Company Profile: SoCha, LLC is contracted to provide Monitoring, Reporting, and Capacity Strengthening (MRCS) support to complement and augment USAID Senegal’s Sahel Regional Office (SRO) performance management of activities within its portfolio. MRCS will support Sahel Regional technical Office (SRTO), Sahel Regional Program Office (SRPO), the Niger Mission, the Burkina Faso Country Office, the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSAs) in Niger and Burkina Faso.
Scope of Work: The IT Specialist position reports to the Director of Finance and Administration and is responsible for the IT functions of the project.
Responsibilities:
- Technical support for all the start-up IT procurement.
- Assist with the set-up and maintenance of all IT systems.
- Support the design and installation of the IT in the new project office.
- Act as Level 1 helpdesk to project staff in Niamey & Ouagadougou for all IT related matters.
- Set-up and support all technical requirements for in person and remote meetings with project staff, donors, implementing partners and other stakeholders.
- Set-up and support field data collection devices.
- Any other task as requested by your supervisor.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in relevant field.
- Minimum of 5 years IT work experience.
- Minimum of 1 year work experience with USAID or on USAID funded activities in an IT position.
- Strong communications skills & service driven behavior.
- Proficiency in English and French.
Location:
- Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (1 position)
- Niamey, Niger (1 position)
How to apply
To apply, please lodge CV highlighting your experience in qualitative research via the following link: https://jobs.socha.net/it-specialist-burkina-faso-and-niger/10/05/2022/
Applications close 18 October 2022. Promising candidates may be selected before this deadline.