CURRICULUM VITAE

GORDANA MILJEVIĆ

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH
December 23, 1950, Zagreb, Croatia.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2005 - onward
Open Society Institute - Education Support Program, Budapest

• Providing technical assistance to national foundations and spin-offs on strategy development and program implementation planning  (South East Europe, Caucasus)
• Liaising with partner institutions on developing individual and institutional capacities in citizenship education
• Networking - Supporting Central Asian Educational Cooperation Network in building and further strengthening regional cooperation and in facilitating technical assistance and expertise on various education reform issues from other countries in the region;
•  facilitating transfer and exchange of practices between ESP "traditional" and new countries. 
  
• Overseeing the production of Resource Packs on Education Policy, Drop Outs and Private Tutoring monitoring projects.

2001 - 2005
Ministry of Education and Sports of the Republic of Serbia, Sector for Education Development and International Cooperation in Education

• Establishment of and maintaining contacts with international community to promote the education reform in Serbia and attract financial and expert support and representation of MoES at various international conferences and meetings,
• Project management through entire project cycle and coordination of international donors' activities in the education sector in Serbia; Engagement in developing international organisations' action plans and strategies for support to and involvement in education in Serbia,
• Production, editing of periodical reports, communiqués and information bulletins on education developments in Serbia. See:  www.see-educoop.net
• Organisation of international conferences, meetings, workshops involving their facilitation, co-facilitation where appropriate
• Establishment of links between schools and other education organization in Serbia and international partners
• Support to gender mainstream issues
• Recruitment, training of staff and organisation of the work in the department (14 employees)

1993 -  2001  - Active involvement
2001 - onward - reduced involvement due to the workload in the Ministry
NGO "MOST", Belgrade

 Active member, project author and coordinator, workshop facilitator, team member

• Author, coordinator and workshop facilitator of  MOST's "Dialog is the Key" project  -
  equal-opportunity community based pilot project for fostering and developing non-violent
  communication skills, assertiveness and tolerance, 
  
• Member of project development team (Good will classroom, Multicultural dialogue)
  
• Teacher trainer for Goodwill Classroom - program  for conflict management in schools,
  
• Co-facilitator of intercultural dialogue workshop (Kosovo Serbs and Albanians) in 2000/2001  within the project supported by UMCOR - Kosovo.

1996 - 2001- "Djuro Salaj" - Foreign Language School, Education - teaching

1986 - 1995- Construction company "RAD", Personal Assistant to the General Manager and Translator

1981 - 1986 - Construction company "RAD", Project management office manager

1976 - 1981 - Secondary education Center Obrenovac, Teacher of Psychology and English language (1976 - 1978), Counselor - school psychologist (1978 - 1981)

1974- 1976 - Institute for Medical Research and Medicine of Work at Yugoslav Academy of Science, Zagreb, Research assistant

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

September 1969 - February 1974, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy, Department for Psychology, Department for English Language

Bachelor of Arts in psychology and English language

SOCIAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES :

Trainings:

• Peace building I and II, Conflict transformation across cultures, 2001 - School for International training, Brattelboro, Vermont, USA
  
• Training of trainers for Goodwill Classroom School-based Conflict Resolution Programme, (2000)
• Conflict resolution trainings with various trainers (1993, 1994, 1995)
• Training in Gestalt Therapy with Lidija Pecotic, Ph.D (1992-1995)
• Training in Transactional Analysis (1990/91)

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES :

Training

• Change Management - Grid Leadership Styles; Grid International, Austin, Texas, Trainer: Arno Schircks, 7 days course, April, 2002.
• Strategic Choices for Education Reform - Core Course of the World Bank Institute in cooperation with OSI - Budapest, Budapest, April, 2002.
• Network Building, Kulturkontakt-Austria, trainer Kristian Smid-Valdman and Snjezana Mrse, 06-07.06.2003 and 28-29.11.2003
  
  

AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:

• Member of the Serbian Association of Psychologists
• Member of the Serbian Association of  Literature Translators

LANGUAGES
Croatian (Mother tongue)
Serbian (Excellent)
English (Excellent)

CONTACT ADDRESSES

E-mail: yago@eunet.yu; gmiljevic@osi.hu

117, Nehruova str.
11070 Beograd, Serbia

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