Senior Adviser (EducationUSA, Kolkata) - USIEF (Apply by: 20 May 2014)

Basic Functions of the position

The incumbent reports to the Regional Officer. S/He provides accurate, comprehensive and impartial advice on educational opportunities in the U.S. S/He guides students as they research appropriate programs,

Adviser (EducationUSA) - USIEF (Apply by: 20 May 2014)

Adviser, EducationUSA (Chennai)

Basic Functions of the position 

The incumbent reports to the Regional Officer. S/He provides accurate, comprehensive and impartial advice on educational opportunities in the U.S.

Individual Consultant (Research) - UNDP (Apply by: 20 May 2014)

Location :	New Delhi with travel as required., INDIA
Application Deadline :	13-May-14
Type of Contract :	Individual Contract
Post Level :	National Consultant
Languages Required :	English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)	20-May-2014
Duration of Initial Contract :	Six Months ( Maximum up to Twenty Two working days per month)
Expected Duration of Assignment :	Extendable as per requirement of the assignment.

Programme Officer (Gender Responsive Budgeting) - UNWOMEN (Apply by: 06 May 2014)

I. Position Information

Job Code Title :         Programme  Officer  - MWCD, GOI - UN WOMEN –                                                      (Gender Responsive Budgeting)* Organization :           United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the                                                      Empowerment of  Women  (UN WOMEN) Classified Grade :       SB-4 Direct supervisor :     Additional Secretary/ Joint Secretary/Director, MWCD,                       Government of India & Programme Specialist – GRB, UN WOMEN.

Lead Analyst (EORI) - GRM International (Apply by: 31 May 2014)

Lead Analyst - Evaluation of Research Initiative*

GRM Job Reference: TH-05849-PRJ

Country: Indonesia

Location: Jakarta

Apply by: 31 May 2014

Research Manager - Oxfam India (Apply by: 22 April 2014)

Job Title: Research Manager

Department: Programs and Advocacy

Location: Delhi

Level / Pay Band 2

Contract: 3 years

Reports To Director - Programs and Advocacy

Individual Consultants (Sr. Research) - UNDP (Apply by: 10 April 2014)

Individual Consultants-Sr. Research (Economics with gender Perspective)

Background

The Government of India has constituted a ‘High Level Committee (HLC) on the status of women\' to undertake a comprehensive study to understand the status of women as well as to evolve appropriate policy interventions based on a contemporary assessment of women\'s needs.

Research Technician - ICRISAT (Apply by: 10 April 2014)

Research Technician

ICRISAT seeks applications from Indian nationals for the post of Research Technician to be based at Karnataka, India. This is a nationally recruited position.

ICRISAT is a non-profit, apolitical, international organization for science-based agricultural development. Established in 1972, it is an Alliance of centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and supported by more than 48 governments, foundations, and development banks.

Senior Research Associate - SaveLIFE Foundation (Apply by: 30 April 2014)

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE 

SaveLIFE Foundation (SLF) seeks a senior Research Associate to lead our research vertical which includes but not limited to the carrying out the following job responsibilities:

ROLE

Gather & analyze critical data on road accidents; Conduct & Manage policy research on state/national/international policies and laws on road safety

Research Associate (Vaccine Informatics) - PHFI (Apply by: 20 April 2014)

Position Vacant : Research Associate (Vaccine Informatics)

Position Code : PHFI/2014/90-ITSU

Place of Posting : New Delhi

Organization Name : Public Health Foundation of India

Public Health Foundation of India, is a public private initiative that has collaboratively evolved through consultations with multiple constituencies including Indian and international academia, state and central governments,

Director (Research & Strategic Planning) - JHUCCP (Apply by: 07 April 2014)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Director, Research and Strategic Planning

About JHUCCP (www.jhuccp.org)

The Center for Communication Programs is based out of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and operates in over 30 countries worldwide. The vision of CCP is to advance the science and art of strategic communication to improve health and save lives. We recognize the pivotal role communication plays in the way people think and behave about health and development issues. CCP is a recognized leader in the field of health communication, with extensive technical expertise and program experience in social and behavior change communication, knowledge management, training and capacity building, strategic advocacy, and research and evaluation.

