DAI seeks an IT Specialist for a 5-year, $25 million dollar USAID funded Program for Aquatic Natural Resources Improvement (PANI) program in Nepal. 

Background

Water is the single most important natural resource underpinning Nepal’s economy and livelihoods. The sustainable management of water resources in Nepal depends on addressing climate change and protecting healthy, biodiverse ecosystems. PANI aims to enhance Nepal’s ability to manage water resources for multiple uses and users through climate change adaptation and the conservation of freshwater biodiversity. The focus will be at the watershed, basin, and national scales and the project has approximately $5 million in grants and activity procurements. This goal will be reached by meeting the following objectives:

• Reduce threats to freshwater biodiversity in the Karnali, Mahakali, and Rapti river basins.
• Increase the ability of targeted human and ecological communities to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change through improved water management.

Position Overview

The Information Technology (IT) Specialist is responsible for the IT needs of the Kathmandu Office, including system installations, maintenance, support and technical consultations to clients. S/he is responsible for ensuring that standards set by the DAI home office are followed and project solutions are the most efficient and cost effective. Responsibilities also include assisting in the setup, maintenance and troubleshooting of the LANs (Local Area Networks) at the project office. Responsible for the setup, maintenance and troubleshooting of client computers and peripherals such as printers and scanners. S/he will ensure that proper back up, anti-virus and disaster recovery procedures are identified and followed and that end users have access to shared files, printers and to email. Other duties as assigned from time to time by the supervisor.be based in the project headquarters office in Kathmandu and will be responsible for all project IT management and communications systems. This position will be supervised by the Operations Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Manage IT and communications equipment, network and information systems, and security, including communication links in the program office;
• Advise in the planning and implementation of additions, deletions and major modifications to the IT infrastructure; 
• Local network maintenance and installation including cabling, switches/hubs and NIC configuration TCP/IP, NAT, TCP/IP printing, windows network and domain services on TCP/IP ;
• Server and server application maintenance and installation (Hardware integration, Windows 2008 server installation and maintenance, LAN and WAN connectivity, Lotus Domino and messaging system, FTP services, Antivirus Protection Corporate edition installation and maintenance;
• WAN connectivity and maintenance (Internet connection and services);
• Client computer hardware and application installation and configuration, maintenance. Laptops, Desktops, MS Windows XP, MS Office Pro, Lotus Notes and other mail clients, Symantec AV and other project software;
• Manage requests to Home Office SysAdmin for new user accounts and TAMIS access;
• Provide assistance in procurement and evaluation of all IT technical equipment;
• Advise in procurement process and assist with IT Inventory;
• Travel to regional office as required.

TO APPLY:

Please send your CV and letter of interest to [email protected] with “IT Specialist” in the subject line by May 5, 2016.  Only short-listed candidates will be notified.  No phone inquiries, please.

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