Are you passionate about improving quality of life through accessible public health services? Then consider ICF, we work at the forefront of todayâs global health issues, helping clients understand the specific needs of diverse populations and address complex health challenges with behavior and disease surveillance and monitoring, research and surveys, technical assistance, and organizational capacity building support.
ICF is currently hiring a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Director for the anticipated five-year, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Health Systems Strengthening and Building Resilience to Future Pandemics and Climate Change Activity in India. The purpose of this five-year project is to ensure Indiaâs health system is prepared to prevent and respond to future challenges it faces such as climate change, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and epidemiologic transition through comprehensive integrated primary healthcare, strengthening the continuum of care offered from the primary to secondary and tertiary facilities, expanded disease surveillance, maximizing the efficiency of public health financing, and increasing private sector engagement to improve health outcomes. The position is likely to be based in New Delhi, India.
The MEL Director manages all aspects of the activity monitoring, research, evaluation, learning, and reporting. The Director manages and analyzes information and reports to the Chief of Party (COP) and provides the activity team with feedback on progress toward the achievement of key results as stated in the project annual workplans and project Performance Management Plan (PMP). The MEL Director ensures that the team collects, analyzes, and disseminates accurate data consistently and timely, aggregates project-generated knowledge and lessons learned through routine monitoring and evaluation of the activities.
Key Responsibilities
Develop and refine the overall project PMP and key performance indicators (KPIs) ensuring that all project components have end-of-the-project and annual indicators (inputs, output, outcomes, and impact), established baselines and measurable and achievable targets.
Provide timely qualitative and quantitative information to the project team on the project quarterly and annual progress reports, programmatic updates, success stories, briefs, newsletters, as required.
Provide technical oversight to systematic collection, analysis, synthesis, use, translation, and dissemination of data and learning to inform both internal programmatic decision-making.
Work with the project team and collaborate with Indian counterparts on developing project indicators, including their definitions, measurement, process of data collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and reporting.
Keep abreast of Indiaâs health and socio-economic statistical indicators and provide timely updates to the project team to ensure effective planning and adapting the project activities. This includes keeping up with current policies and operational plans to align project metrics.
Collaborate with the project team, USAID, and Indian stakeholders on the identification of key performance indicators, including their definitions, measurement, process of data collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and reporting.
Lead the development of tools and resources that support local implementing partnersâ efforts to improve the monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) capacities of their programs and local partners.
Provide timely qualitative and quantitative information to the project team on the quarterly and annual progress reports, programmatic updates, success stories, briefs, and newsletters, as required.
Ensure documentation and dissemination of findings, impact, innovations, and lessons learned.
Establish and oversee the project database, including data verification, entry, and cleaning.
Identify and advise the project team on the implementation of innovative solutions to data collection and monitoring.
Ensure compliance with the projectâs MEL requirements and reporting.
Liaise with projectâs technical team and country programs to establish appropriate targets for annual work plans.
Lead a team of MEL experts in the ongoing development of the projectâs overall monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system, including indicator selection and adaptation, data collection, data analysis, and reporting.
Lead the development of the projectâs learning agenda and related implementation activities.
Required Experience/Qualifications
Masterâs degree or equivalent in international development, monitoring and evaluation, public health, or a related field.
At least 10 years of experience with USAID or other global health projects leading performance monitoring, evaluation, learning and/or data use for decision-making.
10 + years of experience implementing all technical, fiscal, and administrative components of complex MEL programs, preferably HSS or infectious disease programs, of similar scope and scale to this project.
10 + years of experience with qualitative and quantitative MEL data collection and analysis methods. Work closely with government counterparts and other local stakeholders to strengthen capacity in data collection, reporting, and use of data for decision making.
Preferred Qualifications
Masterâs degree or equivalent in international development, monitoring and evaluation, public health, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience focusing on results and impact in health system strengthening with strong strategic vision and an understanding of systems approaches to programming and monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
Demonstrated experience in fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptive management.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks as well as measuring program results, including those related to the concepts of health coverage, quality, social and behavior change, self-reliance, gender, and youth.
Demonstrated experience building monitoring, evaluation and learning capacities of country-level staff, including government, civil society, and private sector.
Experience using one or more statistical software packages, including at least one of the following: SPSS, Epi-Info, Stata, MS Excel
Fluency in English is required.
Experience with either Global Health Security Agenda programs or infectious disease programs.
Exciting opportunity to make significant research contributions to the University of Sydney Business School and the University of Sydney.
