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Institution: South Asian Institute for Advanced Research & Development (SAIARD)
Position: Research Professor (RP)
Tenure Type: Project based
Broad Research Areas:
Urban, River, Water, Landuse Planning, Sustainability, GIS-RS, Disaster, Climate, Agriculture, Policy & Planning, Economics, Gender Studies, Demographic Studies, Environmental Science, Waste Management, Socio-Economic studies, Cultural studies, International; Relations, Public Administration etc.
Age: No age bar for application
Who can apply: Retired Professor / Govt. official / Industry Professional / Young Scholar [In each case Ph.D. Degree is must]
Eligibility:
- Ph.D. Degree in their related subject or field is must.
- Experience with applicable software and systems.
- Experience in Project Development and project implementation
- Ability to do team work and supervision
- Publication in reputed journals
- Collaboration and leadership skills.
- A natural problem solver.
- Demonstrated experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection and analysis.
- Experience in dealing with Municipal Governments or any other Government agencies in India.
- Strong inter-personal and communication skills.
- Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view.
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.
- Experience in developing qualitative reports for projects.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Prepare and submit proposals/scope of work for project extensions.
- Candidates will be actively engaged in grant writing and manuscript submission.
- Contribute to supervision of Ph.D. students.
- Conduct research, perform experiments, analyze data, and present the research outcome at local and national conferences.
- Provide guest lectures in undergraduates and graduate courses and contribute to extension educational programs as time permits.
- Accept committee assignments, reporting responsibilities, follow safety regulations, and other special ad hoc assignments as requested at the administrative unit, college/division, institute, and/or university level.
- Provide research leadership on designing field trials and surveys.
- Support to develop projects.
- Liaison with concerned authorities for providing regular support to project activities and monitoring of project progress.
- Support in monitoring, inspection and evaluation procedures in collaboration with project partners and project teams to implement this project.
- Review and support in assessing outputs and outcomes as per the logical frameworks developed at project and program level respectively.
- Provide operational support for technical expertise and PMU organized program events at city and state level.
- Submit the weekly progress report on all program activities to the authority.
- Develop an overall framework for the research study with inputs from various relevant stakeholders
- Keep the security and confidentiality of the project related data.
Remuneration: on Project basis
Application Deadline: No Application Deadline. Candidates may drop their CV throughout the year
Application process: Drop your CV with a cover letter in the given mail ID: saiardkolkata@gmail.com
Institution: South Asian Institute for Advanced Research & Development (SAIARD)
Centre: Centre for Urban & Built Environment (CUBE)
Project Name: Preparation of Urban River Management Plan through Cluster Approach for Hugli-Chinsurah Cluster in West Bengal
Position: Research Assistant (RA)
Duration: 6 Months (Renewable)
Type of Contract: Individual Consultant Contract
No. of Positions: 1
Last Date to Apply: 16 October 2021
About the Project
Major Focus Area: RIVER CENTRIC URBAN PLANNING
For conceptual details please go through the following guidelines:
https://mohua.gov.in/upload/whatsnew/60b0c96d3481cRCUP%20Guidelines.pdf
https://nmcg.nic.in/writereaddata/fileupload/48_Urban%20River%20Management%20Plan%20framework.pdf
Responsibilities
The Research Assistant – CUBE will support the senior team members in day-to-day activities including programmatic and operational tasks. The duties and responsibilities of the Research Officer shall include, but will not be limited to:
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Support to develop this project models.
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Liaison with concerned authorities for providing regular support to project activities and monitoring of project progress.
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Visit in different ULBs and Public and Private bodies for collection of data
·
Support in monitoring, inspection and evaluation procedures in collaboration with project partners and project teams to implement this project.
·
Review and support in assessing outputs and outcomes as per the logical frameworks developed at project and program level respectively.
·
Provide operational support for technical expertise and PMU organized program events at city and state level.
·
Submit the weekly progress report on all program activities to the authority.
·
Develop an overall framework for the research study with inputs from various relevant stakeholders
·
Keep the security and confidentiality of the project related data.
Skills and Qualifications
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Post-graduate degree preferably in Urban Planning, Economics, Climate Change, Management, Environmental Sciences, Public Policy or any related field.
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Demonstrated experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection and analysis.
·
Experience in dealing with Municipal Governments or any other Government agencies in India.
·
Strong inter-personal and communication skills.
·
Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view.
·
Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.
·
Experience in developing qualitative reports for projects.
