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| Title | Program Director, Projects for Peace |
| Posting Number | S01520 |
| Full-Time/Part-Time | Full-time |
| Typical Hours Per Week | 38.75 |
| Regular, Temporary or Term | Term |
| If temporary or term, enter anticipated end date | 03/01/2024 |
| Benefits Eligible? | Yes |
| Hourly/Salaried | Salaried |
| Grade | MG2 |
| Hiring Minimum | $55,714.75 |
| Department | Center for Community Engagement |
| Location | Middlebury, VT Campus |
| Hire contingent upon successful completion of the following post-offer screening | Criminal Background Check |
| Position Summary | This is a term position with an end date of 03/01/2024.Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check. This position, working in collaboration with the Center for Community Engagement leadership and the Davis United World College Scholars Program, will advance the mission of the Davis Projects for Peace program. The position will combine the functions of coordination, strategic design, cohort development, institutional integration, alumni network development, reflection, assessment and documentation. Projects for Peace (PfP) began as the vision of Kathryn W. Davis and is a grant program intended to instill or grow a lifelong passion for peace and service in young people. PfP is externally funded and administered by Middlebury College. This position will be based at Middlebury College, and will require some travel between Middlebury, Vermont and Projects for Peace partner institutions and events. |
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| Essential Functions | Overall strategic and operational management and implementation of the Davis Projects for Peace program. Communication and collaboration as needed with the Davis United World College Scholars Program. |
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| General Responsibilities | Specifically, the Program Director will: ● Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders in integrated development and implementation of the Davis Projects for Peace program; ● Facilitate information sharing and assist in building a learning community between PfP grantees; ● Conduct tool development and best practices, including for recruitment, selection, retention, support, cohort development, and cross-institutional collaboration; ● Apply a lens of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice throughout programmatic responsibilities; ● Coordinate and disseminate virtual training for students in core skill areas, both for those developing proposals and those who are awarded a grant. ● Collaboratively develop and implement assessment plans designed simultaneously to track, assess, and guide Projects for Peace strategy and to foster collective impact; ● Develop and maintain a Communications Plan to raise the profile of PfP. Direct the production and maintenance of annual reports, websites, social media and other supporting materials as needed; ● Foster cohort development and integration of PfP institutional liaisons, students, and alumni; ● Travel domestically to interact with funders and beneficiaries of the programs; ● Be an expert spokesperson for international understanding through education and experience; ● Supervise a part-time administrative staff member who provides logistical and administrative support for the PfP program |
| Education | M.A. degree in a related field or BA and demonstrable work experience. |
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| Knowledge, Skills and Abilities | ● Excellent interpersonal, organization, collaboration and communication skills, as well as energy, initiative, high motivation, and ability to think strategically. ● Understands social dynamics of power and privilege and has demonstrated ability to apply this understanding to create diverse and inclusive educational environments that critically examine inequalities. ● Strong evidence of collaborative work, systems thinking and excellent writing skills are required. ● Skills developing and managing program budgets. ● Facility with electronic media, web-based tools ● Managing vendors and consultants |
| Experience | Minimum of 5 years experience in higher education and/or international affairs, as well as demonstrated experience in working with college-aged and diverse populations. A demonstrated interest in advancing diversity, equity, and access. |
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| Open Until Filled | Yes |
| Special Instructions to Applicants | The person in this position may be able to start remotely due to COVID, to be negotiated upon job offer. As normal work operations resume, the person in this position will be required to spend some days in the office each week but may be able to continue to work partially from home. This is a term position with an end date of 03/01/2024.Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check. |
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Equis Research is seeking an Deputy Director of Research to manage the day-to-day
operations of its multi-state program of polling and focus groups. We are looking for a deeply
analytical and detail-oriented project manager who wants to work to tackle big questions
about a dynamic and ever-complex segment of the American electorate.
Equis Research launched in early 2019 as a hub for research, data and analysis that helps
demystify the Latino vote. We want to move past the idea of the Latino community as a
monolith, and toward a more sophisticated understanding of the experiences, issue
preferences and political identities of Latinx voters. We are building a deep and longitudinal
understanding of voter attitudes; tracking trends from the past to provide forward-looking
context; building a set of best practices on surveying and targeting the Hispanic community;
and disseminating actionable outcomes for organizations and practitioners looking to engage
this voter.
