Field Operations Fellow with The Lwala Community Alliance based in Kenya
Job description and how to apply: Field Operations Fellow with The Lwala Community Alliance
Part-time live-in family helper position
Looking for an energetic, organized, responsible individual to join our family as a part-time live-in family helper for our 2 lively and sweet children (ages 1 and 3). We are offering a 1 bedroom apartment and parking in a great Brookline location convenient to the T in exchange for approximately 20 hours of work each week (primarily in the late afternoon/early evenings).
Work includes evening babysitting (averaging 4 evenings a month), daily afternoon dog walking (an enthusiastic lab), dinner prep/some cooking, lunch prep, after dinner clean up, food shopping, laundry and miscellaneous household tasks and errands.
We are looking for someone who can commit to at least 1 year of work. This position would be ideal for a graduate student who does not have early evening commitments, a daycare/preschool or elementary teacher or a recent college graduate with late afternoons free.
Please note that the position will not be a paid one, in exchange for approximately 20 hours of work a week, you will get a great 1 bedroom apartment and parking space in a wonderful Brookline location.
If you are interested, please email Jane at jkaplanpeck@kaplanconstructs.com.
CANCELLED: “Women’s Self-Help Groups in India: Empowerment, not Charity” presentation May 15th
Women’s Self-Help Groups in India: Empowerment, not Charity scheduled for May 15th is cancelled.
Academic Program Coordinator position open in the Department of Global Health
Learn more about the job description and how to apply here!
Ibis Reproductive Health Development and Communications Manager
Development and Communications Manager
Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA
Ibis Reproductive Health is seeking an experienced fund development and communications professional to coordinate and help manage a broad array of Ibis’s fund development and communications activities. This is a new position designed to help Ibis expand its fund development and communications efforts. Ibis has an ambitious five-year fund development plan focused on expanding strategic partnerships and developing a major donor program. We also plan to grow our online and social media activities and to complete a major overhaul our website. We are looking for someone with strong writing and organizational skills who is enthusiastic about our mission to improve women’s reproductive autonomy, choices, and health worldwide.
The Development and Communications Manager will provide support and leadership to all of the activities described above. (S)he will write grant proposals/reports and manage grant proposal processes; set up and maintain various systems to monitor and track fundraising progress and donor communications; help build Ibis’s major donor program; write and produce communications materials; and oversee website changes and updates, among other activities. (S)he will work closely with the Director of Development and Communications to implement development and communications work plans and meet annual development and communications goals.
Qualifications:
· 3-7 years of experience in fund development (preferred) and/or communications
· Excellent, proven writing skills
· Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
· Reproductive/women’s health or public health knowledge and experience preferred
· Commitment to furthering Ibis’s mission and women’s reproductive rights
· Master’s degree or equivalent experience
· Sense of humor
This position reports to the Director of Development and Communications. Salary is competitive and based on experience with a generous benefits package. Please send a CV and cover letter to bwahlin@ibisreproductivehealth.org with the subject “Development & Communications Manager.” Position will remain open until filled.
For more information about Ibis Reproductive Health, please visit www.ibisreproductivehealth.org.
MGH Global Health Conversations: A Future for Libya
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Join us as we welcome a 2010 BUSPH graduate to get the inside scoop on a global health career after graduation
JOIN US TO HEAR THE ADVENTURES OF AN ALUM INSIDER!
CRISTIN MARONA BUSPH 2010
Wednesday, May 21, 2014, 1:45-2:45pm in Crosstown Room CT460A
Take this opportunity to learn the inside scoop of the fast track global public career from one of our recent star graduates, Cristin Marona. Cristin is the Global Technical Advisor at Futures Group International based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Cristin manages a global portfolio covering areas of behavior change communication, business development, and advocacy & capacity building on various health, economic and education focused programs. Her behavior change communication work ranges in technical areas, including maternal and child health, gender based violence, orphans and vulnerable children, and poverty reduction.
