Karnataka

Terms of Reference for Communications Officer

1. Title: Communications Officer
2. Organization: Arghyam
3. Duration: This is a full-time position
4. Place of Work: Bangalore ( non-negotiable)
5. Travel: This position would require some local and national travel
6. Deadline for Applications: 15th February 2011
7. Interview Schedule: 20th February 2011 to 15th March, 2011
8. Expected Joining Date: 1st April 2011
9. Salary Range: Competitive depending on experience and ability

Course Overview:

Remote sensing, geographic information system (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS) provides extremely useful tools for environmental and natural resources management. They are widely recognized as supporting tools for the planning, monitoring, and management of the appropriate utilization of resources at the country, regional and global levels.

Course Content:

This course provides an overview of the key concepts and principles in environmental management, areas of global and national environmental concern, and strategies and tools for effective environmental management. Attempt to understand the genesis of environmental problems; the concerns that lead to various international and national initiatives to tackle them have been made in this course. Various tools, which can be used to address environmental problems and the role that the professionals can play in managing environment in their respective areas would be discussed.

1. Principles of Environmental Management
2. Principles of Ecology, Environment & Environmental Management.
3. Policies and Legal Aspect of Environmental Management

Organizer: Pipal Tree

Venue: Fireflies Inter-religious Ashram, Bangalore, India

Organizer: Bhoomi Network for Sustainable Living

Venue: St. John's Auditorium, Koramangala, Bangalore

Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

Venue: Bengaluru

Organizer: Vinish Gupta, Centre for Holistic Learning

Venue: Huthina Betta campus, Sirsi

Description:

The workshop addresses the self in the human being. It draws attention to human needs - need for human relationships, inherent desire to seek knowledge, and the joy that we naturally derive from these. In our current situation, we might be seeking different things. Thus, it brings about a dialogue between what we are and what we want to be. It does not posit happiness in an after-world, but here and now, based on a "humanness" common to all human beings. The approach is rational, secular and universal.

Organizer: Rain Water Concepts (I) Pvt Ltd

Venue: ACC Limited, Gauribidanur, Karnataka

Description:

The entire project was designed and executed by Rain Water Concepts (I) Pvt Ltd, Bangalore. Mr. Ayyappa Masagi is the Founder Director of the company who was a Mechanical Engineer with L&T Komatsu, Bangalore prior to this stint.

Svaraj – the society for Voluntary Action Revitalisation and Justice – is a small but well known national development voluntary organisation. head quartered in Bangalore.  Our vision – a just society in a just environment. Our programmes include strengthening food, water and livelihood security through fair and just management and protection of our ecosystem, responding to needs of disaster affected families and providing vital physiotherapy care for people with disabilities; research and policy analysis, communications and promoting individual philanthropy.

Organizer: Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society

Venue: Centre for Advanced Sanitation Solutions (CASS), Bangalore