An Asset Management Company (Intl) has the Following Openings:

"Risk Analyst"

Essential Qualities:
• High level of quantitative Proficiency  in modern statistical, risk and financial analysis techniques.
• Good communication ability in English (written and verbal)
• Advanced proficiency with MS Office. applications (Power Point, word excel, and statistical cat analysis software)
• Ability to provide quantitative research in tight deadlines
• Ability to source financial data required for analysis
• Self-starting individual with a “an do" attitude
• Mid-Level understanding of the insurance/reinsurance and financial asset management industries.
• Problem solving under high pressure situations.

Essential Responsibilities:
• Analyze the risk in the underwriting and approval of new insurance/reinsurance projects, renewals for existing customers, documentation, and  ongoing monitoring of the current portfolio analyze  the risk in asset allocation for different asset classes. 
• Recommend lucrative financial asset invesunc.10 add to portfolio.
• Recommended terms  and conditions for transactions and work with cross.
• Prepare risk assessment reports and presents senior management with a clear and consistent approach to mitigate political, legal regulatory, and other risks in partnership  with terms and specialists.
• Participate as a team ember in special projects aimed at improving business process and analytics tools (i.e.Propertary research)
• Active involvement in pre deal review process to assist teams with transaction structuring.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required to full till job function or as .signed.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Minimum BSC degree with well reputed foreign university or MSC/MBA with well reputed focal university in a quantitative discipline.
• Minimum I year hands-on experience in quantitative analysis role.
• Part or full qualified FRM or CFA preferred

"Market Research Analyst"

Essential Qualities:
• High level of understanding abut the global economic and financial environment.
• Very high level of written and verbal communication in English.
• Ability to construct presentations on MS Office convey to top management and clients.
• High understanding of the insurance / reinsurance and financial assesst Management industries.
• Self-starting individual with a "can do” financial asset management industries.
• Flexibility to travel on short notice.
• Problem solving under high pressure situations.
• Highly presentable.

Essential Responsibilities:
• Repare various studies, such as identify and optimal prices and rate structures, identify projected demand level and growth rates for services, identify the profitability and competitiveness of existing and new services:
• Present Management with regular economic/ financial review reports designed to summarize the global climate and implications on company’s current exposure.
• Continuously identify  new markets to enter and report on favourable unfavorable changes on existing markets.
• Aid top management in the structuring of new product initiatives and improvement of existing ones.
• Provide an effective interface with all internal and external personnel and analyze all issues in environments and same and monitor all market and regulatory environments and provide support to all business units and evaluate policies to prepare appropriate proposals.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required to full job function or as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Minimum BA with well reputed foreign university or MA/MBA with well reputed local university in an economics / finance or related.
• Minimum 1 year experience.
• Part or. full CFA preferred.
• Valid pass.

• Email: careers@goldassurrance.com.

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The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a private, non-denominational, international development agency established in 1967. It seeks sustainable solutions to long-term problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill-health with special emphasis on the needs of rural communities in mountainous and other resource poor regions, primarily in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Its main areas of focus are education, health, rural development, environment and strengthening civil society.

The Aga Khan Foundation (Pakistan) [AKF(P)] is seeking high caliber professionals/firms for the following Consultancy of  forty five (45) working days in Balochistan with field work and extensive visits to (Gwadar, Qilla Saifullah and Quetta):

Background

The Early Childhood Development Programme (ECDP) is a five-year (2010-2015) project supported by Australian Government and executed by Aga Khan Foundation (Pakistan) [AKF (P)] in partnership with Aga Khan University and local implementing partners. It is designed to improve the quality and delivery of Early Childhood Development services appropriate to the cultural, geographical and local education system context and particularly for women and children. The programme focuses on three areas; enhancement of learning abilities of children in early years, capacity development of key stake holders and increasing involvement of community in ECD interventions.

The principal programme activities include improvement of infrastructure; provision of training to educational managers, teachers, Parents Teachers School Management Committees (PTSMC), Family Resource Centre workers and families; implementing a Cluster Based Mentoring Programme and conducting a programme of research, dissemination and policy dialogue at local and national levels.

