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URGENT – WPP in SDN’s Water Anchor is seeking experienced Trust Fund Resource Management STCs (HQ, ASAP)

Due to the retiree cooling-off policy, the Water Partnership Program (WPP) is losing its Trust Fund Resource Management ( TF RM) Manager. As replacement, we are looking for two experienced TF RM officers – STCs on the short term, with the possibility that one of the RM positions can be turned in to a staff position.

The objective of these two positions is to provide the full range of Trust Fund financial and management skills throughout the life cycle of the Water Partnership Program, from inception through implementation, to both Anchor and Regional staff, ensuring compliance at every level.

UPDATE: an RM assistant has been found, still looking for an RM analyst/officer level STC with extensive experience on financial monitoring of a large TF program.

To express interest or get more information, please contact mschuring@worldbank.org.
More information on the WPP: http://www.worldbank.org/water/wpp

STT for Knowledge Output Capture Project (KOCP) Team
Duration: May 1 – June 30, 2012
Reporting to: Klaus Tilmes, Director, FPDOK

Over the past 5 years, the WB has engaged in over 9,000 knowledge projects, with the majority in ESW, TA, and KPs. Yet, the 2011 Knowledge Report identified numerous deficiencies in the monitoring, classification, curation and oversight of knowledge activities and related outputs for both internal and external consumption. Initial assessments indicate that only 30% of these projects have a clearly identified and hence re-useable output within the Bank’s record management systems. Reflecting the heightened attention on capturing knowledge products, many Units are now embarking on similar output capture initiatives, albeit in a fragmented way and without fully benefiting from synergies. By joining forces across networks and regions and working closely with IMT, this proposal aims to build on this momentum and incorporate the lessons of earlier capture initiatives (e.g., LCR, PREM).

Objective:
Fundamentally, this project seeks to identify, capture, and centralize the storage of outputs of a substantial share of the knowledge projects undertaken between FY06-12.

Duties and Accountabilities:
The STT will be responsible for specific tasks, which will include a combination of, but not limited to, the following:

1. Support, assist and partner with a Team of Information Analysts in the data collection effort for tracking down Knowledge Project’s reports.
2. Search the Bank’s internal document repositories, ImageBank and WBDocs, for final reports that might belong to projects in scope.
3. Create personal connections with units’ EAs and other staff to help facilitate the submission flow of the materials requested to the TTLs, IM Focal Points, and other project point of contacts.
4. Provide direct share drive search support to TTLs, IM Focal Points, and other point of contacts.
5. Organize different events and/or gimmicks geared to promote an attitude of cooperation on the staff required to supply project documents, in order to maintain a good momentum and help achieve our goal of 60% recovery.

Selection Criteria :
· 10 or more years of solid experience in Operations in the regions, networks or anchor units
· Excellent spoken and written command of the English language
· Sound knowledge of Bank guidelines and procedures
· Proactive with sound judgment and ability to exercise initiative
· Self-starter with good organizational skills, ability to network and ability to prioritize and/or balance competing demands under pressure
· Ability to work effectively in a team environment with a positive attitude
· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; tactful interaction with staff at all levels
· High degree of motivation, flexibility, and reliability
· Excellent information technology skills (Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office)

Hello,

I terminated from the World Bank seven years ago and now work part-time as a consultant and lawyer.I have extensive experience in the administrative/human resources fields and am looking for a part-time position at the World Bank or in Turkey. I will be happy to provide past World Bank references, as needed.

Thank you.

I am a retiree looking for part-time assignments involving environment aspects in the design/implementation of energy, infrastructure or industrial projects. Have been involved at the Bank in supporting project designs, environmental documentation and environmental supervision to meet Borrower and Bank requirements.

