Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.
 
To Apply:
Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and a Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 25th February 2012.
 
 
 
 

We are currently reviewing candidates to provide support to the publication team for Bridges – Asia, Pacific
 
 
Successful candidates will have a compelling combination of the following:

• Strong academic background preferably in international relations, trade or development or related fields
• Candidate must be fluent in English with good writing skills.
• Additional languages – would be beneficial
• Social network and web skills
• Excellent organizational and computing skills
• Proven capacity to conduct research
• International exposure is a plus
• Commitment 50%-100% for a period of 4-6 months.
• Stipend available: CHF 600 per month

Indicative activities:

- Writing, editing and publishing of News Information for Bridges – Asia, Pacific.
- Researching and interviewing sources (both on and off record).
- Developing both substantive and technical aspects of the publication and other ICTSD publications. 
- Conducting researches on trade issues related from a sustainable development perspective
- Attending conferences at the WTO and the UN

- Managing and updating Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn portals.
-  Experience with HTML editing (Dreamweaver), website design and a general aptitude for e-publishing software are advantageous assets.
- Managing News Information performance, outreach and audience targets to ensure maximum impact.

Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.
Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and a Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 25th February 2012.
 

About the EPAs and Regionalism Programme
The main aim of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and Regionalism Programme is to highlight the interactions between the multilateral trade system and the various Regional Trade Agreements which have proliferated in recent years. Some see the relationships between Regionalism and Multilateralism as based on healthy complementarity while others see them as conflictual.
 
 
Successful candidates will have a compelling combination of the following:

• Strong academic background preferably in international relations, trade or development or related fields
• Candidate must be fluent in English with good writing skills.
• Additional languages – French and Spanish would be beneficial
• Social network and web skills
• Excellent organizational and computing skills
• Proven capacity to conduct research
• International exposure is a plus
• Commitment 50%-100% for a period of 4-6 months.
• Stipend available: CHF 600 per month

Indicative activities:

- Writing, editing and publishing of News Information for the Regionalism Programme.
- Researching and interviewing sources (both on and off record).
- Developing both substantive and technical aspects of the publication and other ICTSD publications. 
- Conducting researches on trade issues related from a sustainable development perspective
- Attending conferences at the WTO and the UN

- Managing and updating Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn portals.
-  Experience with HTML editing (Dreamweaver), website design and a general aptitude for e-publishing software are advantageous assets.
- Managing News Information performance, outreach and audience targets to ensure maximum impact.

Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.
Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and a Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 25th February 2012.

The objective of the position is to help promote the mission of ICTSD through the development and implementation of the ICTSD Global Initiative (ICTSD Gi), i.e. a project to take ICTSD closer to the national and regional levels. China, the US, Africa, Asia and Latin American are proposed as key hubs and locations, countries and regions, to deploy ICTSD through the establishment of new entities.

The intern will work under the overall supervision of Global Initiative Manager to support and assist with implementation of the Global Initiative, in particular with the development of an ICTSD entity in Africa.

Main responsibilities:

-       Help with the development of a business plan and feasibility study (including a market study) of an ICTSD entity in Africa
-       Undertake funding reviews in Africa
-       Undertake administrative tasks and assist in the writing of project reports
-       Assist in the proof-reading/translating/editing/formatting/printing of documents
-       Help with the formalization of arrangements with consultancy agency if necessary
-       Support the organisation of meetings if necessary
-    Other duties as required.

Requirements/skills

-       This person should have knowledge and interests in entrepreneurship and business development in the policy area.
-       This person should have knowledge and interests in Africa
-       Person holding a university degree in Economics, Law, International Relations or Business & Administration
-       Ability to work in a multicultural environment, both independently and as part of a team.
-       40 hours per week availability throughout the internship
-       4-6 months commitment from February 2012
-       Strong analytical and writing skills in English
-       Strong spoken English;  Good organizational and computer skills
 
 
 

Stipend available : CHF 600 per month

ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.

Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and a Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 25th February 2011.

Overview

The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) occupies a distinct and vital place among international NGOs. It is a corporate, governmental and NGO partner that enables, facilitates, and support knowledge building and networking for policy development. As such it acts as a platform for facilitation as well as a research repository for a highly diverse range of actors seeking to make use of ICTSD’s analysis, research, and networks to assist their more effective engagement around trade and sustainable development. ICTSD’s work since 1996 has resulted in a rich portfolio of projects, conference results and electronic resources. ICTSD collects and organizes much of this material on its website, and from there, its constituents connect with the organization’s publications and activities. Program and Publications teams engage energetically in their own areas to expand ICTSD’s reach and effectiveness ICTSD man

To better meet its communication, collaborative research, and events and dialogues, ICTSD intends to adopt Salesforce. Salesforce will replace use of Excel data, an earlier and now dormant Access database as well as other ad-hoc tools.

