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Your roadmap to starting a successful international career Is right here. Discover the key information you need to know to start, build, and manage an international career — including how to develop your skills and expertise, find job opportunities, and take ownership over your career as a whole.
Do you dream of living and working overseas but don’t know where to start? Maybe you’re an up-and-coming professional who’s finishing up a Master’s degree and would love to work for an international organization.
Or maybe you’re a junior professional who’s had several internships or temporary jobs in the international arena and wants to translate those into an official international career. You’re constantly checking for open jobs on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed...but you’re struggling to find jobs that appear to match your needs.
The ones you do find and apply for are often met with zero feedback...which leaves you feeling disappointed and frustrated as if it’s all a big waste of time. The biggest issue is that you don’t truly know what type of international career you want to build.
Now imagine if you were able to hear from international professionals as they discuss their careers, goals, experiences, and life as part of the international community. Well that's what this podcast is about, those "informational interviews" done for you. Listen in as we discuss the life and challenges of living abroad and working internationally, as well as provide you with key tips, insights, and information about how to find, start, and manage your own international career.
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional.
Today we are joined by Francis Hughes, from Dublin who is an Emergency Response Manager with the Norwegian Refugee Council Surge Team. Francis started his career as a nurse in Dublin before moving to London where he studied Tropical Nursing. Francis then did a Masters's in International Humanitarian Action as part of the NOHA network. Francis worked in South Sudan, Iraq, DR Congo, Indonesia, Yemen, Sudan, and Iran and his role was to deliver first-line/lifesaving assistance to newly displaced populations in crisis including Food Security, Non-Food Distribution Items, Shelter, Water, and Sanitation (Latrines, Water Treatment Pumps), setting up Camp Management and Protection (including Child Protection and Emergency Cash Assistance)
His job involves preparing conflict and crisis mapping, stocking warehouses, and negotiating access with armed groups and national authorities to access hard-to-reach and newly accessible areas where displacement occurs within 48hrs.
Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com.
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional.
Today we’re talking with Paul Turner. Paul serves the Fund for Peace (FFP) as the President and Executive Director. Previously, he was Chief of Party overseeing a $95M USAID mechanism on Governance and Stabilization in the Middle East and North Africa. Over his 25 year career across the national security paradigm, Mr. Turner has worked on more than 90 conflict affected countries and deployed to 45 countries as a diplomat, activist, academic, researcher, and peacebuilder. During his career, he helped launch the National Defense University’s Center for Complex Operations, the interagency Civilian Response Corps, and the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s International Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism Capacity-Building Clearinghouse Mechanism. In addition, he has worked across the programming cycle and led research to frame the USAID Middle East Bureau’s approach to Positive Youth Development in Conflict Contexts, designed conflict, governance, environmental security, and atrocity assessment tools, and promoted vertical and horizontal integration to advance the inclusion of local voices. Mr. Turner is also a founding member of the Multi-Disciplinary Expert Resource Group on Rehabilitation and Reintegration and serves on the board of directors of Re-imagining New Communities in Kenya, and the Peace-Led Climate Friendly Sustainable Development Forum.
Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com.
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional.
Today we’re talking with Casey Johnson. Casey is a humanitarian access and security analyst at US Indo-Pacific Command's Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) where he leads engagement on Taiwan.
Casey arrives at the Center from the Department of State's Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations where he led global research on countering violent extremism and supported stabilization programming. Prior to stints in DC with State and USAID, he lived and worked in Afghanistan for eight years with the United States Institute of Peace and other local organizations, conducting research on the Taliban and advising the U.S. military on stabilization efforts.
Casey is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, and Seattle University. His research and photography has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, and Foreign Policy.
Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com.
