Title: Search for Interns and Junior Staff, Education for All Global Monitoring Report, Paris

The Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team, based in UNESCO in Paris, is interested in attracting top quality interns and junior staff.  The team is responsible for the EFA Global Monitoring Report, an annual publication that holds the international education community to account for commitments made at the Dakar World Education Forum in 2000.  In its few years of existence this independent report has become an indispensable advocacy and technical tool for everyone involved in promoting Education for All.  The report includes an overall review of progress toward the 6 EFA goals and also an in-depth treatment of a specific Dakar-related topic: gender in 2003/4, quality in 2005, literacy (now under preparation for 2006) and Early Childhood Care and Education for 2007.  More information about the publication, including commissioned background papers, can be found at: www.efareport.unesco.org.

            We have two specific needs at present, both as interns and as short-term junior staff:

a) Generalists with the ability to synthesize and summarize large bodies of literature and data of all types.  Such people should have outstanding academic records, must write well in English, and will also have some or all of following: a good comparative knowledge of education, a specialized knowledge of one discipline (e.g. educational economics, educational sociology, education management etc.), quantitative skills, and language skills.   To complement our existing team, we are particularly interested in people fluent in Spanish but this is not a requirement.

b) Specialists in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), who may come from a variety of academic disciplines.  Since the 2007 report will include an in-depth analysis of ECCE, various preparations will be undertaken in advance of this. We are thus interested in one or two people with a good knowledge of the ECCE literature and data sources.  As with the generalists, they must have very strong academic backgrounds and write well in English. Quantitative skills and additional language proficiencies are also useful.

We have the capacity to take interns for varying periods, though generally prefer a minimum of two months, and are especially interested in those who might be available immediately and at periods other than the summer.  Junior staff can be hired for periods of 6-9 months and, on occasion, for longer periods though such appointments are normally made following global advertising and competitive interviews.

Those individuals who wish to submit their candidacy to either of the above positions should send a cover letter and CV, including list of 3 references, to Nicholas Burnett, Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Team at n.burnett@unesco.org.  An information session and interviews will be held during the CIES conference at Stanford University in late March.