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

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) was founded in 1957 by four nations: Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and South Africa. As the administrative body of the region, CAF manages competitions, offers technical and administrative training courses while actively fostering the promotion and practice of football. The Confederation organizes championships such as the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN or AFCON), the most popular competition. It maintains very close links with FIFA in coordinating tournaments for different events such as the World Cup, Youth and Women competitions and the Olympic Games Football Tournaments.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of IT

Location: Africa

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