Adoption will follow emerging standards for NGO/nonprofit use of Salesforce as well as requiring configuration and customization for ICTSD. This memo assumes use of technical resources for the initial configuration. Salesforce excels at providing lead users the ability to develop administrative mastery without deep programming skills and the initial process will provide opportunities for lead ICTSD staff to develop self-sufficiency for the long run.

Project Goals

• Coordinate with ICTSD project team on reviewing CRM Framework and Roadmap planning documents prepared as part of a Spring-Summer 2011 technology assessment project and refine and adapt for implementation.
• Advise and provide assistance on appropriate nonprofit/NGO licensing levels for ICTSD staff team. Advise on Salesforce add-on Apps that will support ICTSD’s goals.
• Unified contact management across multiple program areas in ten policy areas of for sustainable development. ICTSD engages in a range of activity, including publications, events, social media, and general email and web communications
• Oversee migration and deduplication of individual and institutional contacts. This will include assessment of the current lists and data assets and reaching consensus recommendations on how and what to migrate. While ICTSD previously had a Microsoft Access contact management database, data now primarily resides in multiple Excel spreadsheets and email documents. Data will need to be separated out into contacts, organizations and affiliations. One time deduplication will likely be a challenge!
• Create mechanisms and workflow for a more uniform approach to organizing events, including back end support in Salesforce and over time, integration with web functionality for participants.
• Realign email list management to operate from within Salesforce. ICTSD presently used Vertical Response for email
• Develop appropriate management for program leads as well and analytical reports for ICTSD management.
• Provide multi-level training to program staff, managers and system administrator.

Likely Specific Features

• Configure Salesforce Enterprise edition with the Nonprofit Starter Pack for management of Contacts, Organizations, Affiliations, and Relationships.
• Create appropriate user profiles and other sharing model configurations for program and other teams.
• Configure appropriate fields for expressing contact interest and engagements in ICTSD program and publications areas
• Customize support for managing ICTSD events and initiatives: defining events, managing invitations, registrations, participations, and post-event evaluations. Initially, we envision data collection to take place largely through staff activity within Salesforce combined with email list communication. Guidance in creating Salesforce email templates and workflows for event management
• Ensure multi-language support (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic ) in event communications for ICTSD’s regionally oriented program teams.
• Reconfigure ICTSD’s Vertical Response or a suitable replacement for management within Salesforce. This will include program team communications, specific event communications, as well as general communications.
• Basic Grants Management for grants that ICTSD applies for and receives.
• Ensure staff ability to effectively track email and phone communications with key constituents

Optional or Follow-On Phase Features

• Integrate on-line event management (almost all events are free), for registration and conference communications
• Provide means for constituents to manage their profiles and communications preferences
• Publications subscriptions management. At present, publications are provided at no cost, yet subscription is required. Over time publications delivery will evolve to a mix of on-line, emailed and print.
• Social media tracking and management using Salesforce basic social media tools; recommendations for add-on enhanced tools may be appropriate. First priority here will be for linkedin.com
• Assistance in configuring Outlook and mobile contact management tools for Salesforce

Consultant Attributes

• Experienced Salesforce consultant well versed with nonprofit CRM best practices and proficient in data migration and clean-up
• Ability to coordinate a project with a geographically distributed team with limited self-starting database technology time and capacities.
• Ability to coordinate with web and social media manager and/or additional consulting resources for eventual integration requirements.
• ICTSD is based in Geneva with some staff in regional locations. Consultant should discuss extent to which work can be done remotely versus on-site, particularly for data migration and training.
• Provide focused training and mentoring to staff toward goal of uniform standards and practices for contact and event management

We are currently reviewing candidates to provide support to the Pontes editorial team.

Successful candidates will have a compelling combination of the following:

• Candidate must be native speaker in Portuguese (Brazil) and fluent in English and Spanish
• Strong academic background preferably in international relations, trade or development or related fields
• Competence in using social media and other online networks
• Proven capacity to conduct research and translations
• International exposure is a plus
• Commitment 50%-100% for a period of 4-6 months
• Stipend CHF 600 per month

Indicative activities:

- Writing and publishing articles
- Translation of articles from English and Spanish into Portuguese
- Updating Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn portals
- Researching and interviewing sources (both on and off record)
- Developing both substantive and technical aspects of the publication and other ICTSD publications
- Conducting researches on trade issues related from a sustainable development perspective
- Attending conferences at the WTO and the UN
- Experience with HTML editing (Dreamweaver), website design (wordpress) and a general aptitude for e-publishing software are advantageous assets.

Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.

ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.

Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and a Writing Sample (in Portuguese) to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 25th February 2012.

We are currently reviewing candidates to provide support to the publication team Mosty.

About Мосты
“Мосты” – ежемесячный бюллетень, цель которого предоставить весь спектр актуальной информации по вопросам международной торговли и устойчивого развития, включая новости международных организаций и аналитические обзоры по проблемам международной торговли и ее взаимосвязи с экономическими, социальными и экологическими аспектами устойчивого развития стран Восточной Европы, Кавказа и Центральной Азии, а также анонсы новых публикаций и предстоящих мероприятий. Публикация “Мосты” выходит в печатной и электронной версиях.

Successful candidates will have a compelling combination of the following:

• Strong academic background preferably in international relations, trade or development or related fields
• Candidate must be fluent in Russian and English with good writing skills in both languages
• Social network and web skills
• Proven capacity to conduct research
• International exposure is a plus
• Commitment 50%-100% for a period of 4-6 months.
• Stipend CHF 600 per month

Indicative activities:

- Writing, editing and publishing of periodicals.
- Researching and interviewing sources (both on and off record).
- Developing both substantive and technical aspects of the publication and other ICTSD publications.
- Conducting researches on trade issues related from a sustainable development perspective
- Attending conferences at the WTO and the UN
- Overseeing the translation of articles into Russian and/or English

- Managing and updating Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn portals.
-  Experience with HTML editing (Dreamweaver), website design and a general aptitude for e-publishing software are advantageous assets.
- Managing publication performance, outreach and audience targets to ensure maximum impact.

Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.
Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and a Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 22nd January 2012.

Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.
Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 25th November 2011.

Successful applications demonstrate high quality academic qualifications, professional experience and excellent personal character, and fellows, upon appointment, join our collegial circle from their country of operation. ICTSD enjoys strong collaborative partnerships with numerous inter-governmental agencies, research institutes and universities in developed and developing countries, and an excellent international network of mentors, advisors and collaborators. Successful candidates become a member of small community of trade and sustainable development experts, as one of the few Fellows that the ICTSD is able to appoint for two year renewable terms. The key to a successful fellowship is a strong convergence between the applicant’s specific research interests and/or focus of endeavour, and the ICTSD’s evolving research priorities, publications and activities.

The Application Process is straightforward. Applications for Fellowship can be submitted by October 01 and February 01 of each year, and if successful, a candidate is given a two year appointment that is open to renewal. A Fellow may be appointed as a Senior Fellow, Senior Research Fellow or a Research Fellow, at the discretion of ICTSD. Further information is provided below as to the respective qualifications and expectations of each of these roles. An ICTSD Fellow is not required to move to Geneva in order to become a Fellow, as candidates are accepted from the countries and myriad political and legal systems in which they are based. Preference is given to ICTSD Fellows who are based in think tanks, universities or international institutions affiliated with the ICTSD. Under usual conditions, all candidates that have been short-listed for a fellowship will be contacted within four to six weeks following the application deadline.

ICTSD Fellows (Senior Fellows, Senior Research Fellows and Research Fellows ) are associates of the ICTSD and are engaged in the ICTSD’s programme of activities or areas of interest. They conduct research, write or edit publications, and provide peer review and advice for staff members and other associates of ICTSD in their areas of interest. They can also lead or be involved in specific ICTSD projects, events or activities, as agreed with the Chief Executive of ICTSD.

* Senior Fellows are usually renowned and eminent experts or notable persons in the field of trade and sustainable development. They hold excellent internationally recognised levels of expertise, backed by superb academic and professional credentials, and have a history of engagement with these issues at the highest international political levels. They have many years of experience in international policy related to sustainable development, and collaborate closely with ICTSD Chief Executive and other Senior Fellows, on specific research and projects in their fields and in the promotion of the mission, strategic direction and profile of ICTSD.

 
* Senior Research Fellows are acknowledged experts in the field of trade and sustainable development, holding excellent academic and professional credentials including a record of relevant publications, and can demonstrate a specific interest in trade and sustainable development, particularly in the areas of current research and undertaking within the ICTSD. Senior Research fellows are expected to engage actively in supporting the Centre in the development and implementation of its research agenda through active collaboration with the Chief Executive and the Programmes Director.