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with James Shepherd-Barron. James is an independent Disaster Risk Management Consultant specialising in Disaster Epidemiology and Humanitarian Financial Assistance. He is also a Founder and CEO of Aid Essentials and The Aid Workers Union, as well as Adjunct Professor at Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, New York. Author of Absolute Disasters. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Gerard Gomez. Since January 2022, with more than 33 years of experience with international NGO and the United Nations, Gerard is an independent consultant in Humanitarian affairs, coordination, Management, Training, and everything related to preparedness, response and nexus in Natural disasters and Conflict. From July to December 2021he was Deputy head of the OCHA Mali office. From September 2020 to June 2021 he was OCHA head of the Pacific Office in Fiji, and from September 2019 to August 2020, he was Deputy Chief of Mission of IOM COLOMBIA. Additionally to the traditional work of IOM Gerard has been also co-Leading with UNHCR the national platform on mixed migration (GIFMM for its acronym in Spanish) coordinating 60 partners to respond to the massive migrations of millions of Venezuelans. Also, Gerard was Head of the OCHA Colombia office from 2012 to August 2019, in charge of the coordination of 11 UN agencies, 20 international NGOs and other stakeholders to respond adequately and in complementary of the government efforts to the need of the most vulnerable people. From 2004 to 2012, he was head of the OCHA regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean. In charge of preparedness and response in more than 25 countries of the region. UN team Leader in more than 30 emergencies in the region including the Haiti earthquake response in 2010. Earlier, Gerard worked with Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) for 13 years (1989 -2002), in places where armed conflicts and natural disasters prevailed (El Salvador, Mozambique, Southern Sudan, Chechenia, Haiti, Georgia, Armenia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia). Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Tigist Girma. Tigist is a professional with more than 17 years of humanitarian diplomacy, complex-emergency/humanitarian aid/displacement response and development management portfolio seeking a position at coordination and technical advisory role. Excellent at networking and coordination, she has worked in places at both ends of the security spectrum. Tigist lived in, studied at and visited more than 50 countries. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Rafael Velasquez. Rafael is a Senior Director with extensive experience developing and leading large-scale, complex humanitarian and development program portfolios. Violence Prevention and Social Cohesion Expertise: Direct oversight of violence prevention and peacebuilding portfolios in Mexico, Guatemala, Yemen, Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Jordan, Lebanon funded by USAID, DOS, UNPBF, FCDO, among others. Country Director/Head of Mission in Nigeria, Guatemala, Mexico, Lebanon, Colombia, and Venezuela Peacebuilding visiting lecturer at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.
Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Laurent De Ruyt. Laurent is a humanitarian aid worker who has spent the last 12 years living abroad. He is currently employed as a country director by the international NGO Concern Worldwide in Chad, and from 2017 to 2019 he was Head of Mission for an international NGO based in Pyongyang, DPRK. Before this, Laurent worked from 2011 to 2016 for the Belgian Red Cross, first as a delegate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then as a Country Representative in Burundi. In 2010, he was employed as a Diplomatic Attache for the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations in New York. And in 2009, he worked as a Project Assistant for the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C. Laurent's book "Lifting Another Curtain: My Life in North Korea" was published in 2021. This book is the account of the two years he spent living as a humanitarian aid worker in Pyongyang, from 2017 to 2019. It attempts to be an honest and objective account of how everyday life is for a foreigner, the debates and situations you are confronted with, the joys and pains you go through. https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLifting-Another-Curtain-North-Korea-ebook%2Fdp%2FB09CMPL37B&data=04%7C01%7Ckyle.king%40capacitybuildingint.com%7C0528872d5cf64fc1c7e908d9db724a10%7Cf10f5b98d09d4797abf41654efd52e64%7C0%7C0%7C637782106230589645%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=yeCGEdLr%2FAVeRmrNxIQ5I4J7D2Q530%2B96Pkz%2B8ZmkJM%3D&reserved=0 (https://www.amazon.com/Lifting-Another-Curtain-North-Korea-ebook/dp/B09CMPL37B) Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Marcos Lorenzana. Marcos has spent nearly 15 years within the United Nations system, in various locations to include Afghanistan and Haiti, and a significant amount of time in Africa. Prior to the United Nations Marcos spent time working with the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe. Marcos has filled many positions with international organizations such as Human Rights Officer to Elections Observer, and even Civil Registry Officer. Marcos joins us today to share his experience and insights from a long international career. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Alline Pedra Jorge. Alline has expertise with public policy-oriented research, project development, and management in the fields of migration, human trafficking, organized crime, human security, gender violence, and victim's rights. Alline has worked for international organizations as a research expert and project manager for more than 10 years. Alline also provides advice to NGOs, academic institutes, and foundations in the field of crime prevention, human security, migration, and human trafficking. