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Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Overall Duties Provided technical and operational support to the Secretariat’s country-facing activities and provide back-up support to Country Team Leads in country-level work related to education policy and supporting education systems transformation in Tanzania Mainland, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Angola, Timor-Leste, Somalia.

Puerto Rico (remotely Home based)

Overall Duties: Co-Lead the Global Education Cluster's (GEC's) capacity strengthening work, including the Global Education Cluster core skills training. Provide operational support and guidance to humanitarian coordination mechanisms at the field level to ensure predictable, well-coordinated and equitable provision of education in emergency for children.

Dakar Region, Senegal

Overall duties: Provided overall technical oversight and guidance to developing strategies and carrying out workplan related to the large-scale USAID -funded program’s three outcomes: 1) improving instruction on early grade reading, 2) improving delivery systems for better early grade reading instruction, and 3) increasing family and community engagement.

Bamako, Mali

Overall duties: Oversaw quality education component of UNICEF’s Annual Work Plan in partnership with the Ministry of Education in Mali by providing technical assistance and leadership for strengthening in- service teacher training platforms, improving learning assessments, and reinforcing local school management through better analysis and application of.

Dakar Region, Senegal

Overall duties: Provided support to the regional portfolio of Education in Emergencies (EiE) across 12 countries. ( Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Cabo Verde, Tchad)Main achievements: Reinforced EiE coordination by co-leading the regional EiE.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Co-lead the education cluster with Save the Children as well as provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Mass and Primary Education and the Ministry of Disaster Management in order to strengthen the.
• Provided technical assistance to the Government of Bangladesh in mainstreaming Education in Emergencies and Disaster Risk Reduction as well as contextualizing the Inter-Agency Network Work for Education in Emergency.
• Served as part of multi sectorial technical team that designed country specific MoRES (Monitoring Results for Equity Systems) approach to identify bottlenecks in service delivery across Nutrition, Child Protection.
• Provided comprehensive technical support to the Chief of Education to ensure efficient communication and coordination between the Country Office and the Zonal Office Education Teams, in order to ensure adequate.
• Provided technical assistance to the Chief of Education and Program Managers to monitor grant utilization as well as drafting and finalization of major donor reports and internal UNICEF reporting.
• Managed the Education Sections Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation Plan including provision of technical and backstopping support to ensure smooth coordination of the Technical Evaluation Committees and timely.

Nimba County, Liberia

Over all duties: Provide strategic direction and technical expertise for designing, implementing, and monitoring Save the Children’s education in emergencies (EiE) response to the Ivorian Refugee Crisis in Nimba County, Liberia. Serve as the Co- Education Cluster Coordinator for the sub-national EiE working group in Nimba County. Main achievements.

Port-au-Prince, Département De l'Ouest, Haiti

Over all duties: Provide strategic direction and technical expertise for designing, implementing, and monitoring Plan International’s curriculum and training portfolio for their education in emergencies post-earthquake and cholera responses.Main Achievements: Conceptualized and finalized the first Emergency Hygiene Promotion Manual, which was subsequently.

Jacmel, Département Du Sud-Est, Haiti

Over all duties: Provide strategic direction and technical expertise for designing, implementing, and monitoring Plan Haiti’s education in emergencies (EiE) response to the 2010 Earthquake in Southeastern HaitiMain Achievements: Supervised and built capacity of two national officers responsible for primary and early childhood development programmatic.

New York, United States

Overall duties: Provide technical support to the Center’s Education Program ManagerMain achievements: Conducted technical research on access to education, poverty, global health, conflict and civic engagement actions people can take on these issues in support of the review and update process of education and promotional materials. Created new content for.

New York, United States

Assisted with preparation of INEE materials, including drafting inputs into tools, editing framing papers, coordinating logistical requests, and liaising with facilitators of consultative Minimum Standards update process. Assisted with preparation of the launch of the 2010 edition of the INEE Minimum Standards Handbook, including but not limited to.

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Say Yes to Education (SYTE), York, New York, USA, Assistant to NYC Chapter Director (Mar 2008 – Aug 2009); Ministère chargé de l'Éducation Nationale; Herblay, France, English Teacher (Oct 2005 – Jun 2006), International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH), Labé, Guinea, Teacher Trainer (Sep 2004 – Jun 2005) NACEL, Various Locations, France.

Executive Master, Policy Leadership, Mccourt School Of Public Policy

Activities and Societies: Certificate in Education Finance from Edunomics Lab -a Georgetown University research center Student Groups.

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Educational Development

Activities and Societies: AWARDS: International and Trans-cultural Studies Departmental Tuition Grant, SPECIAL PROJECTS: Gyanankur English.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Modern Languages/Multicultural Education

Activities and Societies: Southern Scholarship Foundation -Business Professional Women- Housing Scholarship 1997-2002, FSU Department of.

Intensive Portuguese Study, Flas Fellowship- Brazilian Portuguese

Awarded a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship administered by the University of Pittsburgh, funded through the U.S. Department of.

Education record

Certificate Program, Intensive French Studies

Activities and Societies: ADVANCED LEVEL COURSEWORK: French Grammar, Phonetics, Linguistics, Argumentative & Persuasive Writing, Seminars.

Master'S Graduate Certificate- Pending, Early Grade Reading In Developing Countries

Activities and Societies: Coursework in Early Grade Reading Theory and Pedagogy, Systems Strengthening, Teachers Preparation, Materials.