Researcher - باحث/ة

Call for Expressions of Interest:
Research Roster (Aid Watch Palestine)

Position: Researcher/Consultant
Location: Palestine
Expression of Interest Deadline: 7 July 2016
Languages Required: Arabic and English
Duration: Various short-term consultancies

Background
Aid Watch Palestine (AWP) is an independent, Palestinian initiative, which aims to stimulate and support efforts to make international aid more accountable to Palestinians. AWP envisions a community of aid actors – local and international, public and private – coming together to participate in critical and constructive scrutiny of aid. In doing so, the possibilities for aid to transform into a productive resource in advancing long term solutions, supporting the struggle for Palestinian self-determination, become greater.

To realize this aim, AWP strives to ensure that information about aid is available, current, accurate and accessible to the Palestinian community. Concurrently, AWP views Palestinian participation in the analysis and critique of aid as pivotal to changing the discourse on aid and development. Knowledge of community rights in relation to aid, and the availability of mechanisms to claim those rights, is likewise essential. Those who take part in constructive criticism of aid must also be supported in their efforts, and aid actors who fail to comply with global standards and commitments to rights-based procedures must face consequences. Collectively, AWP views these components as key factors contributing to long-term change in aid to the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT).

Researcher Roster

As part of its work to provide current, accurate and actionable information on aid, as well as analyses of its political implications, AWP conducts qualitative research on a number of areas related to its mission and vision (see this 2015 report on aid reaching the Israeli economyas example). To expand this effort, AWP is currently seeking to build a roster of researchers, interested and available for short-term consultancy projects in one or more of the following fields:

-Aid to Palestinians
-Political economy of aid
-Aid effectiveness and accountability
-Aid and Neoliberalism
-Funding policies and trends, in Palestine and globally
-Independent development alternatives
-The role of international NGOs in developing countries
-Community philanthropy
-Alternative resource mobilization tools/mechanisms
-Related topics

Qualifications

Interested applicants should possess:

-Commitment to Aid Watch Palestine’s mission
-An advanced university degree
-Demonstrated professional expertise in the specified field of research
-Prior relevant research experience, including experience working with qualitative methods
-Excellent oral and written skills
-Ability to work independently, or with minimum supervision
-Working proficiency in Arabic and English

To Apply
Interested applicants should send a brief expression of interest, including their area of expertise and approximate daily rate, as well as their CV to

[email protected]

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