JOB ANNOUNCEMENT ________________ The EARN Association is interested in recruiting staff members to work in the areas of direct and indirect networking user support, technical support, and technical writing. In order to help us to fill these po- sitions as soon as possible, we would like you to circulate the enclosed job description without delay and as widely as possible in your country. In particular, please forward this to people whom you consider to be suitable candidates. A copy of this announcement is available from LISTSERV@EARNCC.BITNET as: EARN JOBS-ANN The deadline for applications is September 20, 1993. ABOUT EARN __________ EARN originated as an international version of BITNET to cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and EARN has kept close cooperation with BITNET and CREN. At the beginning, EARN comprised about 15 West European countries and from 1990 East European countries were quickly connected. At present, the new countries emerging from the former Soviet Union are becoming members and at present EARN connects 31 countries. A common IP infrastructure (EBONE) is used today in Europe both by Internet and EARN users. As a result of this, NJE can today be assimilated with other applications based on IP lines like FTP or Telnet. EARN is, obviously, still coordinating the activities related to NJE, but is also focusing on other user services which are entirely independent of NJE. EARN is nowadays focused on maintaining the satisfactory quality of service reached during the past two years, on facilitating the mail/file exchange with other networks, and on offering more and new services on top of the network layers. A completely new service in the users support area has also been commenced in April 1993. Users, as well as system administrators throughout EARN, often come across problems in dealing with the network and have no local source of help to turn to. EARN has decided to address this problem by offering a Net-consulting Help Desk ser- vice. The service is free of charge and is limited to users in EARN countries. EARN is providing for its users up to date documentation concerning all the important services available via the network. A comprehensive set of documents concerning e-mail, file transfer and interactive mes- sages, and covering the major operating system platforms has been produced and is available on-line. A set of Pocket guides as well as Quick Reference Cards and Primers for novice users have been printed and are freely distributed to EARN members. These guides and reference cards concentrate on the most popular servers reachable through the network (e.g. LISTSERV, Trickle, BITFTP, RELAY, WWW, WHOIS, Archie, Gopher, and so on). The EARN association is partially funding the development of a DEC/VMS version of LISTSERV, to be developed by E.Thomas, and has also started a special interest group for the definition of an unsolicited file transfer protocol over TCP/IP, to be used by LISTSERV as well as by any other server performing DISTRIBUTE functions. In addition EARN is also collecting topological data for the Internet, without which there can be no efficient distribution, and plans to update and maintain such information in a standard form as a value- added service to its membership. It is important to note that NJE is used where appropriate but that other protocols are chosen where more practical and that the focus is today on the applications mentioned above. The goal is to bring the advanced end user services to all countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. JOB DESCRIPTION FOR ADDITIONAL EARN STAFF POSITIONS. ____________________________________________________ Ideally we would like to hire one permanent staff (at the EARN Office near Paris, France) and one part time (50%) staff (work location to be decided with the candidate) but we are open to discuss different ar- rangements, case by case, in order to guarantee the maximum efficiency of the new staff. JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE FULL TIME POSITION (REF: POS-1) _______________________________________________________ The tasks assigned to the full time EARN staff are the following: o technical assistance to the EARN community o user support on networking tools o maintenance of existing tools o write technical documentation (English) for users on network tools QUALIFICATIONS (REF: POS-1) ___________________________ o a background as system engineer o at least two years of management experience in the LAN/WAN field o knowledge of the Academic networks world (BITNET/Internet) o at least one year of experience in user support services o knowledge of one or more of the following operating systems: VM/CMS, VMS, UNIX. o knowledge of at least one high level program language o knowledge of general communications protocols will be an advantage. o applicants must speak and write English fluently and be able to cooperate in an international environment o applicants must be available to travel EMPLOYMENT (REF: POS-1) _______________________ Employment may be either as a temporary assignment from current em- ployer paid by EARN or direct employment by the EARN association, in both cases for a 12 month period, with possibility of extensions. JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE PART TIME POSITION (50%)(REF: POS-2) ____________________________________________________________ The task assigned to the part time EARN staff is the following: o write technical documentation (English) on existing network tools. QUALIFICATIONS (REF: POS-2) ___________________________ o experience of the Academic networks world (BITNET/Internet) as a user. o experience of networking tools in use in BITNET/Internet as a user. o at least two years of experience in technical writing. o a perfect knowledge of English (mandatory) EMPLOYMENT (REF: POS-2) _______________________ Employment may be either as a part time temporary assignment from current employer paid by EARN or part time contract by the EARN as- sociation, in both cases for a 12 month period, with possibility of extensions. HOW TO APPLY ____________ Send your resume to the EARN Technical Manager before September, 20, specifying for which position (POS-1 or POS-2) you wish to apply, in BOTH the following ways: o via the network to: HI@EARNCC.BITNET o hardcopy by ordinary mail or by fax to: Daniele Bovio EARN Office CIRCE BP 167 F91403 Orsay Cedex France Tel: +33 1 6982 3976 Fax: +33 1 6928 5273 d.