International

Next Meeting
RESERVE A SPOT
Date:
Wednesday April 12, 2023 3:00pm - 4:00pm US/Eastern
Location:
Zoom
Agenda:

Title: Adapting to the Curve in a Rising San Francisco, CA Bay

Speaker: Larry Goldzband, Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

 

Presentation:
Not to be confused with ACDC or its song “Hell or High Water,” BCDC is a California state commission founded in 1965 to regulate development in and around San Francisco Bay.  During the past decade, its role has pivoted from being almost entirely a regulatory and permitting organization concerned with limiting fill and providing maximum feasible public access to the Bay to also being the Bay Area’s leader in developing a regional response to the rising sea levels that threaten an area of 8 million people in the world’s fourth largest economy.  In 2011 BCDC implemented the Nation’s first regulatory program to mandate science-based rising sea level vulnerability analyses of proposed developments in the Bay and around the Bay shoreline and adaptation responses to those vulnerabilities.  Since then, BCDC also has led a voluntary program to create a Bay-wide regional shoreline rising sea level adaptation plan.

Speaker's bio:
Larry Goldzband has worked for members of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, was Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary for former Governor Pete Wilson, and was Director of the California Department of Conservation.  In the private sector, he managed Pacific Gas and Electric Company's charitable contributions program for over ten years, which provided almost $20M in grants annually and was Executive Director of the PG&E Corporation Foundation.  In addition, Larry twice served as a Commissioner on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) for almost ten years and served as Vice-Chair of the California State Coastal Conservancy.

In July 2012, Larry was appointed Executive Director of BCDC.  He manages all of the Commission’s affairs, directs the staff in implementing the Commission’s laws, regulations, and policies, enables staff to lead successful regulatory, planning, and policy programs, works with disparate stakeholders to forge agreements on difficult policy choices, leads efforts to increase BCDC’s productivity and efficiency, and acts as the chief bridge between BCDC and the California Natural Resources Agency.

In addition to his professional career, Goldzband continues to be active in the community.  He helped lead the formation of Justice Outside, the leading nonprofit organization devoted to providing nature-based experiences for underserved youth, is a former chair of the Board of Directors of Coro Northern California, is a former Treasurer of the Contra Costa Jewish Community Center, served as the Co-Chair of the Finance and Operations Committee of the Board of Jewish Vocational Services, and has been an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University.

Goldzband earned his B.A. in Government from Pomona College in Claremont, CA and his M.B.A. (Finance and Managerial Economics) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.  He is married to an extremely strong, successful, and patient wife who is a leading corporate attorney in the Bay Area, and their son is a college freshman.

 


 
 

 

Description

Welcome to the group! We hope this group will prove to be extremely active and aggressive in networking and provide high quality job leads all over the world. The responses we've had thus far, from all over the globe, are a good indicator of the value you are already placing on this new and developing SIG. It is your group and we hope that besides the traditional strength of FENG networking, th...

Welcome to the group!

We hope this group will prove to be extremely active and aggressive in networking and provide high quality job leads all over the world. The responses we've had thus far, from all over the globe, are a good indicator of the value you are already placing on this new and developing SIG. It is your group and we hope that besides the traditional strength of FENG networking, this group, in particular, will prove itself as an invaluable resource to us all; wherever we may find ourselves. Certainly, the composite experiences, globally speaking, are beyond just impressive!

This group is not just focusing exclusively on overseas positions, both contractual and permanent, but also on any US domestic positions that are international in scope. Obviously, there potentially exists an overlap here with the normal posting to the national FENG group but the probable worst-case scenario is that you get notified twice!

Like any evolving group, there needs to be some form of structure put in place so that, for us all, it is seen as seamlessly working and adding value over and above all those other networks and groups already established and functioning. Just being a FENG group per se is not good enough!

JOB LEADS:

The suggestions we are putting forward are not intended to be viewed as dictatorial or burdening, but rather to make the process work better for us all. Certainly, we are in the draft stages and open to either outright rejection of an idea or welcome modifications.

We would like to ask that before you submit any international job lead(s), you complete the following:
1. Job Title:
2. Location/Country
3. Salary
4. Languages required (if any)
5. Any mandatory prior experience (a few words)
6. Length of assignment (contractual only)
7. Contact Person, email address / telephone#

Naturally, not all this information is available for every job lead, but the thinking is that as we grow the number of leads hopefully will increase significantly and this process will help us all rapidly identify potential matches without needing to read unnecessary and often long job descriptions. How many of you have read long international job descriptions/details, only to find somewhere in the last paragraph that you need fluency in Russian etc.? This process attempts to expedite the identification of critical requirements immediately. Commonsense, of course, dictates that where only scant information is available then just submit as is!! We hope you have enjoyed seeing those leads we've already forwarded to you, though the procedures need a little smoothing still.

OUR VOLUNTEERS AND LOCAL MEETINGS/NETWORKING:

Local area coordinators:
We hope that local groups can be established with at least monthly meetings of the International SIG members being part of the local FENG network group meetings.

SOURCES OF LEADS:

We're hoping that all members will share any good internet sites and/or recruiters that focus on international assignments. We need you to encourage your contacts (and internal Corporate resources) to use this group to get overseas candidates for either contractual or permanent opportunities, much the way that FENG national works today, only difference being the focus.

Unfortunately, the economy has also taken a toll on what previously were excellent international job sites, so don't become frustrated with apparently dead-end web-links. Also, some sites (www.overseasjobs.com) may occasionally post an unbelievably great job in finance but most of the time you'll see nothing or jobs in catering etc, like fishing I guess, you have to keep trying and monitoring the site regularly!

FINALLY:

If you come across any information that could be helpful to international folks then please pass that along as well.

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