IT Specialist - Deployment Roster at Plan International

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for - and respond to - crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: IT Specialist - Deployment Roster

Req ID: 22705
Location: Nigeria
Reports to: Emergency Response Manager

Emergency Roster

• The Emergency Roster is a database of pre-selected deployable internal and external candidates who have the appropriate skills and experience to support emergency preparedness and response. It also stores information on these candidates.
• The purpose of the roster is to ensure that we have the right people in the right place and the right time with the right skills.
• Roster Members are expected to deploy to an emergency response within 72 hours or once an entry visa is received. A Roster Member is selected from the Emergency Roster as and when a roster request is received from one of our country offices.

Key Tasks
Restoration and management of power, communications and IT:

• Lead or manage the set up or scale up of emergency responses ensuring safe power, voice & data communication and IT functions
• Complete needs assessment  to understand and prioritise short and long-term power, communications and IT needs,
• Creation of an ICT operational management plan
• Carry out the physical set up of power, communications and IT systems
• Initially utilizing portable technologies such as BGAN as the response advances
• Thereafter facilitate high capacity semi-permanent communications using technologies such as VSAT

Coordination & Representation:

• Liaise with and represent Plan International at meetings with key in-country donors, UN agencies such as Emergency Telecomms Cluster and peer agencies such as NetHope, ensuring a high level of coordination, identifying funding opportunities and potential for strategic partnerships.
• Provide advice and support to senior management on power, voice, data & IT communication issues and collaborate with staff on budgets, and IT  aspects of the programme, and implementation mechanisms as required
• Provide training and capacity building as required

Supply chain and logistics:

• Establish the ICT supply chain and resource local IT officers.
• Ensure that technical equipment procured meets the Plan International  standards
• Support senior logistics staff ensuring clear division of responsibilities and  clear objectives to enable the them to meet the responses power and comms needs and  ensure appropriate and cost effective implementation based on infrastructure needs
• Identify and maintain an inventory of all disaster response  ICT equipment

Media & Communications:

• Provide technical support to CDs and visiting DRM and communications staff to enable  media work
• Ensure ICT elements are included in sitreps 

Skills and Experience

• Needs assessment and surveying skills
• Planning and project management skills
• Experience of managing costs and preparing a telecoms  budget
• Familiar with fixed and mobile satellite communications, Mobile technologies (e.g. 3G, mobile data collection), computer hardware and maintenance, setting up networks LAN, WAN, Wifi, Point to Point connection, GPS, BGANs, VHF and UHF Radio
• Experience in mobile device rapid assessments tool
• Experience of working in Field locations.
• Experience of working in disaster response advantageous but not essential
• FITTEST or other equivalent ICT in emergencies training an advantage.
• Hostile Environment Awareness Training
• Good communication and documentation skills
• Written and spoken English
• Language skills appropriate to the deployment an advantage.
• Experience in training
• Teamwork, patience, flexibility, motivation
• Networking (clusters, other responders)
• Logistics coordination (for equipment movement)
• Budget and vendor management
• Familiarity with Plan International systems and tools
• Corporate systems (Regional Intranet, SAP, Plan Learning, HRIS, Office 365 Administration)
• Communication, Information Management and Collaborative tools (Skype, Email, SMS, video conference, Planet, OneDrive, Dropbox)
• Security (Anti-virus, patching, web filter, firewall, network security)
• Data collection and visualization (Mobile device rapid assessment tools (i.e. Poimapper), Google Maps, GPS, GIS, geo-location tagging, Basic photography, compass)
• Familiarity with basics of power and energy (Basic electrical knowledge, Solar power, power banks, generator, Battery charger, Inverter)

Application Closing Date
23rd August, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online