Devex’s Career Navigator, A Comprehensive Global Development Resource

Are you interested in global development? Whether you’re a student or recent graduate looking to break into the field or experienced professional weighing different opportunities, Devex’s Career Navigator is a useful resource to explore. Get tips on writing your CV, making a career transition, acing your next interview, and more.

Devex connects and informs 800,000+ development, health, humanitarian, and sustainability professionals through news, business intelligence, and funding and career opportunities so you can do more good for more people.

Additional resources for careers in global development, such as Impactpool, can be found in the Document Library of Career Connect within the International Social Work / Development folder.

GoinGlobal Training Sessions

Are you taking advantage of our GoinGlobal subscription? You can access GoinGlobal by logging into Career Connect, and clicking on the logo on the main dashboard. (Alumni – go here.)

GoinGlobal resources can help you plan ahead for international jobs and internships. Schedule a complimentary, one hour training session to learn more about:

  • Work authorization regulations
  • Industry and employment trends
  • Professional and social networking organizations
  • Office protocol and interviewing customs

Find upcoming training dates and register here.

Preparing for Careers and Internships in Policy: A Panel Discussion | Wednesday, February 13

Wondering what a social worker can do in the policy field or what policy work entails?

Attend our upcoming panel discussion to meet experienced professionals and learn about the different ways social workers can make an impact in the policy space, as well as steps you can take to navigate your own path toward similar roles.

Wednesday, February 12
12:15 – 1:45 PM
Room C03

Register (live-stream link will be made available to those who register)

In-person attendance is strongly encouraged.

FEATURED SPEAKERS

ERICKA ECHAVARRIA ’08 (Moderator)
Associate Director, Field Education at Columbia School of Social Work

Ericka Echavarria is a private consultant and a mitigation specialist. Through comprehensive psychological investigations and narratives, she advocates on behalf of clients facing the death penalty in capital murder cases, as well as clients in the federal and state criminal justice system.

Her areas of focus include: criminal and family law, child welfare, school social work, addiction, trauma, mental health, and case management. She has advocated for immigrant survivors of domestic violence; families and children in the family court and child welfare systems; clients struggling with addiction; defendants in the federal and state criminal justice system; and children facing learning, emotional, behavioral, and psychological difficulties in school. She has provided technical assistance to other advocates who provide services to these clients by conducting training in mental health, self-awareness, diversity, motivation, and behavior management.

She earned her MSW from the Columbia School of Social Work in 2008, and her JD from Albany Law School in 2002.

LAURA ILOWITE ‘15
Community Engagement Director, Arthritis Foundation

Laura Ilowite, LMSW, is the Community Engagement Director at the Arthritis Foundation. She received her Master of Social Work from Columbia University where she was awarded the Mae L. Wien Prize. She specialized in AGPP with a Health, Mental Health, and Disabilities field of practice. Laura has worked at nonprofits such as Active Minds, National Eating Disorders Association, and Spence-Chapin doing advocacy, program management, community outreach, and community education. She’s passionate about healthcare, women’s issues, families and working for mission focused organization.

KASIA MALINOWSKA-SEMPRUCH
Director, Global Drug Policy Program, Open Society Foundations

Kasia Malinowska is the director of the Global Drug Policy Program at the Open Society Foundations, which promotes drug policies rooted in human rights, social justice, and public health. She previously led the Open Society’s International Harm Reduction Development program, which supports the health and human rights of people who use drugs. Before joining the Open Society Foundations, she worked for the United Nations Development Program in New York and Warsaw, leading capacity building and drug and HIV policy reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Kasia publishes regularly on drug policy as it relates to women, social justice, health, human rights, civil society, and governance. Her academic publications include works in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, and the International Journal on Drug Policy. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on “HIV among Drug Users in Poland: The Paradoxes of an Epidemic.”

Kasia co-authored Poland’s first National AIDS program; helped formulate policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; the World Health Organization; and the Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Kasia holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania and a DrPH from Columbia University.

