With extensive expertise in all facets of Cost Proposal Development, I am proud to offer the following services:• Budgeting• Cost Narratives• Cost Documentation• Responses to Competitive Range Discussion Questions• Collation and Production of Cost Volumes• Partner Engagement and Negotiation• Solicitation Review and Organizational Risk Analysis• Training and Mentoring of Pricing Staff• Cost Extensions and Workplanning Support

• Managed development of business proposals ranging in value in response to RFAs, RFPs, and other solicitations for grant and contract opportunities from a variety of funders (USAID, CDC, BMGF, World Bank, etc.).• Led Contract Negotiations with Funder including Best and Final Offers, Competitive Range Discussions, and reviewed award documents for consistency of financial data and reasonable contractual terms.• Identified and addressed organizational risks for specific opportunities, raising concerns and presenting possible solutions to Leadership Team. Led and presented pricing strategies for decision-makers to respond.• Worked with technical leads, human resource, procurement, and contracts teams, related technical groups, country operations teams, external consultants, partner organizations, and leadership from across the globe to collect and test assumptions for proposal budget development. Analyzed budgets to improve decision-making.• Managed multiple sub-partner relationships on proposals including negotiation of agreements, due diligence, data and documentation collection, negotiation and presentation of budgets and budget narratives, and negotiation of specific scopes of work.• Directly supervised Business Proposal and Contract Associate and provided effective management of group administrative functions including completing revising templates and tools, proposal documents, training staff, performing inflation and exchange rate analysis, registering organization with donor award systems, operationalized and negotiated the team’s roll-out of the Pre-Award Survey for efficiency and compliance.• Led organization-wide trainings in subawardee management, teaming agreements, and budgeting skills.• Traveled to Senegal and Haiti to engage country office staff and local partners in the completion of cost applications.

• Budget Analysis: Managed assigned subcontractors and budgets as a part of the proposal process and perform activities including: providing budget assumptions, reviewing budgets and notes, and ensuring final submissions conform to donor requirements; reviewed, revised, and linked to the USAID template subcontractor budgets with a total value of over $19 million.• Cost Proposal Development and Submission: Managed the submission of cost proposals, ensuring timely with to ensure cooperation, negotiation of legal agreements, and completion of cost documentation. Managed the execution of 2 major foundation bids’ MOUs, both with a number of partners representing varying interests. • Administration: Effective management of unit's administrative functions including completing proposal documents, performing inflation and exchange rate analysis, operationalized and negotiated unit's roll-out of the Pre-Award Survey for efficiency and compliance.

• Administration: Provided executive assistance to the Senior Director of Corporate Contracts, managing sensitive information and coordinating all activities. • Audit Coordination: Developed tracking system and process to be used on large scale internal and external audits; liaised with external auditors, contract officers, and CFO regarding requests, clarifications, and submission of audit documentation.• Project Management: Lead the re-development of the Anti-Terrorism database and updated the clearance verification request process; oversaw the completion of clearance verifications and document clearance of possible matches. • Other Support: Assist Contract Analyst in reviewing subaward invoices against budget; completed subcontract templates; drafted award modifications; oversaw integrity checking of submissions into the project management database; documented submissions on large scale projects requiring responses of several stake-holders.

• Volunteer Management: Recruit, train, and manage team of 70 volunteers in 6 states that support students and host families throughout the school year; oversee volunteers’ compliance within US Department of State regulations; direct the organization and implementation of orientations for students and host families 4 times during the year; mentor volunteers through support issues; supervise 3 Northeastern University Co-Op students• Host Family Recruitment: create flyers; manage posts on social media outlets; connect with companies for support through their corporate responsibility programs; create targeted messages for special interest groups; hold presentations at schools and community events; managed inquiry system and host family database; cold-calling• Administration: Manage yearly field budget of $12,000; maintain contact reporting system; convert host family applications, including criminal background checks, into database for placements

Managed the calendars and travel arrangements for 16 Leadership Training Consultants; organized and published training materials for institutes and private consulting; provided administrative support for 5 Program Managers

Supervised volunteer teachers; designed, lead, and supervised a month-long Orientation and training for volunteer teachers; liaised between volunteers and managers in the U.S. office; facilitated communications between volunteers and the Thai school district; managed weekly and monthly budgets; designed and lead a teacher training conference for Thai teachers; conducted site visits and volunteer teaching evaluations; evaluated prospective schools and living arrangements; assisted with the development of English language curriculum to be used by volunteers and Thai teachers; designed and implemented English language lessons and units in both high school and elementary school settings with classes of 3-48 students

Taught children ages 4-14 and adults how to swim; organized and scheduled swimming lessons for approximately 600 patrons at 3 city pools; designed, implemented and coached new swim team program for 2 city pools; redesigned Staff Manual, created Annual Report, assisted Program Manager with staffing decisions