Opportunities

Cairo Community Manager and Content Coordinator — URB.im

URB.IM, the global community working for just and inclusive cities, propagates innovation and connects all members of the ecosystem working on urban poverty alleviation.

A project of Dallant Networks, LLC and the Ford Foundation, this new online platform establishes an international community of practice and learning, sharing ideas and experiences in order to innovate, replicate, and scale working solutions to the problem of urban poverty.

It is currently focused on eighteen cities: Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Jakarta, Dhaka, Chittagong, Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bogotá, Cali, Curitiba, Accra, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.

We are looking for a Community Manager and Content Coordinator for the city of Cairo.

The Community Manager and Content Coordinator for the Cairo node of the urb.im network will:

• Produce and aggregate news, events, projects and other developments of interest to members of the community of practitioners and program leaders working in urban poverty alleviation in Cairo

• Recruit bloggers and other volunteer contributors for the urb.im/cairo platform and coordinate all content traffic

• Initiate and moderate online discussions happening on the urb.im/cairo platform

• Be an active participant in the overall urb.im network and interact on a regular basis with other Content Coordinators in the network

This position is ideal for urban-planning students and graduates, journalists and social activists working in urban poverty alleviation. In addition to receiving extensive visibility on an important social media platform, the ideal candidate will receive a monthly stipend.

Qualified candidates should their detailed information.

Opportunity: Curriculum Partners - Institute without Boundaries

The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is seeking curriculum partners for Connecting Divided Places, a project that investigates social, economic, environmental, and cultural divisions in cities. We are calling out to municipalities, not-for-profit organizations, and companies interested in working with us to address the wicked problems dividing their cities and regions. We are looking for organizations interested in collaborating on design solutions that make for more balanced, healthier, and resilient city-regions of the future. Click here to learn more.

Opportunity: UN Habitat International Competition: Urban Revitalization of Mass Housing

UN-Habitat is promoting a new urban planning paradigm that calls for planning in advance at the scale of expected development of cities with a better integration of urban uses — housing, business, retail, recreation, education, agricultural, amongst others. The aim of this paradigm shift is to achieve adequate urban densities to minimise the impact of urban sprawl, improve mobility and reduce greenhouse emissions. The ultimate goal is to attain the social, economic, environmental and cultural sustainability of cities.

The purpose of the competition is to address the issues of mass housing through proposals to revitalize a mass housing locality in one's respective city. For this development-oriented competition, participants will need to contact the owners of the housing stock to jointly select a typical mass housing complex for revitalization. The scope will include research, proposal, and policy. Click here to learn more.

Opportunity: Senior Community Manager Africa, Global Shapers

The Global Shapers Team is building an international community of the most outstanding young people committed to improving the state of the world, one community at a time. The Global Shapers Community enables youth to be a voice for the future in local, regional and global thought processes and a catalyst of entrepreneurship in the global public interest. To achieve its mission, the Global Shapers Community is built on a network of local Hubs located in major cities around the world.

You will join the Forum as part of our Global Leadership Fellows Programme. As such, you will be fully integrated in the World Economic Forum and benefit from an intensive work and learning experience intended to develop and train future leaders of global enterprises and international organizations. Click here to learn more.

Opportunity: LGT Venture Philanthropy's ICats Program

As part of LGT Venture Philanthropy's support to scale proven local solutions, the ICats Program was established to provide additional know-how to social organizations. The program connects social organizations in need of professional know-how, and experts with the desire to apply their knowledge in a meaningful way, thus acting as "Impact Catalysts". This is how the name ICats came about. Global corporations can integrate the ICats Program into their leadership development programs to promote responsible leadership through first hand experience.

We are now welcoming applications for over 20 LGT VP Fellowship 2014 positions. Click here to learn more.

Opportunity: Intern with Future Cape Town

Future Cape Town is a non-profit think tank, passionate about the future of cities. It delivers on its mission through engagement, research and collaboration, creating a space for awareness, debate and action, in the area of urbanism in Cape Town and in cities around the world. Future Cape Town's Urban Intelligence Unit (UIU), the research wing of the organisation, is in search of passionate, inspiring interns to assist this team.

We conduct research in various arenas, through an experiential approach, across a vast range of urban and public issues e.g. public space, models of engagement, new media, urban regeneration, economic development and so forth. Click here to learn more about the internship and to apply.

Opportunity: Consultant: Measuring Inclusive Business Results, Business Call to Action

Launched in 2008, the Business Call to Action (BCtA) is a global membership platform that encourages private sector companies to develop innovative business models that combine profitability with development impact, in support of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Measuring Inclusive Business Results Consultant will work under the supervision of the Knowledge Management, Capacity and Results Reporting Programme Specialist and in consultation with the Acting Programme Manager of the Business Call to Action Initiative.

Click here to learn more about the position and to apply.

URB.im Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo Community Managers

URB.im, the global community working for just and inclusive cities, propagates innovation and connects all members of the ecosystem working on urban poverty alleviation. A project of Dallant Networks and the Ford Foundation, this new online platform establishes an international community of practice and learning, sharing ideas and experiences in order to innovate, replicate, and scale working solutions to the problem of urban poverty. It is currently focused on sixteen cities: Mumbai, Bangalore, Jakarta, Dhaka, Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bogotá, Cali, Curitiba, Accra, Cape Town, and Johannesburg.

We are looking for a Community Manager for the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The Community Manager for the Brazil node of the URB.im network will:

• Produce and aggregate news, events, projects and other developments of interest to members of the community of practitioners and program leaders working in urban poverty alleviation in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

• Recruit bloggers and other volunteer contributors for the urb.im/rio-de-janeiro and urb.im/sao-paulo platforms and coordinate all content traffic

• Initiate and moderate online discussions happening on the URB.im platform

• Be an active participant in the overall urb.im network and interact on a regular basis with other Content Coordinators in the network

This position is ideal for urban-planning students and graduates, journalists and social activists working in urban poverty alleviation. To apply, please your detailed information, explaining your interest, qualifications, and why you think you would be successful in this position.

Opportunity: Grand Challenges Explorations

One bold idea. That’s all it takes. Unorthodox thinking is essential to overcoming the most persistent challenges in global health. Vaccines were first developed over 200 years ago because revolutionary thinkers took an entirely new approach to preventing disease.

Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges.

The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Click here to learn more.

Opportunity: 'ABI' Change Agent Awards

The Change Agent Awards celebrate the accomplishments of rising technical women leaders from outside the United States, with an emphasis on developing countries, whose work results in social, cultural, and/or behavioral change. Recipients are honored by the technical women's community at the Grace Hopper Celebration. The award covers the winners' expenses to attend the conference. Click here to learn more.