Football Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Assist the HoR and Technology Manager in the Implementation and Follow up of the VAR and football Technology Strategic Plan.
• Assist with the elaboration, planning, and conduct of the annual Referees VAR and all activities related to Football technology.
• Assist in elaboration and conduct of Procedures for Training, Analysing all matches and referees match situations in competitions like Evaluation, Follow-up with referees, Assessors and Instructors.
• Assist in Referees VARs, AVARs and ROs qualifications and all approval plan and process.
• Assist in the FIFA IAAP platform, adding editing and creating any new task on it and follow up all processes.
• Prepare and handle all VAR teaching materials for CAF Referees and any other support material for VAR.
• Assist in Elaboration of Refereeing Development tools: Teaching Material, Courses, MAs contents and VAR courses.
• Prepare any material to develop the teaching in all Members associations and Zonal unions.
• Assist in all VAR activites in all CAF, MAs and Zonal Activities and competitions.
• Assist the department in all administrative matters to prepare for any Events (Requests, Tenders, Evaluation, Courses preparation, Compitions Preparations, etc.
• Follow up and update requests and any information for any referees or Assessors and any other persons involved with refereeing in CAF platform and/or FIFA platform.
• Assist and give all support to Football Technology (VAR. GPS, Communications, Watches, Witte system, etc.

Requirements (profile):

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, or equivalent is a must.
• Additional Studies in Football (ex: FIFA Masters, etc.) is an advantage.
• At least 3 years of experience in VAR, TV, or any related field as well as at least 1 year of experience as a Team Leader.
• Expert in VAR Technology (servers, system setup, RRA, simulator, etc.), production field and Referees communication Technology.
• Fluent in English and/or French language both written and spoken is a must; command of any other CAF language (English, French & Arabic) language is an advantage.
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office and other modern IT tools.
• Good communication skills, leadership skills, and ability to work under stress, and in a fast-paced environment.   

We offer:

• An interesting and varied job in an exciting and innovative international organization.
• Attractive employment conditions.
• The opportunity to be part of a highly committed international team.
• Quality social security coverage.
• An excellent pension schemes.

The position will be based in CAF Headquarters – Cairo, Egypt. Only qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to gender, race, age, skin colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or on any other grounds.