Position #: 674 Location: Ottawa, Canada Salary Range: $100,441 - $128,241 Duration: Term Position - 3 Years Closing Date: November 25, 2007 Job Overview The Telecentre.org Initiative is a global community committed to increasing the social and economic impact of telecentres around the world. The community builds networks, learning opportunities and services to support people running telecentres. It includes grassroots networks in over two dozen countries as well as numerous NGOs, companies and development agencies. It aims to improve financial strength, technical know-how, and management abilities; to serve more people in better ways; to develop and share new social enterprise models; training methods and community services for telecentres and networks to adapt and use easily; and share information and learning on key issues like business planning, fundraising, outreach, and community development. Based at the IDRC head office in Ottawa, Canada, the Program Manager plays a critical leadership role in providing intellectual guidance, managing the program’s operations, and directing the implementation of the Centre’s Program on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s). As a Program Manager, you will consolidate and expand telecentre.org's coalition of grassroots networks. You will also transition telecentre.org from a grant program to a diverse, resilient and independent group of activities housed within partner organizations around the world, establish a new organization or management group that will nurture, coordinate and sustain the efforts of telecentre.org activities across all partners and seek out new partnerships that both grow the impact of the telecentre movement and contribute to the sustainability of telecentres, networks and telecentre.org. Candidate Profile Education
Additional Information This position requires a willingness to travel internationally, an average of 60 days per year. View Job Details - See File Below Please send your resume to competitions@idrc.ca quoting the position number.Open file : Program Mgr.doc |