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London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Provide high quality research, evidence and policy development rooted in ActionAid feminist principles, programmes and policy work, applying a decolonial and intersectional lens to research, evidence and analysis. Lead.
• Designed and co-delivered 6 feminist research webinars attended by 900 participant, delivered in 3 different languages
• Analysed the learning generated from the feminist webinars to produce illustrations on 6 key themes for wider dissemination of intersectional decolonial feminist knowledge, power, safeguarding and transformational.
• Chairing the Evidence Working Group to consolidate evidence sharing and to use the space to assess evidence with a decolonial feminist lens for example whose knowledge counts, what is considered good evidence and who.
• Co-leading the Girl-led Research brining a feminist, intersectional and decolonial lens and developing support resources
• Co-designed the Development and Humanitarian Research strategy and roll out plans across Policy, Advocacy and Programming

London, England, United Kingdom

Focussed on business development, under a new membership structure and building a network of partners in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Relaunching the financial management capacity strengthening programme for local organisations committed to strengthening their finance functions and accountability to communities and funders.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the membership engagement function from leading outreach priorities to driving the over 1300 members engagement in 126 countries in capacity building, advocacy and research opportunities. Designing and.
• Introducing new online welcome and engagement journeys for over 1300 members including by setting clear benefits
• Designing a membership strategy providing direction on engagement and outreach for internal and external stakeholders
• Engaged with other networks, sector partners and the private sector to inform engagement strategy while also amplifying the work of GNDR to different audiences
• Interpreted strategy and translated it into the Local Leadership Academy, a capacity building programme with 10 online workshops (250 participants), 7 webinars (c.100 participants each) and online videos surpassing.
• Providing feedback, evidence and learning to write and support funding proposals

London, England Metropolitan Area

Raise the profile of dementia and influence civil servants and opinion formers in the health and social care and research fields. Provide specialist knowledge to ensure Alzheimer’s Society maximises its influencing opportunities and contribute to deliver the Society’s parliamentary strategy.

London, United Kingdom

• Led the Global Dementia Friends Network (GDFN) supporting the National Dementia Strategy objective to create a global dementia friendly movement and position the UK as a global leader on dementia. Delivered a capacity.
• Prioritised outreach to engage underrepresented and underserved regions. GDNF grew by over 60% during tenure.
• Designed tools to monitor and evaluate global programmes. Findings contributed to support offer and global policy comparison.
• Supported case study development to be included in the UK’s Voluntary National Review of the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Aligned global dementia friendly activity with global partners’ advocacy and influencing strategies to improve national, regional and global outcomes in dementia awareness and inclusion.
• Worked as a partner to WHO and provided feedback on the Global DFI toolkit and supported their Global Action Plan on dementia targets by helping over 30 programmes launch.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a portfolio of over 300+ partnerships (INGOs, grassroots organisations and social enterprises) in Africa, Asia and Latin America; worked with consultants to organise financial pro bono capacity building.
• Organised and managed over 100 pro bono placements providing mentoring and project support to accountants and partners.
• Conducted outreach to develop at least 10 new income generation partnerships per year using different channels (LinkedIn, research, referrals, social media, etc.)
• Developed expertise on Latin America: growing the number of partners in the region associated with AfID from 17 to 70 and compiling resources in Spanish to support pro bono accountants and partners. Similarly increased.
• Used initiative to redesigned surveys for partners and accountants and developed an internal grading system to evaluate the programme and provide information on placements and partnerships increasing understanding of.

London, United Kingdom

• Designed, planned and implemented a university wide research project to understand and report the experiences of international students from over 150 countries studying at King’s College London to support.
• Conducted over 50 interviews with international students from various countries to inform research framework and facilitated 12 focus groups to produce qualitative data. Data was subsequently coded and analysed.
• Liaised with international students, Students’ Union and university to develop recommendations and document good practice to support international students.
• Produced report and disseminated key insights to Senior Management, funders and students
• Nominated for NUS Innovation Award

Supported the development of research on service complaints at NHS, identified problems and severity of cases according to criteria and systematically coded patient letters of complaint about hospital care using research software.

Conducted interviews with service users returning to Africa, Asia and the Middle East to evaluate country re-integration. Developed and presented a workshop on Latin American culture to airport caseworkers to improve communication. Due diligence and airport companion to Chinese service users

London, United Kingdom

Researched and identified key contacts within the creative industries and engaged with a portfolio of decision-makers in the UK. Supported the delivery of the Mexican government Creative Industries Road Show, which resulted in visits to Mexico to support the initiative ‘Guadalajara Creative City’.

Mexico City Area, Mexico

Supported the delivery of two key Research Projects: 1) 'The Right to Health in Detention Centres’ collected, coded and analysed data based Human Rights normative criteria; 2) 'Human Security Report Mexico City', conducted literature review and analysis of economic, social and cultural rights in Mexico City to support annual report.

Shanghai

Identified and developed relationships to create a network of Chinese and international students in Shanghai to promote cultural exchange in education.

Master Of Science (Msc), Social And Cultural Psychology

Dissertation- Mexican Women tell their Story: A Qualitative Study of Gender Immigration and Acculturation in London Qualitative Research.

Ma, Geopolitics, Territory And Security

Dissertation: Deconstructing the Illiberal practices of the Liberal Democratic State: A Conceptual Study of Politics and Performance

Ba (Hons), International Relations

Dissertation- The Concept of Violence and the Contentious Politics of Legitimacy: Implications for International Relations Theory and.

Certificate Humanities And Social Sciences, Humanities And Social Science