The Center for Advising and Career Services at the graduate school at MIIS has generously invited Middlebury undergraduate students to participate in the virtual information sessions scheduled during the week of March 21. This is during spring break, but you can log in from where ever you are. There are 20+ events scheduled. Check out the list here in Handshake.
Select employers include:
- 3/21: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) – a USAID implementing partner nonprofit NGO working on international development projects focused on agriculture, livestock, and general ag/livelihoods and food security programming around the world.
- 3/21: Cisco Systems, International Trade & Energy Policy
- 3/21: Search for Common Ground – the largest peace-building NGO in the world, celebrating over 35 years.
- 3/21: The World Bank – an introduction to the World Bank Translation and Interpretation Unit. This is strictly a language session.
- 3/22: World Wildlife Fund – Join Senior Director, Large Initiatives and Infrastructure, Evan Freund (MIDD alum), and other MIDD alumni as they discuss WWF’s organizational structure, projects, and potential career paths.
- 3/22: Ploughshares Fund – a public grant-making foundation that supports initiatives to prevent the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and to prevent conflicts that could lead to their use.
- 3/22: Integra LLC – Integra delivers international social and economic development solutions to promote self-reliance in emerging economies through analytical tools and private sector engagement.
- 3/23: TechnoServe – an international nonprofit that promotes business solutions to poverty in the developing world by linking people to information, capital and markets.
- 3/23: Environmental Incentives – a small business that supports USAID and implementing partners to practice adaptive management and improve the outcomes of environment and development programs through systematic learning and performance-driven approaches.
- 3/23: USAID / OIG – is the lead U.S. Government agency working to end extreme global poverty and enable democratic societies. The Mission of USAID‚ Office of Inspector General is to safeguard and strengthen U.S. foreign assistance through timely, relevant, and impactful oversight.
- 3/24: OCEANA – discuss OCEANA’s mission, career paths, current projects, and potential career opportunities. OCEANA – Protecting the World’s Oceans.
Special note: if you do take advantage of these opportunities and sign up, please take the commitment seriously and make sure you show up at the Zoom meeting, dress professionally, listen and learn and be ready to ask prepared questions as appropriate.