1.       Purpose of consultancy

AKF(P) requires the services of research consultant/firm to undertake a Research Study on Relevance and Effectiveness of ECDP in the context of Balochistan.

2.       Scope of work

The consultant/firm shall devise the research design and methodology in consultation with the AKF(P). The study will involve both primary and secondary data collected through review of programme and project documents, field visits and search and exploration of new/additional data.

The study will contain the review of the programme activities, implementation and its impact on the beneficiaries and the community in view of the programme objectives.

3.       Deliverables

The deliverables in this consultancy/study will include:

4.       Payment Plan

Payable as per following schedule:

AKF(P) will deduct withholding tax at source, as required by the Income Tax Ordinance of 2001.

The duration of this consultancy is of 45 working days commencing from February 15, 2015.

The number of days covers for time for planning, meetings, review of documents, data collection, draft development, editing and incorporating feedback and developing the final product.

Required Qualifications and Experience

AKF(P) offers a competitive remuneration package and conducive working environment. We are an equal opportunity employer - females are encouraged to apply.

Interested candidate/firms should forward their applications or profiles by December 14, 2014.

Please note that only short-listed candidates/firms will be contacted.

Interested candidates may apply by  sending  the  following till December 15, 2014:  

Short listed candidates will be called in for an interview.

1. BACKGROUND:

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Country Office for Pakistan (COPAK) is tasked with assisting Pakistan through its Country Programme (CP) 2010-15 with a focus on needs related to control of illicit trafficking of drugs and precursors, border management, criminal justice, drug demand reduction and HIV/AIDS control. In addition to other initiatives, various capacity building activities under this Programme (illicit trafficking and border management) have been started to technically support law enforcement agencies(LEAs) for enhancing their core capacity through the provision of foundational/specialist training and equipment. One such initiative relates to the development of a Customs Research Unit (CRU) at Directorate General of Training and Research (DGTR), Karachi with an aim to build research skills among the officers and staff of Pakistan Customs and conduct different research studies on topics of professional and technical competence in the fields of drugs control.

In order to react in a strategic manner UNODC Pakistan requires the services of a Senior National Research Consultant to supervise UNODC research activities in Pakistan Customs and provide support to research team during the course of data collection, compilation and report preparation.

The Senior National Research Consultant will report to the AOTP Programme Manager in Vienna who will be the supervisor of the project.

2. MAIN OBJECTIVES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED ANALYTICAL WORK.

Assignment objectives:

The Senior National Research Consultant will be based in the Pakistan Customs’ Directorate General Training & Research (DGTR) facility in Karachi. Together with AOTP staff in Islamabad and in collaboration with the Coordinator designated by the DGTR, he will be responsible for accomplishing the tasks, deliverables and targets set by the AOTP Programme Manager and COPAK. The incumbent will be tasked to chalk out research proposals on key drug related issues in Pakistan. He will be responsible to work out the research methodology, develop data collection tools like questionnaires, survey forms, etc and monitor the on-going research activities in Customs Research Unit. He will also be responsible for successful completion of research studies from data collection, feeding, synthesis, analysis and subsequently compilation of final publication of research report. He will be required to fulfil the project deliverables within specified time-lines. He will remain in close liaison with the research team and the DGTR designated coordinator in providing or arranging requisite training and guidance to the members of research team. He will work out the training needs of the research team and subsequently plan and design training programmes and training material to enhance their research capabilities. The Senior National Research Consultant will report to the AOTP Programme Manager in Vienna who will supervise this project. The management of COPAK will be advised on identified needs and issues that UNODC should address.

Expected Deliverables:

The incumbent will work closely with AOTP staff in Islamabad and DGTR designated coordinator in Karachi, to produce research reports on specific drug-related topics, quarterly newsletters and any other reports related to drug control in Pakistan. The Senior National Research Consultant will be responsible for discussing the progress of the project and its output with the Programme Manager located in Vienna.

The Senior National Research Consultant will be required to deliver the following.

3. REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

I. Academic Qualifications:

· Masters degree in Social Science, Economics, Political Science, Public Administration or similarly relevant discipline.

II. Years of experience:

· 10 years of professional experience with at least 3 years of relevant drug related research experience in Pakistan working on topics related to UNODC’s mandates. Working experience with any UNODC project will be preferable.

III. Competencies:

· Knowledge of the region’s drug related problems and particularly trafficking of Afghan opiates to Gulf countries, Africa, Europe and USA via air, land and maritime channels, knowledge of political, socio-economic and cultural dynamics is required.

· Capacity to advise and manage research related studies.

· Capacity to review documents and conduct interviews as part of background research.

· Capacity to produce scientific research products.

· Ability to analyse needs and formulate draft recommendations on appropriate responses for colleagues and management.

· Ability to produce concise reports and presentations.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Working knowledge of Urdu and Pashto/Sindhi would be an advantage.

· Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize multiple tasks.

· Experience working with government authorities. Experience working with UN is an asset.

· Ability to evaluate analytically and impartially.

· Knowledge of politico-strategic issues related to Pakistan and/or other countries in the region is an asset.

· Knowledge and experience with customs of Pakistan is an asset.

· Knowledge of different softwares like SPSS, ArcGIS, MS Excel, MS Access will be preferrable.

4. DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS.

Interested candidates must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

(i) Explaining why he/she is the most suitable for the project.

(ii) Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable)

5. FINANCIAL PROPOSAL

The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal should include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days).

Travel;

All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the Consultant wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and National Research Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.

EVALUATION

Senior National research Consultant will be evaluated based on the following methodology:

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the candidate whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and

b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

** Technical Criteria weight; [70% ]*

** Financial Criteria weight; [30% ]*

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 60 point would be considered for the Final Evaluation

Criteria*****Weight Max. PointTechnical Competencies 70Masters degree in Social Science, Economics, Political Science, Public Administration or similarly relevant discipline.2010 years of professional experience with at least 3 years of relevant drug related research experience in Pakistan working on topics related to UNODC’s mandates. Working experience with any UNODC project will be preferable.20* Knowledge of the region’s political, socio-economic and cultural dynamics.

Capacity to review documents and conduct interviews as part of background research.

Ability analysis needs and formulate draft recommendations on appropriate responses for colleagues and management. Ability to produce concise and reports and presentations. 15 Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Working knowledge of Urdu and Pashto would be an advantage. Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize multiple tasks. Ability to evaluate analytically and impartially.

Experience working with government authorities. 15 Financial (Lower Offer/Offer*100 Total Score Technical score 70 + 30 Financial*Weight per Technical Competence Weak: Below 70% The individual consultant/contractor has demonstrated a WEAK capacity for the analyzed competence Satisfactory : 70-75% The individual consultant/contractor has demonstrated a SATISFACTORYcapacity for the analyzed competence Good: 76-85% The individual consultant/contractor has demonstrated a GOODcapacity for the analyzed competence Very Good: 86-95% The individual consultant/contractor has demonstrated a VERY GOOD capacity for the analyzed competence Outstanding: 96-100% The individual consultant/contractor has demonstrated a **OUTSTANDING*capacity for the analyzed competence

Proposal should be submitted by email to hr.pakistan@unodc.org no later than 13 December 2014

Any request for clarification must be sent in writing, or by standard electronic communication to the address or e-mail at shahid.zareen.khattak@unodc.org. UNODC Country Office Pakistan will respond in writing or by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all officers.

Job Description:

Candidates with Research background should apply. Our company deals with Market research projects nationwide. Candidate will be required to work extensively on MS Office, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook, He/She must be a good communicator and willing to learn. Successful completion of Internship may lead to Job Opportunity.

Female Candidates will be preferred.

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PURPOSE OF POSITION:

Improving the quality of WV Pakistan integrated program through maintaining efficient and effective monitoring systems and local mechanisms to improve accountability, improving internal information flows, and providing field-based program support on M&E.  This position leads the assessments, evaluation, and documentation of evidence for WVP. 

