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With great joy I announce that I am once again employed.  After a wide ranging and thankfully brief job search I have accepted a position as the Training Program Manager for the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN).  A brief job description is below, but essentially I will be managing programs in developing countries to train professionals (doctors, lawyers, social workers, etc.) to prevent and address child abuse.  I’ll be based out of the Chicago suburbs and will still get a chance to travel overseas five or six times a year.  

I start work on Tuesday so we’ve started house hunting in earnest.  I’ll stay with friends in Chicago during the week and on the weekends come back to South Bend where Erika and the kids will stay with her parents until we’ve lined up a house (which will hopefully be soon).  We’re very excited to start this new phase of our life so stay tuned for more updates.  

Brief Job Description

ISPCAN, a professional, international non-profit organization, provides education, research, practical training, information and technical assistance/consultation to help protect children from abuse and neglect world-wide (www.ispcan.org).  ISPCAN members, professionals in Medicine, Mental Health, Law, Social Services, Education, Sociology/Research, Advocacy, NGO Leadership and Government, are committed to preventing and treating child maltreatment. This position is focused on developing and supporting education and training programs of child protection professionals around the world (especially but not limited to Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Congo, India, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa, Thailand). Training programs are both national and regional and focus on child protection issues relative to the population/ geographic area.  

The full-time Training Program Manager will manage the Developing Country Training and Capacity Building initiatives, as well as more general Training Resource related projects.  The role includes supporting training country project leaders in the design and content development, monitoring/evaluation of and reporting on their projects.  He/she will work full-time in the ISPCAN Secretariat office, but also manage related work at national, regional, and international meetings, as well as work with country projects on-site.