CHRISTELLE N. ONWU ‘15
Lead Advisor for African Communities and an Equal Employment Opportunity Recruitment Strategist at the New York City Commission on Human Rights

Christelle Onwu is 2017 graduate of the Coro Immigrant Civic Leadership Program (ICLP), and serves as an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she teaches a course on Justice in the Africana World in the Africana Department. She is a fierce advocate for under-served populations with a focus on African communities in New York City. In her role at the Commission, Christelle advocates and mobilizes the African community throughout the five boroughs, and has given an unprecedented voice to the fastest growing immigrant group in New York City, while also championing the causes of other communities.

Prior to the Commission, Christelle served as a Social Worker Supervisor at Sauti Yetu Center for African Women and Families. There she provided bilingual (French and English) counseling and case management to survivors of gender-based violence. She also served as a Policy Analyst at Safe Passage Project, New York Law School, where she worked with an interdisciplinary team of people to analyze quantitative and qualitative research data on immigration policies within New York City and State. Furthermore, Christelle interned at Families for Freedom as a Policy Analyst, where she drafted policy memos on how to handle diverse foreign nationals who are facing deportations with criminal convictions. She earned her Bachelor degree at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Master of Science in Social Work Policy at Columbia University School of School Work, where her article titled “Understanding Female Genital Cutting in the United Kingdom within Immigrant Communities” was published in the Social Work Review. She is a proud New Yorker, lives in the Bronx with her family, and hails from Cameroon. She is fluent in French, pidgin, and Eton.

2018 Social Enterprise Conference | Friday, November 30

This headline event provides a unique opportunity for you to tap into the vibrant ecosystem of capital for social impact. They have a diverse line-up of over 40 speakers who will be sharing how they are changing the way they think about how capital is sourced and used to generate sustainable solutions to global, systemic challenges through the lens of business, philanthropy, impact investing, social entrepreneurship, and more.

Make sure to catch their keynote speakers, who will share best practices and how they engender new ideas surrounding the intersection of capital and society.

Friday, November 30, 2018
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027

Student Tickets $50
General Admission $150

Keynote Speakers

Joel Greenblatt Caroline Roan ’00 SIPA Darren Walker 
Managing Partner
of Gotham Capital
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility at Pfizer Inc; President of Pfizer Foundation President of the Ford Foundation

Sources of Capital

Private Equity Investments in Impact Investing

  • Chris Cozzone, Senior Vice President, Double Impact at Bain Capital Double Impact Fund
  • Brian Dunlap, Head of Technology Investing at TPG / The Rise Fund
  • * Stephanie Kater, Principal at The Bridgespan Group
  • Elizabeth Seeger, Director, Sustainable Investing at KKR

Opportunity Zones + Community Development Financing

  • Ron Moelis, CEO + Founding Partner of L+M Development Partners
  • * Lynne Sagalyn, Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate at Columbia Business School
  • Chris Slevin, Legislative Director at The Office of Senator Cory Booker

Intergenerational Wealth Transfer + Millennials Driving Impact Investing

  • Ghislain Gouraige, Jr., Senior Vice President, Wealth Management at UBS
  • * Tami Kesselman, Chief Impact Strategist & Alchemist of Aligned Investing Global
  • Abigail Pohlman, Vice President at Goldman Sachs
  • Anna Raginskaya, The Blue Rider Group │ Private Wealth Advisor at Morgan Stanley

Foundations with Impact Focused Portfolios

  • Bob Bancroft, Vice President of Finance for Nathan Cummings Foundation
  • Preeti Bhattacharji ’14BUS ’09CC, Vice President of Integrated Capitals at Heron Foundation
  • Shuaib A. Siddiqui, Director, Impact Investing at Surdna Foundation
  • * Lily Trager, Director of Investing with Impact
    at Morgan Stanley


Uses of Capital

Trends in Social Impact Real Estate Development + Affordable Housing

* Thomas Campbell ’09BUS, Managing Member
of Thorobird Companies
Hugh R. Frater ’85BUS, Chairman of VEREIT / Shift Capital
Muzzy Rosenblatt, CEO & President of Bowery Residents’ Committee
Lauren Zullo, Director of Sustainability at Jonathan Rose Companies

