Call for Candidates to the Position of Web Applications Development and Support Intern

About RCREEE

The Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE) is a not-for-profit regional organization founded by governmental representatives from ten Arab countries in 2008 and headquartered in Cairo. RCREEE’s mission is to initiate regional policy dialogues and promote strategies and partnerships favorable to Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RE&EE) investments in the member states of the Arab region.
For information on RCREEE and its activities, please visit http://www.rcreee.org

Objectives, tasks and responsibilities

The job’s objective is to provide technical support intern to the RCREEE Team on different tasks and responsibilities as follows:

Web Development and Application Support

• Maintaining and providing technical management for RCREEE’s database applications, web-based applications, and information systems built on Drupal, Moodle and WordPress platforms.
• Monitoring and recovering downtime of the servers.
• Protecting and recovering from any security issues on the servers.
• Contacting the ISP for any issue related to network or operating system.
• Ensuring best practices in technical data integration with other partner platforms.
• Suggesting and implementing new or improved features in different RCREEE web products, including design, development etc. related to new development and/or modifications requested on RCREEE’s applications and information systems.
• Ensuring content management and data migration if required in coordination with relevant technical and administrative teams.
• Suggesting knowledge management and technology procurements and coordination to ensure cost efficient and technology optimum choices for RCREEE knowledge management tools, online channels and infrastructure.
• Carrying out training workshops and training in-house staff members if required.
• Supporting technical and scientific meetings, conferences or capacity building and training activities and represent RCREEE, when needed.
• Helping in other relevant IT related technical tasks as required.
• In case of projects with external developers and partners, the IT support specialist will help in the design, coordination and validation of beta-versions in accordance with ToR and providing feedback to developers for corrective actions.

Skills Required:

Technical:

• Minimum of three years of web development and technical support experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT related field.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, software development, PHP, SQL, working with linked data, Drupal, Moodle, WordPress, Amazon cloud servers, RDS database. User interface design is a plus.
• Knowledge of MS Excel and CSV files, and batch importing techniques.
• Experience supporting desktop, laptop, PDAs and wireless devices.

Personal:

• Must have excellent team/customer service skills.
• Ability to handle emergency situations in a calm and directed fashion, and lead teams in such situations as needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Arabic and English. Knowledge of French is a plus.
• Must possess exceptional problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills to troubleshoot and resolve project issues and challenges.
• Strong attention to detail and deadline orientated.
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Must be accustomed to working on various issues simultaneously and ensuring the integrity of each project.

General Terms and Conditions
 

• The Web Applications Development and Support Intern is required to work from RCREEE’s Cairo office on a full-time basis
• The Web Applications Development and Support intern will be contracted on lump sum fees paid in parts according to scheduled monthly deliverables (equivalent to 250 Euro Monthly)

Tenure of Appointment

• The initial appointment will be for 6 months including a 3 months’ probation period.
• Contract extension will be subject to performance and availability of funding.

Age Requirement

• Preferably between the age of 23 and 35.

Gender Mainstreaming

• RCREEE is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.

* This position is subject to availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

To apply please send CV and a cover letter highlighting relevant work experience to:  hr@rcreee.orgat the latest by August 15^th, 2015. Please indicate in Message Subject: Web Applications Development and Support intern. Emails without a subject line will be automatically discarded.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.