Abt Associates - Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Manager (Fixed Term )12th Jul 2020

Employer:	Abt Associates
Location:	England - Greater London, United Kingdom (UK)
Salary:	Competitive
Posted:	9th Jul 2020
Closing Date:	12th Jul 2020
Application to:	Click here to apply (opens new window)

Summary

The HSS Manager is a hands-on technical and managerial role, based in the UK, with occasional travel to East and Southern Africa and South Asia.

Program Overview

Accelerating the Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ASCEND), is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The objective of ASCEND is to achieve progress towards the 2020 NTD roadmap targets for the targeted NTDs across priority countries and to strengthen elements of the national health systems which are required for sustainable NTD control and elimination. The Programme focuses on five NTDs: lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, visceral leishmaniasis, and trachoma. The Role The HSS Manager is a hands-on technical and managerial role, based in the UK, with occasional travel to East and Southern Africa and South Asia. The HSS Manager will work alongside the Global HSS Lead and Regional HSS Lead to support HSS activities across twelve Ascend Lot 1 countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

The HSS Manager will also provide technical input across Abt Britain’s wider portfolio of activities, as required.

Some of the HSS Manager’s responsibilities on ASCEND are:

Coordinating Abt’s HSS, governance and PEA inputs on Ascend and ensuring that HSS is mainstreamed across the Ascend Programme
Coordinating all HSS inputs across the Ascend consortium and ensuring all are aligned with the HSS strategy. This includes workstreams for supply chain improvements, information management systems, health financing, management of secondments. These functions and workstreams are led by a variety of consultants, Country Leads, HQ team colleagues from other consortium members and short term technical assistant experts
Supporting, coordinating, occasionally leading the design and delivery of activities to improve health financing. Coordinating closely with the CA PFM team working across Crown Agents’ PFM projects

Beyond Ascend, the HSS Manager will be also responsible for:

Supporting business development, including providing technical content for proposals, interviewing candidates, engaging partners, and representing Abt at relevant external meetings and events
Providing technical assistance and strategic support across Abt’s wider portfolio of programmes, as required.

Key Requirements

Relevant qualifications with experience of health systems reforms in low- and middle-income countries (including in East African or South Asian countries);
Experience of global/in-country experience in implementation of HSS programmes, in cross-cutting areas;
Technical experience in following areas: public financial management, supply chain management, information systems human resources for health, domestic resource mobilisation and broader health financing;
Demonstrated success in building, managing and maintaining effective working relations with key stakeholders and communicating programme impact;
Demonstrated organisational skills with excellent writing and ICT skills;
Previous programmatic work with DFID and/or FCO, either programme management, or technical work – other donor experience welcome.

Emergency Nutrition Network - Senior Nutritionist (Fixed Term )12th Jul 2020

Employer:	Emergency Nutrition Network
Location:	England - Greater London, United Kingdom (UK)
Salary:	£35,000 to £39,999£38,000 - £48,000 dependent on experience and suitability for the role
Posted:	23rd Jun 2020
Closing Date:	12th Jul 2020
Application to:	Click here to apply (opens new window)

Summary

ENN is seeking a Senior Nutritionist to join our growing team at an exciting time. As ENN carves out a new Strategic direction for the coming period, we are looking for a skilled Nutritionist to work on our active and broad range of projects, including nutrition programming in the context of COVID-19, and to contribute to our future thinking and technical strategy. You will be a motivated and high performing individual, experienced in the International Nutrition sector and comfortable delivering on your own portfolio of work. If you are ready to start the next chapter in your technical professional development, and engage in research, knowledge management and thought leadership with ENN, please apply!

Applications are requested no later than Sunday 12th July and should be sent to hr@ennonline.net

WaterAid - Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (PMER) Officer (Permanent)12th Jul 2020

Employer:	WaterAid
Location:	England - National, United Kingdom (UK)
Salary:	£30,000 to £34,999£33,000 with excellent benefits
Posted:	9th Jul 2020
Closing Date:	12th Jul 2020
Application to:	Click here to apply (opens new window)

Summary

Want to use your skills in monitoring, evaluation and reporting to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

Join WaterAid as Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (PMER) Officer to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that you’ll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

The WaterAid Accountability & Effectiveness team plays a key role in enabling WaterAid to meet our organisational accountabilities and strengthen our effectiveness.

