• Managed a portfolio of awards from USAID, USDA, private foundations, and other donors. • Wrote and edited a range of professional communications from informal donor correspondence to technical proposals, training manuals, and guides for internal and external audiences.• Ensured timely start-up, implementation progress, and award close-out, including management of cash flow, amendments, compliance, and donor reporting, in both technical and financial areas.• Led business development efforts on more than a dozen small and large bids, from scoping to final submission, serving in a number of roles including Coordinator, Cost Lead, and Lead Writer. • Recruited, trained, and coached new staff for headquarters and field offices.• Served in a leadership role as part of the Africa Division Senior Management team, Compensation Working Group Committee, and Capacity Development Center steering committee.

• Supported programs in Jordan, Mali, Benin, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire• Provided regular technical, financial, administrative, and documentation support for country offices.• Maintained donor relationships, prepared technical and financial reports, and ensured compliance. • Developed business proposals as part of a team for a wide-range of donors, including USAID, USDA, USDOL, and UNICEF, as well as smaller foundations.• Developed communications materials, wrote technical briefs based on current programs, and represented World Education at several conferences and workshops. • Guided project start-up and close-out activities including procurement and disposition of assets.

FIELDS: International Development, Humanitarian Assistance- Performed basic econometric analyses on survey data collected by Concern Worldwide to evaluate the effectiveness of a blanket feeding project in the Tahoua region of Niger. - Compiled and cleaned market data to assess the impact of unconditional cash transfers on food commodity prices.- Mapped GPS coordinates of treatment and control villages for Concern and created a cloud-based linked-template to organize background information. - Oversaw the entry of approximately 2,000 household surveys, validated the accuracy of the data in MS Access, and acted as a liaison between the lead researcher and the data entry team. - Prepared research materials in Niamey and helped to coordinate field testing in over 100 villages for the final evaluations of a Catholic Relief Services’ adult literacy and numeracy program. - Designed and updated a project budget, accounted for project expenses, and managed disbursements to local vendors.

FIELDS: Consequence Management, Emergency Response, Disaster Relief- Co-directed a leadership development program for a 2,600-person business unit.- Prepared, organized, and administered over a dozen exercises, seminars, and conferences between federal, state, local, and foreign audiences, which ranged in size from a dozen participants from one agency to over 1,000 participants from a dozen departments and nations.- Co-developed an assessment software program for DHS, the Preparedness Assessment Tool, which evaluated the ability of local jurisdictions to manage emergency events.- Designed and implemented a decision support program to expedite crisis action planning for foreign consequence management at U.S. Africa Command. - Administered and coordinated an annual National Defense University elective for senior officials on conducting emergency response to catastrophic events, at home and abroad.- Assisted with the management of databases and SharePoint, internal and at our customer’s site, on both SIPR and NIPR nets.- Wrote papers on nuclear terrorism and emergency response to chemical and radiological incidents for a NATO Center of Excellence conference in Ankara, Turkey which were later published.- Wrote a series of self-directed, knowledge assessments based on DOD policies, plans, procedures, or guidelines governing consequence management, to evaluate and train new employees.- Created a half-dozen realistic emergency scenarios to drive training and tabletop exercises for consequence management.- Compiled and edited the weekly and monthly task order reports for 100+ employee division.- Created and delivered a course of instruction on national nuclear weapons incident response procedures to several iterations of the Consequence Management Advisory Team (CMAT) training.- Briefed internal and external audiences on project status updates, changes in relevant plans, policies, or procedures, and lessons learned.

FIELDS: Resource Management, Agroforestry, Education, Food Security, Agriculture - Managed the construction of a $30,000, three-classroom secondary school from project proposal to completion, ahead of schedule and under budget.- Obtained letters of permission, assistance, and/or financial support from local and regional government representatives, non-profits, Peace Corps staff, and village leaders, to successfully construct and staff a secondary school. - Designed a community field and grain bank along with village representatives which yielded over two tons of millet to combat seasonal food insecurity.- Served on the Volunteer Advisory Committee and acted as a liaison between the volunteer community and bureau staff.- Assisted local tree growers in organizing and receiving legal recognition of their group, the Association des Planteurs des Arbes de Golobiladji (APAG), which planted over 1,000 trees in town and built a community tree nursery. - Worked with officials from Malitel to test a yagi cellular antenna and Malitel receiver in Golobiladji to attempt to bring reliable cellular communication to the village. - Researched and wrote two successful grant proposals which secured funding from the USAID Small Projects Assistance fund and Peace Corps Partnership- Managed correspondence with all project donors, including email and written status updates and budgetary information. - Taught a series of formal and informal natural resource management classes. - Served as a councilor for youth camps in Sikasso and Kita on health topics, including HIV/AIDS, sexual transmitted infections, waterborne diseases, and the importance of water sanitation and personal hygiene. - Raised over $50,000 for Peace Corps projects in Mali.- Co-hosted a weekly radio show in Kita in Bambara on public health, environmental protection, and social issues, utilizing skits, dialogues, and popular American music.

FIELDS: Education, Environment- Coordinated and administered mailings to organization members and donors. - Managed communications between the organization and prospective students and donors. - Incorporated and coded constituent information into the Raiser's Edge database. - Verified and updated contact information.

FIELDS: Engineering, Local Government- Co-designed and organized civil engineering projects, including a controlled dam breach and demolition. - Learned and utilized AutoCad and CityScape design tools. - Organized a filing system for legal documents and As-Builts, dating back a decade. - Gained practical knowledge of bureaucratic jurisdictions and constraints.