The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is recruiting for the position of Maintenance Technician-Audio Visual Support to be based at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya reporting directly to the Operations Manager.
Duties and responsibilities:
Provide upon request AV support to all headquarter-based meetings.
Develop together with the operations Manager the annual preventive maintenance schedules for all AV equipment and meeting rooms.
Carry out both preventive and scheduled maintenance of AV equipment.
Allocate meeting rooms to clients upon request and ensure high standards of cleanliness.
Manages the Centre’s Cybercafe and works closely with ICT to ensure equipment is in serviceable condition.
Proactively develop contacts with other institutions with similar AV equipment and activities to ensure that the Centre maintains a state-of –the art AV equipment and practices.
Assist the maintenance team with various maintenance tasks during times when there are no meetings.
Work closely with the Travel , Visitors and Conferences to provide monthly charge backs on room and AV equipment use to FSU
Provide quarterly reports.
Any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor.
Minimum qualification and experience:
Diploma in technical engineering related field.
Five (5) years relevant experience.
Excellent inter-personal and communication skills.
Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and organize workload.
Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure with minimal supervision.
Good command of both written and spoken English.
Good computer knowledge of Microsoft Office.
Applicants are invited to send a cover letter illustrating their suitability for the above position against the listed qualifications, competencies and skills together with a detailed curriculum vitae, including names and addresses of three referees.
Applications should indicate “Maintenance Technical – Audio Visual Support” on their application letters and email submissions.
Deadline: 09 April 2009
All correspondence should be addressed to the Human Resources Unit, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya OR via Email: icrafhru@cgiar.org.