As our innovative and supportive PMER Officer you will coordinate our global Annual Reporting Processes and facilitate our global PMER Community of Practice.

The role is both permanent and full-time and may require international travel of up to 4 weeks per year, once it is considered safe and responsible to do so.

In this role, you will manage the effective implementation of the IPD Annual Cycle as as well as coordinate the PMER Community of Practice. This involves ensuring that CPs are engaged, consulted with, informed and trained in the latest developments in organisational PMER.

You’ll also:
• Produce the consolidated IPD Annual Update (Plan), Six-Month Report and Annual Report to inform global management decision making and global external reporting
• Lead on PMER Community of Practice communications including organising and facilitating webinars, quarterly ‘deep-dive’ trainings, and the monthly PMER newsletter
• Manage the PMER SharePoint site to ensure all guidance is readily available to Country Programmes and Regional Teams
• Lead on the strengthening of specific aspects of PMER across the organisation. In 2020/21 the role will focus on strengthening WaterAid’s community feedback mechanisms.
• Support the A&E team to develop effective capacity building initiatives and PMER guidance to strengthen PMER at WaterAid

Person Specification
To be successful, you’ll need:

Proven experience of writing reports fluently in English based on analysing and presenting complex information to a variety of audiences
Proven experience of coordinating complex processes working with a range of stakeholders to ensuring timely completion of deliverables
Proven experience of building engagement with and the skills and capacities of others either face-to-face or remotely

ActionAid - Policy Specialist (Permanent/Part-time)12th Jul 2020

Employer:	ActionAid
Location:	England - Greater London, United Kingdom (UK)
Salary:	£35,000 to £39,999£35,608 - £36,685 (£17,804 - £18,342.50 pro rata)
Posted:	9th Jul 2020
Closing Date:	12th Jul 2020
Application to:	Click here to apply (opens new window)

Summary

A key purpose of the role is to contribute to the development of high-quality research and policy positions rooted in AA programme and evidence, applying feminist principles to research and analysis. The role demands a specialist who will bring demonstrable quantitative and qualitative research skills, networking ability and a spirit of collaboration to ActionAid UK as it delivers on its new 5-year Strategy –Together with women and girls.

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. We are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

ActionAid UK are currently recruiting a part time Policy Specialist working 17.5 hours per week to join the Research and Programme Policy unit within the International Development Policy and Practice team (IDPP).

The IDPP team is a key delivery partner in ActionAid UK’s new strategy to promote a world where women and girls are valued, live free from violence, and can exercise their rights to promote their own economic empowerment, safety, equality and voice. The team supports financial resource mobilisation, grant/ contract management, programmatic innovation and assurance, research and learning as well as programme-grounded policy work. The Research and Programme Policy unit in the team is comprised of policy and technical advisers who research, develop and advance policy perspectives and programme led learning to ActionAid UK’s target donors, decision makers, partners within civil society and academia and policy makers.

The successful applicant will have a good knowledge of women’s rights issues within International Development as well as research experience of relevant issues gained in a public policy, NGO or academic environment. Excellent written communication skills and knowledge of relevant data sources for the type of policy work ActionAid does are essential requirements.

Over the next twelve months a key focus for this role will be to lead on the completion and roll out of a tool to help young women activists engage with macroeconomic policies and to support the continuation of our project on women and work. More generally, the role provides ongoing research and policy support to the broader team across our portfolios on Violence Against Women and Girls, Women’s Economic Rights and Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment to underpin ActionAid UK’s advocacy and programmatic work.

The post holder must also be able to travel internationally sometimes at short notice for up to 6 weeks per year.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working.  We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants. 

The Alan Turing Institute - Ethics Research Assistant (Fixed Term )19th Jul 2020

Employer:	The Alan Turing Institute
Location:	England - Greater London, United Kingdom (UK)
Salary:	£30,000 to £34,999£34,000 plus excellent benefits
Posted:	26th Jun 2020
Closing Date:	19th Jul 2020
Application to:	Click here to apply (opens new window)

Summary

Company Description

There has never been a more significant time to work in data science and AI. There is recognition of the importance of these technologies to our economic and social future: the so-called fourth industrial revolution. The technical challenge of keeping our data secure and private has grown in its urgency and importance. At the same time, voices from academia, industry, and government are coming together to debate how these technologies should be governed and managed.

The Alan Turing Institute, as the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, plays an important part in driving forward advances in these technologies in order to change the world for the better.