Located in the University of Sydney Business School, Darlington
5-year, fixed term position with an attractive remuneration package
About the opportunity
The Deputy Dean (Research) will be joining at a key time for our institution, as the University enters a new ten-year strategic cycle (Sydney in 2032) and as the Business School continues to work towards our own School-level strategy which is built upon the principles of responsible management education. The Business School and the wider University Executive have experienced future-focused leadership renewal in recent months, including the appointment in December 2022 of Professor Leisa Sargent as Dean of the University of Sydney Business School and Professor Lemuria Carter as Deputy Dean of the University of Sydney Business School.
With a range of top-ranked programs and prestigious triple accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, the University of Sydney Business School is in the top 1% of business schools worldwide and is a global leader in business and management education. We are also one of the Asia-Pacific region’s premier centres for engaged and innovative business education and research. Building on our strong alliances with industry, government and social enterprise the Business School is pursuing an ambitious strategic direction as a thought leader in the development of innovative, responsible, and sustainable responses to emerging domestic and global business challenges. Our recent trajectory has also been marked by ever closer engagement with industry, international partners and further building our research enterprise for scholarly and societal impact.
The Deputy Dean (Research) is a key member of the University of Sydney Business School leadership team, providing academic leadership, and contributing to strategy, operations, financial management, and to internal stakeholder and external stakeholder engagement, and deputising for the Dean (as required). A key responsibility of this role is to contribute to the development, promotion, and implementation of high-quality research strategies with the overall goal being to build our research enterprise, attract and retain outstanding research teams and research students who will contribute to the societal impact and the faculty’s academic standing. Priorities going forward are to lead the implementation of the Business School’s research strategy and ensure workplace safety, health, and well-being for our staff and students, and develop research leadership capabilities in the Business School.
There has been a growing appetite for green finance in the entire financial system. Organisations around the world are shifting quickly to incorporate sustainable practices across all of their investments, services and strategies, driving benefits for society as a whole.
The Climate and Energy Finance Group (CEFGroup) welcomes submissions of papers for its fourth academic symposium. We welcome papers in all areas of Sustainable Finance and Accounting, such as, but not limited to, topics in climate finance, carbon markets, sustainable investing, greenwashing, sustainability disclosures, and net-zero commitments.
Abstracts are being invited for the following topics:
Sustainable Finance and Financial and Capital Market Law
Corporate Governance, ESG and investors’ practices
Investments and fair transitions: implications of human rights and environmental due dilligence requirements on soft and hard law globally.
Awards
Two $500 Prizes for the Best Papers in Sustainable Finance â Sponsored by CFA New Zealand
$1,000 Prize for the Best Paper in Sustainable Investing â Sponsored by INFINZ
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2023
Notification of Acceptance (Latest): 15 September 2023
Paper Submission
Please submit the full paper to CEFGroup@otago.ac.nz by 31 August 2023. Please indicate if you are a PhD student and if your attendance will be virtual or in-person in the email.
Areas of Special Interest
We welcome submissions from all relevant disciplines employing qualitative and/or quantitative methods.
Areas of Special Interest
Areas of Special Interest
Application of machine learning to Energy and climate finance
Sustainable Fixed Income
Biodiversity
Green taxonomies
Carbon pricing and carbon markets
Greenwashing
Climate risk, stress testing and scenario analysis
Impact Investing
Impacts of climate change
Net-zero commitments and strategies
Sustainable Investing
Surveys related to sustainable finance
Sustainable finance education
Surveys related to sustainable finance
Green innovation
Sustainability Reporting Disclosures
Symposium Dates
Thursday 30th November – Friday, 1st December 2023
*Hybrid option available for Non-AU/NZ Attendees
Registration Fee
Registration for the symposium will open after the paper acceptance decisions are communicated in mid-September. A hybrid option is available for non-AU/NZ presenters and all attendees. Fee options (for non-Otago staff/students) are as follows:
Options
In-Person
Online*
PhD Student Rate:
NZD 100
NZD 100
Academic Rate:
NZD 250
NZD 100
Attendance Only;
NZD 250
Free
*Note online presentation is only available to non-AU/NZ presenters.
Join the GBSN for Energy Transition Impact Community in the next installment of Powering the Energy Transition: A Tale of Two Hemispheres, a multi-part series exploring key elements of the energy transition journey through the lenses of different contexts across the global north and global south.
