Engineers Without Borders: 12 month (or longer) placements
Engineers Without Borders
12 month (or longer) placements in Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Malawi
Deadline: October 15, 2011
The African Programs Staff position is a very unique opportunity for anyone who wants to work in development on the ground in Africa. It is a demanding learning opportunity for you to test innovations and discover solutions to underlying social and economic problems.
Applications are open for people interested in 12 month or longer placements in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Malawi for the year 2012. There will be a total of three sending groups sending in March, July and September (after one month of intensive pre-departure training). The closing date for this session of recruitment is October 15th, 2012.
Some of the positions we are hiring for are as follows:
The Public Sector Agriculture team (Ghana) is looking for passionate change agents who are interested in leadership development, food security, and the reduction of poverty as goals for development. Taking a farmer-first approach, we work alongside the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and various Agricultural Colleges to improve service provision and leadership capacity of stakeholders in agriculture. Working with district level field realities to influence policy and decision makers are the changes we are making to progress the lives of farmers.
We are recruiting for the Agricultural Value Chains team (Ghana) for departures starting in March 2012. In this project aimed at removing rural farmers’ barriers to agricultural input access, EWB will be partnering with donors. By becoming a part of the donor chain, The Agricultural Value Chains Team will be able to share field realities and will have the respect and understanding needed to drive change for farmers.
Positions within the Governance and Rural Infrastructure team are available as of March 2012. GaRI in Ghana bases members in contact with different levels of government to try to initiate changes from within the system. To ensure that decisions around agricultural development are made from an informed standpoint. As a GaRI team member your role will be to help this process along b working in the districts and help to enhance this management process.
In Burkina Faso, we seek team members for Entrepreneuriat Rural Agricole departing from March 2012. These positions focuses on empowering farmers by assessing economic impact, and then linking this impact to the market and access to inputs. This information is then passed through to farmers through training workshops. Team members are required to be fairly independent. Please note that for Burkina Faso placements, applicants have to speak, read and write fluent French.
We are recruiting for the Malawi Water and Sanitation team as early as March 2012. Since 1998, Malawi has been undergoing a process of decentralization. This process, meant to increase the districts’ power to provide sustainable and effective services to their constituents, particularly in the water and sanitation sector, has been slow and requires acceleration to improve service delivery. This role is aimed at using understanding of field realities to increase capacity development at the district level and to advise decentralization partners (namely the Malawi-Germany Program for Democratic Decentralization) on policy.
To apply, go to http://my.ewb.ca/volunteering/applications/. Applications are closed on October 15th, 2011.
For questions or more information please contact the listed person on the job description for the position of your interest, alternatively forward your queries to projects@ewb.ca.