Software Developer / ITConsultant - PSI (Apply by: 04 April 2014)

POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL, INDIA

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE: Software Developer/Information Technology Consultant

LOCATION: Patna, Bihar

DEPARTMENT: Research

REPORTS TO: Senior Manager Research

SUPERVISES: None

GRADE LEVEL: Consultant

CATEGORY: Program Operations

Social Scientist Gender and Sustainable Intensification - CIMMYT (Apply by: 25 April 2014)

Position Title: Social Scientist Gender and Sustainable Intensification

Type of Contract: Internationally Recruited Staff

Location:  India

Desired Skills:

Description:

We are seeking an enthusiastic, pro-active, resourceful, and outcomes-oriented gender specialist to join our interdisciplinary team of scientists working to improve the livelihoods of resource-poor wheat and maize farmers in the developing world. As a member of the CIMMYT Socio-Economics Program, and in close collaboration with biophysical scientists

Manager Programs - Habitat for Humanity India (Apply by: 17 Apr 2014)

Habitat for Humanity India built its first house in the Asia Pacific region in Khammam in Andhra Pradesh. Since then Habitat for Humanity India, has built or repaired homes with 40,000 families in need. This includes serving around 14,000 families through a post – tsunami reconstruction program covering the states of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Over the years, Habitat has worked in 16 states across India, through local affiliates and through Habit Resources Centres located at Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. Habitat provides its core expertise in housing so its partners can offer a more holistic approach to helping communities escape poverty. Habitat’s work in India is supported by donations from individuals, business corporations; foundations and trust, for more information please visit www.habitatindia.in

DUTIES/AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

Executive Director - National Social Watch - Apply by: 20 Mar 2014

NSW Seeks Executive Director

National Social Watch (NSW) is the national secretariat of the National Social Watch Coalition (NSWC), which is a broad based network of civil society organisations and citizens and part of the Social Watch International based in Montevideo. The social watch process intends to analyse the performance of the institutions of governance and their commitment towards citizens and practice of democratic values. The major objective of NSW is to ensure the centrality of people at various levels - national, state and the panchayats - in process of governance through research, advocacy and social action. For more details about NSW please visit www.socialwatchindia.net.

NSW wishes to recruit an Executive Director of the organisation to lead and to take forward its agenda.

Responsibilities: 

Research Methodology and Documentation Specialist - Finance Department, Government of Odisha

Research Methodology and Documentation Specialist

Finance Department, Government of Odisha

Location: Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Last Date: 10 March 2014

Relevant Sectors: Procurement Management, Outcome Based Budgeting,                                   Public Financial Management, Monitoring and Evaluation,                                   Research and Assessment, Documentation, Impact Evaluation

About PPOMU

The Finance Department, Government of Odisha has established a ‘Programme Performance & Outcome Monitoring Unit’ (PPOMU) to function as its Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) wing. The PPOMU will be conducting concurrent monitoring and evaluation as well as impact assessment of flagship national and state schemes being taken up by key departments in Odisha.

Monitoring Officer - ChildFund India

JOB DESCRIPTIONS – MNGO Project

Mission Convergence is a flagship programme of the Delhi Government which seeks to strike the right balance between various government departments, Community Based Organizations and the people by ringing in major reforms in governance for empowerment and upliftment of the vulnerable population of Delhi ensuring the convergence of more than 40 social sector schemes spread across nine departments.

Gender Resource Centres- Suvidha Kendras (GRC-SKs) serve as first point of contact for the community. These structures have been set up by the government in partnership with the civil society organizations (CSOs) to reach out to people and take government programmes to communities

Mission Convergence has engaged ChildFund India as Mother NGOs (MNGOs) to facilitate, guide and supervise the Field NGOs (FNGOs) functioning of GRC-SKs. ChildFund India is responsible for 37 GRC-SKs and 5 Extension Centers located in South, South-West and Central Delhi.

