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| Job Mode : | Internship Job |
| Published On : | 2008-11-14 |
| Last Application Date : | 0 days remaining (2009-03-19) |
| Category : | Marketing & PR (Other Marketing & PR) |
| Pay Rate : | stipend |
| Location : | 100009 |
| City : | Beijing |
| Country : | China |
| Job Posted By: | Hutong School |
| Jobs Publisher's Website: |
www.hutong-school.com |
Job Description
Title: Bamboo Resources Assessment Internship
The Hutong School organizes internships in combination with Chinese classes for students, graduates and young professionals who want to gain working and living experience in China. We will organize an internship at a local or international company in Beijing, provide accommodation and teach you Chinese.
Our services include:
- Internship placement
- Accommodation in single rooms in modern apartments in central Beijing.
- 2 hours of Chinese classes per day
- Airport pick-up.
- Assistance with the visa application and the registration in Beijing.
- Regular panels with Beijing\'s business elite, diplomats and journalists, who want to share their experience in China.
- Weekly cultural activities
For our prices please check the price section on our website at www.hutong-school.com
For our client we are currently looking for an intern for the following position:
Marketing Assistant
Starting date: flexible
Length: More than 2 months
Location: Beijing
Internship description:
For a successful and sustainable global bamboo industry, extensive and well managed bamboo forests are essential. However, it is not clear how much bamboo is available for use in the world. Therefore the company started cooperation with FAO, UNEP, the State Forestry Administration of China and many member countries to take stock, as part of FAO’s global Forestry Resources Assessment. In 2005 it and its partners organized two international training workshops. Bamboo inventories were made in 20 countries, using expert opinions or remote sensing or both. With the achievements, a report on the state of the global bamboo resources was published in 2007. Although important progress was made, the assessment was far from complete and provided only an approximation.
FAO is preparing for the global forest resources assessment 2010. In association, INBAR will again carry out the global bamboo resources assessment. To be able to do that effectively, we need to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the 2005 bamboo assessment and to make the necessary improvements.
We are looking for an intern to contribute to the preparation work of the bamboo resource assessment 2010. The intern should have a strong interest in forest resources assessment. The intern would work under the overall guidance the Director of Environmental Sustainability Programme and under the direct supervision of the Trade Development Officer. The intern will be asked to:
• Produce a literature review of updated information on the global bamboo resources;
• Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the first global bamboo resources assessment (2005)
• Work with FAO forestry staff to make recommendations for improved resource assessment for participating countries
• Contribute to the organization of international workshops on bamboo resources assessment;
• Work with the team to prepare the workplan for the bamboo resources assessment 2010.
With this in mind, the intern would:
1. Help edit and finalise a range of publications for publishing online.
2. Help us evaluate and convert some of our old paper-publications into pdf files for publishing.
3. Help us develop a series of regional newsletters.
4. Help us develop a publishing strategy for, with links and networks that will enable us to produce more and better publications in the long term.
5. Help us produce multi-media publications.
Requirements:
Minimum bachelors degree in related subject, Masters preferred. Experience of producing similar reviews is also useful.
Company description:
The company is an intergovernmental organization with the mandate “To improve the wellbeing of the producers and users of bamboo and rattanâ€Â. They currently have 34 member countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, plus Canada, and run development projects in many of these. They are funded by key grants from the governments of China, Canada and the Netherlands, and by UN-IFAD, and by project grants from donors such as DfID, the EU and Common Fund for Commodities.
The main activities of this company are running rural and sectoral development projects, training and technology transfer, and environmental amelioration projects with bamboo and rattan. They also do work to support the global bamboo and rattan sectors, such as the development of standards and codes for bamboo products, developing improved trade reporting systems, and development of databases on such diverse subjects as global bamboo and rattan resources, and bamboo and rattan technologies suitable for gender-equitable development.
Contact person: Kristof Samoy
Company: Beijing Hutong School
Address: Jiugulou Dajie Shuangsi Hutong nr. 8 Xicheng District Beijing 100009
Telephone: +86-(0)10-6403 8670
E-mail: info@hutong-school.com
Homepage: www.hutongschool.com