Equis collaborates with a team of outside firms on data collection and analysis, in addition to
housing a small but expanding set of internal data and analytical capacities.
Responsibilities
The Deputy Director of Research will be responsible for the successful execution of new Equis
research projects.
What that looks like:
● Leading day-to-day management of all quantitative and qualitative research projects
(which generally includes polls, focus groups, and online journaling);
● Acting as the primary liaison with outside pollsters/consultants;
● Working with pollsters/consultants to design and monitor research projects, whether
shepherding decisions on sample design and methodology; helping draft survey
questionnaires and focus group guides; or assisting in the creation of memos and decks;
● Managing the feedback loop between the Equis team(s), partners, subscribers, and
other stakeholders;
● Driving innovation within the organization, in terms of (a) constantly refining Equis
standards and best practices, and (b) keeping up to date with new methodological
approaches, tools and lines of inquiry;
● Supporting the analysis team on its deliverables;
● Working with the team to set research priorities, budget and calendar, and pitching in
as needed on plans, fundraising proposals, and external briefings.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate for this position has:
● Demonstrated project management skills; highly organized and detail-oriented with the
ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks;
● Familiarity with the A-to-Z of survey research, with experience working with polling or
data science as either a producer or consumer;
● Most importantly, a demonstrated ability to quickly pick up what you didn’t already
know;
● Top-notch problem-solving skills, with experience tackling an unfamiliar situation and
taking the initiative to devise and execute solutions;
● Deep analytical thinking and a dogged desire to get at the truth;
● Outstanding collaboration skills with the ability to work independently and
self-directed; and
● Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to communicate priorities,
needs and expectations.
The ability to write and/or edit in Spanish is preferable but not required. Cultural fluency is
critical.
This position reports to: Director of Research (Partner)
Location: Remote
Employee Status: Full-Time
Salary & Benefits: The minimum salary expectation for this particular position is $75,000,
dependent on relevant experience.
How to apply: Please send your resume and a brief cover letter as a single PDF to
info@equisresearch.us with the position title in the subject line.
Location: home-based
Travel: none
Reporting to: Crisis Response
Timeframe: March 2021 – October 2021 (up to 14 FTE days total)
Deadline for applications: March 5th, 2021
The role
Translators without Borders is seeking a consultant to develop two short training packages on language for humanitarian field staff on the basis of TWB’s existing content and materials.
Task 1 – To create a mixed mode interpreter training combining online resources and resources for use in group settings.
Review and adapt our existing modular training curriculum on humanitarian interpreting into very simple online resources with accompanying facilitator tools and hand-outs.
We anticipate the following to be an outline of the tasks:
The version needs to be suitable to be used by people in widely differing humanitarian contexts, many of whom will have low levels of literacy. The final training course, combining online resources and ‘live’ interactive sessions and evaluation, should take no more than 10 hours to complete. Online resources are anticipated to be not more than 5 hours of the content.
Task 2 – To create a short course on the topic of ‘language in humanitarian data’ combining online resources and facilitated group work.
The short training course will raise awareness of language in humanitarian data gathering. The course is aimed at enumerators and other data collectors, and their managers. Some participants may have moderate – low levels of literacy. It will prepare them to manage language complexity and improve their quality assurance processes in multilingual data collection. The final training materials and group activities combined should take no more than 3 hours to complete. The online content should make up approximately 50% of the course duration.
In both tasks above, the format for the online version needs to be suitable as a teaching aid for face-to-face training (so possibly as simple as recorded presentations, links to supporting videos, or insertion of TWB’s existing Moodle-platform material).
Deliverables
Qualifications and experience required
Qualities
Background
In many conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies, the languages of affected people are not the same as those of the responders. This language gap affects access to life-saving information and services and diminishes the effectiveness and accountability of humanitarian action.
In 2013, TWB created the first-ever crisis language support service, Words of Relief, which has responded to crises every year since. Today TWB provides a range of language and communication services, from translations to training of interpreters. Either remotely or in-country (currently in Bangladesh, DRC and Nigeria), TWB works with more than 100 development and humanitarian partners.
