Invitation from RedR and
Transitions .
We hope you can come and contribute your experience
and ideas.
RedR and Transitions would
like to invite you to explore with us how the competitive INGO graduate jobs
market can fairly and effectively access refugee international development
colleagues’ skills, for mutual benefit.
Transitions is delighted and grateful to
RedR for hosting this meeting.
RedR is an
international disaster relief charity. They relieve suffering caused by disasters by
selecting, training and providing competent and committed personnel to
humanitarian programmes worldwide.
Transitions is a specialist social
enterprise in London providing expert, collaborative, advice, recruitment and
internships services to good employers and to our refugee professional
candidates, who have all fled from persecution in their home countries to
safety in the UK under the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees. Refugees do not
require a UK visa. They can travel overseas from the UK.
Transitions candidates are highly skilled
individuals. Many of them formerly worked for the UN, international NGO’s,
Government Departments and Universities as disaster relief managers, refugee
camp managers, reconstruction engineers, educational professionals, academic
researchers on peacekeeping and human rights and environmental protection,
accountants, GIS engineers, scientists and statisticians.
It is very rare for them to be able to
find work in the UK in the international development sector.
With the exception of RedR there appear
to be virtually no recruitment initiatives within the sector to either specifically
assist these colleagues or to access their international development skills and
first hand experience of the issues that developing countries face.
They find, instead, that they are highly
disadvantaged by not having UK NGO references or UK NGO experience in their
profession, for example, even if they have gained UK development based
qualifications. Chjcken and egg…
We would like to invite you to explore
with us how the competitive INGO jobs market can fairly and effectively access
these colleagues’ skills. For mutual benefit.
We believe that the solutions are about efficient
and equitable working practices by employers, by Government decision-makers and
by informed and orientated refugee job applicants.
That’s why we created Transitions.
To register your interest, please contact
either Toby Gould, Membership Manager at Redr (Toby.Gould@redr.org.uk) or
Sheila Heard, Director at Transitions (sheila.heard@transitions-london.co.uk. Thank you.
Transitions Stakeholders’ Advisory Network meeting #6
Co-hosted with RedR
Date
& time: Monday 26th November 2012 14.00
-17.00
Venue:
RedR 250a
Kennington Lane
London
SE11 5RD
Meeting
Theme:
Exploring employed
participation of refugee international development professionals in the UK
international development sector
Ø Identifying Transferable
Specialist Competencies of refugee international development professionals
Ø Exploring barriers to applying
competencies to UK INGO employment
Ø Collaborative Actions
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PROGRAMME
14.00 Welcome/introductions
Objectives
of the meeting
Terms of Reference of the Transitions
Advisory network
Summary
of Transitions social enterprise model and outcomes
14.15 - 15.30 SPEAKERS:
-Transitions Experienced International NGO candidate
Benti Debella, 2002-2005 (Crop protection Department Head)
Oromia Agricultural Bureau, Ethiopia
2007-2011 (Production Operative) Memory Lane Cakes Ltd
-Transitions Experienced International NGO candidate
Benti Debella, 2002-2005 (Crop protection Department Head)
Oromia Agricultural Bureau, Ethiopia
2007-2011 (Production Operative) Memory Lane Cakes Ltd
- NGO Colleague
Tarik Begic, RedR HR & Recruitment Services Coordinator
Tarik Begic, RedR HR & Recruitment Services Coordinator
Q&A, discussion
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 16.20 Group discussions: exchanging information/
experiences/approaches
16.20 - 16.45 Feedback & action planning
Next
meeting date/theme.
16.45 - 17.00 Refreshments and networking
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