Regional Technical Engagement Specialist

**Key Responsibilities & Duties**:

- Relay and support Technical Engagement opportunities in the region in coordination with the Regional Stakeholder Engagement and Government Engagement teams.
- Promote the Security, Stability and Resiliency best practices for the Internet’s systems of unique identifiers in the region.
- Coordinate, plan and deliver training and capacity building programs across the region in line with the regional engagement strategy.
- Monitor published technical documents, blogs, social media postings, etc., and relay relevant and significant content to the regional community.
- Contribute to processes for consulting and collecting inputs from internal and external technical stakeholders at the regional level. This includes contributing to regional strategy development processes.
- Maintain all necessary equipment and materials relevant to an effective delivery and measurement of training and capacity building activities.
- Liaise with regional Communications, Global Stakeholders Engagement and Government Engagement teams to identify capacity building needs and effectively communicate key ICANN technical messages.
- Follow-up on execution of technical cooperation agreements with partner organizations or third parties.
- Monitor regional technical events calendars and identify events where ICANN technical mission/work can be promoted, and coordinate with Speaker Bureau to secure participation as appropriate.
- Contribute to the regular and consolidated Technical Engagement reporting process.
- Relay technical topics that need close attention and/or a formal position from ICANN to Vice President for Technical Engagement.
- Support any other activities as identified by the Vice President for Technical Engagement or the Regional Technical Engagement Manager.
- Ensure the production of a report after every training event within four weeks after the conclusion of the event.
- Other duties as assigned or requested.

**Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)**:

- Excellent understanding of the Internet Protocol (IPv4 & IPv6) technology and associated services such as DNS, DNSSEC, WHOIS, and other relevant protocols and technologies.
- Be a seasoned facilitator and trainer capable of imparting knowledge and skills to meet ICANN technical capacity building objectives.
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts, particularly those related to the operation of the Internet.
- Good understanding of ICANN’s technical ecosystem.
- General understanding of the Internet Governance ecosystem.
- Sound judgment, diplomatic skills, and tact when interacting with various stakeholders.
- General project management skills including the ability to effectively manage multiple projects with overlapping tasks.
- Self-motivated, ability to work independently.
- Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills, including the ability to work and interact in a highly diverse, multi-cultural, and globally distributed team.
- Ability to remotely coordinate project/work with team members using online tools.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex and sometimes controversial information, concepts, policies or positions, both verbally and in writing, to internal and external audiences.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products and Google Apps services.

**Education and Experience Requirements**:

- Bachelor's Degree required, with study in Computer Science or related field.
- Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in technology driven organization.
- Minimum three years of operational experience in internet services delivery.
- Experience in delivering technical trainings.
- Prior international experience is strongly preferred along with working for a community driven organization.
- Experience within an internal technical coordination organization strongly preferred.

**Languages**:

- Fluency, both written and spoken, in English is required.
- Fluent written and spoken language skills in any of the other official United Nations languages is strongly preferred.