First FSN Fellows Bring Expertise to Washington
FrontLines - April 2009
Left to right: Foreign Service Nationals Joy Jochico, Kristijan Jurjevic, and Amani Selim will spend two months at USAID headquarters
in Washington to share their expertise with colleagues. Not pictured: Ousmane Sane.
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Four Foreign Service National (FSN) employees—non-U.S. citizens
who work for the Agency overseas—have traveled to Washington in recent months to kick off the new FSN Fellowship Program.
Ousmane Sane of Senegal, Amani Selim of Egypt, Joy Jochico of the Philippines, and Kristijan Jurjevic of Serbia and Montenegro received the fellowships,
which enable them to spend two months in Washington on a project.
Each will share their skills as FSNs with their Washington colleagues
and gain a fresh perspective
to take back to their missions.
Nine more FSN fellows will be arriving in the coming months. On average, the FSN fellows have worked at USAID for over nine years.
Sane delivered a presentation on African economic development
for the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade; Selim is developing evaluations for the Middle East and guidance for regional missions
on monitoring and evaluation;
Jochico is developing a decisionmaking tool and a guide book for programming in the water sector; and Jurjevic is working to create a USAID Senior Executive FSN Corps.
“Hopefully, the rich experience gained from the fellowship program
will further inform the Agency’s strategy to integrate FSNs more throughout the Agency and how they can contribute
significantly to the work that is being done in Washington and in other missions,” said Jochico.
Jurjevic said that “the fellowship
gives the FSNs a chance to further develop professionally and to be recognized as Agency-wide experts.”
The first fellows said they hope that receiving bureaus will fully take advantage of the knowledge and skills brought to Washington through the fellowships.
“The experience that FSNs gain in their work at their missions
is priceless, and interaction in Washington generates a wealth of knowledge and creativity
in all areas of development,”
Selim said.
To apply for a specific rotational
assignment, FSN candidates
must complete an application,
submit a written narrative, and provide a resume. FSNs interested in future fellowship opportunities should read late March and April Agency Notices. .
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