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• Leading the management team of the Help Centres for Foreigners, providing guidance, mentoring and professional development opportunities to 9 team leaders, managing a total of 60 staff,• Establish and enforce project management methodologies and best practices in the Help Centres for Foreigners in Warsaw, Łódź and Łomża,• Develop and implement project management strategies, processes and tools to ensure successful project initiation, planning and implementation.• Work with partners and donors to define project objectives, scope and deliverables, ensuring compliance with foundation objectives and standards,• Oversee the allocation of resources, including staff, budget and equipment, to projects based on priorities and project needs,• Project writing and reporting, monitoring project progress, identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies.• Analysing the migration situation and designing projects that best meet the needs of migrants and refugees in Poland.• Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where all team members feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve their full potential.

• Drawing up development plans for the foundation,• Substantive supervision of the foundation's finances,• Developing advocacy strategies,• Fundrising & donor compliance,• Carrying out intervention activities on the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021,• Adapting the activities of the Help Centres for Foreigners to the unexpected situation of the entry of millions of refugees fleeing from Ukraine in 2022,• Patnership management (INGO, NGO, public administration, EU umbrella organisations, business),• Preparation and implementation of changes to the organisational structure, adaptation of the foundation's activities in the context of an increase in employment to 130 full-time staff.• Acting as a child safeguarding officer at the foundation.

Responsibilities 2018 - 2023• Managing the Help Center for Foreigners in Warsaw: • leading 4 multicultural teams, 30 employees, • developing a detailed plan of the center, defining the scope of the center, understanding risks and assigning team members to specific tasks, • budget management, • securing growth opportunities and initiating new projects, • managing center's progress and adapt work as required, • content-related coordination of activities in the Asylum Migration and Iintegration Fund projectsResponsibilities 2015 - 2018• Projects Management: • Preparation of grant applications (EU & national funds). • Coordinated educational project "Anti-discrimination education in NGOs". • Conducted workshops on migration, Arab culture, Muslim world. • Coordinated a study trip to Stavanger, Norway.Achievements• Raised over 4 million PLN (900 000 EUR) for the Foundation's activities.

Conducting the substantive evaluation of applications under the Active Citizens Fund – National programme.

• Conducted classes: The Arab Spring - the causes, process, effects; Middle Eastern Migrations.• March 2016, Tunisia – field research on women's rights after the Arab Spring.• July – November 2015, Egypt – field research in the framework of “Islamism and Pluralism - The Islamist Movements in Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Spring” project.• October 2013 - February 2014 Cairo University, Egypt – field research on women's movements after the Arab Spring.

Responsibilities• Coordinating the national project "Counselling and Career - Network of Professional and Social Activation for People with Disabilities":• Running a project office in Warsaw,• Supervision of 6 regional offices, management of a team of 24 employees,• Ensuring the correct implementation of the project, reporting, accounting,• Writing applications for co-financing of projects.

Responsibilities• Support for the project "Integrated System of Support for the Social Economy" implemented under the Operational Programme Human Capital, Priority I. Employment and Social Integration, Measure 1.2 Support for Systemic Institutions of Social Promotion and Integration, co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund.

Responsibilities• Coordinated grant competitions in KOLUMB programme and HUMBOLDT programme: • collecting applications, formal evaluation, supervision of the assessment, • organizing meetings of the experts panel, • creating a project budget, • constant contact with candidates, scholarship holders and reviewers, • preparation of competition documentation, • handling the application database, • reporting.• Prepared international conference “Science & Art in Europe”, 12-14 May 2010.Achievements• Carried out 4 editions of the KOLUMB programme, in which 37 grants were awarded for a total amount of over 4 million PLN (900 000 EUR).

Responsibilities• Coordinated cycle of seminars and conferences “The role and model of foundations in Poland and in Europe”: contacted with panelists, budgeting, logistics, prepared final report.• Organized of the General Meetings of Members and Meetings of the Board.Achievements• Prepared and printed publication "The role and model of foundation in Poland and in Europe": contact with panelists, organization of translations; contact with a printing house, graphic designer, proofreader; distribution of publications among nongovernmental organizations and public administration.

Responsibilities• Coordinated European Seminaries – course for students of Warsaw University: prepared thesis for every fortnight lecture, invited specialists, scientists, journalists as lecturers.• Media Coordinator during Schuman Parade 2007.