ICT Assistant Job in Kenya - TradeMark East Africa (TMEA)

Organisation: TradeMark East Africa (TMEA)
Job title: ICT Assistant
TMEA Unit title: Customs Modernization

Description
Reporting to the Head of the Economic Corridor team in TMEA and under the day-to-day direction of the ICT Specialists in the Customs Modernization Unit, the role calls for the provision of ICT analyst and software programming expertise in the areas that the team is working on.

This will include providing support in the development of technical documents and design of systems and applications, providing software programming expertise in the development of proofs of concept and prototypes and working to provide direct technical assistance to the various stakeholder associations and revenue authorities on the both the Northern and Central Corridors of the EAC region as will be assigned by the ICT Specialists.

Other duties will include preparing and delivering presentations as and when required, preparing reports and other administrative documentation for TMEA as may be required.
The job also calls for work-related travel that will be undertaken as and when needed.

Primary Objectives
On assignment by the ICT Specialists and approval from the Head of the Economic Corridor team, assist with the design, analysis, maintenance, documentation and testing of software developed for the establishment of a Single Window (SW), First Point of Entry Scheme (FPoE), Integrated Border Management (IBM) and the Transport Observatory Projects (TOP). The work will include the following:
Participate in the steering committees as the technical programming input for the various ongoing projects with the stakeholders and to provide advice and technical software programming direction as and when required.
Provide quality assurance control over software developed for the SW, FPoE, IBM and the TOP with regards to both software developed at TMEA and for the software developed by vendors contracted by TMEA on behalf of the stakeholders.
Assist the ICT Specialists develop seminars/workshops for end-users or stakeholders’ ICT/Programmer/Analysts on the technical aspects or use of computer hardware, software packages or application systems developed for the SW, FPoE, TOP and IBM.
Assist the ICT Specialists design moderately complex application systems or portions of complex application systems for innovative solutions to challenges faced by the SW, IBM, FPoE and TOP and assist in the preparation and demonstrations of these prototypes to the stakeholder community as and when may be assigned.
Qualifications and experience
An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field.
At least 3 years of experience in web-based programming on multi-user/distributed systems.
Knowledge of Windows/Unix, web application programming and PHP/MySQL, ASP.Net/MS SQL Server, ASP 3.0 and Java is essential. Knowledge of desktop programming languages is an added advantage.
Excellent communication/interpersonal and report writing skills.
Good knowledge of ICT policies for the region both at the national level and at the stakeholder level will be an added advantage.
Recipients

The direct recipient will be TMEA and the partner Governments of the EAC (including the revenue authorities, Ministries of Trade, EAC, Infrastructure and Finance), regional transit organisations and regional economic communities (EAC and COMESA). The secondary recipients are the Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) investors (DFID, EC, Holland, Belgium etc).

Reporting

The ICT Assistant will report to the Head of the Economic Corridor Team and work under close cooperation with and the day-to-day direction of the ICT Specialists in the Customs Modernization unit.

Timeframe

The assignment will be for the period of 1 year with possibility of renewal for a further 2 years on an annual basis.

Email address: recruitment@trademarkea.com

Deadline for Application: Wednesday December 1, 2010