Careers in Faith-based Organisations

By John Evans

As a coach specialising in executive, leadership and career coaching many of my clients search me out because they have become aware of my experience within the humanitarian development sector and particularly within faith-based organisations.

This book seeks to provide some initial answers to three common questions that arise and which I can summarise like this:

Q: I am not a believer. Am I welcome in a faith-based organisation?
Q: What is it like to work in a faith-based organisation; what should I considerwhen applying?
Q: Career prospects in a faith-based organisation?

All of these questions are about faith-based organisations that operate in the humanitarian development sector. Naturally, the questions come up in slightly different ways but their essence is captured above.

To approach answers to these three questions we will explore the nature of faith-based organisations, the law as it applies to recruitment and selection, faith's intimate relationship with poverty and development, what it is like to work in a faith-based organisation, career prospects, education and training, vacancy sources and how to create your CV or resume to support digital applications.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716645921

John Evans

Dr. John Evans was the founding director of the Population, Health, and Nutrition Department of the World Bank; the former chair of the Board of Directors of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1987 to 1995; the founding dean of the McMaster University Medical School; and the president of the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1978. He remains active in work supporting non-governmental organizations in developing countries.

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