The Institute is named in honour of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering and computing is considered to have laid the foundations for modern-day data science and artificial intelligence. The Institute’s goals are to undertake world-class research, apply its research to real-world problems, driving economic impact and societal good, lead the training of a new generation of scientists, and shape the public conversation around data and algorithms.

After launching in 2015 with government funding from EPSRC and five founding universities, the Institute has grown an extensive network of university partners from across the UK and launched a number of major partnerships with industry, public and third sector. Today it is home to more than 500 researchers, a rapidly growing team of in house research software engineers and data scientists and a business team.

Position

THE PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMME

The Public Policy research programme works alongside policy makers to explore how data-driven public service provision and policy innovation might help to solve long running societal problems. We also work hand-in-hand with public sector organisations and citizens to develop practice-based ethical standards for the responsible development and use of data science and AI. Our dynamic group has co-produced—with the Office for AI and the Government Digital Service—the UK Government’s official public sector guide for designing and implementing ethical and safe AI. We have also co-authored—with the Information Commissioner’s Office—the first guidance ever released by a UK regulator on explaining AI-assisted decisions.

In addition to our work with government and regulators, we carry out interdisciplinary academic research in the area of AI ethics and governance as well as AI and society. Our research projects rely entirely on public funding, and they include a review of the ethics of machine learning (ML) in children’s social care; an exploration of the relationship of notions of AI, human agency, privacy and trust in intercultural and global contexts; an investigation into how to build grassroots data rights charters through deliberative democracy; an examination of the role of responsible data management in criminal justice applications of AI; and an analysis of the interpretability needs of AI systems in the financial services sector.

THE ROLE

The Public Policy programme is looking to recruit an Ethics Research Assistant to provide crucial support for the Turing’s ethics research and to facilitate the Turing’s engagement with external partners in this area. The successful candidate will report to the Ethics Theme Lead and will provide research assistance to the Institute’s Ethics Fellows. The post holder will work closely with academics and policy makers in an interdisciplinary, dynamic, and collaborative environment.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The core responsibilities of the Ethics Research Assistant are as follows:

Assist the Public Policy programme’s Ethics Theme Lead and Ethics Fellows in the development and delivery of an innovative research strategy and help on a variety of projects centred around the ethical issues posed by data science, AI, and other digital technologies. This work may include both desk and field research duties with a view to creating actionable policies, best practices and other recommendations.
Help the Public Policy programme organise workshops, events, and public engagement exercises.
Coordinate funding applications for the programme’s Ethics workstream.
Facilitate the functioning of the Institute’s Data Ethics Group (DEG), including coordinating meetings, organising workshops and seminars, and collaborating on related research. This work will be directed by the Chair of the DEG.
Liaise with the Turing’s Ethics Advisory Group (EAG), which exists to ensure that the research conducted at the Institute is ethically sound.
Participate in internal seminar of relevant research interest groups, as well as external meetings with representatives of government agencies, third sector organisations, and the media.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL

A Master’s degree awarded in a discipline with a specialism that provides suitable theoretical tools for understanding the ethical issues raised by data science, AI, and related digital technologies, and their social implications;
Excellent communication skills in writing and speaking;
Interpersonal skills relevant to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and communicating with stakeholders in academia, the public sector, and industry;
Ability to work flexibly, prioritising tasks to meet deadlines and maintaining a high standard of accuracy and attention to detail;
Experience supporting research including desk-based literature review, content analysis and summary, and compiling and formatting bibliographic material;
Demonstrable organisational skills;
Strong interest in digital technologies, and in related ethical debates;
A demonstrated interest in the mission of the Alan Turing Institute, and in exploring the real-world impact of cutting-edge technology.

DESIRABLE

A developing record of scientific publication, which may include journal articles, book chapters, and policy reports/white papers;
Experience in a policy environment, such as an international organisation, government agency, think tank, or learned society; or experience in a tech company or consultancy.
Experience in applied ethics research, e.g. computing ethics, business ethics, medical ethics, environmental ethics, and within organisational settings such as ethics committees, ethics review boards, governmental agencies, the third sector, or private organisations;
Project management experience;
An ability to disseminate research findings and engage with external stakeholders via blogs and social media.

Careers

Recordings of 2020 Student Seminars

Summary

Summary

Summary

Summary

Summary

Company Description

Position

Requirements