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Job Description

MWECS Profile

Mathiwos Wondu-YeEthiopia Cancer Society/MWECS/ is a local civil society organization established in 2004 and working toward Cancer, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors. The society is collaboratively working with national and international partners to curtail the growing non communicable diseases burden in Ethiopia, MWECS is one of the most respected and trusted NGOs of its kind, received five international awards in three years period from 2017 to 2020. More information is available at http://www.mathiwos.org/

Position Overview

MWECS is progressively expanding the scope and dimension of project implementation competencies. Hence, as part of strengthening the Information Technology and Communication System of the organization planned to recruit an IT Officer. Under the overall guidance of the Operation Director, the IT Officer performs duties that ensure   high quality deliverables for achieving the Society and intended project. It will also play crucial role in improving the technological interaction with the partners and will have good visibility and quality information for the public. The IT Officer is part and parcel of the resource mobilization and communication team and strengthening the sustainability of the Society. Mode or condition of work will be decided based on the offer, the outlined service could be given on contract, part time, outsourcing basis, or other assignment.

Duties and Responsibilities for the position include:

  •  Maintaining and expanding/enhancing the website functionality and performance once built.
  •  Working closely with other members to produce the website.
  • Creating websites/a website using standard HTML/CSS practices.
  •  Office 360, email account creating, updating, deletion, configuration, and backup.
  •  Implementing contingency plans in case the website goes down.
  • Selecting and editing images for websites and other publications.
  •  Choosing fonts and color schemes for websites.
  •  Oversee social media accounts’ design (e.g., Facebook timeline cover, profile pictures and blog layout).
  • Testing sites to ensure that they are working correctly.
  • Create guidelines for how logos and other branding materials should be displayed and used.
  • Suggest and implement new features to develop brand awareness, like promotions and competitions.
  • Stay up to date with current technologies and trends in social media, design tools and applications.
  • Monitor SEO and web traffic metrics.
  •  Generate, edit, publish and share engaging scheduled content (e.g., original text, photos, videos, and news).
  • Perform research on current benchmark trends and audience preference  Design and implement social media strategy to align with MWECS.

Duration : One Year contract with possibility of extension

Job Requirements

Qualification

  • Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Science, or related fields.
  • For bachelor’s degree 5 years working experience or for diploma 10 years related experience in web site and other social media platforms designing, uploading, among these at least 3 years working as an IT Officer or related fields.
  • Must be results-focused and able to work under pressure and tight deadlines of multiple tasks.
  • Plans, organizes, and accurately completes various tasks by establishing priorities while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, deadlines, available resources, and updated all engaged medias.
  • Good Level of understanding on statistical packages and/ or data analysis software (e.g., SPSS, Excel, Epi Info, SMART, STAT 01) and advanced MS office skills (word-processing, spread sheets, and databases) are required.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate (verbally and in writing) complex issues in a concise, compelling, and easily understandable manner.
  • Excellent knowledge of ICT and: good understanding of capacity assessment methodologies; excellent ability to identify significant capacity building opportunities to boom the Society.
  • Establishes, builds, and maintains effective working relationships with staff and beneficiaries to facilitate the provision of support.
  • Proven ability to develop and work in partnership with multiple stakeholders, with government officials, NGOs, academia, and international organizations at various levels
  • English language proficiency required.
  •  More preferably –1- Proficiency in Photoshop, Typescript, Atom.io, Jira, and Git.

Interested and qualified applicant can send their CV not more than 3pages) to:hr@mathiwos.org

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