Former JET assistant language teacher Nicole Deutsch has an ideal job. She works with a dynamic team of people from all over the world. And at the end of the day she goes home feeling that she's helped to make the world a better place.
At her workplace, the United Nations Development Programme office, located across from the U.N. Secretariat in New York, Deutsch works as a policy specialist. Her responsibilities include coordinating inter-agency groups that liaise among such organizations as the United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Development Programme, World Food Programme, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization. She develops strategy and guidelines for the U.N.'s country offices, based on analyses of trends and challenges, and drawing from examples of good practice in more than 130 U.N. programs worldwide.
The work Nicole Deutsch does plays a vital role in creating reform and a renewed vision in the United Nations. One question she gets asked all too often is how she landed such an interesting job.