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Marina Barreiro Mariño. Marina is a Human Rights and Gender Equality expert, with over 10 years of working experience and specialized in creating evidence-based policies on gender equality, intersectionality, social rights, and fundamental freedoms for national authorities in line with international standards. Marina is also a passionate human rights and gender equality trainer for civil society leaders, national institutions representatives, and international organizations members. Marina developed her career in the international sphere and is most comfortable working and learning in multi-cultural, multi-lingual environments and speaks four languages. Marina believes you can’t get anywhere by yourself, and you need teamwork in order to be successful. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Jelena Zelenovic. Jelena has degrees in languages (French and Spanish), law and international affairs (with a focus on peace and security) from Australia and France. She started her development career with the Australian Government, working for the then Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) as a program officer covering governance, human security and education portfolio. While with AusAID she worked both at Headquarters in Canberra and in the field in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, supporting Australian Government's education programming and working closely with the partner Government's Ministries of Education. After that she became an Australian Junior Professional Officer (JPO) with the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs in New York. She stayed in that Office following the completion of her JPO assignment and now supports the design and monitoring or peacebuilding projects funded by the UN Peacebuilding Fund in around 15 countries in Africa and Asia-Pacific. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Olivier Girard. Olivier is the Chief of Party of the USAID Littorals Regional Initiative, a five-year, $70-million program supporting local counterparts across five West African coastal states to withstand the increasing pressures of violent extremist organizations. Olivier has spent the past decade living and working in West Africa. Before joining Creative in 2018, he was Chief of Party on post-conflict and CVE programs in Mali and Chad, as well as worked on the Millennium Challenge Corp.-funded Alatona Irrigation project in Mali. Fluent in English and French, Olivier holds a B.A. in International Development Studies from McGill University and M.Sc. in Economics from HEC Montreal Business School. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Adam Sharpe. Adam is a futurist and meaningful youth engagement specialist. Having spent over a decade in the youth development sector delivering educational programming to hundreds of thousands of people throughout Asia and Europe, Adam recognized the urgent need for a seismic shift in education and skills building to meet today's and tomorrow's collective challenges. He founded youth futures think tank and transformative foresight consultancy Futurely, he co-founded the online futures learning platform Metafuture School and consults for multinational organizations including the UN and the Asian Development Bank. Adam is going to share his thoughts and his journey, as well as some insights on what people can do to launch their own international careers. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Neil Walsh who has been working as the Chief of the Cybercrime, Anti-Money Laundering, and Counter-Financing of Terrorism Department of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based in Vienna for the last 5 years. Neil started out as an Investigator in the UK National Criminal Intelligence Service working on terrorism, organized crime and weapons, and human trafficking; he worked with the FBI in a Joint Task Force in New York after 9/11. Later he moved on to work for 4 years as the deputy head of the UK's liaison bureau at Europol in the Hague. Neil also had a posting in the UK’s High Commission in Malta looking at organized crime, including human trafficking through East and North Africa into the Mediterranean. Overall, Neil has spent over 11 years working internationally and is here with us today to share his thoughts and perspectives on international work. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Manlio Silvestri. After leaving his military career after 30 years with the rank of Brigadier General, he served at NATO Headquarters within the International Civilian Staff of the Operations Division for 15 years. During his military career, he served as Commander of Italian Mountain Troops units up to Brigade level across the Alps. His posts abroad included: Staff Planning Officer in the UK, following the British Army Command and Staff College; Deputy Commander of the New Zealand Brigade during INTERFET operations in Indonesia; and NATO Liaison Officer at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 2001 to 2004. Now Dr. Silvestri is an International Advisor with Capacity Building International. