Employment Program Officer: Global Employment Initiative
CurrentManage service program for 12,000+ clients from State, Defense, Commerce, Agriculture, USAID, and other government agencies at 294 U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide.Key Duties:TEAM LEAD: Select, hire and lead a team of 20 overseas staff members, directly managing 18 regional contractors and one local assistant.CONTRACTING: Serving as Representative to manage technical monitoring, administration, and annual budget of a large government contract, oversaw a doubling of budget… Show more Manage service program for 12,000+ clients from State, Defense, Commerce, Agriculture, USAID, and other government agencies at 294 U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide.Key Duties:TEAM LEAD: Select, hire and lead a team of 20 overseas staff members, directly managing 18 regional contractors and one local assistant.CONTRACTING: Serving as Representative to manage technical monitoring, administration, and annual budget of a large government contract, oversaw a doubling of budget during tenure.METRICS: Create, implement, and monitor the collection of new, more useful metrics for management and staff. Initiated customer service evaluation to collect qualitative information. Key Accomplishments:* Organized 2 cost-effective international conferences for the worldwide team with direct oversight of budget, logistics, agenda, execution, and evaluations. * Created a more cohesive team, through hands-on mentoring and fostering of teamwork and refocusing direction of program to reflect client’s needs. Established shared SOPs and metric measuring tools.* Annual awards for leadership and innovation. Show less