In Part IV: Skills and Development in Business Education, experts from academia and industry will explore the critical talent needs of a sustainable and low carbon energy economy, as well as the role of business schools in supporting a transitioning workforce. Weâll explore questions such as:
What new roles are emerging and where are the greatest gaps in availability of talent to fill these new roles?
What specific knowledge and skills enable individuals trained in traditional disciplines like finance, marketing, and strategy, to be better prepared for careers in this sector?
What is the current state of the leadership pipeline for the energy sector, at both local and multinational levels?
How can business schools best support the workforce development, entrepreneurial ecosystem, and organizational strategy insights needed to power the energy transition and sustain economic growth and development?
Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Processing is playing a vital role in changing most of the sectorsâ processes and landscape. AI has an enormous impact on various automation industries and their functioning converting traditional industries to AI-based factories. New algorithms are changing the way business processes and results are analyzed and predicted. Knowledge processing is the act of comprehending and then representing human knowledge in data structures; semantic models, which are conceptual diagrams of data as they relate to the real world; and heuristics, which are principles that lead to answers to every AI challenge. The way how a human think, knowledge processing transforms the data into knowledge and makes the machine think like a human and makes better decisions. This makes the humans work simple, but it has some ethical concerns that need to be sorted out. This AI and knowledge processing conference addresses the drawbacks and challenges in current practices in various sectors. The research area includes Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Decision Support Systems, Knowledge representation, semantics, Bigdata analytics, Intelligent systems, fuzzy-based neural networks and other fields.
Publication
Minimum of three independent reviewers will be reviewing the paper and they will provide scientific comments on those papers. Based on their review chair will approve the paper. After a careful reviewing process, accepted papers will be submitted to publish in the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
Best Paper Award
HCIS Best Paper Award will be awarded to the best paper published on HCIS. The best paper will be selected based on the technical quality and the review process of the initial full paper. The Award consists of a Certificate and one prize of 300 euros to the author of the Best paper.
Call for Papers
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Call for ArticlesScheel Connect InsightInkAre you a researcher or expert with valuable insights to share?
Scheel Connect InsightInk is calling for articles that delve into the current gaps in various ecosystems and offer potential opportunities for addressing them. As an editorial branch of Scheel Connect, InsightInk aims to collect and showcase insightful content from thought leaders like you.These articles offer editorial perspectives and analysis without any mention of specific schools or affiliations. By featuring your thought-provoking articles, InsightInk aims to foster innovation, knowledge sharing, and community-driven insights within the broader ecosystem.
Guidelines for Article Submission
1.Length: Your blog article should range between 1000 – 1500 words. We encourage you to express your ideas concisely and focus on the key points.
2.File Format: Please submit your blog article as a PDF file for streamlined review. This ensures that your content is presented accurately and consistently.
3.Recognition: All accepted blog articles will be featured on Scheel Connect InsightInk, and contributors will be duly acknowledged for their valuable insights. Your expertise and contributions will be showcased to our growing community.
4.Focus Areas: We invite articles in the following areas of interest:Best Practices in Higher Education, Sustainability, Leadership, Humanities, Building Resilience, Psychology, Linguistics, STEM Education, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, International Affairs, Law, Diversity Equity & Inclusion.
5.To submit your article, please email it as a PDF attachment to learner.innovation@woxsen.edu.in. Don’t forget to include the subject line: “InsightInk Blog Submission – [Your Name]”. Additionally, ensure that your name, contact information, and affiliation are clearly mentioned in the email body.
Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute your insights and be part of Scheel Connect InsightInk’s mission to drive innovation and knowledge sharing. We look forward to reading your engaging articles and featuring them on our platform. Together, let’s inspire and shape the future!
We invite researchers and academics to submit abstracts and research papers to be considered for the 2nd African Philanthropy Academic Conference which will take place in Dakar, Senegal on Monday 31 July to Tuesday 1 August 2023.
Important dates
Submission closing date â Friday, 9 June 2023
Notification of Acceptance â Friday, 23 June 2023
Conference Registration Deadline â Friday, 7 July 2023
Context
Global events such as the war in Ukraine, slowing economies, the persistence of COVID-19, and rising nationalism continue to challenge the world order. Consequently, sectors like philanthropy have been forced to undergo a transformation challenging the established order of the ecosystem. These shifts, coupled with the myriad of issues African philanthropy is currently grappling with such as localisation, developing a south-south approach, and inward-looking (harnessing the local capacity) for resource mobilisation need a dedicated platform for deliberation. The events occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic witnessed African philanthropy responding in unprecedented ways. Technology and innovative ways of giving became ubiquitous almost overnight. However, clear disparities were also observed as some philanthropic institutions flourished while others were totally decimated and may not resurface.
