Ja-Eun Lee Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

Jakarta, Indonesia

* Support the Country Office (ICO) in preparation and review of Annual Management Plan (AMP) and Country Programme Mid-Term Strategic Reflection, which set country strategy and priority area for 2023.* Provide guidance and technical support Programme Sections for strengthening monitoring functions and Rights and Results-Based Management (RRBM) skills. This.

• Mentor and coach MEL country leads and senior analysts across nine East African countries to improve the rigor and reliability of evaluation approaches, methods, and tools, and analysis while supporting global.
• Support in developing in-country and Global MEL OKRs, impact strategy and budgeting.
• Developed a tool for diagnosing data quality challenges and solutions, and have coordinated with seven county teams for rolling out the tool. The Rwanda team who adopted the tool early witnessed 5% reduction in the.
• Help country leads to pilot ideas and innovative initiatives that advance their departments. Create in-country leads’ professional development and keep tabs on their personal sustainability and assist them as the main.

Rwanda

• Advise internal evaluation design in order to improve accuracy, efficiency and harmonization across the organization through constructive feedback and collaboration as head of Peer Review Board.
• Develop staff capacity through one-on-one trainings and workshops on econometrics and statistical analysis tools such as Stata and R.
• Created and improved tools for standardizing the M&E system across different departments to provide consistency and rigor in research projects.
• Predicted organization’s interested outcomes using Machine Learning algorithms. A couple of examples include the prediction of clients’ repayment rate using Random Forest algorithm in R with 88% accuracy and prediction.

Rwanda

• Supervised in-country leads in Rwanda, Burundi, and Zambia by providing a hands-on guidance on strategy, study design, analysis and team management for 260+ staff.
• Helped country leads to pilot ideas and innovative initiatives that advance their departments. Created in-country leads’ professional development and keep tabs on their personal sustainability and assist them as the.
• Led and supervised impact evaluations in Rwanda and Burundi using pooled cross-section analysis and propensity score matching, providing actionable recommendations based on behavioral economics.

Rubengera, Rwanda

• Managed strategy and operations for a 120+ member field-based research team involving team management of study design, data analysis and management of daily activities
• Generated seasonal analysis to drive program decision for a social enterprise serving 270,000+ clients annually.
• Supervised multi-year longitudinal studies on smallholder farmer quality of life, in addition to over one-dozen research projects related to farmer planting compliance, input use patterns, harvest measurements, and.

• Supervised a team of researchers on their research in human rights, economic and social developments in North Korea. Provided hands-on guidance on the direction of their research to ensure accurate public reporting.
• Launched and supervised the “Victim’s Voice”, an electronically written case report on human rights abuse cases in North Korea, funded by the U.S State Department. Each report provided the public with specific.
• Surveyed as part of a team of NKDB researchers approximately 10,000 North Korean refugees and interviewed over 1,000 who have resettled in South Korea on the human rights, economic, social and political experiences in.
• Documented data from interviews including 35,000 human rights abuse cases in an internationally recognized database at NKDB.
• Conducted comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses using SPSS and NKDB’s database program, the results of which were produced in a series of annual white papers.
• Chief editor of “Stories of North Korean Human Rights”, a radio program in partnership with the US Department of State that was broadcast to North Korea from 2009 to 2012.

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, Technology And Innovation

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Law And Diplomacy

Activities and Societies: North Korea Working Group, International Law Society

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), : Political Science And Diplomacy/ International Relations And Commerce

Activities and Societies: International Commerce Society English Study Club (YAPP)