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CONSULTANTS Use and Selection

Employment or Consulting Opportunities  

 

The following two positions are available:

1. Head - Administration & Finance

Location: New Delhi, India

The Position: The Head - Administration and Finance, reporting to the Director CEMCA, will be based in New Delhi, India and is expected to: 

  1. Plan and manage all aspects of the treasury and accounting function; 
  2. Actively participate in CEMCA’s action plan process and make a significant input to setting the long term strategy of CEMCA  for functional areas (e.g. HR, IT, and Finance) that are aligned with the 3 year strategy; 
  3. Provide advice and other forms of logistical assistance in support of business development and additional contribution activities at CEMCA to sustain ongoing financial viability; and 
  4. Manage the CEMCA office and its staff.

To view the full job advert please click here.

To Apply: A full job description is available at this link and on CEMCA’s web site at www.cemca.org . Interested applicants must provide a resume and cover letter highlighting the professional background and experience relevant to the post. Applications must be submitted by email to opportunities@col.org  marked ‘Attention: Head – A&F CEMCA’, latest by September 13, 2010. While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, those who have not been contacted by November 30, 2010, should consider that there will be no follow-up to their application.

Applications from women candidates are particularly encouraged.



2. Education Specialist - Higher Education

Location: Vancouver, Canada

The Position: COL is seeking an eminent and senior professional to join as an Education Specialist–Higher Education to develop and manage programme initiatives aimed at policy development at both national and institutional levels to improve higher education in Commonwealth countries. The job holder is expected to provide advice to ministers, university presidents and other senior government officials and act as COL’s expert in open and distance learning (ODL). Extensive hands-on experience in the use of ODL is required.

To view the full job advert please click here.

To Apply: A full job description is available at this link. Interested applicants must provide a resume and cover letter highlighting their professional background. Applications must be submitted by email to opportunities@col.org  with the subject: Education Specialist–Higher Education position, at the latest by August 31, 2010. While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, those who have not been contacted by October 31, 2010, should consider that there will be no follow-up to their application.

Applications from women candidates are particularly encouraged.

 

ALL INQUIRIES CONCERNING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES MAY BE DIRECTED TO: 

Commonwealth of Learning
1055 West Hastings Street, Suite 1200
Vancouver, BC V6E 2E9 Canada

Attention: Human Resources & Contracts Manager

Fax: +1 604 775 8210
E-mail:
opportunities@col.org


 

CONSULTING 

COL supplements its staff resources and internal expertise by contracting consultants to undertake some of its programme work in the implementation and delivery of its Three-year Plans. The expertise of consultants may be required at various stages for such services as:

    • Needs analysis and feasibility study services
    • Workshop facilitation, training and instructional design
    • Monitoring and evaluation
    • Other short and medium term professional and technical assistance.

A consultant or team of consultants may be commissioned.

If you are interested in consulting opportunities with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), a Consultant Form must be completed and returned to us. It will provide us with information on your background in open learning/distance education, training of distance educators, instructional design/materials development, educational technology/media, environmental education, gender and development, planning and management, research and evaluation, etc. The form is available for download through the link on the right.

Also available for download on the right is a document that provides further information on COL's use and selection of consultants.


OTHER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST 


The University of the West Indies Open Campus is seeking to hire a Director of the Division of Academic Programming and Delivery (<Job Description>). Application deadline: September 15. Please contact:

 

Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald
Pro-Vice Chancellor & Principal
UWI Open Campus
Office of the Principal
Outreach Building
The University of the West Indies
P.O. Box 1314, BB 11000
Bridgetown. Barbados
Phone: +1-246-417-4020
Fax: +1-246-424-0722
e-mail:
principal@open.uwi.edu  
Web:
www.open.uwi.edu