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Group IT Manager
Jaza Energy • Lagos
Posted: 15 October 2026Deadline: 29 October 2026
📋 Requirements
- •5+ years managing IT at a global company with global operations, ideally within a multi-country, high-growth environment.
- •Demonstrated success leading large-scale software rollouts e.g., enterprise-wide Slack or ERP deployments from vendor selection through to successful employee adoption.
- •Working knowledge of African data protection laws and security frameworks NIST CSF / ISO 27001, with experience writing IT policies from scratch.
- •Proven experience solving complex cross-border network constraints.
- •Strong capabilities in vendor negotiation, stakeholder management, and translating complex technical risks into business-oriented solutions.
- •Experience managing a distributed team, including remote and matrix reporting lines.
📝 Description
- •Position Overview
- •The Group IT Manager owns and runs Jaza’s company-wide IT, workplace tooling, access, device lifecycle, and front-line support.
- •This is an operational role first, meeting the company’s immediate need to stand up and run IT well; security, governance, and broader IT strategy are areas to grow into over time, and a more senior owner may sit above this role later.
- •The Group IT Manager is Jaza's senior IT hire and is accountable for all company IT: operations, security, data protection and IT controls.
- •The role is deliberately both hands-on and strategic.
- •The first priority is standing up and running IT well workplace tooling, access, device lifecycle and support.
- •The role then builds out security, governance and IT controls in step with Jaza's growth and the requirements of its auditors and funders.
- •You will be hands-on managing day-to-day IT and support while standardizing the systems, tooling, and device lifecycle that let Jaza scale across markets.
- •Deep cybersecurity is not the focus of this role, security scope centers on incident response and core access controls.
- •You will lead the In-Country IT Officers, who deliver day-to-day support, so that your time moves progressively from doing to designing, controlling and improving.
- •Security scope is practical and risk-based: identity and access, device compliance, backups and incident response first, maturing toward a recognized framework as the business scales.
- •Key Responsibilities
- •Enterprise IT Strategy & Governance:
- •Formulate, implement, and audit company-wide IT, data protection laws of each operating country, and cybersecurity policies to ensure complete compliance with global and local data protection legislation e.g., GDPR, local data acts.
- •Lead the evaluation, business-case development, and change management strategies for introducing new enterprise software e.g., migrating to Slack, centralized project management tools, or knowledge bases.
- •Standardize Jaza’s global IT stack, defining hardware baselines and software requirements that scale effortlessly across all global offices and operational Hubs.
- •Own the business application inventory and a clear ownership model for each system ERP/accounting, payroll/HRIS, the hub operating platform, customer and payment integrations, and tax e-invoicing integrations, defining where IT, TechOps, Finance and HR each own administration, user access and change.
- •Set the policy for AI and third-party SaaS tools, including approved tools, enterprise agreements and data-handling rules, so that company data is not placed in unapproved tools.
- •Own the IT budget and report IT spend licences, SaaS subscriptions, hardware and connectivity to the CFO, including periodic reconciliation of paid licences to active users.
- •Information Security & Cyber Risk Management:
- •Design and implement robust company-wide information security frameworks e.g., NIST or ISO 27001 principles covering Identity and Access Management IAM, Multi-Factor Authentication MFA, and zero-trust network architectures.
- •Establish and maintain corporate cyber risk registries, mitigation logs, and vulnerability tracking systems to protect Jaza's intellectual property and employee data.
- •Regularly audit systems and software, conduct penetration testing, and establish robust defense and threat response capabilities e.g.
- •threat hunt.
- •Architect security awareness and training programs and software utilization frameworks to build a high-compliance culture among Jaza staff.
- •Design and operate the IT general controls relied on by external audit: user access provisioning and periodic access reviews, change management, backups, and segregation of duties within finance systems.
- •Own backup, restore testing and IT business continuity / disaster recovery for critical systems, with recovery objectives agreed with system owners.
- •Global Vendor Strategy & Procurement Governance:
- •Define the governance and allocation models for all software licenses and global hardware procurement.
- •Manage high-level relationships with global hardware suppliers, negotiating master service agreements, bulk procurement contracts, and strategic partnerships.
- •Facilitate executive-level stakeholder buy-in for new software investments, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
- •Own the group IT asset register as the single source of truth for all IT devices and licences: set the tagging, custody sign-off, transfer and disposal standards; approve disposals and write-offs; and reconcile the register to Finance's fixed asset register, supported by independent physical verification.
- •Agree with TechOps the boundary between corporate IT and hub operational technology hub devices, SIMs and connectivity, and point-of-sale or IoT equipment so that every device class has a named owner.
- •Regional Front Line Oversight:
- •Design and manage First-Line Technical Support and daily tactical workflows.
- •Design and manage IT ticketing procedures ensuring fast time to resolution fo