AfTLD Job Vacancy Announcement
Post : Administrative Manager
Deadline : 4th May 2007

African Top Level Domains Organization ("AFTLD") was incorporated as a non-profit organization on December 19th 2002 in Mauritius. AFTLD acts as a focal point for all the African TLDs Managers, to discuss matters of policy that affect ccTLDs regionally and globally. Further, AFTLD presents the African region members position on global matters relating to the DNS and ccTLDs, and is a regional body of ccNSO (country code Name Supporting Organization), one of ICANN’s supporting organization. To achieve these objectives, AFTLD is seeking a suitable candidate to run its day-to-day operations (primarily based in Mauritius) in the position of AFTLD Administrative Manager.

SCOPE OF THE JOB :
This is a management position which requires a flexible, hardworking individual who has experience in communicating at an executive level of regional and international organizations. S/he should have experience in a “start-up” organization environment. As a domain name system-based and internet policy-focused institution, the incumbent should be able to communicate effectively using email and other on-line communication mechanisms (e.g. chat engines and Wikis).
Ability to co-ordinate and encourage participation in a multi-stakeholder environment is important, as is willingness to travel extensively and operate from various destinations. Also, the incumbent should be able to do presentations on various domain name & internet policy issues.