TWB has developed modular training materials on the basics of interpreting in humanitarian action. This course has been designed for people who carry out humanitarian interpretation but are not qualified: locally engaged staff, bilingual volunteers, cultural mediators, etc. The individual modules are sufficiently self-contained that they retain coherence when sequenced differently or delivered individually. There are comprehensive teaching notes, a set of supporting visual materials, a substantial participants’ handbook, and recommendations for structuring the modules for different durations and audiences.
To expand the potential reach of this training, it has been adapted for low-literacy audiences and for use in various humanitarian contexts. TWB needs a unified version that can be delivered as face-to-face training over two days across a range of contexts and that consistently applies adult learning principles and good practices for communicating with less literate audiences.
In addition TWB has substantial information in a variety of formats (blogs, info-sheets, presentations) on language in data collection. This material is not currently in the form of a training package. TWB sees the need to have a short training for those managing data collection in multilingual format to make sure they plan for language, that enumerators understand how to manage language barriers, and that there is a quality assurance process to address gaps in communication.
How to apply
TWB will accept offers from individual consultants and consulting firms.
To apply for this consultancy please send the following documents:
1. A technical and financial offer to include:
2. Curriculum vitae highlighting experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) and at least three professional references.
Please upload the technical and financial offer as one document under “cover letter” and present the CV(s) of the expert(s) proposed in one document under “CV”.
About Translators without Borders
Translators without Borders believes that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Originally founded in 1993 in France (as Traducteurs sans Frontières), TWB translates millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.
Core Values
Translators without Borders employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. Translators without Borders’ mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:
Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, Translators without Borders is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
Integrity: Translators without Borders believes that every person, whether it is the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
Empowerment: Translators without Borders believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
Innovation: Translators without Borders recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
Sustainability: Translators without Borders recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.
Translators without Borders is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion, and encourages qualified candidates of all genders and from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization.
TWB may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.
The LSA is now accepting applications (through March 7, 2021) for two new part-time management positions focused on membership and on meetings, respectively. An overview of each position’s responsibilities is outlined below, along with details for submitting an application. The anticipated start dates are flexible, with a goal of filling both postions by the end of April 2021.
Under the direction of the Executive Director of the LSA, the Membership Manager will provide leadership and professional expertise as the primary membership liaison, charged with retaining and increasing LSA’s membership.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Ideal Characteristics
Application Instructions
Please send a cover letter, resume, salary requirements, and contact information for at least three professional references to this email address, using this subject line: Application for LSA Membership Manager Postion. Deadline: March 7, 2021.
The LSA is committed to principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Applications from members of under-represented groups are strongly encouraged.
Under the direction of the Executive Director of the LSA, Meetings Manager will provide leadership and professional expertise in the planning and implementation of all LSA events.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Ideal Characteristics
Application Instructions
Please send a cover letter, resume, salary requirements, and contact information for at least three professional references to this email address, using this subject line: Application for LSA Meetings Manager Postion. Deadline: March 7, 2021.
The LSA is committed to principles of diversity, equity and inclusion. Applications from members of under-represented groups are strongly encouraged.
Education Northwest Portland, OR
Job Duties: Oversee and grow a portfolio of large scale quantitative and mixed methods research and evaluation projects for education policy makers and practitioners. Develop and deploy innovative strategies for sharing evaluation and research findings that promote high levels of engagement and use among clients and other strategic partners. Specific job responsibilities are:
The position’s duties may require out-of-office travel up to 20% of the time, to visit client sites for evaluation and information gathering.
Minimum Requirements: Ph.D. degree (or foreign equivalent) in Education, Public Policy, Applied Social Sciences or related field, and 4 years of post-Ph.D. experience as a Researcher or in a closely related occupation in the field of education research. Experience must include:
All education, training, and experience may be gained concurrently. Applicants must be U.S. workers (includes U.S. citizens, permanent residents, foreign nationals granted temporary residence under one of the 1986 legalization programs, refugees, and asylees).
