DEVJOBS   List of Jobs – October 11, 2002

 

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Message 1 - Chief  of Party - Sierra Leone +b

Message 2 - Rural Finance Consultant – Ethiopia +b

Message 3 - Phd FULLY FUNDED   Studentships

Message 4 - Training Manager - Azerbaijan

 

FOUND AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ISSUE:

Official! World's Funniest Joke

 

Message 1

Chief  of Party - Sierra Leone +b

Posted by:  Critchley, Geri GCritchley@msi-inc.com

MSI, Management Systems International, www.msiworldwide.com, seeks a Chief of Party for Sierra Leone to coordinate efforts related to the Kono Peace Diamond Alliance and to assist with an initiative to improve diamond management. The project focus is improved diamond mining and marketing policy in Sierra Leone, improved monitoring capacity, and increased benefits flowing to diamond-producing communities. The successful COP candidate will have experience in community outreach, alliance building, local staff supervision, and familiarity with USAID procurement and operating procedures.  An understanding of natural resource management and extractive resources is also beneficial. Overseas project management experience highly desirable. Post allowance currently includes danger pay The placement is in Koidu for a period of two years, beginning in November/December, 2002.  If interested, please send a cover letter and resume to: reply@msi-inc.com  and gcritchley@msi-inc.com

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Message 2

Rural Finance Consultant – Ethiopia +b

Posted by:  Amy Maher AMaher@acdivoca.org

Rural Finance Consultant – Ethiopia +b

ACDI/VOCA, a US-based international development organization delivering technical assistance to businesses and institutions, is recruiting for a micro-enterprise development specialist to be based in a rural area in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. The program will focus on partnering with local institutions to develop financial services and on- and off-farm small business opportunities. The successful candidate will have a minimum of 5 years' experience in rural/micro-finance and business development service.  Knowledge of basic MIS requirements for a large microfinance institution, and USAID project management experience within Africa is required.   Please forward electronic résumé/cover letter and salary requirements to roster@acdivoca.org. No phone calls please. Only finalists will be contacted.

Amy Maher

Associate Director, Recruitment

ACDI/VOCA

50 F St, NW, Suite 1100

Washington, DC 20001

Phone: 202-383-4986

Fax: 202-626-8726

E-mail: amaher@acdivoca.org

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Message 3

Phd FULLY FUNDED   Studentships

Posted by:  Fred Thomas

One PhD Studentship (three years)

Duration: Oct. 2002 ? September 2005

There is a FULLY FUNDED PhD Studentships in the above-mentioned area.  Cranfield University is actively involved with a number of companies to research in the areas of Cost Engineering. The Cranfield team is one of  the biggest in hardware cost engineering research. For more info on cost engineering research and education at Cranfield, please visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/cost.

This research will be an extension of existing work. A leading  automotive manufacturer wishes to develop a deeper understanding of benchmarks, cost breakdown and cost/technology trends on electronic modules - in particular relating to the impact of volume increases, technology steps that are leading to significant improvements in the function/cost ratio, and the impact of development and software costs to the piece price.

Because of the changing nature of the commodity, there is a need for continuous updating of knowledge and expertise, specifically in relation tointegrated circuits and development/software costs.

Final deliverables are expected to be as follows:

-         initial research on best practice tools/methods available worldwide from both automotive and other industries

-         development of cost modelling, including trend analysis

-         methodology to establish benchmark for a particular module function

-         technology developments - both product and process

-         specific examples on automotive products - the student would work within the sponsor for this, probably in Germany

-         investigation of the integration of the above into existing cost estimating tools

It is expected that the tuition fees to Cranfield will be covered by the project. The PhD student would receive around 11K pounds sterling tax-free per annum (for the three years). Interested graduate/postgraduate  students with electronics/manufacturing/mechanical engineering background are invited to submit their CV for an informal discussion over telephone or email. Additional background in cost engineering, and programming skill will be beneficial. The minimum academic requirement for entrants to the degree is an upper second class honours degree or its equivalent.

