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OWASP Request for Proposals/Training Manager/Independent Contractor

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Submission Deadline 15 August 2010
Type of Contract Independent Contractor.
Job Title Training Manager.
Location Must be based in London or Lisbon.
Length of Contract 3 months.
Position reports to Will be managed by OWASP Board Member Dinis Cruz and reports directly to the OWASP Board.
Job Purpose Summary To manage OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ Training activities and to operationalise the concept of 'OWASP Academies'.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
  • Normalization and ‘packaging’ of the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ events so that they can easily be executed by the local OWASP Chapters:
    • Creation of the ‘OWASP Training Pack’ (book + pdf + dvd) with the materials developed by successful deliveries of OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ events.
  • Establishment of working relationships with ‘OWASP friendly’ Universities:
    • Starting with the OWASP Chapter-lead training courses, but with a view to evolve those courses into OWASP ‘Academies’.
  • Negotiate potential sponsorship opportunities for the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ events.
  • Logistical organization of OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ training activities:
    • Multiple individual OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ training events;
    • (Try to) Organize a ‘OWASP Tour’ of 20x training events in Oct/Nov 2010 (with US trainers).
  • Work closely with multiple OWASP Committees, namely on:
    • OWASP Chapters Committee: the ‘soft’ (for now) requirement to implement the OWASP ‘Chapter-lead’ training courses;
    • OWASP Education Committee namely: development and packaging of OWASP Training materials and the development of the ‘OWASP Academies concept’;
    • OWASP Connections Committee: namely with its efforts to expose the development community to OWASP Training materials;
    • OWASP Projects Committee: creating Training materials from Key OWASP Projects.


Minimum Skills Requirements
  • Experience in wiki edition, project management, education, deal making, customer relationships.
  • Should ideally be a senior professional.


Independent Contractor Payment 3,000 USD/month - 3 months contract.
Operational Budget 6,000 USD for conception and production of marketing materials and travel expenses.