Africa Programme Officer Computer Aid International Nairobi

Computer Aid International has been working since 1998 to reduce poverty through practical ICT solutions. We provide high quality, professionally refurbished computers and laptops for reuse in education, health, agriculture and not-for-profit organisations across Africa and Latin America and we work with partners to deliver training and support.

Computer Aid is a UK registered charity, with offices in London and in Nairobi. The charity has so far provided over 200,000 computers to organisations in over 100 countries, around 70% of our computers have been provided to African organisations. Computer Aid is run as a social business in the sense that the majority of our income is generated from charging a “handling fee” of 55 GBP plus shipping for the provision of each computer or laptop. This income model means that Computer Aid’s dependency upon donor project funds is kept low.

Computer Aid is looking for an Africa Programme Officer to further extend the number of beneficiaries to receive ICT from Computer Aid through outreach to promote the application of low-cost ICTs to education and social development. The successful post-holder will need to be a dynamic, self-motivated individual with the leadership, marketing and relationship-building skills that will be necessary to achieve set objectives. The post-holder will be confident in communicating, and in relationship-building, with all key actors from government, international organisations, NGOs and grassroots organisations.

This is a challenging and exciting post where the post-holder will be able to see the direct and concrete outcomes of their work impacting positively in education as well as in civil society organisations that play key roles in social change in the region. The post-holder will have scope to shape product and service delivery and the satisfaction of driving growth in provision and in establishing a new self-sustaining unit within the wider organisation. The post holder will be assigned specific countries to manage and targets to attain.

Remuneration: There is a salary of 18,238 GBP per annum inclusive of all taxes and benefits for this post.

Key performance indicators will be the number of new beneficiaries identified and served, as well as the total income from orders generated compared with the total of funds expended in that provision.

There will be no empirical performance indicators in the first three months of contract, during which time there will be scheduled induction. Thereafter the post-holder will aim to increase delivery as per set targets. Computer Aid already provides high levels of computers to the region.

The post will be located in Computer Aid’s Nairobi office in Kenya, and it will include regular travel across the region (between 10 and 14 days per month) The post-holder must be free of any health, familial or other factors that would restrict their ability to make frequent trips often at short notice.

For a job description and application form send a blank email to

programmes@computeraid.org

Closing date for applications is 10am on the 16^th April 2012, interviews will be held during April