Act as information focal point at the location (Islamabad) ensuring information flow between the different units, and between location and KPK/Punjab/Sindh/ Islamabad Offices and Office Staff.

Major Activities:

Lead Assessment, Evaluation, and Documentation of Program Impact & Approach Effectiveness:

Designing/supervising needs assessments, baselines and evaluations in light of LEAP framework.

Leading implementation when internally performed by WV.  Providing overall supervision when these studies outsourced to a third party.

Designing and leading research studies at national office level and working with leaning hubs to carry forward global/regional research agenda.

Learnings drawn through monitoring, evaluation, studies and related events to guide in operation, programmatic and strategic decision making. Leads lessons learned reflections and informs management with learnings from assessments and evaluations

Building capacities of PDQA team in research design and assessments including travel to the field up to 30%. 

Support new project & proposal design with detailed or rapid needs assessments as needed. 

DM&E technical guidance to all projects & NO

Assuring all projects utilize the WV Learning through Evaluation and Planning DME Framework (LEAP). Alignment of project designs and compliance to LEAP Standards in monitoring.

Support project designs with LFA & monitoring plans as needed.

Support and backstop Monitoring and Research Officer as needed.  Support in review and analysis of monitoring and reporting as needed.   

Other tasks as needed

Ensuring information related to projects is up to date in program information management system.

Other HR and staff tasks as needed.

Experience Knowledge and Skills:

Masters degree/University degree in any of the relevant field - rural development, Economics, and Statistics

At least 5-years of experience in management of monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian relief or development projects.

Multiple research projects completed.  Having work published is a significant plus.

Work experience in complex emergency/rehabilitation settings/development programs

Candidate has provided analysis and recommendations based on raw quantitative and qualitative statistical data.  Skilled in SPSS. 

Travel to urban and rural areas including underdeveloped areas. 

Significant experience in the design of social research studies.  Experience leading or designing large funded research projects. 

Fluent in English, preferred knowledge of Urdu/Hindko/Pashto

Strong statistical analysis capacity. 

Ability to travel to the field

Familiarity with data management software (MS Access, MS Excel, SPSS, etc) desirable

Knowledge of the geographical location and culture

Understands and values diversity and maximizes diversity to achieve organizational goals

Proven experience in establishing monitoring and reporting systems and quantitative/qualitative data collection techniques

Job Description:

Avenir Technologies Pvt Ltd. Requires Research Analyst.

The Research Analyst should have a keen hand on extracting secondary data sources and analyze them as a worthy knowledge for the organization.

The Candidate should be strong in terms of Content Writing, Documentation.

Plus MS Office Skills are very important as well.

Candidates with backgrounds in O Levels and A Levels will be highly preferable for this post.

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Job: Data Visualization and Analytic (DVA) Design Engineer

Project: ReMOnG-KACST, Saudi Arabia

Duration: Initially for 1.5 years (extendible)

Location: Islamabad, Pakistan

CoNNekT Lab is establishing a Data Analytics and Visualization team in its facility at NUST-SEECS. The core goal of the team is to apply their strong engineering skills as part of small, agile teams to design, develop, and deploy sophisticated applications using the most advanced unstructured and semi-structured data analysis techniques available in the world today on high-performance computing environments in coordination with hardware design, communication and network engineers.

In above context, CoNNekT Lab has excellent opportunity for a Data Visualization and Analytics design engineer / architect for a contract based project position in its research and development setup in Islamabad. The candidate would become part of budding ?The Data Inference and Analytics? group to join our engineering team. CoNNekT Lab?s research work comprises development of intelligent sensing and communication technologies (both hardware and software) for data aggregation and analysis from environments such as Oil and Gas Installations, Mines, Healthcare, Sports Biomechanics, Telecommunication and Networking Infrastructure etc. The hiring would be responsible to develop a complete framework as a central entity to store, analyze and visually represent data gathered in divers settings. The developed analytics platform would be built specifically to capture, analyze and act on unlimited data points enabling the decision making to provide personalized and highly relevant experiences to both researchers, consumers, businesses and key decision makers.

