An Associate The British Council Vacancies and Jobs

The British Council is the UK's international organization for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We aim to build and develop long- term relationships with governments, organizations and people to provide mutual benefit and promote wider knowledge of UK language, arts, science, governance and education. An Associate is being sought to project-manage the Africa Knowledge Transfer Partnership (AKTP) recently established between Zaria industries Ltd; Ahmadu Bello University and the British Council

Jobs Detail

Job title: An Associate

Job Location: Kano

Qualification(s)

• BSc. (Textile Science and Technology) or BSc. (Chemistry Hons) or Industrial Chemistry; or B. Eng. (Chemical Engineering) at- Second Class Upper Division. MSc. In any of these fields is an added advantage

Job Experience & skills

• Experience of practical work in any of the above mentioned disciplines will be an added advantage
• Practical Project Management experience is not essential but would be an added advantage
• Project duration 2 years

Overall Job Aims and Duties

• You will play a key role in managing and implementing strategic development and transferring knowledge between the business and the university. You will be responsible for the delivery of all project work
• Develop a project plan from initiation to closure
• Monitor and track project milestones in order to ensure the following outputs
• Report on project progress in particular and project milestones in general
• Documentation of processes, specification and standards
• AKTPZIL: The project is focused on investigating the production process and potential attributions to chemicals involved and exploring alternative processes and/ or chemicals to prevent quality problems

closing date: March 31 2010

How to apply for this job

Further information about these posts, an application form and definition guide for the essential competencies for the posts can be downloaded from our website at www.britishcouncil.org/Africa-vacancies. Completed application forms should be submitted by email as follows: send AKTPZIL applications to zilabuaktp@yahoo.com. Please note, only short listed candidates will be contacted

website: www.britishcouncil.org