Support to the spread of “good practice” in generating, managing, analysing and communicating spatial information
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), an international organisation based in Wageningen, The Netherlands, is pleased to offer a 6 month internship opportunity. The vacancy is open and the selected candidate will begin his/her internship at CTA as soon as possible. The intern will work in a challenging and innovative multi-cultural environment.
Project summary
CTA is spearheading a series of initiatives aimed at sharing experiences, identifying gaps, building on intra-agency synergies to support the spread of good practice in the field of participatory mapping. CTA supports the development of regional networks of practitioners, activists and researchers engaged in participatory mapping practice. In 2005 CTA co-organised the international conference Mapping for Change, and a number of related follow-up activities in partnership with international and regional development organisations. Practitioners, activists and researchers identified the lack of training materials in the domain of participatory mapping as a major constraint in the spread of good practice.
A project, co-funded by CTA, IFAD, IKM-Emergent and the Ford Foundation, Brazil is addressing this weakness by producing a modular, multimedia, multilingual training kit. The kit will offer essential building blocks from which trainers will design and tailor face to face workshops according to the needs of their audiences.
The widespread adoption and deployment of the product is expected to ensure that indigenous and other marginalised communities are effective in documenting, representing, and communicating their spatial knowledge, while taking a high degree of control over the process. Good practice will add value and authority to local knowledge, facilitate inter-generational knowledge exchange, contribute to building and supporting a cohesive community identity, as well as promote collaborative decision-making.
The project – coordinated by CTA – is currently implemented by qualified development professionals residing and operating in various continents.
Duties of the intern in the context of the project
Working closely with the Project Coordinator (who will act as mentor), the intern will carry out the following tasks related to project implementation:
1. Assist in project coordination;
2. Assist the working groups in collaborating remotely using Web 2.0 applications (including SharePoint);
3. Assist in managing content produced by subject matter specialists;
4. Contribute to content (text and multimedia) production or elaboration depending on his or her professional background.
Profile
• University degree in development-related disciplines, education and or communication sciences;
• Maximum 30-year old;
• Recently graduated with a maximum professional experience of 2 years.
• Familiar with African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), and Latin American countries.
• Fluent in written and spoken English and Spanish and having a working knowledge of French.
• Familiar with Web 2.0 applications.
• National of either a European Union member state or one of the 79 ACP (Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific) States. In the latter case you should already reside in the European Union as CTA will not consider any applicant who needs to obtain a visa and/or a residence permit in Europe.
Interested candidates should submit the documents listed below to intern@cta.int and enter the following text in the email subject field: [pgis-tk internship application]
• Curriculum vitae
• Copy of the university degree(s)
• One-page letter explaining why the candidate considers he/she is in a position to successfully contribute to project implementation, what he/she expects to gain from the internship and the date of earliest availability
• Two letters of recommendation and/or references.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2009
Project Coordinator:
Mr. Giacomo Rambaldi
Senior Programme Coordinator
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
PO Box 380
6700AJ Wageningen
The Netherlands
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