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.

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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.

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.