Opportunity in Washington, DC

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has contracted through CAMRIS International partnered with IAP World Services Inc, (IAPWS), to recruit and hire qualified individuals for the following position:

Title: Population Health Environment Technical Advisor

Bureau for Global Health

United States Agency for International Development

Application Deadline: Open until filled

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Global Health Bureau/Office of Population and Reproductive Health (GH/PRH) seeks a Population Health Environment (PHE) Technical Advisor. The PHE Technical Advisor provides technical guidance and management oversight to population, health, environment (PHE) activities within GH/PRH programs. PHE activities are designed to enhance understanding of the linkages between population and natural resource dynamics and to improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health information and services to underserved communities in biologically significant areas where population growth threatens biodiversity or endangered species. The PHE Technical Advisor provides expertise to support and improve ongoing activities, serves as the Office’s technical expert on population, health, and environment issues, and promotes further adoption of the PHE approach by USAID Missions and Bureaus.

The current portfolio includes activities implemented by the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Center (the BALANCED project), World Wildlife Fund (the PHE Alliance project), the Woodrow Wilson Center (the HELPS project), and discrete activities within larger GH/PRH projects such as the Population Reference Bureau’s IDEA Project, FHI’s Progress project, Public Health International’s Global Health Fellows Program, and the University of North Carolina’s Measure/Evaluation project. At present, PHE field activities are being implemented in the Philippines, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Nepal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Uganda.

The position is located at USAID/Washington in the Policy, Evaluation, and Communication Division, one of four divisions in the Office of Population and Reproductive Health. The Division supports improved collection, analysis, and use of data in policymaking and program planning; and promotes policies, behavior change, and community norms that result in improved reproductive health outcomes. The Division’s portfolio comprises 12 projects with a combined annual budget of approximately $100 million. The Division has a staff of nineteen, of which the PHE advisor is one. The PHE Advisor will report to the AOTR (Agreement Officer’s Technical Representative) for the PHE projects (BALANCED, PHE Alliance, and HELPS).

1. Oversee current USAID/PRH funded PHE portfolio

Provide technical and management oversight of cooperative agreements with the University of Rhode Island Coastal Resources Center, World Wildlife Fund, and Woodrow Wilson Center.
Participate in the management of the USAID, MacArthur Foundation and Packard Foundation “Lake Victoria Basin Population, Health and Environment Partnership,” coordinating USAID-funded PHE activities, providing PHE technical input to proposals, workplans, and monitoring and evaluation plans, and maintaining close communication with Packard and MacArthur Foundation staff.
Provide input on project technical activities, review and submit work plans for approval, meet regularly with project grantees, and conduct annual management reviews.
Prepare and present project accomplishments as part of annual PRH results review and workplan presentations.
Participate in the design of follow-on PHE projects.
2. Serve as USAID’s expert technical advisor on population-health-environment (PHE) issues

Provide expert technical advice and leadership to PRH, the Global Health Bureau, other USAID/Washington units, and USAID Missions on PHE issues.
Coordinate with other PRH Agreement Officers Technical Representatives/Technical Advisors on PHE activities being implemented by their projects.
Ensure the open communication and exchange of PHE findings, best practices, and information across the PRH office, GH Bureau, field missions, and PHE programs.
Provide expert technical advice to USAID Missions in designing, implementing, or evaluating PHE issues.
Promote USAID’s PHE activities to external audiences.
CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSE, PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS OR OTHER EXPERTISE REQUIRED. The contractor must have:

Master’s Degree in Public Health or Environmental Studies
Demonstrated technical expertise, leadership, and passion for the implementation of Population, Health, Environment (PHE) interventions, with a strong preference for experience with PHE in a developing country context.
3-5 years demonstrated experience working with developing country family planning and/or biodiversity conservation/natural resource management programs
Knowledge of and experience with USAID and other key organizations active in the PHE field
Strong project management skills including monitoring, evaluation and program design
Demonstrated ability to develop strategies and priorities
Good collaboration and team participation skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
Willingness to travel domestically and internationally several times a year, for up to three weeks per trip
Language proficiency in French or Portuguese a plus
U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain secret security clearance required.
Please submit your resume online atwww.camris.com

Seeking participants for a unique online, federally-funded, paid research effort directed at improving current forecasting methods.

