KEVIN McMAHON
Human Resources Manager, UNOPS
JILLIAN OLIVER
Human Resources Specialist, UNICEF
SARJO SARR
Program Analyst, UN Volunteers
HOLLY WHITE
Performance Management & Career Development, UNFPA
moderated by
EVA JANSEN
Human Resources Officer
UN Secretariat
Thursday, April 11, 2019
6:00 p.m. | Registration, Networking, Reception
6:30 p.m. | Program and Q+A
8:00 p.m. | Career Fair with opportunities to engage with panelists from presenting organizations
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Conference Room – 43rd Floor
One Bryant Park
(Bank of America building, corner of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue)
New York, NY 10036
All UNA Members: $10
Guests and Non-Members: $15
Price includes wine and hors d'oevres reception
Are you inspired by the possibility of working for the United Nations?
Our Spring Careers Fair will provide an employment scope of several UN agencies — UN Volunteers, UNFPA, UNICEF, and UNOPS — courtesy of select personnel who will be presenting an overview of these respective organizations as part of the outreach this event will highlight. Areas covering human resources will be featured in the topics discussed among the panelists, who will speak to attendees about various types of positions available at these UN agencies, and discuss possible career paths with interested participants.
All are invited to bring their resumes to the event, and attendees with some professional work experience are also welcome. Since the United States is under-represented at the UN, we especially welcome U.S. nationals to attend this event.
We hope you will join us for this UNA-NYC Career Fair event, to meet and speak with our guest panelists, who will provide valuable advice while sharing their experience.
PANEL MODERATOR
EVA JANSEN
Eva Jansen is currently serving as a Human Resources Officer in the Staffing, Diversity & Outreach Section in the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance in New York Headquarters of the United Nations Secretariat.
Previously she held a variety of positions in New York, in the Department of General Assembly and Conference Affairs (in Geneva, Switzerland), at the United Nations Independent Investigation Commission (in Lebanon), in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as well as the United Nations Office in Vienna (Austria), where she started her career with the United Nations. Before that, Eva has gained work experience in the private sector and with an NGO.
Eva is from Austria but has spent her early childhood in Saudi Arabia. She speaks German, English, French and Arabic. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arabistics and a Master of Laws from the University of Vienna. She is married and has one son.
UN ORGANIZATIONS | PANELISTS
UN VOLUNTEERS
The UN Volunteers (UNV) program is a UN organization that contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide.
Volunteerism is a powerful means of engaging people in tackling development challenges, and it can transform the pace and nature of development. Volunteerism benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer by strengthening trust, solidarity and reciprocity among citizens, and by purposefully creating opportunities for participation. The key benefit of being a UN Volunteer is the personal satisfaction the volunteer assignment brings you as you make a positive impact on peace and development.
UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for recognition of volunteers, working with partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing an increasing number and diversity of volunteers, including experienced UN Volunteers, throughout the world.
SARJO SARR
Sarjo Sarr is a Program Analyst with the United Nations Volunteers Partnerships Office in New York, working primarily on Interagency and Intergovernmental Affairs.
After graduating, in 2017, with an MSc. in International Development Management she gathered first experience with the UN System with the Gender Unit of UN Habitat in Nairobi. Prior to that, Sarjo worked with the Gambian Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs as well as the Turkish Embassy in The Gambia on Public Finance Management and Partnership Development.
UNFPA
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is a UN organization. Its mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. Their work involves the improvement of reproductive health, including creation of national strategies and protocols, and birth control by providing supplies and services. The organization has recently been known for its worldwide campaign against child marriage, obstetric fistula and female genital mutilation.
UNFPA supports programs in more than 150 countries and areas spread across four geographic regions: Arab States and Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Around three quarters of the staff work in the field. It is a member of the United Nations Development Group and part of its executive committee.
HOLLY WHITE
Holly White is the Human Resources Specialist dedicated to Performance Management and Career Development with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) based in New York, NY. She joined UNFPA in October 2014 as the HR Strategic Partner of the West & Central Africa Region in Dakar, Senegal.
Prior to UNFPA, Holly worked with UNICEF for 4 years in New York, providing HR advisory services on staffing, training and development to the Programme Division (health, nutrition, water/sanitation and hygiene [WASH], and HIV/AIDS sectors). And before joining UNICEF, Holly supported the Partnerships, Africa and Arab States Bureaux as an HR and Operations consultant with UNDP.
In the private sector, she worked for 10 years for a number of organizations: Altria Group, Inc., Kraft Foods Inc. and M&M/Mars in various HR roles and as an HR Director for Ogilvy & Mather and Ann Taylor.
Since 2010, Holly has held the position of adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where she facilitated workshops on career development and interviewing skills for graduate students in the program.
Holly earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and a Masters of Business Administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
UNICEF
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children everywhere.
In all of its work, UNICEF takes a life-cycle based approach, recognizing the particular importance of early childhood development and adolescence. UNICEF programs focus on the most disadvantaged children, including those living in fragile contexts, those with disabilities, those who are affected by rapid urbanization and those affected by environmental degradation.
UNICEF upholds the Convention on the Rights of the Child. We work to assure equality for those who are discriminated against, girls and women in particular. We work for the Millennium Development Goals and for the progress promised in the United Nations Charter. We strive for peace and security. We work to hold everyone accountable to the promises made for children.
JILLIAN OLIVER
Jillian Oliver Human Resources Specialist, is currently leading the Recruitment Center of Expertise at UNICEF's New York headquarters.
She has over 9 years of experience with UNICEF and has served as HR Specialist with the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office in Nairobi, the Private Fundraising Division in Geneva and the Sri Lanka Country Office. Earlier, she worked as HR Officer with the Mozambique Country Offices.
Prior to joining UNICEF, she worked with the United Nations Headquarters and has served in several peacekeeping missions (Bosnia, Kosovo, Burundi, Eritrea and Sudan).
UNOPS
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) helps the UN and its partners provide peace and security, humanitarian and development solutions. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.
We are focused on implementation, committed to UN values and private sector efficiency, and are the only part of the UN not receiving core funding from tax payers.
Our services cover infrastructure, project management, procurement, financial management and human resources. Our partners call on us to supplement their own capacities, improve speed, reduce risks, boost cost-effectiveness and increase quality.
KEVIN McMAHON
For the past five years, Kevin McMahon has been the HR Manager for the UNOPS Peace and Security Cluster (PSC) in New York. He is responsible for a range of activities, including roster management, high-profile recruitment, policy advice, quality control, training development and delivery, and standardization of HR practices in the field programmes. He is a certified job classifier and trainer in competency-based interviewing.
Prior to joining UNOPS, he worked in Ottawa, Canada as a Recruitment Director for CANADEM, an NGO specializing in the recruitment and deployment of experts into humanitarian relief operations, election observation missions, and governance capacity-development operations.
Kevin has a MA in International Affairs, a BA in Political Science, and a BA in Music Education. Between his undergraduate and graduate studies, he spent four years in Taipei teaching English and learning Mandarin.
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