Design Monitoring and Evaluation Africa Specialist-Burundi
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international non-profit organization that promotes peaceful resolution of conflict. With headquarters in Washington, DC and a European office in Brussels, Belgium, SFCG’s mission is to transform how individuals, organizations, and governments deal with conflict – away from adversarial approaches and toward cooperative solutions. SFCG seeks to help conflicting parties understand their differences and act on their commonalities. With a total of approximately 400 staff worldwide, SFCG implements projects from 29 countries, including in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The organization is an exciting and rewarding place to work, with dedicated and enthusiastic staff who loves their work. You will be joining a highly motivated staff with a good team spirit and there will be opportunities to grow in the role.
Summary of Position:
The Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (DM&E) Africa Specialist is responsible for providing leadership and technical support on design, monitoring and evaluation to half of our Africa programs. The DM&E Africa Specialist will also work within a regional structure to improve program and DM&E quality. S/he will directly report to the DM&E Manager based in Washington DC and work closely with the other three regional DM&E Specialists; including the DME West Africa Specialist. This position is based out of the SFCG Burundi office.
DEADLINE: September 13, 2013
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Job: Planning Specialist (Resilience), UNICEF, Nairobi, Kenya
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position:
Under the supervision of the Planning Specialist (DRR), responsible to ensure the institutionalisation of resilience focused programming with a focus on inter-agency programme collaboration and knowledge management, evidence based programming through participatory and community based considerations, resilience impact assessments in the Arid and Semi-arid Land (ASAL).
DEADLINE: September 13, 2013
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Job: Chief Child Protection, UNICEF, Kinshasa
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 60 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position:
Under the overall guidance of the Representative/Senior Programme Officer, responsible for the development, design, planning, implementation and management of the programme for PROTECTION within the country programme, and administering a programme budget totalling $4.2 MILLIONS.
DEADLINE: September 17, 2013
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The Ashoka ChangemakerXchange is a platform for collaboration among the world’s most inspiring young social entrepreneurs. In 2012 40 youth from Europe and Turkey got the chance to come together in Istanbul and Berlin to share experiences, exchange ideas and develop new social innovations.
The “ChangemakerXchange” is a series of unique events and a global community for some of the world’s most inspiring young social entrepreneurs. We meet for conferences at exciting places, challenge ourselves, learn from each other and start transnational collaborations.
Selection Criteria:
You are between 18-28 years old – you lead, co-lead, founded or co-founded your own social venture which is up and running – you speak English well enough to understand presentations in English and participate in discussions – you are interested in meeting other European, Turkish and North African young social entrepreneurs – you are willing to start collaborations with other young social entrepreneurs from different countries Country restrictions | Please note: For the changemakerXchange summit in Istanbul we can, unfortunately, only accept applications from people living (or being born) in Europe, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco – more countries will be added for the next summits.
DEADLINE: September 22, 2013
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Senior program development officer
Chemonics seeks a senior program development officer (PDO) for the USAID/OTI-funded Libya Transition Initiative (LTI). This short-term position will be based in Sabha, Libya, and is currently pending USAID/OTI approval. The senior program development officer plays a critical role in ensuring that LTI-funded activities are implemented rapidly and effectively, in full compliance with USAID and Chemonics regulations and policies, and consistent with OTI’s operating methodology that emphasizes a hand-in-hand approach to working with local partners. We are looking for individuals who have a passion for making a difference in the lives of people around the world.
DEADLINE: September 30, 2013
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Applications for 2014/15 Chevening Scholarships for outstanding scholars with leadership potential from around the world to study postgraduate courses at universities in the UK
Chevening Scholarships are the UK government’s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations. The programme makes awards to outstanding scholars with leadership potential from around the world to study postgraduate courses at universities in the UK.
The Chevening programme was established in 1983 and has developed into a prestigious international scheme. Chevening Scholars come from 118 countries worldwide (excluding the USA and the EU), and this year the Scholarships will support more than 600 individuals. There are over 42,000 Chevening alumni around the world who together comprise an influential and highly regarded global network.
The programme provides full or part funding for full-time courses at postgraduate level, normally a one-year Master’s degree, in any subject and at any UK university.
DEADLINE: Based off of Country/Territory on the apply page