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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

-Bolster business development by researching and writing briefs recommending donors the organization could consider building or deepening existing relationships to diversify funding sources.-Strengthen fundraising capacity across the organization by leading the development, maintenance, and dissemination of training materials for proposal and concept note writing. -Deliver in-country and virtual training sessions around fundraising strategies and best practices, independently conducting training with five Sub-Saharan African country teams in 2023 (Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya).

Idaho Falls

-Serve as a key point person at the organization for key donor institutional memory and assistance in meeting strict donor requirements in the proposal development process.-Research and write donor briefs outlining the strategy and areas of overlap for new potential donors to the organization for senior leadership to consider.-Manage the organization’s primary Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform, Salesforce, by ensuring key proposal submissions and donor intel information are updated and maintained.

Greater Boston Area

-Provide ongoing technical support for proposal development in nutrition, ehealth interventions, and maternal, infant and child health.

Kano, Nigeria

-Managed a diverse portfolio of public health projects within the Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Department, including nutrition interventions, infectious disease surveillance, and vaccine cold chain equipment.-Built and maintained high-level relationships with key executives at the Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board (KSPHCMB), achieving their support to launch two new cold chain equipment field pilots to explore alternative options for safe vaccine storage in energy-poor environments. Provided daily project status updates to Global Good/Intellectual Ventures, a remote based client in the United States.-Translated qualitative and quantitative project data into clear reports to the KSPHCMB to explain key advantages of the new cold chain technologies over existing equipment, sparking cold chain and vaccine delivery policy discussions with the Board. -Collaborated with Director of Maternal & Infant Health Consulting to create monitoring and evaluation frameworks for proposals; nutrition interventions for women and children under 5 years of age; and research protocol documentation and knowledge management.-Applied technical knowledge of nutrition, agriculture, vaccine cold chain logistics, infectious disease, Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and monitoring and evaluation methodologies to funding proposals to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH).-Developed Knowledge, Attitude & Practice (KAP) surveys for use with Open Data Kit (ODK) to collect baseline and end-line information from OFSP pilot study participants. Brainstormed Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) strategies to encourage OFSP uptake in participants' households.-Wrote or edited abstracts, posters, and papers for various international public health conferences including the 2016 International Conference on Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing (QDET2).

Abuja, Nigeria

-Managed strategy and technical aspects of an innovative pilot study assessing the coverage and health impact of combining malaria prophylaxis with a nutritional supplement (Plumpy'Doz™) that reached 7,000 children under 2 years of age in seven wards of Madobi Local Government Area (LGA), Kano State, Nigeria. -Led a nested case-control component of the study, enrolling over 380 children across 13 health facilities in participating study wards. -Partnered with health facility staff to oversee data collection quality, including anthropometric measurements and household information. Applied a critical eye for detail to catch missing or unclear information for follow-up. -Tailored a standardized Household Food Insecurity Access questionnaire by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) that was administered to the heads of household at project baseline, mid-line, and end-line. -Translated project data into policy memos and cost-effectiveness analysis reports for the project donor, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Participated in monthly project update calls with CIFF representatives.-Drafted a comprehensive Monitoring & Evaluation plan for a grant proposal ($9 million USD) to the Dangote Foundation for project scale-up to 2.5 million children under-5 in Kano.-Contributed technical knowledge on Infant & Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Support to other nutrition initiatives in Nigeria as well as to funding proposals.-Represented CHAI in high-level meetings with government stakeholders at the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) in Nigeria in addition to working group meetings for the Saving One Million Lives Initiative Program-for-Results (PforR) Project for Nigeria, funded by the World Bank.-Represented CHAI in international meetings in Niger and Uganda with partners including Malaria Consortium, UNICEF, WHO, Save the Children, and Médecins Sans Frontières.

Greater Boston Area

-Served as a nutrition expert and company spokesperson to a growing, fast-paced start-up company. -Exercised an entrepreneurial mindset by directly calling machinery manufacturers and raw product distributors to determine, and negotiate prices for, required tools and ingredients to create new product lines.-Marketed and represented the company with major corporations including Google and Amazon, as well as at a Social Entrepreneurship event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Greater Boston Area

-Supervised two project coordinators to achieve study recruitment goals for a severe asthma research study within a national, seven institution partnership. -Prepared reports and statistics on research participant enrollment for weekly and monthly office and network-wide meetings. -Learned clinical skills including phlebotomy and spirometry.

-Brokered relationships with school principals and teachers to secure study sites for the Daily D Health Study, a vitamin D supplementation research study targeting urban middle school children from racially and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. -Managed research data collection activities, producing the evidence base for published policy memos and scientific papers on the benefit of vitamin D supplementation during winter months in the northeast United States. -Organized and led multiple training sessions for over 15 graduate students on anthropometric measurement protocols; managed team of graduate research assistants during data collection field work. -Communicated study progress to project stakeholders including school administrators and parents.

Greater Boston Area

-Co-developed a competitive foods policy to be implemented in all Boston public schools by Fall 2011. -Conducted formative research for the policy through best practices research as well as through focus groups with various community stakeholders including school teachers, students, and non-profit partners. -Represented the Department of Health and Wellness at various state and local public health advocacy events.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Wrote the 'Hunger-Free Community Toolkit' designed to assist members of Congress implement the 'Hunger-Free' program in their home districts. -Met with two members of Congress to lobby their support for policies protecting childhood nutrition initiatives and low-income families, particularly the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act” of 2010.-Prepared briefs, memos, and other materials in response to 2010 Hunger Message Poll results to build political will for food security among members of Congress and partner organizations. -Learned about new initiatives in rice fortification, community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and other interventions to improve food security and childhood survival through seminars hosted by partner organizations.-Liaised with donor organizations and partners to strengthen their commitment to the Alliance to End Hunger.-Authored June - August 2010 Alliance newsletters using Microsoft Office Publisher.

Boston

-Co-authored policy recommendations to the BPHC to link fresh fruit and vegetable suppliers and bodegas owners in support of a new program, the Corner Store Initiative, to eradicate fresh food deserts in targeted low-income neighborhoods. -Engaged in community outreach by contacting local fruit and vegetable suppliers and distributors to increase participation in the Corner Store Initiative.

Greater Boston Area

-Managed research related tasks for three principal investigators including tracking grant budgets, assisting in the federal grant submission process, conducting literature reviews and other administrative duties. -Assisted in the implementation of various nutrition interventions targeting health disparities among low-income populations in the greater Boston area.

Norwell, Massachusetts

-Managed permit portfolios for a major northeast telecommunications client and other private sector clients.-Performed extensive research of both Massachusetts town and state environmental regulations to write environmental impact reports for submission to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.-Presented permit applications on behalf of private sector clients to town regulatory boards for approval.

M.S, Food Policy And Applied Nutrition

Specialization- Nutrition Interventions: Design, Operation & Management

B.S, Environmental Science And Management

Dean's List Coastal Fellowship recipient to conduct and publish original research (2004): "Using Benthic Macro-Invertebrates to Assess.