Job Openings at IHS Towers

IHS Towers is the largest independent mobile telecommunications infrastructure provider in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Founded in 2001, IHS provides services across the full tower value chain – colocation on owned towers, deployment and managed services.

Today IHS Towers has operations in Nigeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Rwanda. Following the recent acquisitions of MTN and Etisalat’s tower portfolios in Nigeria, IHS owns over 23,300 towers in Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Specialist, Regional Quality Audit

Job Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Technical Quality Management

Job Description

• As Specialist, Regional Audit, you will ensure IHS sites are built to quality standards and in line with international best practice.

Key Roles & Responsibilities
Operations:

• Perform Site Readiness for Installation audits across assigned region. 
• Allocate sites to Field Service Engineers to achieve integrated audit of sites. 
• Ensure the team’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Rollout is achieved through effective implementation of the region’s Site Readiness for Installation audit plan. 
• Deliver timely reports on audit outcomes in line with the Operations Quality Manual and stakeholders’ expectations. 
• Monitor trends in regional audit outcomes for necessary escalation and communication to the Senior Specialist, O&M Support. 
• Enhance value across the entire process through continuous proactive engagement with stakeholders on improved and / or latest audit practices. 
• Perform periodic independent evaluation of the audit process with a view of driving continuous improvement. 
• Update the regional audit records after every audit. 
• Ensure smooth transfer of all audited sites to the Operations team. 
• Manage and close post-audit faults in collaboration with the Rollout team and other relevant stakeholders. 
• Contribute towards optimization of the function’s Opex budget through effective implementation of the approved audit plan. 
• Conduct power system analysis with the aim of improving application. 
• Continually explore creative strategies for capturing and measuring client power requirements. 

General Duties:

• Promote communication among colleagues for the benefit of information flow and to curb any problems that arise. 
• Prepare and submit reports to the Senior Specialist, O&M Support.  
• Manage relationships with partners/vendors. 
• Perform other appropriate duties as requested by Senior Specialist, O&M Support. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or any relevant discipline. 
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in the telecoms industry. 

Functional Competencies:

• Analytical Thinking 
• Collaboration & Teamwork 
• Stakeholder Management 

Behavioural Competencies:

• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Continous Management
• Workload Management

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2.) Senior Manager, IT Security Operations

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: IT

Job Description

• Lead the IT security team in line with best practice such as ISO27001 
• Identify potential threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the company’s systems and network. 
• Identify appropriate security technologies based on risks, policies, and architecture. 
• Plan, buy, and roll out security hardware and software, ensuring IT and network infrastructure is designed according to best security practices. 
• Perform real-time analyses of immediate threats. 
• Triage when security threats materialize. 
• Keep abreast of developing security threats and assist management to understand potential security problems that may arise from acquisitions or other big business moves. 
• Support the IT Architecture Review process and evaluate associated security of the proposed architectures. 
• Contribute towards establishing credible security awareness throughout the organization. 
• Create and establish processes around vulnerability management. 
• Prevent staff from misusing or misappropriating data. 
• Ensure that only authorized users have access to restricted data and systems. 
• Keep ahead of security needs by implementing programs or projects that mitigate risks, e.g. regular system patches. 
• Determine root causes of breaches and deal with those responsible if internal while also planning to avoid repeats in future. 
• Ensure IT security baselines and considerations are embedded in the procurement process for all applications. 
• Keep informed of industry trends in cyber-security. 
• Drive purchase of security solutions to combat IT security risk. 
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned by the Director, ITSSC. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and / or Advanced degree in Computer Science or any related disciplines. Professional certifications such as CISA, ISO27001, CISSP, CISM, CEH, will be an asset. 
• 9+ years of relevant experience in Information Security, IT Control and IT Risk. 
• Hands-on experience in security systems review, Acunetix, Windows Server, Linux server, SIEM, Nipper, Nessus. 
• Demonstrable experience with change management, user access management, segregation of duties matrix, and incident response. 
• Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocol

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3.) Analyst, Documentation

Job Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Operations

Job Description
Operations:

• Receive diesel intervention approval and inform Procurement team of need to contact Site Maintenance Contractors (SMCs) to supply diesel. 
• Notify Field Service Engineers (FSEs) to take delivery of diesel to site. 
• Monitor and track diesel deliveries. 
• Ensure proper documentation and reconciliation of signed diesel waybills as submitted by vendors and/ or FSEs. 
• Prepare and submit diesel availability reports to the Regional Logistics Specialist. 
• Sign Final Acceptance Certificates and forward to HQ. 
• Work with Central Diesel Planning (Operations) and Diesel Procurement Management (Supply Chain) to ensure diesel allocation reporting is accurate and complete. 
• Assist the Regional Logistics Coordinator to ensure the right amount of diesel is supplied to sites. 
• Manage relationships with partners and vendors. 
• Perform other tasks and duties assigned by the Regional Logistics Specialis

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related discipline. 
• +2 years of relevant work experience. 

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