Post: Monitoring Officer
Reports to: Project Manager

Location:  Delhi

Senior Research Fellow - The INCLEN Trust International

Position: Senior Research Fellow

Organization: The INCLEN Trust International 

Location: IIGH Laboratory, F- 17, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I, New 
Delhi

About Us: INCLEN is unique global network of clinical epidemiologists, biostatisticians, health social scientists, health economists and other health professionals affiliated with key academic health-care institutions. We are dedicated to improving the health of disadvantaged populations by promoting equitable health care based on the best evidence of effectiveness and the efficient use of resources.We achieve this by using the network to conduct collaborative, inter-disciplinary research on high-priority health problems. 

The INCLEN is undertaking an international collaborative project “Influenza Immunization of children in India”on at IIGH (Laboratory), New Delhi. 

Job Description/Responsibilities: 
The incumbent is expected to perform the following tasks; 
• Implementation of study protocol and SOPs
• To provide quality assurance of laboratory data collection including to training of the research staff and laboratory data collection and management
• You will assist laboratory procedures and activities
• You will support staff such as laboratory Senior Research Officers, Research Officer, Laboratory Assistants and Lab Technicians in their routine laboratory activities
• It may involve travel to field for data collection and/ or quality assurance and/ or any project related activities
• Any other activities that are agreed upon by the Professors Director Laboratory Science at the institution and collaborator, respectively

Research Scientist - CIMMYT - Ludhiana, Punjab

Research Scientist

We are seeking for a dynamic, and self-motivated professional with excellent organizational and people skills for the position of Research Scientist.

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT, is a not-for-profit research and training organization with partners in over 100 countries, focused on increasing food security and reducing poverty at an international scale. Please refer to our website for more information www.cimmyt.org.

Positions will be based in the Ludhiana, Punjab in India and may require a travel within or outside India

The main responsibilities of this position will be:

• Under the guidance and collaboration with senior CIMMYT Staff, prioritize, execute and manage strategic research trials on Conservation Agriculture and sustainable intensification of maize and wheat based cropping system at BISA farm.

• Provide technical support in execution of collaborative strategic research trials with PAU at Ludhiana.

• Execute farmer- participatory activities on sustainable intensification of cotton- wheat systems.

• Support capacity building of students and partners on CA machinery, sustainable intensification, precision input management, use of standard protocols, tools and techniques for experimentation

• Collaborate with government and private sector partners as well as with other project staff of CIMMYT in ongoing
cropping systems research in the region.

• Collect, manage and synthesize databases (primary and secondary) on the biophysical conditions, the agronomic management and production economics across strategic research and on- farm participatory trials across project sites

• Organize the database and prepare input files for cropping systems models and input-output matrix tables for scenario analysis.

• Synthesize the research results in form of scientific publications and communicate research results to diverse communities, including scientists, change agents, policy makers and farmers.
• Participate in various meetings representing CIMMYT in various fora at local as well as national level

• Perform any other job as required by the organization

Desired qualifications, skills, experiences of the perspective candidate:

• Masters Degree in biological sciences with atleast 2 years field oriented research experience in agricultural sciences
• Excellent understanding and work experience of predominant cropping systems in India

• Excellent understanding and working experience on Conservation Agriculture production system particularly maize and wheat based systems
• Good knowledge of CA based mechanization and precision agriculture

• Ability to manage, statistically analyse and synthesize scientific data and translate research results in peer reviewed publications

• Computer literacy, with proficiency in the common software packages.

• Proficiency in the English language.

• Ability to work in multi-cultural environments and in multi-disciplinary teams.

• Willingness to spend considerable time away from home.

The position is for an initial fixed-term contract of 1 year, after which further employment is subject to performance and the continued availability of funds.CIMMYT offers an attractive remuneration package, with a range of benefits including health insurance.

CIMMYT is an equal opportunity employer. It fosters a multicultural work environment that values gender equality, teamwork, and respect for diversity. Women are encouraged to apply.

Email cover letter and CV no later than Tuesday, 10 December, 2013 to Human Resources, CIMMYT (Email: recruitindia@cgiar.org / Please insert Position Reference number: D12524 in the subject of your email)
 

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.