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Under its Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Programme, GeSCI is seeking a Technical Officer to provide input and expertise to the new ALICT Project. The Technical Officer will provide the required technical expertise for the ALICT Project Team to build and experiment with a new Learning Management System as well as social networking tools.

The ideal candidate will have a background in computer science, computer engineering, information management systems or a related field, ideally to Masters Level; together with 3 years’ programming experience developing database driven, dynamic or transactional web based applications.

About the JPO Programme

The Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Programme is, primarily, an opportunity for on-the-job development field training for young professionals who are at the beginning of their career and who wish to make a career in the area of international development assistance.
Please note that the Programme should not be considered as a point of entry to long-term employment in GeSCI.

These officers are given on-the-job training in the various activities and procedures of the GeSCI programmes, generally in the head office in Nairobi, Kenya, but also in some projects in the field. They are expected to assume the substantive responsibilities of any junior programme official in a relatively short period of time.

About the ALICT Project

The African Leadership in ICT (ALICT) Project is in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) and funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. The overall goal of the Project is to develop a group of African ICT, Education, S&T and Knowledge Society leaders that can become agents for change in their own countries and be catalysts for regional cooperation in the domain of ICT, Education, S&T and Knowledge Societies both at the country and sub-regional levels.

The primary beneficiaries will be future and potential leaders and policy makers in AUC HRST, the Ministries of ICT, Education, Higher Education, Science and Technology and other Ministries responsible for human resources development primarily in Southern and Eastern Africa.

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