The Humanitarian Futures Programme is one of the most interesting initiatives out there, taking a longer-term view of the sector than most other policy and research groups. Originally I thought that they were going to be developing the humanitarian equivalent of the Singularity, but it’s more about building dialogue with key partners and getting people to think.

The Programme is looking for a part-time consultant to work to research the future of humanitarian collaboration.  The work is part of a two-person team, initially home-based but with some travel in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. Desktop review, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, simulations - you know the score.

What’s interesting is that they are looking for someone interested in bringing non-traditional perspectives and new ways of thinking about collaboration into the humanitarian community (networks, social media and so on). This sounds a lot like the sort of thing that Aid Workers Network was supposed to promote and that ECB has been doing work on, so I’m all for it.

If you’re interested, send a half-page application letter with CV to Rosie Oglesby [rosie dot oglesby at kcl dot ac dot uk] by COB Thursday 12th June. There is a TORs available, if you ask really, really nicely.