This list of potential employers was culled from the job announcements from various Slavic oriented listservs. I have left out most academic employers, and have focused primarily on the business and non-profit sectors. Each of these employers posted at least one job announcement since late 2001.My thanks to professor Laura Kline of Wayne State University for supplying the list of job announcements I used to create this list.
Organizations with Postions in Russia:
Major Employers/Employment Contacts
- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS — a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving eduation, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union.
- Eurasia Foundation — a privately managed grant-making and operating organization dedicated to funding programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.
- IREX — A US-based nonprofit organization committed to international education.
- Open Society Institute — a private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a range of programs in civil society, education, media, public health and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.
Secondary Employers:
- American Russian Center — trains entrepreneurs, business managers and government leaders through grants from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other U.S. agencies. ARC promotes the transition of the Russian Far East to democracy and a free market economy.
- Center for Russian Nature Conservation (Moscow) — Publishes a quarterly bulletin about the conservation of biodiversity in Russian and northern Eurasia.
- Downside Up — A Moscow-based charitable fund working to improve the quality of life for children with Down's Syndrome
- Foundation for American Economic Cooperation — a Seattle-based non-profit organization founded in1989 to foster expanded economic ties between Russia and the United States, with a special focus on building bridges between the Russian Far East and U.S. West Coast.
- Global Jewish Assistance and Relief Network — a non-profit organization dedicated to providing non-sectarian humanitarian assistance and medical relief throughout the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.
- Global Recruitment Specialists — an independent recruitment firm which provides customized comprehensive international human resources services . The Client list of GRS includes the major international development organizations operating today.
- Media Viability Fund — a joint project of the Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) and the Eurasia Foundation. MVF's mission is to support the development of independent newspaper, radio and television companies in Russia and Ukraine through low-interest loans and technical assistance.
- Moscow Lyceum "Stupeni" — a private secondary school founded in 1990. Provides a comprehensive education with a focus on the Humanities.
- Nauka Interperiodica International Academic Publishing Company — a Moscow-based firm publishing Russian scientific literature in translation.
- Open World Program — Funded by the Library of Congress, this program was created to increase mutual understanding and exposure to US democratic institutions, the U.S. political system, and public-private partnerships and inter-relationships, and to form the basis for a continuing dialogue for future bilateral cooperation.
- Oxfam International — a confederation of 12 organizations working together in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.
- Tahoe-Baikal Institute — established in 1990 to help preserve Lake Tahoe and Lake Baikal and other significant and threatened natural areas around the world through environmental education programs and international exchanges of students, scholars, and policymakers.
- Tver InterContact Group — a non-profit education and consulting organization in Tver, Russia.
- World Uniting, Inc. — a non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide technological ait to cities with a demonstrateed need in order to enhance business productivity and educational opportunities for adults and youth.
Organizations with Postions in Eastern or Western Europe:
Major Employers/Employment Contacts
- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS — a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving eduation, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union.
- IREX — A US-based nonprofit organization committed to international education.
- Open Society Institute — a private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a range of programs in civil society, education, media, public health and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.
Secondary Employers:
- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS — a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving eduation, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union.
- Freedom House — a nonoprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes liberty and democracy through out the world.
- Tocqueville Research Center [T-RC] — a Budapest-based nonpartisan institute specializing in comparative political analysis at the subnational level.
Organizations with Postions in the Former Soviet Union (excluding Russia):
Major Employers/Employment Contacts
- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS — a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving eduation, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union.
- Eurasia Foundation — a privately managed grant-making and operating organization dedicated to funding programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.
- IREX — A US-based nonprofit organization committed to international education.
- Open Society Institute — a private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a range of programs in civil society, education, media, public health and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.
Secondary Employers:
- CHF — a nonprofit international development organization for communities, habitat, and finance. CHF serves as a catalyst for sustainable positive change in low- and moderate- income communities around the world.
- Freedom House — a nonoprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes liberty and democracy through out the world.
