TPP Job Tips

World Resources Institute

Another lead at the World Resource Institute (a place visited during the TPP Internship trip.) The position I have a lead for is doing climate change related policy research.

Unlike OMB, internationals are welcomed. Contact me for info. adamsm (at) mit (dot) edu

Mike

Jobs at Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Here is an email from Sydney:

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) expects to fill one or more permanent positions at the GS-9-12 grades (currently $41,815 - $78,826) with recent graduates or experienced policy analysts. The full performance of the positions is GS-15 (currently up to $130,305). Candidates should have training and/or experience at the Masters level or higher in economics, public policy and/or other related disciplines. OIRA policy analysts (1) assist in the review of various Executive Branch environmental, safety, health, and other regulations to ensure consistency with the Administration's regulatory principles; (2) present recommendations to various Office of Management and Budget and White House officials; and (3) work with agencies and other governmental organizations in a multi-disciplinary setting to improve government decisions. Excellent written and oral communication skills are necessary. U.S. citizenship required. Three letters of recommendations are encouraged. An equal opportunity employer.

To apply: www.usajobs.opm.gov

I have additional contact info for the person you would be working under if you'd like to call before blindly throwing your resume at the online system.

I also had a contact for another position in OMB in their Energy Division (i.e. reviewing a lot of DOE projects). If you'd like to follow up, just contact me. adamsm (at) mit (dot) edu

Mike

IT for Financial Services

I am hiring a number of technical / business people in the Downtown Boston
area - we are one of the largest Investment companies in Boston - I would
like to hire them as soon as possible within the next few days, and am
looking for the following people - any recommendations are appreciated - and
I will gladly pay anyone interested in helping me for their time effort for
helping me find good people. I am interested in hiring full time employees
or I can hire a consultant as well. I will pay very high then salaries to
strong candidates. Preference is given to those interested in staying with
the company for a few years or more.

Start Date on All projects: ASAP, High Salaries, Employee of Consultants,
Downtown Boston

Positions:

1 Project Manager / Team Leader (manage 4-5 Developers and 4 Q&A, Classic
Project Management Skills,

Project Manager - Managed Project in Financial Area / Investment
Firm, 5 years experience / Desired 5-10 years Experience in a Securities
Investment Firm

2 Tech Lead / Architect with some Fixed Income Experience Preferred -
Financial Services Applications, J2EE, WebLogic, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL

Design/Develop/Architect System for Fixed Income products. Lead the
development team. Financial Services industry is highly desirable and fixed
income and/or attribution systems knowledge is a strong plus.

Tools/Technologies/Experience . Strong Tech Lead / Architect
experience with ability to analysis existing architectures and utilize
components in new design.
. Expert understanding of J2EE, WebLogic with Oracle PL/SQL.
. Demonstrated experience in development and design in the financial
services industry, preferably in fixed income and attribution systems.
. Demonstrated experience managing 2-10 person development teams,
including creating and assigning tasks and reporting on progress.
. Self motivated driver with excellent verbal and written
communication skills, and leadership skills in corporate IT inter-division
team coordination

3 Business Analyst - Financial Services Applications, Business Analysis,

Business Analysts skills Gathering requirements, writing technical
specs
Focused on designing the navigability, design, and construction of
the Research
System pages.
Solid financial services/investment background.
Must have strong presentation and communication skills!!!
Tools/Technologies
3-5 years of investment/financial services
Gathering requirements, writing functional specifications.
Education/Experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Design or a related
discipline

4 Sr Microsoft Infrastructure Tech Lead/Project Manager - Microsoft
Infrastructure Enterprise Project Manager

Preferences
.Net -- 2 Years --
SQL Server -- 5 Years --
MS Office 2000 -- 5 Years --
Windows NT -- 4 Years --
Systems Administration -- 10 Years -- -
Financial Services Applications -- 3 Years

Must have solid Tech Lead/Project Management experience and the
ability to work
and communicate with Senior Management. A MUST!

Tech Lead/Project Manager job. 50/50 to be precise. The person needs
to be a
manager when coordinating among groups, and a tech lead to provide
recommendation for:

Sharepoint 2.0 with Active Directory 2003
Sharepoint 2.0 with Exchange 5.5 and 2003
Sharepoint 2.0 with SQL Server2000
SQL Server 2000 clustering
Load balancing Sharepoint 2.0 servers
Monitoring Sharepoint 2.0
Office 2003

Key terms - developing application architecture and integrating
application
architecture with physical architecture.

