Jasmine Junk

Experience

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  French Embassy

  Aug 2006 - Dec 2006

  Intern

  • Fielded queries from the public by conducting research using embassy resources and official embassy responses.• Composed and edited articles for embassy newsletter, “News From France.”• Kept account of US public sentiment toward French policy and summarizing them in short memos for use in briefings.

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  Society for International Development

  Nov 2007 - May 2008

  Intern

  • Updated public website with event information and summaries.• Wrote summaries of lectures, presentations and roundtables.• Drafted formal letters to guest speakers and members.• Created a system for accurate accounting of payments of dues, donations and conference/gala fees.• Assumed responsibilities of Program Assistant for five weeks, including assisting with the hiring process, making arrangements for conferences and roundtables, and tracking payment accounts.

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  Peace Corps

  Jun 2008 - Jul 2011

  Peace Corps Volunteer

  • Taught English and Computer Literacy to over 700 hundred technical high school students over a three year period• Created town’s first local newspaper: developed budget and self-sustaining income strategy, raised funds to acquire printer and printing materials, trained francophone students in conducting interviews/surveys, writing articles, sales & marketing. Available at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gardien-de-Guider/120975947215• Organized summer schools (summer 2009, summer 2010) in partnership with the local technical high school (entailed creating an 8-week curriculum with weekly assessments and baseline and graduation assessments with predetermined indicators, developing a program budget, instituting fees and salaries, employing/supervising Cameroonian teachers)• Appointed by mayor to organize and preside over 2009 Women’s Day Cultural Soiree, with approximately 1,000 spectators in attendance (entailed creating a program, developing a budget and fundraising strategies, and organizing public outreach to find participants as well as maximize attendance) • Directed AIDS movie, written/performed by local high school students in both French and Fulani. The play version was performed live in front of U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon Janet Garvey. The movie was used by Peace Corps volunteers and the PEPFAR Country Coordinator and screened at a cinema in the Yaounde for International AIDS day.• Collected information on local businesses and public services and designed tourism brochure using Microsoft Publisher for the Delegation of Tourism as part of mayor’s initiative to boost tourism in Guider• Organized a girl scouts troop composed of eight exceptional girls in the community and taught them English, health, life skills, entrepreneurial/financial skills, math, world geography, botany/environmental science, history, arts and crafts. Show less

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  U.S. Embassy, Cameroon

  Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  Political/Economic Intern
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  International Relief and Development (IRD)

  Nov 2012 - Mar 2013

  Intern

  • Assisted Proposal Development teams in writing and reviewing draft proposal sections and concept papers for submission to USAID and USDA• Assisted Program Officers with backstopping tasks• Translated reports, emails, DOAs and legal documents from French to English and English to French• Conducted internal research on SFAS themes, such as NRM, food Security, Value Chains, Monetization, Commodity Management, and logistics, and develop Past Performance documents for IRD use in proposals and communications materials Show less

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  USAID

  Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

  Africa Bureau Intern

  • Attended panels/congressional hearings and wrote analytical summaries for internal use• Updated material for country profiles and fact sheets for USAID website• Compiled weekly updates and weekend readings for Assistant Administrator• Planned and made arrangements for technical meetings for incoming senior USAID field staff• Collected/synthesized information for reference documents

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  Small Enterprise Assistance Funds

  Jan 2014 - Apr 2014

  Intern
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  USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)

  Jun 2014 - now

  To promote trade in U.S. agricultural products abroad by serving as an official liaison and resource for U.S. agricultural cooperators and exporters, ensuring that the terms of trade agreements are being observed and that regulations applied to imports of U.S. agricultural products are scientifically sound, and offering U.S. technical assistance to build the capacity of fledgling regulatory institutions. Manage Food for Progress cooperative agreements in Asia portfolio, conduct monitoring trips of acrtive programs and reconnaissance trips for new programs, review and score proposals for new Food for Progress agreement awards, prepare presentations and provide Food for Progress programmatic information for congressional hearings.

  • Foreign Service Officer Trainee

    Oct 2015 - now

  • International Agricultural Program Specialist

    Jun 2014 - Oct 2015