{"id":5453,"date":"2019-05-12T21:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2019-05-12T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T21:36:22","slug":"call-for-ma-and-phd-graduates-for-think-tank-young-professional-development-program-at-crrc-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/?p=5453","title":{"rendered":"Call for MA and PhD Graduates for Think Tank Young Professional Development Program at CRRC Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CRRC-Georgia<\/strong>&nbsp;announces call for young professionals, who graduated with a PhD or MA degrees in the social sciences from high-quality universities in the OECD countries (see the list&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/about\/membersandpartners\/list-oecd-member-countries.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>) in the past two years and want to gain first-hand research and working experience in CRRC-Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call is announced within the Think Tank Fund for Wider Europe, a program of the Open Society Initiate for Europe (OSIFE). The Young Professional Development program is designed to benefit both a young professional and CRRC-Georgia. The program will last up to 6 months starting from November 2016. Based on the quality of performance, after completion of the program, a candidate may be offered a position at CRRC-Georgia. Throughout this period, the young professional is expected to engage in ongoing policy research projects and develop concrete policy products in agreement with CRRC-Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligibility criteria for young professionals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligible candidates must fulfill ALL of the following requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>** Have graduated in the past two years with a PhD or MA degree in the social sciences, preferably in the fields of Economics and Social Sciences, from universities in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/about\/membersandpartners\/list-oecd-member-countries.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OECD countries<\/a>.<br>** Be a citizen or permanent resident of Georgia.<br>** Applicants should be between 23 and 35 years of age at the time of application.<br>** Applicants must be fluent in written and spoken English and Georgian.<br>** Applicants must be ready to return to their home country and reside there during the internship period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Award terms for the Think Tank Young Professional Development Program:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Society Initiate for Europe (OSIFE) will award the winner with a scholarship up to 7,000 USD per position. The TTF for Wider Europe will cover a gross compensation\/salary for the paid position, and other reasonable expenses that are essential for carrying out the work engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested young professionals must send their CV and motivation letter in English, stating the reason for applying and topic areas of their interest. CV must describe the applicant&#8217;s academic and professional background giving a detailed description of the applicant&#8217;s previous employment and listing recent policy and academic projects in which the applicant has been involved. Successful applicants will be invited for interviews at CRRC-Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A selected candidate, together with a mentor will then have to create a budget and work plan for the engagement in this program and apply for stipend to TTF for Wider Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Application deadline:&nbsp;18:00, August 1, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please send your CV and Motivation Letter to:&nbsp;m.sikharulidze[at]crrccenters.org&nbsp;and include &#8220;TTF Application&#8221; in the Subject field of an e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRRC-Georgia&nbsp;announces call for young professionals, who graduated with a PhD or MA degrees in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-jobs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arisc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}