Cristin will be in Boston in May where she also serves as Co-Instructor with Professor James Wolff in IH744 Program Design for Global Health. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear her describe her truly remarkable post-MPH career. She will also share first hand real time career tips, her views on the most important skills to secure while at BUSPH, and fascinating, behind the scenes stories from the field.
For those of you determined to work in global health programs, Cristin’s advice and insights will prove invaluable.
To be sure there will be enough room and FOOD and DRINK for all, be sure and RSVP in SPH CareerLink!
Late Summer or Fall practicum opportunity with LifeNet International!
LifeNet International is looking for a high quality intern to help us with health outcome metrics. We would request an intern for three months minimum, preferably starting in the late summer or fall of 2014.
Project: Measurement for Health Impact
Location: Bujumbura, Burundi and field work in 43 clinic and hospital partners
Mission: Guided by the belief that every individual deserves an equal opportunity to lead a healthy and whole life, LifeNet improves the quality of health systems from the ground up.
LifeNet’s main activities: packages of services including continuing education for nurses, management capacity building, medicine supply and growth financing.
Problem LifeNet International is assessing: Our current challenge is to develop metrics that will demonstrate the impact of our clinic capacity building program on the health of patients. The Ministry of Health collects a lot of information that is currently not being used at disaggregated levels. LifeNet also collects a lot of data in our partner clinics and is moving towards coaching clinics to collect and use their own data for decision-making. We collect data on typical measures like patient volume and revenues, but even when we can show with confidence that our training and programs increase the quality of care delivered at clinics or increase their sustainability/revenues, we cannot use our data to prove that we are making patients healthier. We know that by implementing what we teach, nurses are resuscitating newborns when they previously did not know how and would watch them die, they are preventing infection, giving non-lethal doses, and many other things that are saving lives and improving the health of patients.
In the first year of operations (2012), we expected to see a 50% increase over the baseline scores, but in fact the first cohort showed an average increase of 100%, or doubled scores. The second cohort showed 50% improvement in the first quarter of participation.
Students would be contributing to this project in several ways: (1) a recommendation of (a) health outcome metric(s) LifeNet can use for operations and marketing that are cost-effective and practical for our team and our budget, and (2) an M&E implementation strategy/plan for its use at LifeNet.
If interested in applying to this internship, please send a resume and cover letter to:
Stefanie Weiland
Executive Director and Burundi Country Director
Looking for a great 2-credit course in Summer I? Consider IH715! Spots are still open!
IH 715: Antiretroviral Program Management & Adherence Issues in Low Resource Settings with Professor Lora Sabin!
(Meets June 17th-26th, Tues/Wed/Thurs, from 2-5:30 pm, for 6 meetings.)
Are you interested in learning more about ART management in low-resource settings?
Some details about the course...
- 6 sessions combining lectures and group work, with each group focusing on a country and soup to nuts planning around retention in care, designing an adherence intervention, estimating cost of full ART scale up, and considering funding implications to do so."
- Guest lecture by an infectious disease MD that provides a close up view of how ART medications work in the body
- Visit to BUMC’s ART clinic to talk to counselors and pharmacists about real life adherence issues right in our neighborhood
Here are some student comments about this course from last summer:
“Great information that's very applicable and relevant”
“I really enjoyed this course and thought it was well paced for a summer course. I learned a lot in a short amount of time without being overly stressed. I thought the use of class time, half lecture and half group work, was very effective. I also liked how we were building the PowerPoint and our final presentation each day.”
“You don't need a lot of prior knowledge in ARV or HIV for this course, which I really liked.”
“Invaluable and essential as I want to work in addressing the global HIV pandemic.”
Weekly BNID job and internship postings
JOB / INTERNSHIP OPENINGS
- Global Programs Intern - Open Learning Exchange (OLE)
- Grants & Communications Intern - Open Learning Exchange (OLE)
- French Translation & Outreach Assistant - Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University
- Two Co-Authors for Textbook Supplements - Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University
- Volunteer Health Advisor Program Coordinator - Cambridge Health Alliance
- Board Opportunities - Boston International
- Monitoring, Evaluation, and Quality Intern - Partners In Health
