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

Mon Feb 10 11:29:47 UTC 2014

Hi Nat,

Please see below 10 questions regarding hiring OGP Administrative Assistant
and her/his daily duties:

   1.

   OKF Ireland repeats it's question from Feb. 3rd:  will the position will
   be posted on popular job search pages? Please post to irishjobs.ie and
   recruitireland.ie and share the link.
   2.

   Could you please share the details of the selection process for this
   role?
   3.

   Can you let us know how members of the wider civil society group can get
   involved if they so wish?
   4.

   Do you have a top-line breakdown of how funds are intended to be used?
   5.

   Will be schedule and working hours be made publicly available to ensure
   that other CS participants of this forum has equal access to this funded by
   the public resource?
   6.

   Weekly summary of work complete by the Admin. Should be along the lines
   of a PPP (= Progress, Plan, Problems)
   7.

   Do you anticipate the assistant administrator creating content for any
   member of the civil society group? OKF Ireland's position is that this
   should not be the case as it is a paid position to serve as an
   administrator for OGP CS group.
   8.

   In which capacity should the Administrative assistant attend meetings? I
   understand it would be as a minute taker, taking notes impartially and
   sharing with the wider groups within 24hrs.
   9.

   OKF Ireland asks that the administrator hired for this role has the
   relevant "technical skills" for the following duty: "To refresh, update and
   manage the OGP Ireland website [....], including re-purposing it as the
   repository of information about the Forum and the process of drafting
   Ireland's first OGP Action Plan".
   10.

   Finally, Nuala's announcement specifies that the Administrative
   assistant will "be working with the developer of the site". Could you
   clarify the name of this developer and why we should work particularly with
   her/him?

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Denis

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On 3 February 2014 13:09, Nuala Haughey <nhaughey at tasc.ie> wrote:

> 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 EURO 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 EURO 6k for the admin support and c. EURO 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
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> *Nuala Haughey **Project Manager*
>
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