Other urgent issues the sector is facing head-on include climate change, climate advocacy, climate change adaption vs climate change mitigation, governance, technology, and many other new fronts. These issues have the potential to refocus and pivot how philanthropy is practiced, lived, and experienced especially in Africa. They are simply the inflection points that will continue to shape the future of the ecosystem in Africa.
At this inflection moment, evidence is suggesting that philanthropy is gradually moving away from a relationship-driven to a value-driven system â there is a realisation for sustainability. This is changing the logic of the philanthropic field and has the potential to create an increasingly efficient social capital over time. Given the magnitude of social and environmental needs, a new way of thinking must be devised for the sector to truly realise its potential and impact. Although there has hardly been a broad consensus on efficiency and effectiveness, systematic shifts and systems thinking are likely to enable philanthropies to achieve greater impact at this inflection point.
The 2nd African Philanthropy Academic Conference will be charged with the responsibility of unpacking some of these questions and potentially devising the future for philanthropy, especially in Africa. This question and the sub-themes will be used to guide and reflect on the inflection points depicted.
In June 2021, different stakeholders gathered during the RBHR forum for a side session on Reimagining Business School Education with Responsible Management and Human Rights. At the time, they called for greater integration of BHR in business school curricula, sharing examples of promising practices such as the creation of dedicated BHR centers in two higher education institutions: NYU Stern School of Business (2013) and the University of Geneva/Geneva School of Economics and Management (2019).
Two years later, it is timely to take stock of the progress made and listen to business school educators and stakeholders from within and outside the region on innovative practices. These include the recent Memorandum of Understanding between the International Labour Organization, the Global Business School Network and the University of Geneva to increase the inclusion of labour rights in business school education. Within this MoU, lecturers from different countries â including Indonesia, New Zealand, and Australia â gathered in Geneva in December 2022 on the occasion of the 11th UN forum on Business and Human Rights to co-design teaching material and therefore support other lecturers who wish to teach these issues with their students.
About the Session
Lecturers from different countries have co-designed one of the first teaching resources on labour rights for business school audiences, focusing on the topic of decent work in fishing. Lecturers who have participated in this global initiative and pilot tested this course in Indonesia, Switzerland and France will present this resource and share their experience engaging with students on such issues.
âBuilding on this experience, the panel will discuss current efforts to integrate labour rights in business school curricula and possible next steps.
Objectives
The main objectives of this session are to:
Inform the audience on how future business leaders are being equipped with the knowledge and skills to deal with contemporary business and human rights challenges
Present the newly developed âPromoting decent work and the elimination of forced labour in the fishing industryâ teaching resource
Discuss possible strategies to accelerate the integration of labour rights issues in Asia-Pacific business education
Key Questions
Panelists will reflect on the following questions:
How are business school students being educated on business and human rights challenges?
What are the key concepts and skills students can learn in business schools to tackle decent work deficits they will meet once in the labour market?
How can business school lecturers from different universities cooperate to develop material for collective use?
What bridges exist between business school education, United Nations specialized agencies, and other relevant stakeholders?
The goal of the workshop is to develop ideas and working manuscripts with the aim of later submission for review at Academy of Management Journal. Consistent with the mission of AMJ, submissions on all management-relevant topics, at all levels of analysis, and using all empirical methods are invited for the workshop.
Workshop Format
The workshop features plenary and breakout sessions. Breakout rooms will be pre-assigned.
Registration information
To participate, please complete the registration form and submit an extended abstract. The submission deadline is 5 June 2023.
Please note: Due to a limited number of slots available, applying for the workshop via the registration link does not guarantee participation. You will be notified soon after the submission deadline if your submission has been accepted for this event. Extended abstracts must be entered at the time of registration.
The application deadline for the Fall 2023 Semester is June 5, 2023.
Greetings from Woxsen University, India. The Faculty Exchange Program is open for faculty of all schools â School of Business, School of Arts & Design, School of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, School of Law and School of Sciences.
As part of the immediate next steps, the International Office Coordinator at your university must share the faculty nominations by filling in the application form. Additionally, the coordinator must attach and send the following docs to support the applications as per the given timelines:
Faculty’s Updated CV.
Faculty’s Valid Passport
High-resolution picture of the Faculty.
Nomination Deadline: June 5, 2023
Submission of required documents: June 5, 2023
Issue of letter: 7-10 days after submitting the documents
