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The Center for Global Development, an independent, non-partisan research organization in Washington, DC seeks a Program Assistant to support the forest-climate change team. The CGD forest-climate change team is launching a program to support a major increase in global financial flows and incentives for forest conservation and to promote results-based approaches to REDD+. The program seeks to highlight the urgency of forest conservation and REDD+ as key priorities in the context of the overall climate agenda. The Program Assistant’s role is to fulfill a broad array of support functions and occasional research assistance.
Responsibilities:
Team support and organization:
- Manage team calendar and data bases of documents and contacts
- Organize and coordinate various internal and external meetings
- Liaise with internal and external colleagues, especially the CGD communications team
Management of workflow for key project outputs:
- Manage and track the commissioning of background papers for a major report on forests and climate change
- Manage the coordination of meetings and commissioning of background papers for the Working Group on Payment-for-Performance for forests, handle logistical and travel arrangements for meeting participants
- Help to organize and prioritize senior staff workflow
- Provide administrative support to Senior Fellows
Research support
- Carry out literature reviews and conduct background research Contribute to drafting and editing briefs, blogs, communications and reports
- Provide other research, writing and editing support for various reports, documents and web content related with the project
- Perform other duties as necessary
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 1-2 years of professional experience, preferably in an administrative support role in a not-for-profit policy setting
- Outstanding organizational skills
- Effective oral communication skills
- Excellent proficiency in writing
- Knowledge of climate change and REDD+ helpful though not strictly necessary
- Ability to work effectively and quickly under pressure and to prioritize work between different supervisors
- Flexibility and sense of humor
Preference will be given to candidates with experience in developing countries, knowledge of project-related issues, and/or prior experience interacting with important organizational constituencies.
Applicants for vacancy should send a short cover letter, CV and two short writing samples to jobs@cgdev.org. Please use the title "Forest and Climate Program Assistant” in all e-mail correspondences. No phone calls please.
CGD is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age or sexual orientation shall have equal access to positions, limited only by their ability to do the job. Finalist(s) for this position may be subject to a pre-employment background check as a condition of employment.