Please note that the funding is restricted to British Nationals, in special cases it may be offered to an EC national.

For informal enquiries and  application (detailed CV), please contact: Dr. Rajkumar Roy at your earliest:

Dr. Rajkumar Roy

Senior Lecturer and Course Director, IT for Product Realisation

Department of Enterprise Integration,

School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science,

Cranfield University,Cranfield, Bedford,

MK43 0AL, United Kingdom.

Email: r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk  or r.roy@ieee.org

URL: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/staff/royr.htm

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/cim/people/roy.htm

Duration:                3 years

Eligable Nationalities:  UK

Listed By:               Cranfield University - Cranfield

Contact Name:            Mrs Shirley Hyde

Contact E-mail:          mailto:sims.enquiries@cranfield.ac.uk

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Message 4

Training Manager - Azerbaijan

Job title:               Training Manager

Job Location:            AZERBAIJAN

Remuneration:            Negotiable

Start Date:              ASAP

Description: Training Manager

Duties:

Plans and organizes training and management development programs to support the company's business plans.

This position is for a fully qualified specialist. The incumbent will be expected to design and deliver programs for a broad range of management  and professional employees and identify externally suitable programs.

·        Identifies training and development needs of staff up to senior management level in conjunction with the line managers.

·        Initiates, organizes and undertakes training in the form of courses,

·        workshops and seminars.

·        Directs planning and organization of all work shops that are offered.

·        Writes central core training courses and specific workshops

·        May design and implement assessment programs to identify management potential and training needs

·        Interacts with external training consultants to identify course objectives and content.

Duration:                2 years

Contact Name:            Richard Wilding

Contact E-mail:          mailto:richard.wilding@jrknowles.com

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FEATURED ARTICLE:

Official! World's Funniest Joke

 

Thursday, October 3, 2002

CNN

 

What makes us laugh depends on where we live...and if there are ducks 

 

LONDON, England -- The world's funniest joke has been revealed after a year-long search by scientists.

In an experiment conducted in Britain, people around the world were invited to judge jokes on an Internet site as well as contribute their own.

The LaughLab research, carried out by psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, attracted more than 40,000 jokes and almost two million ratings.

And here it is...

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy takes out his phone and calls the emergency services.

He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a gunshot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"

Wiseman said the joke worked across many different countries and appealed to men and women and young and old alike.

"Many of the jokes submitted received higher ratings from certain groups of people, but this one had real universal appeal," he said.

As well as identifying the joke which appealed most to people around the world, the experiment revealed wide humour differences between nations.

People logging onto the LaughLab Web site were invited to rate jokes using a "Giggleometer" which had a five-point scale ranging from "not very funny" to "very funny".

One intriguing result was that Germans -- not renowned for their sense of humour -- found just about everything funny and did not express a strong preference for any type of joke.

People from the Republic of Ireland, the UK, Australia and New Zealand most enjoyed jokes involving word plays.

Many European countries, such as France, Denmark and Belgium, displayed a penchant for off-beat surreal humour, while Americans and Canadians preferred jokes where there was a strong sense of superiority – either because a character looks stupid or is made to look stupid by someone else.

Europeans also enjoyed jokes that involved making light of topics that make people feel anxious, such as death, illness and marriage.

Wiseman said: "These results are really interesting. It suggests that people from different parts of the world have fundamentally different senses of humour.

"Humour is vital to communication and the more we understand about how people's culture and background affect their sense of humour, the more we will be able to communicate effectively.

"Also, we find jokes funny for lots of different reasons. They sometimes make us feel superior to others, reduce the emotional impact of anxiety-provoking situations or surprise us because of some kind of incongruity.

"The hunters joke contained all three elements."

Bizarrely, computer analysis of the data also showed that jokes containing 103 words were thought to be especially funny. The winning "hunters" joke was 102 words long.

Many jokes submitted contained references to animals. Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny.

 

 

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