Call for Applications: Information Management Expert
Background: The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub (the Hub)
is the U.S. government’s flagship project under the presidential Trade Africa
initiative, launched in 2013 to boost trade and investment with and within
Africa.
Improving the region’s trade
competitiveness, encouraging the diversification of exports beyond natural
resources, and promoting broader, more-inclusive economic growth will lead to
more food secure and resilient East African communities.
The goal of the Hub is to deepen
regional integration, increase the competitiveness of select regional
agricultural value chains, promote two-way trade with the U.S. under the
African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and facilitate investment and
technology to drive trade growth intra-regionally and to global markets.
Objectives: The Information Management Expert will support the
Hub to gather and distill relevant technical information for use in trade and
investment facilitation.
This information must be accurate and
up-to-date with an educational focus, presented in an attractive and readable
form for use by stakeholders and partners.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Content Development:
- Review enquiries received by Hub from
stakeholders and develop standard responses in the form of Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs), technical guides and briefs.
- Review databases of reports, studies,
statistics, policies, strategies and journals relevant to the work of the
Hub, and showcase helpful material in original or summarized user friendly
form for dissemination to stakeholders and partners.
- Liaise with Hub component leads to develop
component specific information briefs and technical guides, tool kits and
other material for education and outreach, delivered via various
platforms.
- Prepare thought leadership articles with the
help of component leads.
- Support the development and management of the
Hub’s web-based knowledge management system including identifying
information needs of various components for inclusion in the knowledge
management system.
Communication:
- Manage the Hub’s AGOA Hotline service to
receive and respond to requests for information from various stakeholders
covering all Hub components.
- Respond to enquiries from stakeholders with
help of component staff.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in communication,
journalism, economics, information sciences or related discipline.
- Postgraduate diploma or Master’s degree in
communication, journalism or related discipline is an added advantage.
- Practical knowledge and skills in use of
Information Management Systems and other related information
technologies/techniques.
- At least 5 years of communication work
experience in an organization involved in economic development, economic
policy or trade development.
- Excellent writing, speaking, and reading
skills in English, with a particular ability to condense lengthy,
technical material into user-friendly summaries.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and
interpersonal skills.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- The Information Management Expert will have no
supervisory responsibilities.
Base of Operations: Nairobi,
Kenya
Reporting: The IM Expert will report to the Director of Communications
Interested applicants should apply via the link
https://daieatradehub.formstack.com/forms/information_management_expert by January 13, 2016, 5.00pm East Africa Local time.
Only candidates who send their
information by applying through the link and by the deadline will be
eligible.
Visit http://www.eatradehub.org/dai_opportunities to
view the scope of work and learn more about The Trade hub.
DAI is an equal opportunity employer.