ICTD job opportunity: Officer Capacity Development in IICD

To complement our team, we expect to recruit an enthusiastic and team-orientated colleague. IICD's mission is to assist developing countries in the use of ICT as a strategic tool for sustainable development and poverty alleviation. IICD does this through empowering local organisations and stakeholders to make effective use of ICTs on their own terms, and through catalysing lessons learned and knowledge sharing on ICTs by local organisations and the international community. The position we seek to fill is: Officer Capacity Development You will be responsible for ICT capacity development of our local partners in one or two developing countries. To start with this will be Tanzania. As Capacity Development Officer the core of your job is to identify and manage the relationship with local technical resource persons and to assist local training partners to deliver trainings to project partners. In addition to that you will provide assistance to the country programme manager in the technical and training aspects of project formulation. You need to be a team player, have good multi-cultural 'people' skills, and a results-oriented approach. Your main tasks and activities for this position will be: * Identify and manage local technical resource persons who support local project partner organisations; * Support and advise training partners in the development of ICT training methodologies and the implementation of ICT training activities; * Support the Country Manager in project formulation, especially regarding technical ICT solutions and capacity development needs of project partners; * Report directly to the Team Leader Country Programmes and inform the Country Manager on country-related issues. For this position you must fulfil the following requirements: * Fluency in English and French (Spanish is a plus); * Two years experience with or in developing countries; * Two years training experience and methodology (preferably ICT training); * Skilled in basic ICT applications (Microsoft Office, Internet, graphics - ICDL level); * In possession of EU work permit. Expertise in one or more of the following will be considered an asset: * Experience with instructional design; * Experience with organisational development tools; * Experience with policy development; * Writing abilities/experiences. IICD employs about 32 staff from its headquarters in The Hague. The working atmosphere is informal and management seeks to encourage teamwork and mutual learning. While you will operate out of a small team, you need to be willing to take on full responsibility for assigned tasks. You must be open to learn, with a focus on flexibility. This is a fulltime position and you must be willing to travel about 30-40% of the time. If you fill the aforementioned requirements and have a commitment to sustainable development and the alleviation of poverty, we would like to hear from you. Please send us your CV with a short note by email to vacancy@iicd.org. Applications without a correct e-mail address cannot be answered. We are looking to fulfil the positions as soon as possible, and at the latest by April 2006. Closing date for applications: April 27 2006. More information on IICD: www.iicd.org. Courtsey: IICD. Posted by: Atanu Garai.

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