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Rawan Taha. Rawan most recently worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zambia as a Programme Analyst where she contributed to different sectors of development through eclectic programmes and projects. She was part of the cohort of the African Young Women Leaders Fellowship. A joint fellowship between the UNDP and the African Union Commission to employ, empower and equip young women to become agents of change. Her work focused on two aspects of development: building inclusive and sustainable cities and promoting gender equality. Rawan has an advanced certificate of African studies that she obtained through the National Training Academy in Egypt. She has a Masters degree in Public Health from Swansea University in the UK. Through her various roles as an Arab and African leader, Rawan desires to portray female Africans in a positive light as powerful and courageous catalysts for change particularly in the sectors of diplomacy and development. She envisions a long managerial career within the United Nations where she continues to work on reforming Africa and building the humanitarian-development nexus. Rawan is here with us today to share her experiences and ideas about international careers. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Martin Cunningham. Martin is a competency-based interview specialist who does a lot of work in terms of interview preparation for others and specifically to help people identify their roles. He does a lot of work with executive and career interview coaching specific to you and your needs. Martin successfully guides his clients on sustainable career planning and interview technique. Martin started competency based interviewing as a company, following all the successes he had in recent years with friends and colleagues, most of whom, following Brexit ,suggested that he should take it up as a career move, as his EU career had come to a very abrupt and unforeseen end. Martin's background is in policing, as he spent many years in both military and civil police force in the UK, then he went to Afghanistan to support the efforts of setting up the Afghan National Police Staff College. Later in his career, he served for many years in Kosovo, and in 2020-2021 he returned to Afghanistan where he served as an Adviser to the Head of Police Operations. Martin's website on Competency Based Coaching: https://www.competencybasedcoaching.com (https://www.competencybasedcoaching.com) Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Stefanie Dannenmann-Di Palma, who has spent the last 16 years working internationally in UNDRR in Bonn and then Brussels. Stefanie started out as a Specialist in Natural Hazards in a Swiss insurance company working in New York, and then transitioned to managing international projects in the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research where she worked for 3 years before getting a position in the UN system. Overall, Stefanie has spent 20 years working in an international environment and working for organizations like the UN and she is here to share her thoughts and ideas on international work with us today. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we’re talking with Jenny Wright, who has spent the last 3 years as a Program Consultant for IOM in Tunisia, Switzerland, and Timor-Leste. Jenny started out as a consultant in the emergency management field in Australia, then held similar positions in Sweden and the UK. She then transitioned to become Director of Communications and Development for the Human Rights Defense Center and held multiple other international research positions and consultancies for NGOs and the private sector. She also started her own private consultancy practice, and overall, Jenny spent 16 years working internationally. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we're talking with Alan Robinson, A forensic scientist, and criminologist with two master's degrees and 19 years of professional international experience, 12 of these at the top managerial level. A highly experienced forensic anthropologist and archaeologist with hundreds of cases investigated in 8 countries with NGOs, the UN and the EU and the private sector. A specialist in the design and implementation of strategic plans to determine the fate of the Missing from conflict and non-conflict zones. Alan is highly experienced in DVI and other mass fatality incident processes and is an effective forensic intelligence complex-case analyst. Alan has been a consultant and advisor to Cabinet Ministers, Diplomats, Heads of Mission, Judicial and Law Enforcement Officials and is a highly experienced institutional strengthening specialist. A local capacity-building veteran with a firm belief in the benefit of grass-roots and local forensic development, and a Professional Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences as well as Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com/ (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).
Welcome to The Career Guide Podcast!The Career Guide Podcast is a behind-the-scenes conversation with professionals who have managed to develop long-term careers overseas with organizations like the United Nations, EU, NATO, and OSCE. The goal of this interview series is not to provide technical details and advice already covered in this course but to hear from career professionals about the experiences, challenges, and life as an international professional. Today we're talking with Chris Decker, who has spent the last 11 years working internationally as Project Manager and Adviser in Rule of Law and Human Rights projects for the UNDP in locations such as East Jerusalem, Nepal, and Kosovo. Chris started out as an International Legal Officer with International Crisis Group and transitioned to an Administrator position in the European Court of Human Rights Litigation Unit, followed by a Program Manager and Research position in the European Center for Minority Issues, and then spent 8 years working for the OSCE before starting as a Program Coordinator with UNDP. Overall, Chris spent 23 years working in the international environment, and we are happy to have him join us here today. Are you ready to launch your international career? Join The Career Guide Community today, at https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com (https://careerguide.capacitybuildingint.com).