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Part-time |
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Sourcing |
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| Date Posted |
Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
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International - Worldwide |
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Dr. David H. Fretwell
9202 Windmill Road
Paso Robles,
CA
USA 93446
Website: http://www.scarcliffe.org
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| Job Description |
I. Synopsis of experience: My primary area of experience and education is in human capital development, with a focus on labor/employment and education/training policy and program development. I am currently the Chief Executive Officer of “Scarcliffe Associates” which is a private consulting firm I established following my retirement from the World Bank. Scarcliffe Associates focuses on international human capital development and since its inception we have and continue to work for the World Bank, and activities funded by USAID, AUSAID, and USDOL, EU, and the private sector. I was a lead Employment and Training Specialist in the Human Development Department of the Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA) at the World Bank, at the end of 2004, where I was employed for 15 years. My work there included sector analysis, project design, and project management, primarily in ECA, but with assignments in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. I led, and was heavily involved in, much of the Bank's initial work on privatization, employment and unemployment in ECA since the start of the transition process in 1990.
While at the Bank I completed a one year staff exchange program with the EU European Training Foundation, and a two year assignment at the World Bank Human Resource Hub in Hungary. I also completed a Bank financed Professional Development Program on adult and continuing education (lifelong learning) in OECD and middle income countries. I managed the Bank’s Global Conference on Lifelong Learning in 2003, completed a study on Career Development and Guidance Polices for Developing Countries in 2004 which paralleled similar work in the OECD and EU.
I have published a number of technical papers on topics such as mitigating the social impact of economic reform, adult education as an integral part of lifelong learning, policies on career development and guidance, development of occupational and training standards, a framework for evaluating education and training, developing effective employment services. I was one of the co-authors of a book on the social impact of economic reform in transition economies which was published by the Oxford University Press, and a co-author of a sequel to this book published by the World Bank.
I have had long-term work experience assignments and leadership positions in Canada, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Africa (Kenya) with the US and Canadian governments, as well as private sector assignments with Western Electric (US), and Ford Motor Company (Canada). I have completed short term technical assignments in about 70 countries. I have worked with a wide range of bilateral and multilateral agencies (i.e., ADB, ILO, IADB, USAID, CIDA, SIDA, GTZ, EU, USAID, AUSAID, African Development Bank, UNIDO, UNESCO, UNIVOC, etc.).
II. Employment Background (current positions - others on full resume which is available by contacting me)
President, Scarcliffe Associates: (January 2005 to present). Consulting in human capital development. Primary focus is on labor and employment, education and training, policy and program development. Assignments have included:
• Egypt: Support to the ‘World Bank for sector analysis of Ministry of Trade and Industry vocational/technical training initiatives.
• Kazakhstan: support to World Bank for preparation of Territorial Development Project and Vocational/Technical Training projects (ongoing).
• Vanuatu: Support to AusAID for review of first phase investments in technical vocational education and planning for a follow-up second phase (ongoing).
• Iran: Team Leader for World Bank financed technical vocational education Planning Facility (PPF) (ongoing) .
• Egypt: Team leader for USAID funded project implemented by the US Academy of Education Development to complete a GAP analysis of technical colleges (ongoing).
• Pakistan: support to World Bank for preparation of the Karachi Port Labor Board labor redeployment project (completed).
• Serbia, support to World Bank QER on a privatization project (complete).
• EU/ECORYS: third party review of the evaluation of the 1.9 Billion EURO Leonardo Da Vinci program (complete).
• Pakistan, support to World Bank for vocational training policy study as part of labor strategy study (complete).
• Turkey: support to EU Mission and Ministry of National Education for design of vocational/technical training, governance, and small business development projects (complete);
• Poland, supporting the World Bank for development and implementation of a Post Accession Rural Support Project (complete),
• World Bank, presentation to the annual education and labor force seminars, latest one being May 07.
• Mauritius, peer review of re-organization plan for TVET, and keynote speaker at African Regional Conference on Technical Vocation Education VET hosted by Mauritius and the International Vocational Education and Training Association (May 13-16 2007).
• US Community Colleges: provision of support for development of High Growth Job Training Initiative proposals for a Country Community and Technical College in Georgia, and the W. Virginia Community and Technical College Chancellors Office, for implementing high tech training with financing from the US Department of Labor Workforce Investment Act (complete).
• Armenia, support to Ministries of Education and Labor for implementation of a World Bank Education Project and development PADCO/USAID proposal for support in the labor sector (complete);
• Saudi Arabia: keynote presentation on Evaluation of Vocational Technical Education” to Middle East Conference on Technical and Vocational education, December 2006;
• Qatar, support for World Bank Labor Strategy study and implementation (complete);
• China, supporting the World Bank WBI Conference on lifelong learning, and background work on a labor migration support project (complete);
• Argentina, peer review and support for preparation of a World Bank employment project (complete);
• Bulgaria, support for preparation of employment and education/training components of a World Bank Programmatic Adjustment Loan (complete);
• Turkey, support for preparation of the second World Bank Privatization Social Support Project (complete);
• Georgia, support to USAID/Ministry of Education for implementation of vocational education components of education project (complete).
President International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) (December 2006 to present): International association founded in 1984 to promote linkages among international vocational educators and trainers, serve as a forum for sharing vocational education and training problems and solutions worldwide, promoting and assisting the development of vocational education and training as an international enterprise, and to facilitate the worldwide dissemination of education and training information. I also initiated the IVETA micro grant program which is available to members in developing countries to stimulate developmental research related to the objectives of IVETA.
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| Qualifications |
Senior policy and program development experiense, and graduate level eeducation, in most aspects of human capital development in the public and private sector internationally |
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Available on request |
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| How to Apply |
II. Educational Background
Ph.D. in Education, Education and Vocational Training, Business Administration (Personnel Management), 1972, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
M.Ed. in Industrial Training and Counseling, 1968, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
B.Ed. in Industrial Education, 1964, University of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta. Canada.
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| Email Offer To |
scarcliffe@sbcglobal.net |
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| Contact Info |
Contact Email: scarcliffe@sbcglobal.net
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