Bryan M. S. Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Co-lead the development, planning, implementation, and monitoring of HU’s strategic peacebuilding goals,programming priorities, and acquisition of resources to achieve objectives and results.• Co-designed the 45-million-dollar Powered by the People Initiative (PXP) with USAID; PXP was incorporated into the Biden Administration’s Presidential Initiative on Democratic Renewal;o Established, resourced, and manage a three-million-dollar (and growing) public-private partnership with USAID and European bilaterals, multiple foundations, to scale PXP globally to expand democratic resilience and human rights;o Work with USAID Front Office to raise both resources and awareness of public-private partnership;o Building a 25-member global team.• Building an “intermestic” movement strategy that blends support for Western and non-Western democrats to work together to dismantle pillars of authoritarianism;• Co-design organization-wide policy and advocacy strategy and communication, including special projects concerning the US Government and the United Nations• Co-develop Humanity United’s strategy to cultivate and manage relationships with senior-level stakeholders including donors, leaders, champions, and implementing partners across sectors and the globe;• Co-lead and provide guidance on multiple intra-HU committees responsible for developing an HU-wide organizational strategy; co-developing HU’s rapid response programming; and developing grant making principles that bolster our diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice principles.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Conceptualize, lead, and implement HU’s Inclusive Peace Process funding strategy (objectives, budget, learning, internal/external communications, and management of grantees and contractors). The strategy leverages small, yet highly flexible, funds that emphasize rapid response, calculated risk-taking, and innovation that bridges nonviolent action, peacebuilding, and democratic governance programming during windows of opportunity. This includes co-creating impactful locally-led political transition initiatives in Belarus, Myanmar, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, for example; • Cultivate, leverage, and connect individuals and teams remotely across multiple sectors and countries to influence elite bargains and political processes through greater inclusion and representation; • Liaise with key stakeholders in the policy community: USG (State, Treasury, NSC, USAID, Congress), EU, and African policymakers, and public and private partners in Washington, DC and abroad; specific working group memberships include: Zimbabwe Working Group; Sudan Working Group; Myanmar Donors Forum; NED Kleptocracy Working Group; and Social Movement Cluster (Oxfam/LSE); Global Democracy Coalition Steering Committee Member.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Built, led, and raised the resources and networks to implement overall strategy for Freedom House’s southern Africa programs.• Hired, managed, mentored, trained, and evaluated highly diverse and motivated teams in South Africa and Washington, DC. Created a collaborative environment that encouraged agility and learning to improve the performance of our staff, contractors, and local partners in multiple countries in highly complex and dangerous environments; o 12 South Africa-based staff; 2 HQ-based staff; and multiple contractors and grantees;• Served as acting project director, and represented Freedom House’s mission and values among regional/country donors, policymakers, diplomatic corps, public and private partners in Washington, DC and focus countries;• Analyzed complex political, socio-economic, and cultural developments and challenges, funding priorities that led to raising $10 million dollars for conflict prevention/mitigation, access to justice, and DRG programming in the region; • Designed and co-led ‘Mitigating Xenophobic Violence’, a $4.2 million USAID cooperative agreement that supported new policy responses by the South African parliament, Cabinet, and UNDP; • Designed and supervised the Mozambique: Violence, Refugees, and the Luwani Camp research and advocacy initiative; and• Managed closeout process for Justice as a Right in Southern Africa, a five-year, $8 million cooperative agreement with USAID.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Built, led, and raised the resources for IRI’s political party strengthening program in Nigeria and citizen-driven peacebuilding and governance initiatives in southern Africa and the Central African Republic.• Analyzed complex political, socio-economic, and cultural developments and challenges, funding priorities, and strategic direction for Nigeria and southern Africa programs in collaboration with local partners;• Led the design and dissemination plan of the first baseline study of Zimbabwean’s attitudes and understanding of the 2013 constitution that served to underpin country assessments and civic education objectives of bilateral-aid institutions and advocacy and civic education initiatives among local partners; • Co-designed the Political Party Conflict Management Assistance Program, an effort to institutionalize structures that could mitigate intra- and inter-party conflict in Nigeria; and • Supervised, trained, and mentored 4 program assistants, multiple interns, contractors and grantees.

• Briefing of diplomatic corps in South Africa and Zimbabwe on recent developments and security sector transformation in Zimbabwe;• Research, advocacy, and fundraising strategy development for the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO), a regional peacebuilding CSO promoting dialogue in Zimbabwe and South Africa;• Namibia reviewer for the Open Data Barometer with the World Wide Web Foundation;• Developed criteria and indicators to serve as structure for the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) scorecard of South African Members of Parliament and Parliamentary Portfolio Committees.

Cape Town, South Africa

• Co-authored Restrictive Measures and Zimbabwe, of which some recommendations for the calibrated removal of sanctions were adopted by the European Union in July 2012.• Facilitated training workshops aimed at strengthening the draft constitution produced by the Law Society of Zimbabwe. This draft Declaration of Rights was adopted by COPAC andincorporated into the current constitution;• Developed research and analysis frameworks of core SITO projects, evaluated and provided strategic support to donor organizations aimed at strengthening capacity of local civics within countries in transition; • Developed and managed the Democracy Index Series, a quantitative, in country, civil-society led, monitoring tool in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; and• Comprehensive financial management including: budgeting, fundraising, funder relationship management, financial planning and accountability, and partner identification and liaison, including AusAID, DFID, and various local Embassy funds.

• Assist the development of an emerging youth leadership and development program for South African university students including student selection, curriculum development and community service projects;• Responsible for soliciting financial support through various foundations and government agencies;• Submit policy briefs to Board of Directors in USA and South Africa in order to reach set goals and maintain relevant curriculum and organizational strategies;• Assist in the establishment of a permanent Board of Directors, sub-committees and Advisory Board;• Supervise Executive Director;• Engage members of Congress, the State Department and other international professionals, leaders, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

• Manage $5.4 million dollar grant portfolio for Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Somalia, Somaliland and Ethiopia, including review of proposals, grant negotiation, award, compliance monitoring, administration and closeout;• Participate in review of proposals to identify potential programmatic and technical concerns and ensure that any compliance issues arising under prior awards to renewal grantees are adequately addressed;• Review grantee financial and narrative reports to identify and resolve budget, compliance and/or other problems.

• Prepare proposals and reports that detail NED’s democracy assistance work in developing countries;• Coordinate the Endowment’s quarterly grant cycle;• Supervised two Program Coordination Assistants in the implementation of the quarterly grant cycles;• Develop and implement protocols to enhance organizational structure and capacity.

Phd, Peace Studies And Conflict Resolution

My research sought to examine how civil society and political leadership within Zimbabwe impacted land policy as well as land policy’s.

M.A, International Conflict Analysis

Dissertation: Assessing the impact of ‘bottom-up’ conflict resolution methods in Africa: The case of Liberia.

Ba, International Affairs And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Honors: Cum Laude Activities: Student Judicial Hearing Board Member (OSCCR), Student Government Association.