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Supervised a team of 25+ staff working in four units. Managed multiple federal cooperative agreements and grants totaling over $100 million. Directed programs providing refugee resettlement to the United States and localized integration, safety net and crisis intervention services to over 9,000 newly arrived refugees.

Silver Spring, MD, US

Led a team of attorneys, social workers and project coordinators serving a rapidly expanding network of up to 450 affiliated nonprofits with training, technical support, program management interventions, project management, regranting of millions in flow-through funds, administrative advocacy with the U.S. government and site monitoring.

Silver Spring, MD, US

- Promoted to supervise the combination of two existing departments into one.- Managed all national programs for the organization for legal and social services. - Supervised attorneys and non-attorneys located in different cities.- Tasked to raise funds and identify program policy and advocacy priorities.

Silver Spring, MD, US

- Promoted to direct a division of ten staff supporting administration, finance, resource development, human resources and national projects. - Oversaw daily operations and monitoring of the agency’s financial health, including evaluating monthly revenue and expenditure reports across five departments.- Reported quarterly to the board of directors and.

Silver Spring, MD, US

- Promoted to direct a new division supporting immigration services to a network of 130 affiliates by evaluating national trends, affiliate needs and programmatic responses.- Managed multiple, national projects with up to $5 million dollars of funding from federal, state and philanthropic sources.- Engaged simultaneously in the following activities: grant.

Silver Spring, MD, US

- Hired to coordinate a $3 million, two-year project funding 60 nonprofits. - Conducted evaluation, on-site monitoring, reporting to funders, training; payments; and administrative advocacy with federal departments.

- Co-created IRSA’s Joint Voluntary Agency (JVA) - Guam program under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).- Tasked to provide protocols and on-site personnel to screen Iraqi parolees for resettlement to the U.S. mainland. Recruited, oriented and deployed over 30 bilingual contractors to interpret.

- Implemented a contractual relationship and budget between IRSA and the U.S. Department of Justice to resettle 1,400 Cuban parolees. - Established a client tracking system and cost reimbursement protocol. - Advocated at a national level for the resettlement needs of vulnerable refugees.

- Promoted as Director. Led the JVA-Saudi Arabia Program’s prescreening and out-processing activities for the departure of over 4,000 refugees to the United States. - Trained and supervised 30 international staff.- Acted as liaison between IRSA, the United Nations, the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, International.