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ICAR Career Intensive: International Development and International Public Service
Friday, February 11, 2011
10am-4pm
***Seating is limited to the first 14 students who RSVP. RSVP by sending your resume for review by Friday, February 4, 2011 to [email protected]. Details on the career intensive format and panelists are below.***
Questions? Contact:
Erin Ogilvie
[email protected]
703-993-9683
PURPOSE
We want to help ICAR students get the job they’re looking for. So we are offering an intensive career training process that is specifically tailored to ICAR students’ fields of interest. This career intensive process will help ICAR students articulate how the conflict resolution field is applicable to various fields and careers, e.g. development, security, policy, etc. and prepare them for the resume, application, and interview process.
REGISTRATION
We ask that ICAR students register in advance for one or more all-day career intensives. Intensives will be pre-scheduled, and spaced intermittently throughout the school year. Each intensive will feature only one career track. Registration will be limited to 14 students per intensive. This will allow for a more intimate interaction with our featured career professionals.
ACTIVITIES
BEFORE the all-day career intensive, those who register will receive sample job postings related to the career intensive theme. ICAR students should draft or revise their own resume tailored to one of the sample job postings. ICAR students will then work with ICAR staff to ensure that the resumes are appropriately edited before the all-day career intensive begins.
DURING the all-day career intensive:
• Morning session, ICAR students work with ICAR staff in mock interviews and peer resume reviews to offer students an opportunity to articulate how their conflict resolution training is relevant to the field/career.
• Afternoon session, 2-3 professionals from the specific field/career will share about their work, the opportunities for ICAR students to engage in the field, how ICAR students should market themselves to professionals in the field, etc. At the end of the afternoon session, ICAR students will have an opportunity to engage in a Q&A with the professionals.
PROFESSIONAL PANEL:
Dr. Cynthia Irmer
Dr. Irmer is a conflict specialist and attorney. As the Sr. Conflict Prevention Officer with the US Department of State’s office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, she leads inter-agency teams conducting conflict analyses in pre- and post-conflict countries, collaborates with inter-agency planning teams to promote prevention and mitigation of conflict and provides training for US Government users of an inter-agency conflict analysis methodology. She has designed and implemented projects to mitigate conflicts within and among communities, governments, and opposition forces through mediation, facilitated dialogue and other “alternative dispute resolution” techniques in Europe, the US, SE Asia and Africa. She was a trial lawyer for the US DOJ Environmental Enforcement Section and a Sr. Conflict Resolution/Legal Specialist for US EPA Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center. She is also an adjunct professor at George Mason’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Ramon E. Daubon
Ramon E. Daubon is an independent consultant, President of the Esquel Group in Washington DC and an Associate at the Charles Kettering Foundation. He was formerly Vice President for External Affairs and previously Vice President for Programs at the Inter American Foundation and has been Executive Director of the Caribbean Environment and Development Institute in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Deputy Assistant Administrator of USAID for its Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Representative of the Ford Foundation for the Andean and Southern Cone Countries of South America, and Vice President of the National Puerto Rican Coalition in Washington DC. He serves in boards and advisory capacities to the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue, SAPIENTIS in San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). A native of Puerto Rico, he holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. He has published extensively on topics about development particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, and on the connection of economic and social development with democracy and the culture of citizen engagement in communities.
James VanDenBos
James VanDenBos currently works as a Program Specialist for the Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force, with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has held many posts within the organization in the past, including Assignments & Performance Counselor, Director of the Office of Democracy and Social Reform for USAID/Armenia, Director of Training for USAID/Egypt, Officer-in-Charge for Nepal and Sri Lanka, Officer-in-Charge for Guatemala and ROCAP, Desk Officer for Europe (Hungary & Romania), Deputy Program Officer for USAID/Costa Rica, Assistant Program Officer and Desk Officer for USAID/Tanzania, and Officer of International Training in the Washington DC office. He has also taught English language and literature, as well as several other subjects, in secondary schools in Euskirchen, West Germany, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer to Uganda (1971-72).
Mr. VanDenBos received his Bachelor Degree in Secondary Education from Oakland University, in Rochester, Michigan, and his M.A. in International Development from American University in Washington, DC.