o Managing the Bank’s analytical work on labor migration in the Pacific Island countries, including designing policy relevant surveys, organizing knowledge sharing events, and contributing to vision pieceso Supporting the Bank’s engagement on social protection in Pacific Island countries, including the provision of TA to client countries and contributing to regional reportso Supporting the preparation of regional diagnostics and knowledge products, including the PIC-8 Systematic Country… Show more o Managing the Bank’s analytical work on labor migration in the Pacific Island countries, including designing policy relevant surveys, organizing knowledge sharing events, and contributing to vision pieceso Supporting the Bank’s engagement on social protection in Pacific Island countries, including the provision of TA to client countries and contributing to regional reportso Supporting the preparation of regional diagnostics and knowledge products, including the PIC-8 Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) and the Asia-Pacific Regional Social Protection Reporto Providing cross-support to other Global Practices on analytical and advisory services including the Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management and Poverty teams, as well as IFCo Liaising with key government counterparts in both Australia, New Zealand and client countries, as well as other donor agencies (ADB, ILO, SPC) on labor mobility, social assistance and the link with disaster risk management Show less

o Analysed regional labour migration initiatives, including the Seasonal Worker Program and the Kiribati-Australia Nursing Initiativeo Engaged with regional media on findings from labour migration researcho Contributed regularly to the Devpolicy Blogo Attending the Pacific Island Labour Sending (PAILS) Forum in Samoa and compiled a report on conference proceedings

o Provided background research on rural development and disaster risk management, including the international development community’s response to Cyclone Nargis in Myanmaro Edited for the publications brancho Contributed to website development

o Conducted public policy research for senior fellows on projects focusing on shared global prosperity, environment, energy, human security, and labour migrationo Contributed to the World Policy Journal Blogo Established new avenues of fundingo Facilitated fund-raising drives amongst existing donors

o Monitored political, economic, social, and security developments in regions covered by the team of analystso Conducted background research on cross-border issues including trade, energy and other commodities, financial regulation, climate change, and global healtho Managed outreach activities for the office of the president o Assisted with administrative tasks for the office of the president

o Studying the Grameen microcredit delivery systemo Surveying members of Grameen Bank in rural Bangladesho Compiling research aimed at the development of Grameen-modelled microcredit programs for Eastern Europe