Associate
Full-time
https://us.facebook.talentnet.community/jobs/75e30dbf-3b64-4cb2-8625-624315d0297b
Come join a diverse and collaborative team of researchers who work directly with product design to build the future of Virtual Reality. Our work ranges from formative to evaluative, ethnography to usability. For this position, we are looking for a mixed method methodological generalist, with broad skills in qualitative and design research methods and an understanding of quantitative concepts. The right candidates will be excellent communicators, knowledgeable about UX design, comfortable in a flat, fast moving organization, excited to collaborate, and focused squarely on impacting the design of Oculus VR at Facebook. The Oculus VR Platform Team is looking for someone to work with a research community of Oculus VR users to conduct studies (often longitudinal) to uncover user needs and design new software experiences for virtual reality. This role will mainly focus on qualitative studies with the opportunity to pursue some quantitative work (e.g., surveys) as well.
Minimum Skills and Experiences:
* BA/BS degree in a human behavior related field (marketing, human computer interaction, Psychology, Linguistics, Anthropology, Social Science, Information Science, etc.)
* 3+ years of experiences working in UX Research, market research or a related field
* Work closely with product teams to define research topics
* Design studies that address both user behavior and attitudes
* Generate insights that both fuel ideation and evaluate designs
* Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative methods and a subset of quantitative methods, such as surveys
* Work cross-functionally with design, product management, content strategy, engineering and marketing
* Communicate results and illustrate suggestions in compelling and creative ways
Preferred Experiences:
* Experiences in conducting longitudinal research studies
* Experiences in running and managing research communities
* Experiences in conducting research with emergent technologies such as VR headsets, AR glasses
The Facebook CWX Program is enabled by a cutting-edge software platform called TalentNet that leads the contingent labor world for technology innovation. The software platform leverages Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to make sure the right people end up in the right job.
At Facebook, we are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to connect people all over the world. That’s why it’s important that our workforce reflects the diversity of the people we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and points of view helps us make better decisions, build better products, and create better experiences for everyone.
We give humans the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Our products empower more than 3 billion people around the world to share ideas, offer support, and make a difference.
Call for contributions to two edited collections: Inclusion in Linguistics and Decolonizing Linguistics
Edited by Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson, and Mary Bucholtz Oxford University Press
Call for Edited Collections: Inclusion in Linguistics and Decolonizing Linguistics
We extend a formal call for contributions to either or both of two edited collections that we are currently developing for Oxford University Press. The first volume, Inclusion in Linguistics, will present theories, resources, and models for how to achieve broader participation in linguistics, broadly defined. We invite contributions on a range of themes, including:•Contributions that present racial inclusion models in linguistics and that present findings and results from their implementation;•Contributions that present inclusion models in P-12 education and address the importance of linguistics in student learning and/or in preparing educators;•Contributions that present inclusion models in undergraduate and graduate linguistics education, including recruitment and retention, curricular changes, instruction and training, research, and mentorship;•Contributions that speak to the dire need for more inclusion among linguistics faculty and that highlight the experiences of linguists from underrepresented and racially minoritized groups;•Contributions that discuss the experiences of linguists in administrative and staff positions in higher education, including student affairs and other roles, that highlight the importance of inclusion issues;•Contributions that address the experiences of linguists of color working in industry settings;•Contributions that present models for community partnerships as a means of broadening and aligning inclusion research, teaching, and advocacy work in linguistics.The second edited volume, Decolonizing Linguistics,will focus on the methodologies and practices of linguistic researchers and other professionals.
Contributions are invited on the following and related themes:
We will send decisions about proposals byJuly 15, 2021. Accepted papers will be due January 5, 2022. We will determine the length of final papers based on the number of proposals accepted, but we anticipate that they will range from 5,000 to 10,000 words. We want to encourage you to make sure your proposals directly address how others can tailor your work to their own experiences and how they can start to implement them. We also want to encourage you to look at relevant existing literature from other disciplines to guide your modeling.We invite those who are interested in submitting a proposal to reach out to us, as we are willing to help with the development of your ideas before submission.
Are you a linguist thinking about your career? Be sure to check out the Spring Series of workshops featuring key insights to get you started.
You’ll hear career stories from linguists who have found meaningful application of the skills and abilities cultivated by the study of linguistics, and you will have the opportunity to practice and meet other career-oriented linguists in small group interactive activities.
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