Ashlea Brewer Email & Phone Number

London

Emergency Response Management• Provide direct and agile advisory support to Response Management Teams, including coordination across internal stakeholders to resolve issues and align efforts.• Coordinate the timely review, approval, disbursement, tracking and reporting of emergency funding to country programmes.• Advise and support on development and roll out of the Humanitarian Strategy and Humanitarian Framework. • Support response teams with resource mobilization during first phase emergencies, including proposal writing.• Deploy into emergencies, remotely or in-country, to fill critical management gaps as required.Preparedness Management• Lead the development, dissemination and institutionalization of War Child’s Preparedness Framework and Tools• Capture, coordinate and drive the completion of organizational and country-level preparedness actions, arising from annual planning and preparedness planning exercises• Lead preparedness planning workshops with high-risk country offices, supporting teams in the development of Emergency Preparedness and Contingency Plans

• Responsible for the effective management of programme delivery across War Child UK country programme, ensuring a good understanding of key donor accounts and contractual requirements, feeding into the development of proposals, project designs and outreach plans. • Contributed to the development of country strategies and annual plans in line with the broader organisation strategic vision.• Led on the development and roll-out of a global Grant Management Policy, and accompanying tools and systems for the future War Child Alliance, aligning multiple organisational approaches, leading consultations and trainings with global programming teams and securing buy-in with senior leadership whilst ensuring robust risk management and compliance. • Led a team of Programme Operations Coordinators, providing a point of escalation to ensure strong support is provided to country teams to manage grants and projects in line with donor expectations and best practice. • Maintained oversight of monthly and quarterly funding budgets and reporting processes, feeding into internal management communicationKey Achievements:. • Introduction and roll-out of a number of key cross-organisation processes, including travel and security protocols, budget templates (to better measure cost recovery) and partnership toolkit.• Provided mentorship and guidance to three immediate direct reports over the course of their time at War Child, contributing to their successful promotion and transition into new roles in the War Child Alliance

• Responsible for the operational management of ISD’s Youth programme, overseeing contracting, partnerships, risks, finances and grant management with key institutional donors across all live projects.• Led fundraising for and strategic development of ISD’s Youth programme, including coordinating proposal writing and prospect research, developing strategic plans, and building ToCs, log frames and budgets. • Coordinated the review and revision of cross-organisation policies and processes, working with colleagues in different to teams to ensure polices are fit for purpose, remain relevant and flexible for a growing organisation whilst ensuring contractual compliance for all donor funded work.Key Achievements:• Complete revision of ISD’s core youth project operations, introducing new budget templates, partner contracts and monitoring structures to identify significant underspends and opportunities for additional programming. Successfully negotiated a contract extension worth £500,000 with the largest programme donor. • Introduction and roll-out of a number of key cross-organisation processes, including travel and security protocols, budget templates (to better measure cost recovery) and partnership toolkit.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for end-to-end grant management for all Saferworld projects across the Asia region, covering programming in eight different contexts and overseeing a portfolio worth approximately £4million per year• Programme and strategy development – Actively involved in the development of programme strategies, cross-organisation policies and project proposals, working with teams across the organisation, especially country teams, to develop context relevant and ambitious implementation frameworks

London, England, United Kingdom

• Programme development – coordinate the revision of current project plans in light of the changing context to ensure activities are feasible, relevant and safe for partners and staff to implement. Revise country strategy and longer-term plans to speak to evolving crisis context. • Line management – line manage the Myanmar Programme Manager, focusing on wellbeing as well as successful completion of objectives in light of current contextual challenges.

London, United Kingdom

* Project Fundraising – compile funding applications including the preparations of proposals, log-frames, and budgets for donors including the UK government and EU * Identify funding opportunities for projects and organisational core support * Grant Management – support project teams across Saferworld’s Asia regional programme and Policy and Advocacy department, to manage relationships with donors and ensure accurate and quality reports are submitted on time

Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

Project Development – research into community needs and innovative global health methodologies, and collaboration with partner NGO Malagasy staff to design community led, sustainable health focused interventions in MadagascarProject Fundraising – donor researching and funding applications for health and WASH projects including preparing log-frames, theories of change and budgets for institutional donors and trusts & foundations. Lead in developing new fundraising strategies for SEED Madagascar including the design and launch of individual giving and emergency relief with additional logistics responsibilities.

London, United Kingdom

Supporter acquisition - project managing direct mailing appeals, writing and designing fundraising materials, delivering training to face-to-face fundraisers and maintaining relationships with external agencies. Supporter retention - coordinating unique product linking donors to volunteers: building excellent relationships with long term volunteers to collect their stories and photos to create inventive mailing updates to send to direct debit donors.

Build rapport with supporters to deepen engagement with Oxfam using excellent customer communication skills and an extensive knowledge of Oxfam and wider international development work. Lead specialist in key areas, sharing knowledge and training other team members in core processes.

Research and secure celebrity support for events and campaigns following briefs given from teams across the charity. Maintain internal team database and clippings file.

Master'S Degree, Geography, Distinction

Masters degree investigating the role of social causes in disasters and the role of international development. Modules also covered risk.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Philosophy, First Class (Hons)

Activities and Societies: Amnesty International, Yoga Society, Philosophy SocietyDegree modules included environmental ethics.