Job: Team Leader/Inclusive and Sustainable Development, UNDP, DRC
The Team Leader of the Inclusive and Sustainable Development pillar in the UNDP programme should have a clear and comprehensive vision of the transitional challenges in DRC. Her/his vision of development should pragmatically integrate the fundamental orientation of UNDP in the overall Focus Areas of peace consolidation, democratic institutions development, poverty reduction, community recovery, crisis prevention, and climate change.
The Team Leader will, under the overall supervision of the Country Director and direct supervision of the DCD(P), function as the principal advisor on Inclusive and Sustainable Development in UNDP-DRC, ensure Team-Leadership and overall direction and management of this “Pillar 2” portfolio and provide cross-cutting expert advice on the inclusive and sustainable development aspects of the UNDP country programme.
The Team Leader will be an effective team player, as his/her work will be conducted with his/her colleagues responsible of the other UNDP practice areas including Peace Consolidation and Democratic Institutions (Pillar 1), and important cross-cutting areas including Conflict Prevention, Monitoring & Evaluation, Gender, and Communication.
DEADLINE: November 10, 2013
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Senesh Fellowship
International Peace Research Association Foundation
The Senesh Fellowship provides a biennial fellowship to a woman from the developing world for studies in the field of peace. Larry Senesh (now deceased), a professor of Economics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, established this Fellowship in memory of his wife.
DEADLINE: January 15, 2014
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Job: Regional Director for South Sudan, Sudan & the Great Lakes, Rift Valley Institute
The Rift Valley Institute (RVI), is an independent research, training and publishing organization, working in eastern and central Africa to connect local knowledge to social and political action. Staff of the Institute are drawn from the region, from Europe, and from Asia and the Americas. The RVI is registered as a charity in the UK.
The RVI’s institutional culture is characterised by intellectual rigour, lean management, innovative programming, professional adaptability, cultural diversity and long-term commitment to the communities of the region.
The Institute seeks an astute and discriminating Regional Director to manage and develop our field-based research and other programmes in the Sudans and the Great Lakes, and extend the Institute’s engagement with local institutions there. This new post requires an outstanding record in fund-raising and field management, experience in proposal-writing, commitment to the region, and a critical, ideas-driven, approach to programme design. Fluency in French and/or Arabic is highly desirable. The post involves extensive travel; country of residence is negotiable.
DEADLINE: November 29, 2013