Position: Programme Officer, ICT for Trade and Transport Facilitation
Deadline: Friday, 21 February 2020, 5.00pm Kenyan time
The East African Community (EAC) is the regional inter-governmental
organisation of the 6 Partner States, namely the Republics of Burundi,
Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the
Republic of Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. The EAC
mission is to widen and deepen economic, political, social and cultural
integration to improve the quality of life of the people of East Africa
through increased competitiveness, value added production, trade and
investments.
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To achieve these objectives, the key building blocks are
the Customs Union, Common Market, Monetary Union and ultimately the
Political Federation. The EAC started a fully-fledged Customs Union in
January, 2010 and implementation of the Common Market in July, 2010
while the East African Monetary Union Protocol (EAMU) was signed in
November 2013 and is under implementation.
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Job Summary
The
Programme Officer, ICT for Trade and Transport Facilitation will be
responsible for providing innovative approaches in developing and
implementing: Global Trade Networks and Systems; Integrated Trade
Management Systems; and Customs Systems and Networks, across the region.
The ideal candidate will possess an undergraduate or postgraduate
degree, preferably in Management of Information Systems, Computer
Science, Software Engineering, Informatics or related field. S/he will
need to demonstrate knowledge and competency in any of the following
programming and scripting languages: C#; C++; Java Enterprise; PHP; and
Python.
Undergraduate degree holders will have at least five years of
relevant working experience while postgraduate degree holders will
require at least three years of relevant working experience in
enterprise application development, IT Infrastructure Management
(Network & Server Hardware) or Cyber Security.
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