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Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Backstop the Middle East & North Africa Regional Support to USAID Missions IDIQ program and its 20 task orders from the headquarters office of the major subcontractor, DT Global. Program overview: This institutional support contract of more than $10M covers the Middle East Regional Platform in Germany and USAID Missions in Jordan, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. DT Global has 19 CCN, TCN, and Expat staff embedded in USAID to provide administrative, technical, and programmatic services to the Missions across various technical areas including: governance and stabilization, economic growth, MEL, CLA, and other development initiatives in education and WASH in fragile and conflict areas. Under the largest task order in Tunisia, DT Global runs a large office space near the U.S. Embassy used by USAID/Tunisia and USAID/Libya staff and for the Missions' official meetings and events.Specific role highlights:• Prepare, review, and submit monthly payment packages for our 19 personnel, including bi-monthly time and expense reports for two consultants. • Review monthly project invoices to the prime contractor, XL Associates, for eight active task orders. • Streamline and enhance the program’s organizational management system by redesigning the comprehensive tracker of task order spending and periods of performance.• Participate as a member of the Conflict Prevention, Stabilization & Transition Practice’s Climate Change and Conflict Working Group.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Safely and efficiently drive passengers to their destinations with an unwavering focus on customer service and satisfaction. • Completed trips for more than 3,600 satisfied customers across Chicago, St. Louis, and Washington, D.C.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

• Collaborated with Capstone partner to design and propose three projects for the client’s funding consideration, all focused on enhancing climate change resilience for Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.• Conducted a thorough literature review, key informant interviews with relevant experts and local NGOs, and needs assessment to analyze the complex intersection of climate change, health, food insecurity, and livelihoods challenges facing Rohingya refugees and host communities.• Designed an illustrative theory of change and prospective partner rationale matrix for each project, as well as a joint risk analysis and mitigation strategy. • Provided the client with our final project recommendation and a detailed outline of next steps that included cost-sharing options and ideas for future programming.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Supported the Program Management Unit for the USAID-funded Shejeh Salam (Promoting Peace) Activity in South Sudan by facilitating weekly meetings with the chief of party, as well as editing the Activity’s Quarterly Report and Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Assessment, among other responsibilities. • Designed a workshop for Shejeh Salam’s Strategic Review Session in Juba that leveraged countering violent extremism and gang violence case studies from the DRC, El Salvador, and Kenya to glean relevant applications for understanding and addressing the environment of violence in South Sudan.• Edited personnel CVs and wrote a Past Performance Reference for DT Global's Civil Society in Syria Program in advance of a USAID IDIQ RFP release related to peacebuilding.• Captured key takeaways from CSIS, USIP, and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy events on religious discrimination during crises, preventing domestic terrorism in the US, and humanitarian aid in Syria.

Supported the Data and Evidence for Justice Reform (DE JURE) Project—housed underneath the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit—and reported directly to Technical Team Leader Daniel Chen to:• Streamline the Project’s operations and enhance its efficacy through contributing to a series of analytical research products utilizing high-frequency administrative and satellite data;• Assist in the design and coordination of research projects;• Support the development, coordination, and daily implementation of the DE JURE program, working closely with development partners and country governments; and• Track the progress of various project tasks, ensure the processing of relevant project contracts and arrangements, and assist with grant writing.

Chevy Chase, Md

• Oversaw all company business development (BD) activities, including donor and country funding research, proposal efforts, industry event presence, and company-wide BD-related trainings. • Continually streamlined BD processes, such as developing a capture trip checklist, improving proposal section templates, optimizing the company’s knowledge management center of key proposal sections and project successes, designing a consultant database, and facilitating proposal debriefs. • Explored professional and personal growth opportunities for BD Team members through leadership opportunities, skills trainings, and industry events. • Managed BD departmental budget. • Reported directly to the president and supervised up to six direct reports.