- ISAR, Initiative for Social Action & Renewal in Eurasia — a nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen the ability of citizens and social change organizations in Eurasia and their colleagues in the US to influence decision-making, advance social justice, and promote environmentally sound stewardship of the earth's resources.
- MSI Worldwide [Management Systems International] — a woman-owned consulting firm located in Washington, D.C. and serving clients worldwide. MSI provides management consulting services to organizations and agencies in a number of areas of expertise and application areas.
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairs [NDI] — a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI works with democrats in every region of the world to build political and civic organizations, safeguard elections, and to promote citizen participation, openness and accountability in government.
- NCSJ — a voluntary, not-for-profit agency created in 1971 as the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. NCSJ is the
mandated central coordinating agency of the organized Jewish community for policy and activities on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Jews in the former Soviet Union.
- PADCO Inc. — a results-oriented company that provides expertise worldwide to enable governments, communities, and businesses to design and implement successful development programs that improve the quality of life and the environment. We are dedicated to delivering quality services through teamwork, client focus, and continuous improvement.
Organizations with Postions in North America:
Major Employers/Employment Contacts
- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS — a private, non-profit educational association and exchange organization devoted to improving eduation, professional training and research within and regarding the former Soviet Union.
- Eurasia Foundation — a privately managed grant-making and operating organization dedicated to funding programs that build democratic and free market institutions in the twelve New Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.
- IREX — A US-based nonprofit organization committed to international education.
- Open Society Institute — a private operating and grantmaking foundation that develops and implements a range of programs in civil society, education, media, public health and human and women's rights, as well as social, legal, and economic reform.
Secondary Employers:
- Amnesty International — a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
- Center for Citizen Initiatives [CCI] — The Center for Citizen Initiatives implements programs that assist Russian citizens in securing economic and political reforms and fosters cooperative partnerships and relations between the U.S. and Russia.
- Center for Democracy — A nonprofit, privately-funded, program-creating organization, the Center has fostered initiatives at critical moments in democratic transitions abroad, while serving as a bridge in issue dialogues between the two major political parties in the United States. Members of Congress, distinguished public figures, and representatives of American corporations have served on its Board of Directors.
- Central and East European Law Initiative [CEELI] — a public service project of the American Bar Association that advances the rule of law in the world by supporting the legal reform process in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
- CHF — a nonprofit international development organization for communities, habitat, and finance. CHF serves as a catalyst for sustainable positive change in low- and moderate- income communities around the world.
- Civic Education Project — an international non-profit organization, has supported grassroots efforts to reform higher education in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia since 1991. Centered on the belief that democracy requires critically minded and informed individuals, CEP's network of scholars touches hundreds of students, faculty, and broader communities in the areas in which they teach.
- Freedom House — a nonoprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes liberty and democracy through out the world.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities — an independent, nonprofit organization that helps communities in existing and emerging democracies solve problems while building a better future for themselves and the world. We give communities-and the organizations that support them-the training, advice, and grants they need to solve their own problems and shape their own destiny long after our work with them is finished.
- ISAR, Initiative for Social Action & Renewal in Eurasia — a nonprofit organization whose mission is to strengthen the ability of citizens and social change organizations in Eurasia and their colleagues in the US to influence decision-making, advance social justice, and promote environmentally sound stewardship of the earth's resources.
- Tahoe-Baikal Institute — established in 1990 to help preserve Lake Tahoe and Lake Baikal and other significant and threatened natural areas around the world through environmental education programs and international exchanges of students, scholars, and policymakers.
- U.S. Civilian Rsearch and Development Foundation [CRDF] — a nonprofit charitable organization that promotes scientific and technical collaboration between the United States and the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU).
- U.S.-Ukraine Foundation — a nonprofit, non-governmental organization established in 1991 to facilitate democratic development, encourage free market reform, and enhance human rights in Ukraine. The Foundation creates and sustains channels of communication between the United States and Ukraine for the purpose of Building Peace and Prosperity Through Shared Democratic Values . USUF is dedicated to strengthening the mutual objectives of both nations while advancing Ukraine as a cornerstone of regional stability and as a full partner in the community of nations.
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