* Research Fellows are in possession of a graduate degree in law, economics of international policy/relations and are often pursuing future academic research or a further degree. They have a demonstrated research interest in close alignment with the strategy, research agenda and activities of the Centre. Research fellows are expected to collaborate with the Programmes Director and Programme managers of ICTSD in furtherance of mutually beneficial research interests, and a joint publication process. They have the opportunity to work closely with ICTSD staff and associates in a number of highly respected academic institutions and thinktanks around the globe.

To apply for an ICTSD Fellowship, (see the conditions and privileges of fellowship below), submit a cover letter and CV by October 01 or February 01 of each year to the ICTSD. It is helpful to include a biography in the cover letter of the application.

Privileges of an ICTSD Fellow:
The ICTSD is based at the International Environment House, 7 ch de Balexert, CH 1219 Chatelaine, Geneva, Switzerland, a centre for the co-location of non- and inter-governmental institutions committed to global economic governance and sustainable development. An ICTSD Fellowship grants the selected Fellow limited access to a work station at the offices of the Centre, library access, meeting space, research assistance and other privileges as resources permit. ICTSD will facilitate consultations with other Fellows and staff of ICTSD, and will grant Fellows access to an extended network of international advisors, academics and legal experts in the area of international sustainable development and trade. No financial remuneration can be provided by ICTSD for Fellows at the present time, and thus Fellows obtain funds from external sources or develop new ICTSD projects if their work is to be sponsored.

Contributions Expected from a ICTSD Fellow:
The ICTSD will expect a Fellow to take part in the research and activities of the Centre. ICTSD will also expect a Fellow to demonstrate respect for the mission, principles and objectives of the ICTSD, including its policies and decision-making structure. In addition, a Research Fellow should involve economic, law international policy and other students in their work where this is relevant and helpful to the Fellow’s research interests, should acknowledge their fellowship in any communications or publications related to the work they undertake in the context of their association with ICTSD, and if travelling to Geneva, should undertake minimum cooperative obligations that are involved in participating in an office environment.

Successful applicants will have familiarized themselves with the ICTSD’s mission, principles, objectives, structure, annual workplans, publications and research programme agendas, by consulting the documents online at www.ictsd.org prior to submitting an application.

Intern - Intellectual Property, Innovation and Technology -Start January 2012

ICTSD’s Programme on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Technology promotes the use and management of knowledge and technology conducive to sustainable development, in the context of balanced and development oriented IP regimes. Programmatic activities focus on facilitating pro-development and pro-competitive outcomes in international trade and IP related negotiations; helping to implement IP norms that balance private rights and public interests; maximizing incentives for innovation, creativity and technology transfer to developing countries; and promoting greater integration between IP, technology transfer, foreign direct investment and competition policies.

Key functions:

- Follow ongoing events related to Intellectual Property in WTO, WIPO, WHO and CBD COP and report in ICTSD electronic publications, in particular in Bridges Weekly.

- Undertake under the guidance the full review of the template and settings of the web site iprsonline.org

- Compile information and resources for IPRsonline, and support updating the respective website.

- Assist in other Programme Specific Tasks, such as updating the data bank etc.

- Help review papers, documents and articles for publication

- Assist with the preparation of ICTSD publications

- Assist with the organization of meetings and dialogues

- Assist in liaising with partners, meeting invitees, contractors and ICTSD staff

- Help to update and maintain the programme’s mailing list

- Help update, improve and maintain the  programme’s pages on the website

- Willing to contribute to other projects / programmes at ICTSD as needed.

Internship requirements:

Enrolled student preparing or person holding a university degree in Economics, Law, International Relations or similar

Ability to work in a multicultural environment, both independently and as part of a team.

25-40 Hours per week availability throughout the Internship

4-6 Month commitment

Good analytical and writing skills in English

Strong spoken and written English (additional languages a plus)

Broad understanding of Intellectual Property and issues inside the WTO and WIPO context and related sustainable development issues.

Good organizational and computer skills

Stipend Available: CHF 600 per month

Place of Work: ICTSD, International Environment House 2, 7 Chemin de Balexert, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland.
ICTSD shall place no restrictions on the eligibility of men and women to participate in any capacity and under conditions of equality.

Please submit a CV, Cover Letter, and Writing Sample to jobs@ictsd.ch no later than 9th December 2011.