. Large enterprise scale technology infrastructure architect
. Significant experience implementing Microsoft infrastructure and
desktop products
. Microsoft certified in infrastructure, server and desktop planning
and deployment
. Experience implementing SharePoint Portal 2.0
. Current knowledge of Office 2003, SQL Server 2000, Project 2003
. Experience in Office 2003 Beta during 2003 is a significant plus
. Lead and manage a team, providing recommendations, design, and
implementation of infrastructure
. Experience in the financial services industry

Please send all resumes in word format to:

Maxim Smith
[email protected] (personal E-mail)
Phone - (888) 230-4105

MoveOn's "Geek Organizer" Online Job Fair

Dear MoveOn member,

Are you an organization that's working to use technology the way MoveOn does, to help people connect and mobilize? Are you having trouble finding the right people to make it happen?

Are you one of those people who could fill this need?

Today is your opportunity to make the connection.

Within our team, we've identified a crucial role we call (affectionately) the Geek Organizer. No, that's not an organizer of geeks. It's a person who combines the leadership and communication skills of a political organizer with the technical skills of a computer nerd. How rare are these people? We don't know. But we know they exist, because we've built our organization around them.

At MoveOn.org, we need these people, right now. And we know that among our contacts are many progressive organizations that have a similar immediate need. We're betting that among our membership we have the talent we're looking for. So we'd like to invite you to join us in an experiment: A two-week campaign to identify Geek Organizers and match them to opportunities in the community. It's a virtual job fair.

Week 1: Postings. For the coming week, we're inviting organizations and individuals to step up and identify themselves.

Organizations: Geek Organizers Wanted. Organizations describe their opportunities by filling out a simple form. They'll post a job description and a synopsis of what their organization's about. No cost, no obligation. To post an opportunity for a Geek Organizer type, click here:

http://www.moveon.org/gojf/post_opportunity.html

Individuals: Take the Geek Organizer self-test. If you have what it takes to be a Geek Organizer, why not raise your hand? (We'll respect the confidentiality of your job search by holding your contact information securely. No resumes at this stage - just a personal statement to show off your writing skills.) To take the Geek Organizer self-test and join the job fair, click here:

http://www.moveon.org/gojf/post_personal_profile.html

We'll be taking sign-ups through Wednesday, March 3.

Week 2: Introductions. We'll match talent to opportunities and facilitate anonymous contact through our web site. If you posted an opportunity or a personal profile, expect mail from us next week with a list of matches.

We are just making introductions here, *not* pre-screening candidates. But we know there's a lot of talent out there, and we hope we can put some of it to work where it's needed most.

We do ask you to let us know if you hire anybody through this program. It'll encourage us to do it again.

What makes a Geek Organizer?

* Leadership instincts. They know the levers to pull and the right time to do it. They know when 10 Letters to the Editor will turn the tide and when 1000 phone calls to a senator won't. It's political jujitsu.
* Technology savvy. HTML, mass e-mail, and databases are the tools of the trade.
* Communications skills. None of the above is useful if you can't craft a message that moves people to action.

In our experience, this potential is often underutilized. Some are programmers by day and bloggers by night. Others work for a nonprofit, then get their technology release by running a family website. But when they can apply both halves of their brains to the same job, they can do extraordinary things.

Spread the word.

If you know somebody who ought to be a Geek Organizer, or know an organization that needs one, forward this mail or invite them to the job fair through our web site:

http://www.moveon.org/gojf/spreadtheword.html

Obviously, the more the merrier.

Sincerely,

- Wes Boyd, Joan Blades, and Jack Eastman
MoveOn.org Geek Organizers.

Consultancy job options in Europe

My name is Anke Kreutz. I work within a partner office of Management
Recruiters International (MRI), the global leading executive search
organization. Our office specializes in the field of lean manufacturing.

We are currently recruiting for a reputable consulting company with offices
in more than 40 countries, among them several in Europe. This company is
hiring lean manufacturing specialists to work as junior or senior
consultants, depending on the level of expertise. We especially recruit for
their offices in Germany, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Scandinavia.

MIT has an excellent reputation in engineering, which is why I would like to
establish contact with international graduate students of your school
looking to return to Europe. So if you know of any qualified industrial or
mechanical engineering students for whom such an opportunity would be an
interesting option, I kindly ask you to forward them my contact data. They
are welcome to email us their CVs so we can evaluate their background
adequately. We treat their data with confidentiality and will not forward
it to our client without their explicit permission.

