Issue link: https://maltatoday.uberflip.com/i/887355
8 News maltatoday SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER 2017 All interested candidates can apply by sending an email to hr@mcast.edu.mt by not later than end of business day of the 30th October 2017. Alternatively, applications can be sent by post to the HR Department, Administration Building, MCAST Main Campus, Corradino Hill, Paola PLA9032. Applications should include an Employment History sheet available from JobsPlus, a recent police conduct and copies of original certificates. For overseas qualifications, an MQRIC accreditation statement is also to be included. In your application please quote the title and reference number of the post as indicated on this advert. Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology Administration Building, MCAST Main Campus Corradino Hill, Paola PLA 9032. T: 2398 7100 F: 2398 7316 www.mcast.edu.mt Vacancies PROJECT MANAGER ERDF 9.036 JobsPlus Number: 326/2017 The Project Manager shall assist and support the Capital Projects Department, in the implementation of the masterplan project. Profile Requirements: • MQF Level 5 in Construction/Civil/ Building Services/ Mechanical/ Electrical Engineering or Equivalent. • A minimum of 5 years relevant Full-Time experience in Construction or Building Services Sector. Other Re quirements: • Knowledge of AUTOCAD Software. • Expert Knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project. • Basic knowledge of Quantity Surveying and/or Land Surveying. • Fluent in English and preferably working knowledge of Italian. DRAUGHTSPERSON ERDF 9.036 JobsPlus Number: 323/2017 The Draughtsperson will be assisting the Capital Projects Department in the implementation of the masterplan project. Profile Requirements: • MQF Level 4 in Construction / Civil / Building Services/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Equivalent. • A minimum of 3 years relevant experience in the Construction or Building Services Sector. Other Requirements: • Expert knowledge of AUTOCAD Software. • Knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project. • Basic knowledge of Quantity Surveying and/or Land Surveying. • Fluent in English and preferably w orking knowledge of Italian. EU PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR ERDF 9.036 JobsPlus Number: 324/2017 The Project Administrator will assist in the administrative implementation of the EU funded masterplan project. The successful candidate will be expected to provide a high standard of work and service. Profile Requirements: • MQF Level 4 Qualification in fields related to Management, Administration, Finance, European Studies , International Relations or another relevant field and a minimum of 5 years relevant full-time experience. Other Requirements: • An MQF Level 5 or higher will be preferred. • Project Management Skills. • Organisational Skills. • Communication Skills. ARCHITECT ERDF 9.036 JobsPlus Number: 325/2017 The Architect will be assisting the Capital Projects Department in the implementation of the masterplan project. Profile Requirements: • MQF Level 6 Degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering or a relevant field. • A warrant registered in terms of the Periti Act (Cap.390). • A minimum of 3 years relevant full-time practical experience. Other Requirements: • Knowledge of AUTOCAD Software. • Knowledge of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project. • Fluent in English and preferably working knowledge of Italian. Due to the growing needs of MCAST the following positions have arisen within the EU Projects and the Capital Projects departments which manage the extension and new development at MCAST. Vacancies will only be filled if and when openings become available. Successful candidates will be called to fill existing vacancies in accordance with the obtaining order of merit. Operational Programme I - European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020 "Fostering a competitive and sustainable economy to meet our challenges" Project part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund Co-financing rate: 80% European Union; 20% National Funds MATTHEW AGIUS TRUDY Kerr is best known in Malta as the lovable voice of the Big Drive Home on XFM, a Lon- doner who came here via New York Telstar records and design giants Fitch. Funny and enchanting in person as she is on-air, beneath the trade- mark ready-laugh is an unbending will which has confounded scien- tists – having apparently cured her of epilepsy by driving her to run marathons. She leaves for To- ronto later this month to run her sixth. In 2010, Kerr was diagnosed with post-traumatic epilepsy after a horse riding accident in 2010. "I was re-schooling a racehorse. It bolted and as it went towards the road at 40km/hr, out of control, I pulled a jockey stop – grab one rein, pull the other. When you do that, you know you're going to fall." The fall left her with two brain haemorrhages and a ruptured spleen, waking up two days later in hospital. It was only around four months later that she re- alised something was wrong. "I called my ex-partner to say my grandparents were coming next week and did he want to meet them. And my grandparents had been dead for 20 years." Electric shock-like sensations throughout her body, olfactory hallucinations, speech and mem- ory disruptions soon followed. Doctors broke the news that she was epileptic and the symptoms she had been experiencing were simple partial seizures. "It liter- ally felt like someone had pulled the ground from under me," she recalled. At their peak frequency, Kerr was having up to 60 seizures per 24-72 hour period. Her neurolo- gist had told her the condition was either going to stay the same or get worse, "and you'll have to take three tablets a day for the rest of your life." But when the doctor told her the medicine's side effects she balked. "I said: I'm just going to live with the sei- zures." She had signed up for her first marathon four years ago partly in response to jibes about her "pit pony" legs and in part, by a desire to shatter the stigma related to her condition. Kerr says she had no idea that long-distance run- ning could effectively treat her condition. And effective it undoubtedly is: Trudy is coming up on the fourth anniversary of her last seizure. Every year, 385,000 runners ap- ply for the London marathon's 39,000 places. "I applied to run on my 40th birthday for three epi- lepsy societies and they all wrote back and said 'you've got a place'. This just does not happen." The reason she was snapped up, she says, was because people of- ten don't run with epilepsy, fear- ing the exertion would trigger seizures. What nobody was expecting was that running would, essentially, cure her. As part of her physical prepara- tion for the event, Kerr ran the 2013 Malta half marathon. "As I crossed the start line of the Malta half marathon... I had my very last seizure. That was four years ago this spring. I've been four years clear. "There's a lot of research into epilepsy and the causes and deal- ing with it, but my story of recov- ering from epilepsy, and recover- ing with no medical intervention whatsoever, is rare." Her startling recovery is made more remarkable by the fact that she hadn't been seeking a cure. "It's the happiest coincidence I've ever heard of. People who are af- fected by epilepsy generally don't exercise because they're scared of having a seizure. I, on the other hand, was blind ignorant," she says, laughing again. Keep on running Trudy Kerr eyes her sixth marathon PHOTO JAMES BIANCHI mt "There is a limit to how far you can tweak the fundamentals of democracy... before democracy eventually gets fed up, and bites you in the bottom" OPINION RAPHAEL VASSALLO PG 24 XFM Radio's Trudy Kerr running cured her epilepsy