-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ciresearchers] Job: research assistant in e-consultation in Ireland Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 12:21:00 +0100 From: "David R. Newman" d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk Reply-To: ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net,"David R. Newman" d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk Organization: QUB To: "David R. Newman" d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk
We've been running an e-consultation research project since March, based at Queen's University Belfast, Letterkenny Institute of Technology and NUI Maynooth. We are particularly interested in the appropriateness of different ICTs in helping citizens e-participation in governance, focusing on communities that have been affected by conflict. See http://econsult.mgt.qub.ac.uk/ for details.
We now want to recruit a research assistant to help in the technical aspects of the project.
Here is a copy of the advert. Please forward it to anyone you think might be interested. The advert is also on the web at http://www.qub.ac.uk/jobs/?vac_no=W182&function=view_job
Applicants should not contact me for further information, as under Northern Ireland fair employment procedures, interviewers cannot communicate with individual candidates. Instead, if you have any questions that cannot be answered by the QUB Personnel Department, my colleague Colm Fearon c.fearon@qub.ac.uk has offered to answer them.
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Research Assistant School of Management and Economics Queen's University Belfast Ref: 04/W182B
Applications are invited for the above post that is available until February, 2006. This post is required to undertake research and provide technical support to the E-consultation research project (http://econsult.mgt.qub.ac.uk/). The aim is to turn e-consultation in Northern Ireland and the border counties from an experimental idea to a practical option for community, voluntary and public sector bodies. This will strengthen democracy through engaging citizens in governance and improving consultation processes.
Applicants must hold an honours degree or equivalent and have relevant experience to include 1) dynamic web server management, including server-side scripting languages (e.g. PHP, Java) and managing SQL databases 2) authoring accessible web pages and 3) installing test software on both Linux and MS Windows platforms. Further criteria will be available in the further particulars for the post.
Salary scale: £19,460 - £21,640 per annum
Closing date: 4.00 pm, Friday 27 August 2004
The University is committed to equal opportunity and selection on merit. It therefore welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Applications should be addressed to the Personnel Manager, The Personnel Department, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NN. Tel: 028 90273044, Fax. 028 90911040, e-mail personnel@qub.ac.uk, http://www.qub.ac.uk/pers