I thank you for your kind consideration in this matter and look forward to
hearing from you.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen/ Regards,
MRI Worldwide
Anke Kreutz
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Dr. Thomas Schnitzler
Unternehmensberatung
MRI - Partner Office
Cockerillstr. 100
D-52222 Stolberg
fon +49 (2402) 97 48 96 4
fax +49 (2402) 76 56 57
e-mail: a.kreutz "at" mri-tsu "dot" de
internet: www.mri-tsu.de
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Top 3 Partner worldwide and most successful European Partner 2003 of the
global leading Executive Search organization
--------------------------

Environmental Research Fellow

New England’s leading environmental organization, the Conservation Law
Foundation, is offering a one year Environmental Research Fellowship to a
qualified candidate currently enrolled in a relevant Masters or Ph. D program.
The Research Fellow will assist CLF advocacy staff with research and advocacy
on transportation reform, forestry, watershed protection, agriculture, global
warming, environmental health, marine resources, and energy issues.
Responsibilities will also include writing reports and attending meetings and
conferences.

The Fellowship offers a well-qualified candidate the opportunity to work in a
highly regarded environmental organization with experienced and talented
staff. CLF is at the forefront of a wide range of public policy areas, and the
Research Fellow will be placed in the center of many of these high profile and
timely issues.

The Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is a nonprofit, member supported
environmental advocacy organization. A staff of lawyers, scientists,
economists, and policy specialists work out of offices in Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont to solve the
environmental problems that threaten the people, natural resources, and
communities of New England. Visit www.clf.org for more information on CLF.

Qualifications
The applicant should have completed at least one full year of a relevant
graduate level program such as environmental studies, urban planning,
transportation planning, environmental engineering, marine science,
environmental health, or environmental economics. The applicant should also
have an interest in exploring a wide range of environmental issues. Strong
research and writing skills, as well as interpersonal skills are required.

Hours and Compensation
The fellowship will commence no later than September 2005 and will extend for
one year. Research Fellows will work 20 hours/week during the fall and spring
semesters and 35 hours/week in the summer. Research Fellows will be paid
$15/hour.

Contact
Send a resume with a cover letter, writing sample, and a list of three
references to:

Conservation Law Foundation
62 Summer St. or email to: jchu "at" clf "dot" org
Boston, MA 02110
(attention Jonathan Chu)

Automotive Analyst

Environmental Defense is looking for an automotive analyst.

I came across this at SustainableBusiness.com. Another great resource for TPP like jobs that have an environmental bent.

Job in India!

Via Amit Gupta.

The company which I am working with is a product company in Auction
> Management domain. My company is looking for a candidate for the Research
> Lab, which will be responsible for improving the various algorithms used
> by our Market Intelligence products.
>
> I am adding the formal job requirement below:
>
> We need an experienced software engineer to enhance our Data
> Clustering/Classification engine. Our data management team is working on
> problems in a number of areas, including cutting-edge clustering
> algorithms, information retrieval algorithms, scalability, and performance
> related to dealing with huge amounts of data.
> Role and Responsibilities
> We are looking for highly motivated and qualifed Software engineer with CS
> background to be a part of Andale's talented Engineering group.
> You will work closely with Andale's R& D team to exchange and explore
> various ideas/algorithms addressing complex issues involving unstructured
> data. .
> You will be expected to deliver sclable /performant intelligent data layer
> for our Market Intelligence team
> You will be required to develop creative algorithms to address complex
> problems encountered in UNSTRUCTURED data space.
> You will be expected to be very proficient at solving NP-hard computaional
> problems
> Qualifications:
>
> The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill,
> education, experience and ability required.
> * BS or MS in Computer Science is a MUST
> * 4 years of software development experience.
> * Must be good at problem solving and designing algorithms to address
> complex technical opportunities
> * Experience in refining and designing new algorithms, mathematical
> models for solving interesting business problems.
> * Must be proficient in Java, C, C++,JDBC, SQL, PL/SQL
> * Experience with Data Warehousing, Middle Tier Caching , ETL concepts
> and VLDB design is a definite plus
>
>
Can you please pass on this mail to anybody who may be interested? This
position will be based out of our Bangalore, India office.
> One thing I want to add that this will be a real challenging job with a
> big amount of responsibility and ownership.
>
> ____________________________
> Amit Gupta
> Business Analyst
>
> Andale, Inc.
> amitg "at" andale "dot" com

The Richard Casement internship

Internship at the Economist Magazine, working for their Science and technology publication

We invite applications for the 2004 Richard Casement internship. This is for a would-be journalist aged 25 or under to spend three months of the summer working in London on the newspaper, writing about science and technology. Our aim is more to discover writing talent in a science student than scientific aptitude in a budding journalist. Applicants should write a letter introducing themselves, along with an original article of about 600 words which they think would be suitable for publication in the Science and technology section. They should be prepared to come for an interview in London or New York, at their own expense. Applications must reach us by February 20th. They should be sent by e-mail to [email protected]

Energy Jobs Galore

Looks like a fantastic resource.

EnergyCentralJobs.com
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