Message-ID: <MAC.970114133928@maine.maine.EDU> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:39:28 EST From: Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School <mailto:mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Subject: Free Market Development Advisers Program To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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Perhaps some list members will know of graduate business students
who might be interested in the attached program announcement. I
am posting this note to several lists, so let me apologize in
advance to those who receive multiple copies.
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FREE MARKET DEVELOPMENT ADVISERS PROGRAM
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THE PROGRAM: The U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) and the Institute of International Education (IIE)
announce the 1997-98 competition for the Free Market Development
Advisers Program (FMDAP).
The FMDAP is an opportunity for U.S. graduate business students
to provide management assistance to small and medium-sized enter-
prises and business-serving organizations in emerging market
countries. The ten-month assignments enable graduate business
students to gain invaluable international work experience as they
contribute to USAID mission objectives abroad.
USAID funds the program and provides first-year graduate business
students positions within host organizations at middle and upper
managerial levels in such areas as:
* Financial Control * Information Systems
* Personnel Management * Quality Control
* Marketing
On completion of assignments, Advisers will return to home uni-
versities and, under the guidance of their university mentors,
write a case study. Case studies from all advisers are then
published in a case book that is used for teaching and curriculum
development.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens currently enrolled
in an accredited U.S. graduate business program. Each Adviser
must return to complete business degree course work after the
period abroad.
The applicant's U.S. academic institution must approve the ten-
month leave between the first and second year of the business
program and endorse the candidacy of the applicant.
TO APPLY: Applicants are required to submit an application and an
essay indicating their reasons for applying to the program and
the contribution they would make in their work assignments.
Applicants must also address the issue of cross-cultural situa-
tions while working in a host country company and how the experi-
ence will benefit their future professional plans.
SELECTION CRITERIA: Preference is given to applicants with:
* at least two to three years of previous management experience
before entering a graduate business school program
* academic achievement in coursework
* foreign language competency (where applicable)
* a commitment to the developing world
* the maturity to work in a new, unsupervised situation
BENEFITS: Positions are for a ten-month period, including a
mandatory two-week orientation in the U.S. prior to departing for
the host country.
Allowances cover expenses for the Adviser only,including:
* travel and expenses for orientation in Washington, DC
* cost of international travel
* living expenses
* health insurance
* appropriate housing
FMDAP APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 1, 1997.
A national panel of graduate business school and private sector
specialists will select candidates. Finalists will be notified of
their acceptance by late April.
For more information, or to request application materials, please
contact:
Laurie Matchneer
Free Market Development Advisers Program
Institute of International Education
1400 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-2403
Tel: (202) 326-7710
Fax: (202) 326-7698
Email: mailto:LMATCHNEER@IIE.ORG
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