Join us for our monthly employer spotlight edition of the Jobs with Jodi podcast.  In this episode we feature USAID and various paths into this popular employer. 
Included in the discussion will be NCE and other special programs including the unique Payne Fellow program for graduate students which allows selected Fellows to be converted into Foreign Service Officers upon completion of their training. 

 Our guests will include various RPCV employees of USAID talking about their own experience and pathway into this coveted organization.

A conversation from National Peace Corps Association. In this special podcast, NPCA convenes a panel discussion with three key contributors to a Community Report on How to Reimagine, Reshape, and Retool the Peace Corps for a Changed World. We discuss the origins and process for drafting this report and its recommendations to Congress, the Peace Corps agency and Executive Branch, and the Peace Corps community. Guests Marieme Foote, Chic Dambach and Joel Rubin talk with Dan Baker about their personal experiences during this journey and their hopes for the responses that this report will elicit.

Our monthly Career Coach Q&A features a conversation between Jobs with Jodi Podcast host and career coach Jodi Hammer, and fellow career consultant, Dr. Ronda Ansted.  Together, they address many topics and answer questions on all things career.

This episode features a special conversation with the RPCV and 'Money Gal', Kelly Blodgett, who will share her personal journey into (and out of) debt using simple principles of budgeting — plus a Q&A time about debt, student loans, and budgeting! 

Ever dream of joining an NGO and working for a cause bigger than yourself? Then this is your podcast! This episode  focuses on the non-profit sector and features three RPCV professionals working in the nonprofit arena. Together, we discuss the vast world of NGOs,  the pros and cons of working within the sector, and tips and advice for persons interested in making a career of 'doing good'!  

This week's podcast features representatives from partner agencies within the Employers of National Service movement talking about their commitment to hire RPCVs, as well as their experience as alums of other service programs like AmeriCorps NCCC, Teach for America, and Peace Corps, of course.

Erin Dahlin is the Acting Chief of Program Operations at CNCS, now rebranded as AmeriCorps. Adam Greenberg is a proud two-term AmeriCorps NCCC Alum (2007; 2011) and recently evacuated RPCV (Zambia, 2018-2020).

Watch Adam and Lianne's short fish farming videos at:
https://peacecorps.adamgreenberg.com

Employers of National Service
https://nationalservice.gov/partnerships

Music by Joseph McDade.

This week's podcast features a conversation with Arianne Gallagher, Director, Office of Presidential Fellowships at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), who will share information about the prestigious Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program, a platform allowing select candidates who demonstrate strong leadership potential to enter the federal government, gain specialized training and unique experience helpful to advancing within the federal sector. 

Arianne is joined by special guests and PMF alum, Steven C. Walker, Chargé d’Affaires/Acting Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Asmara, Eritrea, and Sanjay Iyer, PMF 2019 and current Desk Officer for Nepal on the South and Central Asian Affairs team in USAID’s Bureau for Asia. Here, they share their experiences as PMFs and the role it has played in their own paths to success. 

Music by Joseph McDade.

Our new RPCV Leaders in Action series features interviews with distinguished RPCV guests and leaders in their industries who speak about lessons learned from Peace Corps and the role their service has played in helping them get to where they are today.

This week Jodi interviews Peace Corps Albania Country Director, Kate Becker, who will share from her wealth of experience which includes leadership roles in the National Service arena and with KaBoom!, an award-winning non-profit building safe playgrounds for communities in need.

Music by Joseph McDade.

(August 12)
Did you miss part or all of the Peace Corps Connect/Ideas Summit?  Then catch up on exciting information covered. Guest host Dan Baker, Director of the Global Reentry program, facilitates a report out on the Peace Corps Connect Ideas Summit and the informative town halls leading up to the event. 

Music: "Quiet Calculation" By Joseph McDade

This week's podcast features an interview between host and Career Coach, Jodi Hammer and Career Consultant Dr. Ronda Ansted, answering questions from the audience on all things career.

Music: "Quiet Calculation" By Joseph McDade