All staff members

Requirements

Will be based in the Middle East already, Ideally Dubai.
- They will have experience working within an inhouse role as the sole IT Professional responsible for all IT activities.

Expertise in managing the following is required:
- Cisco Router 2911, Windows 2008, 2003, 8,7, XP, and MAC OS, Microsoft Exchange server 2010, SQL 2005, Symantec Backup Exec
- Hardworking and professional business demeanour required.
- Excellent English communication is required.

About the Company

Consisting only of Director level personnel, each with over 12 years' experience of working within the Gulf Region, we aim to alleviate all the issues and frustrations traditionally associated with using a Resourcing or external HR service. Each client and candidate is handpicked and dealt with by a Director personally thus ensuring that all parties get the level of service they expect. to: Consisting only of Director level personnel, each with over 12 years' experience of working within the Gulf Region, we aim to alleviate all the issues and frustrations traditionally associated with using a Resourcing or external HR service. Each client and candidate is handpicked and dealt with by a Director personally thus ensuring that all parties get the level of service they expect.

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