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Mufleh Talouzi
Country Programme Manager, Iraq
I have been working for MAG in Iraq since April 2009, and I’m proud and happy to be here. In the last nine months, I found all the support I needed both from my field manager and at HQ level. MAG has provided me with several opportunities to learn and develop my skills, and the chance to develop a career path within the organisation. In addition, the challenges faced provide a great opportunity to learn new things everyday. I feel that my hard work is being rewarded, which encourages me to work even harder.
It is a rewarding job within a multinational environment with diversity of cultures, this adds up to the satisfaction of being part of an organisation that makes a difference to peoples’ lives everyday. I had my expectations before I joined MAG, and I’m happy to say that they were met and exceeded.
Since joining MAG in April 2009 as Field Coordinator, Mufleh was promoted in September 2009 and is now Country Programme Manager for MAG in Iraq, and is the senior manager responsible for all MAG's operations in the Iraq programme.
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Lachin Hasanova
Community Liaison Manager, North Sudan
The reason why I have chosen to work with MAG, after being with humanitarian development organisations for 10 years, is its unique mission and vision as saving lives and building futures. It is needless to talk about the community development if there is psychological and physical threat for the people posed by the remnants of conflict. MAG creates safe environment for post conflict reconstruction and supports community development by removing the danger and threat of remnants of conflict and educating people on how to keep themselves safe from remnants of war in post conflict contexts, through its Humanitarian Mine Action mission.
The composition of the MAG expatriate staff is very different from other humanitarian organisations, since MAG brings together the personalities with military and humanitarian backgrounds, who have different experience, background, and views. This diversity of expatriate staff makes MAG more unique, as well as, challenging to work with, at times, for both ex militaries and NGO workers. However, the effective dialogues between colleagues with different background, sharing experiences to understand each other’s role in Humanitarian Mine Action, bring solution to any misunderstanding. I have been enjoying this challenge, as it enables me to develop my interpersonal and communication skills to work with diverse group of people. I am happy to be a part of great mission of MAG and proud of contributing to the reconstruction and development of conflict affected communities.
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Catherine Smith
Public Fundraising Officer, MAG HQ
I first came across MAG at an Elbow gig in 2004, they had a stall selling wares and were awareness raising and had a really strong presence. I spoke to someone that day about MAG and was taken straight away. I had no idea such an organisation existed in Manchester, and once I knew I made it my mission to work here.
I’d check the website faithfully looking for jobs I could possibly do and once Public Fundraising Officer came up I literally jumped with excitement. I focus on the community side of fundraising and am here to support all MAG devotees in their fundraising exploits. I’m also really keen to develop MAG schools fundraising because as well as raising money; I’m passionate about helping to spread the word of MAG to everyone. MAG’s an awesome organisation to be involved it, never before have I met such a passionate group of people with one clear aim. I’m proud to be part of MAG!
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Andy Gleeson
Technical Operations Manager, Sri Lanka
I’ve been with MAG for almost six years and spent time in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and now Sri Lanka. To date, I have mostly been involved in post conflict clearance, emergency response and minefield clearance. Why MAG? Well it would be fair to say that the contracting is extremely attractive, not having to bounce from one year-to-year contract to another gives a great feeling of job security. Inevitably this leads to greater demands, longer term projects the ability to get involved in MAG’s strategies and business areas.
The fact that you can move from country to country means you can meet and work and interact with other staff members, travelling the world and seeing sights reserved for a select few. This added to the fact that ultimately we release land to the needy and deserving makes for a great deal of job satisfaction, team spirit and, to coin a phrase, esprit de corps.
