Key Responsibilities & Duties:

Oversee, lead and execute, organization's engagement in Africa region with all stakeholders, including governments, and senior officials, academic, business and legal communities, and non-commercial interests.
Facilitate engagement in Eastern, Southern Africa & Indian Ocean countries on the Coalition for Digital Africa program, in collaboration with the Coalition... Secretariat and other ICANN org staff.
Monitor, identify and analyze Internet related developments, public policy issues and trends, and impact on strategy in Africa region, and translate into practical plans.
Develop organizations work in region, including internal coordination and external partnerships.
Analyze local and regional developments and create reports and communications such as position papers and reports to communicate ICANN's global strategy.
Engage in regional and international Internet governance dialogues, including strategy to address issues affecting organization.
Work in partnership with appropriate internal organizations to develop and carry out educational and outreach activities.
Support a disciplined communications and reporting system between the regions and the organization on issues and events relevant to ICANN's responsibilities.
Negotiate effectively and influence resolution on issues in an environment with conflicting stakeholder views.
Provide internal counsel and input on issues relevant to the region.
Seek internal alignment on issues relevant for regional success.
Empower regional stakeholders to become active participants in the !CANN community.
Maintain favorable relations with the regional media, shareholders, employees and the general public.
Serve as spokesperson for the organization in this specific region, maintain area expertise and prepare and give speeches, reports, briefs, presentations and media releases.
Maintain and expand network of all stakeholders in the region, including governments, internet industry, and media and communications professionals.
Strengthen stakeholder engagement and participation, specifically government, business, technical and civil society.
Engage with regional and international intergovernmental forums.
Direct organizations policies and objectives in the region.
Serves as a focal contact for projects related to the Coalition for Digital Africa program.
namely the DNSSEC roadshows; the support to African association of parliamentarians and the Universal Acceptance project for business and public sectors in the Eastern, Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region.
Represents ICANN’s vision in the Coalition projects being deployed in Eastern, Southern and Africa and Indian Ocean countries.
Participate in project teams of the relevant projects under the Coalition programme.
Attend and contribute to the Coalition programme team.
Contribute to reporting on the Coalition programme.
Identify public policy influences, political issues, trends, that impact organizations work.
Identify and implement improvements for organization's global work in region.
Other duties as assigned or requested by the manager.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of the internet, Domain Name System and common related issues required.
Proven ability to communicate complex and often controversial information, concepts, policies and positions, both verbally and in writing, to internal and external audiences.
Ability to work in a global environment with strong awareness and ability towards engaging with all cultures and interests.
Ability to work in globally distributed organization.
Ability to work with highly diverse workforce.
Able to work independently (self motivated).
Must have excellent communication skills.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree required, Study in International Relations, Policy, Law, International Business and/or an appropriate technical fields desired.
Minimum six (6) years of experience working in an international legal, governmental and/or multi-stakeholder environment.
Prior experience at senior level in government preferred.
Prior international experience strongly preferred.

Language

Fluency, both written and spoken, in English is required.
Ability to read and write and converse in at least one of the languages of the region other than English at a level sufficient to conduct job-related business transactions required.
Fluent written and spoken language skills in any of the other official United Nations languages is strongly preferred. more

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

Relay and support Technical Engagement opportunities in the region in coordination with Regional Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) and Government Engagement (GE) teams.
Promote the Security, Stability and Resiliency best practices for the Internet’s systems of unique identifiers in the region.
Coordinate, plan and deliver training and capacity building programs... across the region in line with the regional engagement strategy.
Monitor published technical documents, blogs, social media postings, etc., and relay relevant and significant content to the regional community.
Contribute to processes for consulting and collecting inputs from internal and external technical stakeholders at the regional level. This includes contributing to regional strategy development processes.
Maintain all necessary equipment and materials relevant to an effective delivery and measurement of training and capacity building activities.
Liaise with regional Communications, Global Stakeholders Engagement (GSE) and Government Engagement (GE) teams to identify capacity building needs and effectively communicate key ICANN technical messages.
Follow-up on execution of technical cooperation agreements with partner organizations or third parties.
Monitor regional technical events calendars and identify events where ICANN technical mission/work can be promoted, and coordinate with Speaker Bureau to secure participation as appropriate.
Contribute to the regular and consolidated Technical Engagement reporting process.
Relay technical topics that need close attention and/or a formal position from ICANN to the Vice President for Technical Engagement.
Support any other activities as identified by the Vice President for Technical Engagement.
Study publications, periodicals, mailing lists, and other news sources to stay informed of relevant changes in the Internet industry and apply that knowledge to work.
Ensure the production of a report after every training event within four (4) weeks after the conclusion of the event.
Other duties as assigned or requested.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

Excellent understanding of the Internet Protocol (IPv4 & IPv6) technology and associated services such as DNS, DNSSEC, WHOIS, and other relevant protocols and technologies.
Be a seasoned facilitator and trainer capable of imparting knowledge and skills to meet ICANN technical capacity building objectives.
Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts, particularly those related to the operation of the Internet.
Good understanding of ICANN’s technical ecosystem.
General understanding of the Internet Governance ecosystem.
Sound judgment, diplomatic skills, and tact when interacting with various stakeholders.
General project management skills including the ability to effectively manage multiple projects with overlapping tasks.
Self-motivated, ability to work independently.
Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills, including the ability to work and interact in a highly diverse, multi-cultural, and globally distributed team.
Ability to remotely coordinate project/work with team members using online tools.
Ability to clearly communicate complex and sometimes controversial information, concepts, policies or positions, both verbally and in writing, to internal and external audiences.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office products and Google Apps services.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree required, with study in Computer Science or a related field
Minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in a technology driven organization
Minimum three (3) years of operational experience in Internet services delivery
Experience in delivering technical training
Prior international experience is strongly preferred along with working for a Community driven Organization
Experience within an Internal Technical Coordination Organization strongly preferred.
Candidate must be based in the particular region where this job is located, preferably in country where ICANN already has presence. more