Capital Deployment for Scaling Social Ventures

  • Jessie Gould, Founder of Ox Verte
  • Alex Husted, Co-owner of HELPSY
  • * Julius Mokrauer, Managing Director / Fund Manager at Serious Change, LP
  • Peter Neiman, Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of Amalgamated Bank

Sports Philanthropy

  • Eric DiMiceli, Director, Social Responsibility at National Basketball Association (NBA)
  • Olga Harvey, Vice President, Community Impact at Women’s Sports Foundation
  • JoAnn Neale, Chief Administrative & Social Responsibility Officer at Major League Soccer
  • * Ben Schornack, NYC Program Officer at Laureus Foundation

Clean Energy + Renewables

  • Peter Davidson, Co-founder and CEO of the Aligned Intermediary (AI)
  • Manish Kumar ’11BUS, Managing Director, Energy Storage at The AES Corporation Nate McMurray ’10BUS, Vice President, Divestiture & Portfolio Strategy at EDF Renewables North America
  • * Bruce Usher, Co-Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise; Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 Faculty Director; Professor of Professional Practice

* Moderator of the panel

Click here for full program details.

Presentation on Social Work Education and Career Paths in China | Tuesday, November 13

Join us for a conversation with Professor Liqin Zhao, Chair of the Department of Social Work at Beijing University of Technology, and Professor Qin Gao, Director of the China Center for Social Policy at CSSW to learn about social work education and career paths in China. This is a great opportunity for Chinese nationals as well as others who wish to explore social work jobs abroad.

Tuesday, November 13
1:00 – 2:00 pm
CSSW Room C06
Register

Professor Liqin Zhao is the Chair of the Department of Social Work at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Beijing Normal University. Professor Zhao’s research focuses on the learning motivation of adolescents and the application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in addressing adolescents’ anxiety and depression. She has taught courses on Personality, Counseling Theories and Practices, and Social Psychology. Prof. Zhao has also engaged in psychological counseling for undergraduate and graduate students at BJUT.

Free Social Impact Career Virtual Summit | October 15 – October 18, 2018

Learn from 40+ Social Impact Leaders sharing their best strategies and advice for growing a career that makes a positive impact in the world at the upcoming Social Impact Career Virtual Summit, hosted by: and co-hosted by:

What You’ll Learn

  • An in-depth understanding of the types of roles and career paths you can pursue in the social impact space
  • Strategies on how to channel your passions, talents, and skills to create a career that makes a difference in the world
  • Clarity on what nonprofits and socially-conscious companies are looking for in job candidates
  • Tips on what you need to have in your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile
  • Advice on exploring new career options, searching for jobs, and tapping into the hidden job market

How the Virtual Summit Works

The Social Impact Career Virtual Summit is a FREE online event providing you with the key insights for growing a career in a B Corp, Social Enterprise, or Nonprofit; in CSR, Sustainability, and Impact Investing; or as a Consultant, Freelancer or Social Entrepreneur.

  • After registration, you’ll receive an email with everything you need for getting the most out of the virtual event.
  • When the summit begins on October 15th, you’ll receive an email each day with a link to access all the interviews for that day.
  • All interview recordings will be available until midnight, October 18th.
  • If you can’t make all the sessions, no worries! After you get your free ticket, we will provide an option to access all the summit recordings to watch at your own convenience!

Summit Schedule + Speakers

Day 1 – October 15th (7:00 pm EST)
Facebook Live Kick-Off Event: Summit Overview + Live Career Coaching Q&A with Marcos Salazar, CEO of Be Social Change

Day 2 – October 16th (9:00 am EST)
For-Profit Careers: Using Business as a Force For Good

Day 3 – October 17th (9:00 am EST)
Nonprofit Careers: Working to Solve the Most Pressing Social and Environmental Problems

Day 4 – October 18th (9:00 am EST)
Entrepreneurial Careers: Working as a Social Entrepreneur, Impact Consultant, Freelancer, and Creative Social Impact Career Pathways

Get your FREE ticket!