Pambazuka seeks a Technology Project Manager
Pambazuka News (http://www.pambazuka.org) is the award winning pan African platform for social justice. We seek to establish Pan African social networking platform as the hub of social activism across the continent – an independent, self-financing Pan African social network and community of members comprising social justice activists, engaged intellectuals and institutions that have similar missions to those of Pambazuka News.
We are seeking an experienced Web 2.0 technologist to project manage the implementation of the platform which is to be developed externally. We see this position as someone who can turn our overall vision of PZ2.0 into reality by providing us the optimum yet futuristic technological platform and functionalities. Closing date for applications: August 15, 2009.
Pambazuka News (http://www.pambazuka.org) is the award-winning pan African platform for social justice. We seek to establish Pan African social networking platform as the hub of social activism across the continent – an independent, self-financing, pan African social network and community of members comprising social justice activists, engaged intellectuals and institutions that have similar missions to those of Pambazuka News. It will become the central hub of opinion, organizing, advocacy and analysis of all progressive voices on Africa from within Africa and the African diaspora internationally, providing a unitary, safe space online reflecting and enabling cooperation for the cause of social justice in Africa. In addition, we seek to establish Pambazuka Press as the pre-eminent publisher internationally of non-fiction titles on Africa by Africans.
We propose to build an online, interactive, Web 2.0 driven, multilingual, scalable, and e-commerce-ready pan African networking platform for social justice movements in Africa. The site will enable academics, social activists, women's rights campaigners, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, commentators and policy makers, institutions and individuals to engage in advocacy and neworking.
We are seeking an experienced Web 2.0 technologist to project manage the implementation of the platform which is to be developed externally. We see this position as someone who can turn our overall vision of PZ2.0 into reality by providing us the optimum yet futuristic technological platform and functionalities. Consequently having a strong IT expertise is certainly a necessary attribute to interact with the vendors, manage platform-building tasks etc. Most importantly the person should be comfortable in a technological environment where the focus is on providing products and services to the people. The person should be able to work closely with the marketing and sales personnel too, so that products and services visualised by the marketing team can be reasonably built into the platform. Ideally, the person also needs to have some experience in mobile and 3G applications.
The person would have at least 5 years of experience working on IT projects within corporate or non-profit environment, and experience of working in small teams.
The person will be required to work in Oxford and should have the right to work in the UK.
Applications with a CV outlining both technical and managerial experience of similar projects should be sent to [email][email protected] Closing date for applications: August 15, 2009.