Amy Keegan Email & Phone Number

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Project manager of the Global Mental Health Action Network, the largest global mental health advocacy network in the world with 1200 members from 90 countries. Grew membership of network by 400% in 18 months and.
• Developing and implementing a Network strategy, hosting annual meetings, ensuring the Network is active at global moments, managing budget, coordinating thematic working groups and chairing the advisory board.
• Policy lead for the Speak Your Mind campaign, a global mental health campaign with partners in 19 countries. Working with partners to draft policy positions, implement national advocacy strategies and engaging partners.
• Lead of a suicide decriminalisation campaign. This includes developing the initial concept for the campaign, bringing on board partner Thomson Reuters Foundation, leading the drafting of a legal research report and.
• Project management of consultancy with UNFPA, advising them on an upcoming mental health campaign. This includes producing a stakeholder analysis, hosting an expert convening and developing an advocacy strategy.
• Ensure up to date expert knowledge on the policy and political landscape of mental health in order to identify opportunities for UnitedGMH engagement.

• As part of my role as Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at United for Global Mental Health I coordinate the Global Mental Health Action Network. Key Responsibilities:
• Project manager of the Global Mental Health Action Network, the largest global mental health advocacy network in the world with 1200 members from 90 countries. Grew membership of network by 400% in 18 months and.
• Developing and implementing a Network strategy, hosting annual meetings, ensuring the Network is active at global moments, managing budget, coordinating thematic working groups and chairing the advisory board.

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead on all areas of CND parliamentary engagement including developing and implementing comprehensive parliamentary strategy.
• Manage Parliamentary CND group, a cross party informal group of over 100 MPs and peers. Ensure the network members are engaged, motivated and active.
• Work with the Parliamentary CND members to increase the profile of CND’s aims in parliament by submitting parliamentary questions, tabling EDMs, inputting into debates, coordinating letters to the government, hosting.
• Engage with UK delegation to the UN around key advocacy ‘moments’ including the Non Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Conference, feeding into policy development processes and organising joint events.
• Support international nuclear disarmament movement by working with relevant diplomatic missions in the UK, using the SDG agenda and coordinating with EU bodies to promote the UN Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear.

London, United Kingdom

• Build influence with key APPGs and groups working on education, health, gender, SDGs, disability.
• Ensure WaterAid is involved in parliamentary spaces and increase profile of WASH.
• Produce draft advocacy resources around key ‘moments’ including one pagers, briefings and content.
• Coordinate WaterAid advocacy around DFID's Global disability summit.
• Support on advocacy around DFID’s WASH approach update including coordinating organisation of UK WASH network workshop

London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Project lead on ‘WASHwatch’ a Gates Foundation funded online accountability platform for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector.
• Developed and implemented a three-year strategy in consultation with internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducting quantitative analysis of data and monitoring trends to strengthen the methodological approach of WASHwatch, ensuring the website presents high quality and robust data in an accessible format.
• In depth analysis of qualitative research including government policies, civil society reports and national WASH strategies.
• Lead on the development of the website and manage digital outreach including writing the website content, social media channels and blog.

Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

• Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and design projects in collaboration with local and international staff; producing project documents including logframes, activity plans, GAANT charts, budgets and funding proposals.
• Research best practice methodology and emerging innovations on service implementation for projects in areas such as sustainability, assimilating the information and compiling documents to inform better programming.
• Managing grants for projects, ensuring that the projects are running on time and on budget whilst adhering to donor requirements.
• Work in collaboration with local implementing partners to develop and design Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning frameworks tailored to different projects.
• Undertake regular monitoring and evaluation of projects on the ground, synthesising the results, analysing quantitative and qualitative data and producing reports and briefing papers for both internal and external use.

Greater New York City Area

• Key Responsibilities:
• Coordination of the Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC) bringing together civil society, multilateral organisations and academia with the shared goal of using ECD for peacebuilding working primarily with Yale.
• Representing UNICEF attending the ECPC conference and meeting in Istanbul, coordinating the schedule for the trip and producing the meeting report.
• Drafting an advocacy briefing paper linking ECD and peacebuilding in coordination with other cross cutting UNICEF departments including education, gender and disabilities.
• Attended technical peacebuilding and education meetings within UNICEF representing the ECD department and relaying notes to the ECD team.
• Assisting in the development, coordination and implementation of the 3 day UNICEF ECD global network strategy conference with 50 participants from 25 countries.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Managed five ‘Big Build’ volunteering projects in three countries. This included working with in country teams and offices to manage school improvement programs in Tanzania, building of educational centers with Berber.
• Managed and motivated over 250 volunteers to fundraise for the charity, working with a five person team to raise £1.79 million in a year.
• Organised engagement events coordinating speakers, running workshops and promoting the events. The events included development awards, internships, work placements, and focus groups for a national anti trafficking.
• Designed and coordinated the extensive training delivered to the Childreach International student team leaders including two residential weekends, extra training top ups and the team leader development award.
• Presented to over 1,000 students on the charity, international development, volunteering projects and fundraising.

Key Responsibilities: Represent the university at events for potential students answering any queries needed.Liaise with staff and students. Provided detailed tours and talks for potential students at university open days.

Key Responsibilities:Represent graduate promotions clients at key events at Queen's University.Hold promotional events for companies such as Deloitte and Ulster Bank advertising their graduate programmes to students.

Master Of Philosophy (Mphil), International Peace Studies

Activities and Societies: Graduate Students' Union Executive Committee member (Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Elected.

Ba International Politics And Conflict Studies, International Politics And Conflict Studies, Upper Second Class Honours

Activities and Societies: RAG (Raise and Give) Society Chair 2012-2013. Students Union Councillor 2012-2013. Politics Society Member.

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