The success of this project is largely dependent upon the 1,000+ individuals that will comprise our participant pool. Our ideal participant is an individual who is interested in and well informed about current events pertaining to one or more of the following topics: politics, science & technology, economics, the environment, and the military.

If you would like to learn more information about this effort, please visit our study’s website (www.iSPADE.net), or review our official news release (http://www.draper.com/emailedAnnouncements.html#SPADE).

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The System for Prediction, Aggregation, Display, and Elicitation (SP♠DE) team would like to invite you to participate in an interactive, online research study aimed at exploring the field of forecasting. This is a federally funded research effort sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to learn how judgments made by a widely dispersed and diverse group of individuals may be used to increase forecast accuracies. Your participation will include providing forecasts to questions relating to economic, political, cultural, and global security domains via an interactive website. Your predictions to these questions may be based on your individual knowledge or based on available information provided to you by other research participants.

Eligibility Information

U.S. citizens 18 years of age or older with expertise in specific subject matter may be eligible to participate. Additionally, individuals with diverse educational levels (e.g., bachelor’s degrees to Ph.D.s) across a range of disciplines are preferred.

Additional Study Details

Study Duration: The research study commenced in the summer of 2011 and is expected to conclude in 2014. Although we encourage you to participate in the study as long as possible, we understand that some individuals will not be available to do so for the entire three year length of the program. In such instances, please know that you may withdraw at any time.

Participant Involvement: Since data collection for this effort is in the format of an online survey, you will have the flexibility of offering your forecasts around your schedule. We encourage you to stay active with the study’s website throughout your involvement with the study.

Economic Considerations: In addition to providing the field of forecasting invaluable data, you will be financially compensated for your involvement with the study. You will be paid $575 for responding to approximately 100 forecast problem sets listed on the study’s website over the course of one year. Responding to forecast problem sets includes original responses to a forecast problem, updates to the forecast problem over time, and additional input in regards to specific forecast problems.

Additionally, you will be further compensated $575 for each additional year that you provide forecasts to approximately 100 forecast problem sets for up to three years of participation.

If you decide to withdraw from the study prior to the study’s first year of completion, you will be compensated in accordance with how long you have been active in the study up until that point.

Staff Support: Although you will have a great deal of freedom in regards to your study participation (e.g., when/how often you visit the website, how long you wish to participate, etc.), support from the research staff is never more than a phone call or email away. Our dedicated support staff is readily available to answer any questions/concerns that you may have, arrange payments, and ensure that your participation in this research effort is a positive experience.

Even More Study Details

To register as a participant or just to learn more about this unique research opportunity, please visit the SP♠DE website (www.iSPADE.net). Once you have registered, you will be contacted by a member of the research staff to determine your eligibility and obtain some preliminary information about you.

Finally, participation in similar, online forecasting research studies sponsored by IARPA is prohibited while you are involved with the SP♠DE program.

Thank you in advance for your interest and consideration.

Hello,

I retired from the World Bank a few years ago and now work part-time at the IMF. I have extensive experience in the administrative/human resources fields and am looking for a part-time position at the World Bank or in Bethesda/Rockville areas. I will be happy to provide current IMF/past World Bank references, as needed.

Thank you.

AMERICAN RED CROSS POSTING BELOW– ADDENDUM ON TYPE OF SECTOR SPECIALISTS SOUGHT

The American Red Cross International Services finances projects in in the following sectors:
–Emergency response (post-disaster, and sometimes post-conflict)
–Disaster risk reduction (early warning systems, disaster managment, preparedness)
–As part of emergency response and early recovery efforts post-disaster: disease preveniton, water and sanitation, temporary shelter, transitional shelter, permanent shelter, shelter repair/reconsruction, conditional and unconditional cash transfers
–assistance to refugees
–community based health promotion
–HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns and “care and support” for people living with HIV/AIDS
–malaria prevention
–measles immunization
–cholera prevention

–organizational development (generally of national Red Cross or —–Red Crescent Societies, with whom we work)
–Training
–Teaching humanitarian Law (insecondary schools and community colleges, so far only in US)
–Logistics/supply chain
–occasionally, mental health, microfinance

Also, to support M&E specifically, statisticians, survey specialists, sociologists and anthropologists who know qualitative research methods, possibly economists conversant in cost-effectiveness analysis.

