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Billund, South Denmark, Denmark

Provides grant management support and program oversight to partners working in Africa and Asia, including learning through play projects in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, and Vietnam

Billund, Denmark

Supported implementation and served as the partner node for the cohort of grants under the Play Accelerator Initiative, which works with implementing partner NGOs and governments in embedding Learning Through Play in teacher professional development systems for primary school teachers and leaders.

Supported the Connecting Play and Education programme's Play Accelerator Initiative

Philippines

Provided technical inputs to basic education program design and development, technical presentations, and new business development tasks, as needed

Pasig City, Philippines

Provided technical leadership and management support to K-3 early grade reading program implementation in the Philippines covering eight public school divisions and benefiting 1.8 million learners. This included oversight of public school systems-embedded materials development and provision, teacher and school leadership Continuous Professional Development.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided technical assistance to Save the Children's global education programs with a focus on reading development and basic education access and quality.
• Led and supported a team of education specialists to provide focused technical assistance to country offices in adapting and/or implementing Literacy Boost, Save the Children’s signature program to improve early grades.
• Led and supported a team of education specialists to provide focused technical assistance to country offices in adapting and/or implementing Literacy Boost, Save the Children’s signature program to improve early grades.
• Developed additional training modules, materials or program components in support of literacy, mother tongue-based multilingual education, and learning outcomes improvement
• Assisted in program/project proposal development to expand Save the Children’s literacy and learning outcomes-focused programming
• Countries directly assisted include Rwanda, Nepal, Bangladesh, Mali, Malawi, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Burundi, Uganda Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided focused technical assistance to country offices in adapting and/or implementing Literacy Boost. Country programs assisted include: Mali, the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Malawi, Mozambique.
• Supported networking, advocacy and program development linked to Basic Education issues, with a focus on literacy, early grades learning, and language in education issues
• Served as technical backstop for sponsorship-funded basic education… Show more
• Served as technical backstop for sponsorship-funded basic education programs in Bangladesh and Afghanistan Show less

Manila, Philippines

• Led in programming and resource generation initiatives and provided overall direction to Early Childhood Development, Basic Education, School Health & Nutrition, Adolescent Learning, and Education in Emergencies.
• Provided technical support and supervision to National Specialists for Early Childhood Development and Basic Education in the design, monitoring and evaluation of sectoral programming.
• Provided technical oversight and supervision to grant-funded project teams… Show more
• Provided technical oversight and supervision to grant-funded project teams in Mindanao, including the USAID-funded ASCEND Mindanao program and its successor grant under EQuALLS2
• Liaised and coordinated with education program partners such as the Department of Education, UNICEF, Council for the Welfare of Children, Education Network, among others.
• Represented Save the Children in the National Early Childhood Care & Development (ECCD) Management Committee under the GRP’s Council for the Welfare of Children.

• Save the Children's REDI Team is composed of staff from various country offices worldwide. It provides “surge capacity” technical assistance to requesting field offices or emergency response operations. As an Education.
• Served as Georgia Country Office ECD and Education Advisor on temporary duty assignment, November – December 2008
• Led in the development of an emergency education program response to the Philippine Country… Show more Save the Children's REDI Team is composed of staff from various country offices worldwide. It provides “surge.
• Led in the development of an emergency education program response to the Philippine Country Office Southern Leyte Mudslides in February 2005
• During the Pakistan Emergency Response Team deployment from October to December 2005, provided the following technical assistance in the wake of the October 8 earthquake: Drafted a Training Module for Safe Play Spaces.

• DEPTH stands for Decentralized Professional Technical Help Team. The team provides additional technical assistance to requesting field offices and participates in strategic direction setting for the global Save the.
• Conducted a mid-term technical assistance program… Show more DEPTH stands for Decentralized Professional Technical Help Team. The team provides additional technical assistance to requesting field offices and.
• Conducted a mid-term technical assistance program review for Save the Children’s Vietnam Country Office in January 2007, focused on their ADB/Japan Social Development Fund Early Childhood Development Project in Quang.
• Participated in the US Programs sponsorship review of Southeast Area Office (SAO) programs, March 2008, to help assess technical/program design aspects of sponsorship-funded programming in partner elementary schools.
• Co-facilitated sessions in the 2008 Asia Area Education PLG focused on Literacy, held in Hanoi, Vietnam Show less

• Provided technical inputs in the design and development of basic education and life skills education-related programs in Save the Children (SC) impact areas in Metro Manila and West Visayas.
• Led in the design and development of Secondary Education interventions for adolescents, including school motivation/drop-out prevention programs, life skills-based life planning and citizenship workshops, youth-led.
• Led in the design and facilitation of… Show more
• Led in the design and facilitation of multi-stakeholder School Improvement Planning processes with SC’s partner public elementary and high schools, in support of the education decentralization thrust of the Department.
• Provided oversight in the design, implementation and evaluation of the Reading for Kids program, a reading remediation intervention fostering strong parent and community involvement in improving the skills of.
• Led in the monitoring and evaluation efforts for the Elementary/Secondary Education subsector, including the tracking of key education data and performance indicators of partner public schools.

• Provided oversight in the conduct of policy research on agrarian reform and rural development.
• Managed the different communications and public education initiatives of the institute, including the Rural Broadcasting program, the Community Communications Training program, and Rural Publications and Media Liaison.
• Provided technical inputs to the institute’s field office education and communications programs in the Visayas and Mindanao.

• Taught History of Journalism (Journalism 100) and Introduction to Journalism (Journalism 101) classes at the Department of Journalism.

• Wrote and edited articles for the institute’s in-house publications.
• Prepared project proposals and progress reports on community communications initiatives.
• Served as facilitator to the institute’s community communications outreach training programs.

Diploma In Language And Literacy Education

Master Of Public Administration, Public Policy And Program Management

Dean's List graduate, November 2000

Ba Communication, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Senior Editor - Philippine Collegian (1987-1989), Internal Secretary - UP Journalism Club (1986) Graduated cum.