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Campaign Adviser: Changing Markets Foundation – Deadline: 9 March

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Advocacy Evaluation Resources – a giant list

Intelligent Measurement, a blog run by Richard Gaunt in London and Glenn O’Neil in Geneva, has just posted a great long list...
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Senior Publications Officer: Malaria Consortium – Deadline 1 March

Senior Publications Officer Deadline: 1 March, 2020 Location: London, UK Term: 35 hours per week, permanent contract Salary: £30,155 per annum Malaria...
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Wageningen’s resources and tools for academic researchers

In 2016 Wageningen University and 10 research institutes reorganised to collaborate more organically and rebranded themselves as ‘Wageningen University & Research‘. This...

The million-dollar question: How do I know my comms is working?

How can you tell if your communications activity is adding strategic value and not just adding to the noise? Liz Carlile has...
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Making your research accessible

Senior Communications Officer: ODI – Deadline 27 October

23/10/2019

Blog Posts

Senior Communications Officer Deadline: 27 October, 2019 Interviews: 4 November, 2019 Location: London Term: Fixed-term (until 30 March 2021) Salary: £34,988 – £40,573 per annum…

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Making your research accessible

Lessons from building a research programme website: Part 1

22/10/2019

Blog Posts

In this two-part blog as part of Open Access Week, Nilam McGrath and Dru Riches-Magnier outline the approach they took to develop the COMDIS-HSD website…

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Strategic communication

The Nobel and poverty alleviation: ‘A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure’

21/10/2019

2019 Nobel Prize Winners for Economics Blog Posts

“A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure” Esther Duflo – winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Memory of…

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Making your research accessible

Seeing isn’t always believing: Data design that overcomes visual impairments

10/10/2019

Ishihara Plate 9 test for colour blindness Blog Posts

Today is World Sight Day 2019. Right now, more than 1 billion people cannot see well because they don’t have access to glasses, about 36…

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Working with the media

Return of the House Hippo: Media Literacy Week

09/10/2019

Blog Posts

Fake News is certainly news, but is it new? It was already enough of a problem in 1999 that young Canadians were introduced to a…

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Working with the media

Chief Executive, Europe: Internews – Deadline 5 October

02/10/2019

Blog Posts

Chief Executive, Europe: Internews Deadline: 5 October, 2019 Location: London Term: Salary: Competitive Other: i.e. immigration The Board is seeking to appoint a Chief Executive…

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Principal Consultant in Learning and Communications for Development: DAI – Deadline: 30 September

24/09/2019

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Deadline: 30 September, 2019 Location: Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK Term: Full time (will consider part-time, not less than 3 days a week), fixed-term one-year contract…

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Head of Policy and Advocacy: Traidcraft – Deadline 30 September

24/09/2019

Blog Posts

Head of Policy and Advocacy Deadline: 9am, Monday, 30 September, 2019 Interviews (provisional date): Week commencing 7th October 2019 Location: London Term: Permanent, ideally full-time…

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Collaborating to Convene

23/09/2019

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The Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience Student Cohort is split across five universities, and covers a wide range of research topics related to natural…

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Strategic communication

Global Brand Communications Project Manager: VSO – Deadline 24 September

18/09/2019

Blog Posts

Deadline: 24 September, 2019 Interviews: 3 October, 2019 Location: London, Pretoria, Nairobi Term: Fixed term, 12 months, 35 hours per week Salary: United Kingdom £34,679…

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Making your research accessible

Communications Officer: Malaria No More UK – Deadline 18 September

16/09/2019

Blog Posts

Communications Officer Deadline: 5pm UK time, 18 September, 2019 Location: Vauxhall, London Term: Full Time, Permanent, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday Salary: £28,000…

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Making your research accessible

Senior Campaigns Officer: War on Want – Deadline 18 September

16/09/2019

Blog Posts

Senior Campaigns Officer Deadline: 18 September, 2019 Interviews: w/c 23 September 2019 Location: London Term: Full time, fixed-term post one-year contract (with a view to…

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