Remuneration: Package Remuneration (on project basis)
Application process: Drop your CV with a cover letter in the given mail ID: saiardkolkata@gmail.com
Institution: South Asian Institute for Advanced Research & Development (SAIARD)
Centre: Centre for Urban & Built Environment (CUBE)
Project Name: Learning from COVID -19 – Urban Governance Perspective’ for Assam state
Position: Research Officer (RO)
Duration: 6 Months (Renewable)
Type of Contract: Individual Consultant Contract
No. of Positions: 1
Last Date to Apply: 16 October 2021
About the Project
Major Focus Area: URBAN GOVERNANCE AND SERVICE DELIVERY
In the continued COVID times, since the country is struggling to ensure health, delivering safe urban services and bringing businesses back to normal, it’s the need of an hour to provide required support to the local governments to overcome this situation, by tackling various challenges during and post pandemic. With this intention, we have shortlisted following research areas in support to the respective State and local governments’.
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Urban Water-Sanitation-Hygiene (WASH) and Environmental Sanitation- Addressing Local Challenges
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Municipal Monitoring Mechanism- Status and Potential Interventions
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Financial Reforms for Performance Improvement at Local Level
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Health and Safety of Sanitation Workers and Livelihood of their Families
Responsibilities
The Research Officer – CUBE will support the senior team members in day-to-day activities including programmatic and operational tasks. The duties and responsibilities of the Research Officer shall include, but will not be limited to:
·
Support to develop this project models.
·
Liaison with concerned authorities for providing regular support to project activities and monitoring of project progress.
·
Support in monitoring, inspection and evaluation procedures in collaboration with project partners and project teams to implement this project.
·
Review and support in assessing outputs and outcomes as per the logical frameworks developed at project and program level respectively.
·
Provide operational support for technical expertise and PMU organized program events at city and state level.
·
Submit the weekly progress report on all program activities to the authority.
·
Develop an overall framework for the research study with inputs from various relevant stakeholders
·
Keep the security and confidentiality of the project related data.
Skills and Qualifications
·
Post-graduate degree preferably in Urban Planning, Economics, Climate Change, Management, Environmental Sciences, Public Policy or any related field.
·
Demonstrated experience in designing tools and strategies for data collection and analysis.
·
Experience in dealing with Municipal Governments or any other Government agencies in India.
·
Strong inter-personal and communication skills.
·
Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view.
·
Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.
·
Experience in developing qualitative reports for projects.
Remuneration: Package Remuneration (on project basis)
Application process: Drop your CV with a cover letter in the given mail ID: saiardkolkata@gmail.com
Institution: South Asian Institute for Advanced Research & Development (SAIARD)
Centre: Centre for Urban & Built Environment (CUBE)
Project Name: Learning from COVID -19 – Urban Governance Perspective’ for Assam state
Position: Field Surveyors (FS)
Field Area: Assam
Duration: 6 Months (Renewable)
Type of Contract: Individual Consultant Contract
No. of Positions: 06
Salary: 8000/- (All Inclusive)
Last Date to Apply: 18 October 2021
Application process: Drop your updated CV with a cover letter in the given mail ID: saiardkolkata@gmail.com
Position: Faculty for GIS and Remote Sensing
Post Type: Contractual Full Time
No of Posts: 01
Salary: 10000/- (Fixed)
Min. Eligibility Criteria: 55% in M.A. / M.Sc. with PG Diploma or M.Sc/M.Tech. in Geoinformatics and Fluency in English is must.
Desirable: Candidates will get extra preference if they have any working experience in industry or institution
Application Mail Id: saiardkolkata@gmail.com
Documents with Application Mail: Upto date CV with recent passport size photograph
Last date of application: 18/11/2021
Date of Interview: 21/11/2021
Disclaimer: Selected candidates will be called for the interview through mail. They have to present with their upto date resume and original documents at the time of interview.
Institution: South Asian Institute for Advanced Research & Development (SAIARD)
Position: Office Executive (OE)
Job Role: All office related activities
Min. Eligibility Criteria: Graduate
Desirable: Proficiency in English and Computer application. Basic ideas about academic activities
Job Type: On Contract basis (Renewable)
No. of Position: 01
Salary: 5000/- to 7000/- per month (Based on experience)
Date of Interview: 11 December 2021 from 12.00 PM
Application process: Drop your updated CV with a cover letter in the given mail ID: saiardkolkata@gmail.com