Chevy Chase, Md

• Served as Acting Director of the BD Department during the Senior Director’s three-week leave. • Selected by a senior vice president to manage the proposal process for a lion's share global task order under the USAID Integrated Health Systems IDIQ. Directly contributed to each piece of the technical proposal. • Co-designed and co-led a company-wide BD overview training course, covering topics such as research and intelligence gathering, capture trips, and proposal development, to 35 participants ranging from senior management to new employees.• Performed a capture trip to Addis Ababa and Adama in Ethiopia to learn about human resources for health (HRH) in the country. Facilitated 14 meetings with Federal Ministry of Health directorates, relevant health professional associations, hospitals, universities, and other key stakeholders for HRH.• Provided high-level strategic direction, managed key BD initiatives, and conducted daily searches for USAID, MCC, DFID, UN, and other funding opportunities for the entire company.• Supervised one senior BD associate and one intern with weekly check-in meetings to appropriately monitor their workloads and troubleshoot any productivity issues.

Chevy Chase, Md

• Served as proposal manager and coordinated all efforts on 11 global health proposals and applications ranging in value from US$ 500K to 1B, including a winning US$ 28M proposal for a USAID health systems strengthening project in Uganda’s Acholi Region. • Developed key proposal materials, such as management, staffing, and organizational capacity sections for USAID, CDC, and other donor funding mechanisms, including RFPs, RFAs, and NOFOs.• Created and maintained the company’s partner database to better manage partner relationships, form stronger proposal partnership teams, and enhance the utilization of small businesses in proposals. • Represented the company at industry conferences and networking events, such as the 2017 USAID Small Business Conference.

Chevy Chase, Md

• Developed tailored proposal deliverables, strategic partnership consortia, and exceptional personnel teams for international development project proposals in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.• Maintained the company-wide pipeline of potential funding opportunities and facilitated the weekly business development meeting to track progress on live and prospective bids. • Traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine to meet with key personnel candidates and partners to develop and finalize a proposal to USAID to optimize the quality of, access to, and price of pharmaceuticals in the country.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

• Created engaging fieldwork narratives of MIRO’s work in Kampong Chhnang and Takeo Provinces.• Developed workshop materials for 25 new human rights defenders and edited content on project implementation methodology, results, and SWOT analysis data for the organization’s annual report. • Led a team on a grant proposal to the National Endowment for Democracy.

Chicago, Il

• Built PowerPoint presentations on client development strategies for the National Marketing Director’s use with practice group managers, revamped the firm’s alumni program to improve the network’s retention and engagement, and researched cross-selling opportunities with current firm clients. • Managed and generated increased readership in the firm’s Automotive, Manufacturing, and Healthcare IT blogs.

Chicago, Il

• Created materials for more than 20 pitches to prospective clients touting the firm’s and individual lawyers’ experience and capabilities in practice areas such as Energy, Environment, Financial Institutions, Government Contracts, and Project Development. • Compiled 12 company dossiers and synopsized key information for the nation’s premier corporate attorneys in client targeting efforts.

St. Louis, Mo

• Wrote grant proposals and various ADL literature (e.g., website content and program brochures). • Led meetings to discuss and schedule the Confronting Anti-Semitism program in six schools. • Researched and monitored hate crimes across Eastern Kansas, Missouri, and Southern Illinois.

Shorashim, Israel

• Facilitated dialogue and encounters between more than 200 Arab teens from northern Israel and Jewish teens from Australia, England, and the United States. • Assisted with the development of an English website for the Foundation, often translating Hebrew.

Master Of Global Human Development, 3.95 Gpa

Certificate: Refugees, Migration and Humanitarian Emergencies Specialization: Governance, State Fragility, and Post-Conflict Development.

Ba, International Studies, 3.76 Gpa [Cum Laude, Angell Scholar (X2), Honors (X5)]

Activities and Societies: Intramural Basketball, Intramural Soccer, University of Michigan Delta ChiConcentrated on “Comparative Culture.

Arabic, Hebrew, And Jewish History

Academic study abroad program focusing on Jewish coexistence in the diaspora and overall global awareness. Coursework included lectures.