Erinn Benedict Email & Phone Number

• Leads project implementation for portfolio of projects related to women’s economic empowerment.• Leads capacity enhancement trainings and activities for local partners.• Supports regional teams in project design for gender integrated programing.• Represents department to external stakeholders including partners, donors, and non-governmental organizations in Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supported project management life cycle for projects in Turkey and Afghanistan.• Supported business development through designing programs and drafting proposal narratives and budgets for USG-funded projects; wrote donor reports.• Tracked expenditures and projections; approved field office expense reports.• Department point of contract for mentoring new staff, supervised interns, member of internship committee.

• Drafted reports, briefing materials, and political updates for senior staff and edited publications.• Coordinated international travel arrangements for DC and regional staff. • Worked on development projects funded by USAID, Department of State, and other donors.

Greater Boston Area

• Planned 15 academic events and conferences. • Tracked membership payments and donations, drafted correspondence with scholarship recipients. • Analyzed quantitative enrollment statistics for Muslim Studies classes.

Trenton, Nj

• Prepared briefings on veteran’s affairs and regional issues in Central New Jersey.• Represented the department at Town Hall events, managed arrangements for attendees with a disability.

Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Represented NGO at meetings of UN Treaty Bodies and Specialized Seminars.• Contributed to articles summarizing UN meetings used to train early career human rights defenders.

Master Of Science (Msc), International Relations And Affairs

Awarded academic grant for fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina focused on post-conflict reconciliation.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations, Cum Laude, With Departmental Honors