English Teacher

The IDB Family Association provides services to spouses/partners of the Inter-American Development Bank. The IDB Family Association is looking for an English Teacher for Workplace Conversation Class – a total of four hours per week. If you are interested and qualified for such a teaching position, please send your resume to: familya@iadb.org.

Director, Division of Human Resources, D-2, New York.

If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.

UNICEF, the world’s leading organization working for the rights of children, seeks a Director, Division of Human Resources.

Click here for more information

CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
Applications are invited from suitably qualified nationals of the Bank’s member countries to fill the following position at its headquarters located in Barbados:
PROJECTS DEPARTMENT
Portfolio Manager, Basic Needs Trust Fund

The Bank’s member countries are the Commonwealth Caribbean countries together with Canada, Colombia, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, the People’s Republic of China, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.
Full details, including the requirements for the position and general information about the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), may be obtained by accessing careers on the Bank’s web page at http://www.caribank.org. The Bank routinely places information on career opportunities on its website.
CDB is a multi-lateral development finance institution that works in collaboration with its Borrowing Member Countries to promote sustainable, social and economic development within these countries and economic cooperation and integration among them.

Opening at UN Washington, DC @ https://inspira.un.org/psc/UNCAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=19102&

I have retired from the World Bank and am looking for full/part-time opportunities in the administrative field.

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) was established in 1967 by the Arabian Oil Company
Limited (Japan) in fulfillment of its obligations under the oil concession agreement with the Government of
the State of Kuwait. KISR is dedicated to conduct applied scientific research that helps the advancement of
national industry and to undertake studies related to the preservation of the environment, resources of
natural wealth and their discovery, sources of water and energy, methods of agricultural exploitation and
promotion of water wealth.
Having gone through major restructuring, the Water Center of KISR is currently seeking applications from
qualified individuals to contribute in the fulfillment of its ambitious Water Management Program. More
specifically, we are seeking an individual with research background to take the leading role in materializing
the objectives of the solution area “Integrated Water Resources Management”.
Effectively delivering the most appropriate quantity and quality of water to each customer or set of
customers requires a significant level of integrated planning among the various stakeholders, as well as
advanced level of technology utilization. As it stands, the water allocation in Kuwait is far from such a
level of integration. This solution area aims to produce an optimum water resources allocation strategy
based on accurate assessment of the needs and resources, bringing the various stakeholders together, and
state-of-the-art optimization models and resultant policies.
Responsibilities:
The main responsibilities of this Research Scientist will focus on, but will not be limited to the following:
• In close cooperation with the MEW officers, and with the assistance of the program manager, he/she
will identify and reach a common consent on the needs of the stakeholders in clear and detailed fashion
• Develop a series of project proposals designed to lead to the fulfillment of the identified needs and
obtain the approval of MEW on these projects
• Seek the necessary funds for conducting these projects
• Lead the implementation of these projects
• To provide support to the management of Water Resources Division in enhancing the image of the
Division and KISR in the local, regional and international arena.
Experiences and preferred qualifications:
Applicants for this job should have solid experience in applied research/consultation with significant peerreviewed
publication record. Experience in devising and leading/participating IWRM programs in arid
areas is essential. Specific experiences are needed in the following areas: general principles of resource
management with special reference to water; water demand forecasting; master planning; water
conservation; real-time management of water demand and supply for all sources of water; and other
methods and practices applicable to water resource management. Client/stakeholder liaising experience
would be preferred.
Requirements:
• Ph.D. degree in related field from US or UK universities would be considered.
• Minimum five years of work experience in research/consultation related to integrated water resources
management
• Excellent written and spoken English is preferred.
Application instructions:
Please send your applications to khadi@safat.kisr.edu.kw, maria@safat.kisr.edu.kw

Would appreciate list of job opportunities.

Thanks.