Department: Logistics
Position: IT Intern
Direct Hierarchy: Capital IT Officer
Contract duration: 3 Months
Location: Nairobi
Starting Date: April, 2015
ACTED (Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development) is a non- political and non-confessional international NGO founded in 1993 and headquartered in Paris, France.
The organization’s vocation is to savelives, assist vulnerable populations and bring hope to those in need for a better future.
The organization’s vocation is to savelives, assist vulnerable populations and bring hope to those in need for a better future.
ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the IT Intern position in Nairobi, Kenya.
Main objective:
To perform transparent and efficient IT management for ACTED programs in Kenya and Somalia
Reporting to the Capital IT officer, his/her duties will include;
· Troubleshooting variety of problems on PC’s, laptops, printers, hard drives and maintain status logs.
· Perform daily documentation and helpdesk duties/activities as they occur.
· Maintaining a log of all problems detected user request and system backups.
· Provide technical support to users remotely and onsite and support user data backups,
· Assist in resolving user logons issues, mapping drives, wireless internet password and setting up created user accounts in Active directory.
· Assist users to setup up for meeting ie projector, speaker, laptops, and cables as request by user.
· Assist in setting up and maintaining computer networks ,
· Support set up of computer security measures-Antivirus installation and maintenance.
· Assist in configuring of new Information technology equipment.· Assist in installing and deployment of relevant hardware and software
· Providing voluntary training to users on emerging I.T technologies in the organization e.g. Windows 7, Microsoft office 2010.
· Any other duty that may be requested by your supervisor
Required Profile
· Diploma/Bachelor’s in Information technology, computer science, information system.
· Must have graduated in last 2 year
· Good planning and organizational skills
· Good time management skills
· Good inter personnel skills
· Good communication and writing skills
· Able to communicate in Somali
· Able to travel to South central Somalia
· Ability to work in a complex environment, with short deadline
· A strong team player with ability to work with minimum supervision
· Proficiency in written and spoken English.
HOW TO APPLY:
Application Procedure
Qualified persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications (cv and cover letter) tokenya.jobs@acted.orgon or before March 27, 2015. Please do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.
ACTED reserves the right to hire prior to the application deadline.
Please note that only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
