Concern Worldwide is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

Consultancy Opportunities

Developing Minimum Standards and Indicators for Well-Being in Urban Slums

In Kenya’s urban areas, Concern is implementing a number of programmes targeting poor households living in the slums to facilitate them build their resilience to shocks and enhance their ability to capitalize on assets to lift them out of poverty.

Concern would like to commission a consultancy to define the minimum standards it should strive towards when working with the urban poor to improve their well-being by identifying the key measurable indicators for sustainable livelihoods and well-being within the slum context and set thresholds against those indicators.

Applications are requested from institutions and individuals to undertake this assignment.

Key qualifications for the assignment are minimum of a Masters’ degree in social sciences or a closely related field; minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in research and socio-economic analysis; academic or research experience in urban/regional planning is highly preferred.

Concern has a Code of Conduct and a Programme Participant Protection Policy to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from abuse and exploitation.

A detailed ToR will be made available by e-mailing nairobi.tenders@concern.net

Interested candidates should submit their applications and proposals to nairobi.tenders@concern.net by 24th July, 2011.

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Someone asked me this on Twitter:

What’s the minimum pay increase you’d consider changing jobs for?

My answer is: It would entirely depend on how much I liked my current job. If I liked my current job, it would take a lot. A hell of a lot. Because jobs you like are really, really valuable.

And the next factor it would depend on is what the other job was like. Would it give me more experience in something I want more experience in? Is there something else attractive about the substance of the work?

How attracted am I to the company itself — its culture, its management style, its mission? (If there’s bad management like working for those nasty wahidi’s, no amount of money would get me there.) What do I think working there would be like day to day? Are there big quality of life differences between the two employers?

But if I was neutral on my job — could take it or leave it — and the new job was more or less equally attractive, and you’re really going to make me commit to a number, then I think I’d say somewhere around 20%.

Probably more if the job itself wasn’t particularly more appealing than my current one, and probably less if it was a lot more appealing.

And if I didn’t like my job? I’d leave without an increase even being necessary.

What do you guys think, Do you agree with the 20%?

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