[Okfn-irl] OGP Announcement - Temporary Administrative Assistant Sought for Civil Society Open Government Partnership Forum

Mon Feb 3 13:09:42 UTC 2014

Please circulate widely

Temporary job offer

Ireland’s Civil Society Open Government Partnership Forum is looking to hire a temporary, part-time assistant to help with administrative and web-based tasks, to help organise civil society’s responses to Ireland’s first OGP Action Plan, which is currently being drafted.
TASC has agreed to co-ordinate the recruitment and management of this three-month part-time post role.

Deadline for expression of interest is Monday 10th February at 5pm. If more than one person applies for this role, TASC will undertake a selection process based on work experience, knowledge of OGP and related areas and availability to start as soon as possible.
All inquiries to: Nuala Haughey (nhaughey at tasc.ie)
Role:
·         To provide secretarial/administrative support to the Civil Society OGP Forum, including taking Minutes of meetings and posting them online;
·         To act as a contact point between civil society groups;
·         To act as a contact point between civil society groups and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; 
·         To refresh, update and manage the OGP Ireland website, working with the developer of the site, including repurposing it as the repository of information about the Forum and the process of drafting Ireland’s first OGP Action Plan;
·         To co-ordinate diaries and arrange meetings between different groups as well as with relevant Government Departments and agencies;
·         To develop contact lists for everyone and to assist the migration of people from diverse existing email lists to one shared emailing system;
·         To compile a list of all projects involving civil society that are relevant to OGP;
·         To work to support civil society generally, including inter alia attending meetings, taking notes, making copies, following up on issues, etc.

Annex: Offer of short-term funding from Evelyn O’Connor at DPER, Government Reform Unit
From: Evelyn O'Connor [mailto:Evelyn.O'Connor at per.gov.ie] 
Sent: 30 January 2014 15:40
To: Nat O'Connor
Subject: admin and technical support for civil society reps
Dear Nat,
I refer to our discussion last week and the request for some form of  a bursary (total of €8k) to be provided to give administrative and technical support to civil society representatives to enable civil society representatives to work in partnership with Government over the coming 3 months in developing an OGP National Action Plan.  Specifically I understand that the money would be used as follows:
(1)    to employ someone for 3 months to give administrative support to the civil society reps – someone who would 
·         act as a contact point between civil society groups themselves and also with us  
·         organise meetings between the different groups as well as with relevant Govt Depts and agencies
·         develop contact lists for everyone so that we can be on a shared emailing system
·         work to support civil society generally – presumably attend meetings, take notes, make copies, follow up on issues etc etc   
(2)    In addition someone would need to be employed for the 3 month period to provide technical support
·         refresh the OGP website
·         rewrite parts of it
·         keep it up to date
·         monitor content
·         rebrand if appropriate

The budget sought is €6k for the admin support and c. €2k for the technical support.
In principle it seems that it will be possible for us to provide some form of a grant to provide administrative and technical support to civil society representatives for the period of 3 months as requested.   
There will be a number of things to sort out in terms of control requirements and governance arrangements.  It may be the case for example that we would have to give a monthly payment on foot of receipt of reports of the expenditure (activities and outputs delivered) as we will need to be satisfied that funds are spent for the purposes intended and that value for money obtains.  I appreciate that you would likely need payments to be made in advance to engage personnel to provide the supports you outlined.  We would also need to be given bank account details.
We can discuss the matter further in the next few days.  I hope the meeting goes well this evening and we look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards
Evelyn
Government Reform Unit

Nuala Haughey 
Project Manager 
TASC – Think-tank for Action on Social Change
Second Floor, Castleriver House, 14-15 Parliament Street
Dublin 2, Ireland

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