Jacob Cawthorne Email & Phone Number

Senior Manager 📣 NGOs │ Asia Pacific │ Social Development │ Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) │ Program Management │ Business Development │ Continuous Improvement │ Fiscal Management │ Team Leader │ Community EngagementBoth locally and globally, a social development program that embeds monitoring, evaluating and learning (MEL), as part of a broader continuous improvement and business development strategy, is more likely to deliver meaningful, impactful outcomes. As a multilingual NGO senior leader in the Asia Pacific region, with expansive social development experience, I am well attuned and highly equipped to manage programs dedicated to community empowerment (to enable sociocultural and socioeconomic equity and inclusion).In addition to the last 8+ years with international development organisation ChildFund Australia, I have contributed to committees, think tanks and global research forums focused on a more even ‘playing field’ in terms of gender, status and other societal indicators. This includes the Barca Foundation, the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, and Laureus’s global communities of practice, as well as actively contributing to local sports networks and bodies in the Asia Pacific region (including as a board advisor and as a rugby coach and referee).My core professional strengths and career achievements as an NGO senior leader include:🌏 Implementing MEL-influenced standards, frameworks and protocols that ensure the viability and sustainability of global social development programs🌏 Setting up on-the-ground teams and resources that enable social development programs to run smoothly and effectively, enabling strong community engagement🌏 Contributing to business development and continuous improvement of programs, from securing commercial partners to market-scaling implementation strategies🌏 Overcoming global and market-specific risks/issues, to optimise the reach and engagement of social development programs, including during COVID-19 pandemic🌏 Establishing relations that amplify the impact of social development programs, including local government and peak bodies, community representatives, and multinational partners🌏 Fostering across-the-board commitment to NGO missions and objectives, whether negotiating an MOU, building a local MEL team, or participating in director-level strategy setting