Responsibilities: Conceptualize, design, and implement data visualization and analytic framework that presents information in a meaningful and insightful way.

Technologies: Data Mining, Database and Web Technologies, Machine Learning, Graphical Visualization, Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Probabilistic and Statistical Analysis, Formal Testing and Verification

Background/Specialty in maximum of the following is a plus:

» Analytics » Data Integration » Business Intelligence » Data Warehousing

Skill set and Qualifications:

For application, send your resume mentioning job ID: ReMOnG_KACST-ANA_05_12 in subject field by 31st of May, 2012. Only short-listed candidates would be called for interview.

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Job Description:

We in urgent need of Research officer (Economics, Finance).

We an equal opportunity employer.

The positions are based in Company Headquarter, Islamabad.

Those who not willing to relocate should not contact.

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KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

- Support, monitor, and train for effective teaching/learning activities.

- Help the Coordinator Research & Learning in assignment of new facilitators including identifying shortages and proposing transfers

- Monitor facilitators and student attendance, carry out teaching learning assessment.

- Identify and recommend training needs from learning assessment in the field.

- Guide teachers/ facilitators in preparing low cost/no cost teaching materials for classroom use.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values

- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same

- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others

- Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters

- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to

Creativity:

- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions

- Willing to take disciplined risks

Integrity:

- Honest, encourages openness and transparency

- commitment to Save the Children Values

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

- Fluency in written and spoken English is highly desirable.

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The HR Manager will be the senior human resource representative responsible for supporting the organization within every area of the company’s HR operations, including but not limited to, recruitment, employee and labor relations, compensation and performance management, compliance and training and development. As this is a relatively young company, the HR Manager will be responsible for recommending, developing and implementing new HR programs and policies as appropriate; therefore the ideal candidate will be creative, self-motivated, can think outside-the-box and can work independently with little direction. He/she will have good listening and communication skills, will be a good manager, and can develop into an effective leader in the organization. The following will be the essential responsibilities for the HR Manager:

- Recruitment: Develop the firm’s recruitment and talent acquisition strategy, including identifying staff vacancies, sourcing new employees (via agencies and on campus recruiting efforts), interviewing and selecting new hires.

- Compensation and Benefits: Administer compensation and benefits program. Analyze and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.

- Compliance: Advise the company on organizational policy matters, such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment.

- Employee Communications and Labor Relations: Update HR Policy and Procedures Manual, providing employees with information about policies and procedures, job duties, working conditions, wages and employee benefits. Serve as link between management and employees by sending company communications, responding to questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related issues.

- Training and Development: Plan and conduct new employee orientations to foster positive attitude towards organizational objectives. Analyze training needs for all employees and assure that appropriate training opportunities are provided to employees to further personal, career and organizational development.

- Performance Management: Develop and implement a program for employee performance management/appraisals, career and succession planning (360 degree, management appraisals, etc.).

In addition, the HR Manager will work with management and employees to establish and maintain a positive work environment which encourages the full use of diverse talents and abilities. The HR Manager will help determine an annual HR budget and will be accountable and responsible for working within the budget and for the measurement of all HR programs and processes. Finally, the HR Manager will provide leadership for the development and execution of the organization vision and structure, including development and execution of a communication plan to ensure that effective two-way communication takes place; the HR Manager will define the measures that will tell the organization how well it is succeeding in its strategic plan.

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Job Description:

A leading Research Organization in the private sector is seeking research associates.

Fresh MSc or BSc Honors are encouraged to apply.

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Fresh Graduates or with one year work experience may apply. For this position, a working knowledge on HPLC/ GC/ GC-MS is a must.

We are an equal opportunity employer, therefore females are encouraged to apply.

Company offers competitive salaries with regular perks along with an excellent learning environment.

Please apply with full confidence.

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1. Raising awareness & encouraging behavior change,

2. Prevention & response capacity building and

3. Integration of Zoonotic diseases surveillance & response capacity with existing government structures and efforts for disease identification, reporting, issues analysis, policy making, information dissemination, and response mechanism for developing an institutionalized Bio Risk Management System in combating the Zoonotic diseases.

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