TECHNICAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT – Wanderport Botswana

Overview

Wanderport Botswana is looking for a highly organized and readily available technical consultant with whom we could make appointments for per diem hire while we are conducting site surveys and liaising with local entities in order to plan a pilot project of connecting schools and education centers to the internet using wireless technologies.

Requirements

We are looking for an individual who possesses the following skills and qualities:

• Fluent in English and the local language
• Relationship with local authority to be able to have access to towers and schools
• Wireless networking experience – Minimum of 4 years
• Recent experience liaising with local ISPs

This person would be required to:

• communicate with local authorities to obtain requirements for our endeavors
• act as a go between the local authorities and the executive team of Wanderport Africa
• communicate with school administrators and ministry of basic education
• conduct site surveys, using our methods, to our standard and under our direction
• identify IT needs of a surveyed site
• source materials and equipment and produce a bill of materials
• Eventually this individual will be expected to assist in the recruiting, vetting and hiring local talent to build a team, train new technicians and manage the team of technicians