India Water Portal -- vacancy

Job: To manage the content and community on India Water Portal.

List of tasks will be:

** to solicit new material for the Water Portal to enhance the coverage of various water issues. To go through material and summarize material that is sent to us to see if it is appropriate for putting up on the Portal

** to create a 'virtual community' around the Portal. There are people who are engaged with the Portal and interested in the Portal at various levels of depth, and the challenge is to weave all these people and organisations together into a thriving virtual community. Conduct in-person user interaction sessions at different places to strengthen the community.

** to create newsletters for the Portal aimed at different audiences like water practitioners, corporates, citizens etc.

** to assess new sections to start on the Portal based on user requests or gaps in Water Portal coverage. To explore usage of technology tools like elearning, multimedia, GIS, to enhance the usefulness of the Portal.

You would get an opportunity to interact with many people including distinguished experts and organisations around the country in the water sector and understand all the facets and dimensions of water.

The requirements will be :

** excellent communications skills in English, and 1 or more Indian languages

** in-depth understanding of water issues, or enough curiosity and aptitude to quickly understand and keep learning about the sector

** experience with IT tools Knowledge of some of the following: HTML and web tools, blogs, social networking and internet research, GIS, web design and multimedia. An appreciation of relevance and usefulness of technology and its ability to impact typical development sector problems

** passion and commitment to make a difference

** prior experience or aptitude in the job tasks mentioned

We are interested in a very smart and committed person to work with us in a very stimulating and learning environment. Candidates need to have atleast 5 years of experience and be able to take on responsibilities and execute with limited supervision. We are looking for

Please mail us at portal@arghyam.org