Job: Technical Engagement Manager

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States 
Deadline: Friday, 22 November 2013 

Description

Technical Engagement Manager

Tracking Code 213662-025

Job Description

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking to enhance its security engagement capacity by hiring a Technical Engagement Manager. The Technical Engagement Manager will be responsible for DNS training and capability building initiatives with regional partners and stakeholders. The successful candidate will work in close partnership with managers from Global Stakeholder Engagement, DNS Ops, IT, IANA, and other operational teams, representing ICANN in efforts to support a healthy, stable and resilient Internet ecosystem.

The Technical Engagement Manager will also support initiatives related to Security in the regional strategies.

Job activities include:

• Support Security team objectives and priorities in technical matters.
• Monitor, identify and analyze Internet related developments, public policy issues and trends, and impact on strategy in support of Global Stakeholder Engagement and Security, in alignment with the regional engagement strategies and community requests.
• Support the organization's technical work in region, including internal coordination and external partnerships.
• Engage in local, regional and international technical dialogues, including strategy to address issues affecting the organization.
• Work in partnership with appropriate internal organizations to develop and carry out educational and outreach activities.
• Support disciplined communications and reporting system between the regions and the organization on issues and events relevant to ICANN's responsibilities.
• Organize Security-related, events, workshops or attend those representing ICANN and support RIR community
• Help with workshops executed in developing countries raise the awareness in DNSSEC community.
• Maintain favorable relations with local and regional media, stakeholders, employees and the general public.
• Represent the organization in a specific region, maintain area expertise, prepare and give speeches, reports, briefs, presentations and media releases.
• Maintain and expand network of all stakeholders in the region, including governments, Internet industry, and media and communications professionals.
• Strengthen stakeholder engagement and participation, specifically government, business, technical and civil society related to security, stability and resiliency of the Internet's unique identifiers.
• Engage with regional and international intergovernmental forums.
• Direct organizations policies and objectives in the region.
• Identify public policy influences, political issues, trends, that impact organizations work.

ICANN is an unusual global organization. It is based on a multi-stakeholder concept that brings interested voices around the world into the bottom-up policy-making process for the Internet's domain name system. You can find more about us at

• http://www.icann.org.

There is no typical ICANN employee.

• Our staff has a wide range of backgrounds and working styles, with many working remotely, and we have offices in Europe and the United States. We are expanding and changing rapidly with plans to open offices in Singapore and Istanbul before our fiscal year end. Most ICANN employees own their own projects, work closely with executive management and enjoy a rich benefits plan. Come work with the people who are shaping the future of the Internet!

Required Skills

The ideal candidate should demonstrate evidence of performance-based competencies in the following areas:

• Partnering with operational teamsCollaborate with ICANN team managers and senior executives and third party service providers on DNS technical matters
• Highly motivated, self-driven, and works well in a team environment.
• Resourceful and able to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Must have excellent communication skills including fluency in English with multi-lingual skills strongly preferred.

Required Experience

• * BA or BS in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in working with DNS technical systems
• Demonstrated experience in training and educating
• * Experience working cross-functionally and building collaborative working relationships
• * Prior international experience preferred.

ICANN is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation,

• age or other protected characteristics and complies with all applicable laws and regulations.

Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. ICANN offers a competitive benefits package, including a retirement savings plan and also employer-paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance.

All resumes should accompany a well written cover letter (first impressions are everything). Tell us why you are the best person for the job. Only those with comparable skills will be contacted. No phone calls or email please.

About ICANN: ICANNs mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldnt have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internets unique identifiers. ICANN doesnt control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesnt deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internets naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit:

• http://www.icann.org.

Job Location Los Angeles, California, United States Position Type Full-Time/Regular

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