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• Responsible for the leadership, direction, and administration of Chemonics’ internal and external communications strategies related to health, which comprises a project portfolio of over $10 billion USD, across more than 65 countries.• Designed Chemonics’ first-ever external communications reputation strategy. Advocates for and manages the reputation of Chemonics as a leader in the health and supply chain space to donors and governments, including the US (USG, USAID, PEPFAR), UK (FCDO), and more.• Reporting to the Executive Vice President, coordinate across the Executive Offices and other Chemonics business lines to create synergies and co-amplify strategic messaging. • Grow, professionalize, and supervises seven-member communications and design staff team to maximize outreach, social media marketing, cross-platform web content, and multi-media media storytelling.• Distills complex messages from program and development staff to identify opportunities for engagement and draft, edit, and distribute press releases, talking points, impact statements, and blog posts.

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• Developed, coordinated, & executed the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s first-ever political advocacy strategy for Pakistan & Afghanistan on behalf of all members (WHO, UNICEF, Gavi, Rotary, US CDC, and BMGF) to support polio eradication – globally, a more than $8 billion program. • Cultivated strategic relationships, collaborated, & advised across the foundation’s matrixed teams, including technical, legal, government relations, partnerships, & advocacy and communications to obtain alignment on opportunities for political advocacy for polio eradication in Afghanistan & Pakistan, including: 1. Directly advocating with sector leaders, influencers, media & government officials – within Afghanistan & Pakistan & external to – in order to achieve advocacy outcomes. 2. Building political support with governments including the US, Norway, Qatar, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, the EU/EC, the United Nations, Spain, Italy, Denmark, South Korea, Australia, Japan, China, & Russia – as well as the governments of Afghanistan & Pakistan, at all levels – to advance polio’s programmatic priorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 3. Leading issue-specific communications in service of polio’s policy advocacy goals, including the publication of fact sheets, news articles, and Q&A documents. 4. Leveraging GPEI leadership & specifically foundation co-chair voice to implement advocacy strategies.• Represented the foundation & foundation strategies to external constituencies. • Conceptualized/led high-impact and complex partnerships and 6 grants and contracts valued at over $1M dedicated to achieving advocacy outcomes. Formed partnerships with people & organizations – in both the public and private sector – to improve implementation of advocacy strategies & tactics.• Products produced won 5 gold Effie Awards (2 in Influencers, 1 in Market Disruptors, 1 in Non-Profit category) & 1 silver Effie Award (in Non-Profit category).

• Supervised and mentored a team of 30 video editors, graphic designers, editors, social media experts, radio staff, remote stringers, translators, and coordinators to design and produce a variety of audio/visual materials, overseeing the production and dissemination of over 2,000 products for a £50M project.• Helped clients engage, educate, motivate, and build long-term relationships with their audiences in Syria and Iraq in order to try to convince people not to join extremist groups, and to collect on-the-ground intel for the benefit of ground operations. • Managed multiple, often-conflicting deadlines; established and negotiated timelines; and ensured timely delivery of high-quality work.

• Provided strategic leadership for new business opportunities, resulting in project awards exceeding $2M.• Set-up an institutional learning and training program, focused on leadership, media training, and spokesperson development. • Prepared, produced and disseminated policy and outreach products (project briefs, policy briefs, case studies, press releases, brochures, and talking points) that promoted strategic and key messages regarding projects.

THE AFGHANISTAN CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (JANUARY – DECEMBER 2016)FOCUS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (JANUARY – MARCH 2016)• Designed communications materials including proposals, reports, and articles for public and donor distribution.• Recommended adjustments and improvements on current communication materials, and helped shape preliminary efforts for communications strategies.• Contributed to the development of concepts and content of various communications products.

• Drafted a complete 3-year policy, advocacy, and communication strategy, outlining clear objectives, target activities, target audiences, deliverables and indicators, as well as an implementation plan and advice on funding opportunities.• Developed and maintained close, productive relationships with journalists, key partners, and influencers nationally and internationally to highlight work in Afghanistan.• Advised UN Women on engagement with the government of Afghanistan to achieve programmatic goals.

• Developed the annual strategic communications plan for the Promote Women’s Leadership Development project, a $43M USAID project, and spearheaded dissemination of outreach and recruitment packages online and in print.• Liaised with USAID’s public affairs team to align on project goals and initiatives. • Produced and edited compelling communications materials in a short time frame, including over a dozen press releases, twenty success stories, four blog posts, and more.• Also participated in project start-up from July-October 2015, during which I facilitated/conducted two stakeholder validation workshops regarding the WLD Communications Strategy with target audiences and local stakeholders, managed all facets of the production of the outreach and recruitment packages (including design, printing) used to recruit primary and secondary participants, spearheaded dissemination of outreach and recruitment packages through the web, social media campaigns, and hard copy dissemination at universities and other venues to be determined by WLD, and liaised with the donor (USAID) on a regular basis and made communications-related recommendations for the overall Promote program.

• Oversaw the conceptualization/implementation of campaigns across all Lapis projects (over 30 in total at any given time), such as increasing women’s enrollment in the military, countering violent extremism, improving rule of law, and more.• Ensured a high operating margin of 30% through proposal budgeting, operational efficiency, and analysis of the market.• Drove revenue generation through effective program management and business development, with project wins totaling over $9M.

• Managed an annual overall budget of nearly $6 million.• Led the development and execution of high-quality operational country strategic plan relevant to the local context and reflecting Lapis’ global priorities.• Oversaw the recruitment, orientation, and performance of 10+ staff, demonstrating healthy engagement, culture of innovation, and effective talent management.• Built relationships at all levels of government in Afghanistan, as well as with key partners and international governments in-country, including leadership for embassies such as the US, Germany, UK, Norway, Pakistan, India, and more, and provided strategic council to them on communications and advocacy policy initiatives.

• Implemented and monitored 17 Lapis projects according to their specific activities described in contractual documents and project proposals, including oversight of administrative tasks and adherence to budgets.• Developed proposals for clients including the development of communications strategies and products, work plans, budgets, results frameworks and monitoring and evaluation methodologies.

• Oversaw creative development phase of key projects with international clients and oversaw quality production of cutting- edge TV, radio and print products.• Managed project finances, reporting, client updates, revising contractual amendments, and more.