Current
Vacancies
At present, IIRR is seeking to fill the following posts:
Volunteer,
Community Forestry
IIRR's Regional
Center for Asia in partnership and through Voluntary Services Overseas(VSO)
would like to recruit a critical thinking volunteer with excellent
written and spoken English skills for 2 years to work with community
forestry related Participatory Action Research(PAR). Documentation
of lessons and documentation skills development will be at the crux
of the work. The commencement date of the position is as soon as possible.
What kind of work would the volunteer carry out?
The volunteer will be attached to IIRR's community forestry research
project team and will be working with other staff at IIRR as well
as with partners to strive to advance Community Forestry using a Participatory
Action Research (PAR) approach as a means to effect meaningful change
in the lives of forest dependent communities. The volunteer is expected
to develop analytical papers of publishable quality documenting key
insights generated through the project's activities, and contribute
to building internal capacities in appropriate research methods, analytical
documentation, and production of analytical research papers.
What
kind of person do we want?
The
volunteer should have the following qualifications:
Educational/professional background: Rural Development/ Participatory
Action Research/ Community Based Natural Resources Management.
Specific skills: Track record of writing critical/analytical
material of publishable quality and preferably some mentoring/training
experience; experience on participatory approaches and qualitative
research methods.
Attitude: Able to take initiative, and as there will
be extensive team work and interaction; excellent communication/listening
skills and good general social skills.
In addition, we need someone with a high degree of maturity, initiative
and flexibility. The volunteer will be prepared to work, often stay
and learn with and from community members as well as various National
Resource Management professionals.
How do I apply for this position if I am interested?
VSO will provide details about eligibility and conditions of recruitment.
VSO is primarily responsible for the recruitment process, not IIRR.
To apply for this position you must contact VSO Philippines
through:
Christine Bantug
Programme Officer, VSO Philippines
christine.bantug@vsoint.org;
vso-phil@qinet.net
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