Jon is a skilled international development and management professional with close to 20 years of experience leading $25+ million programs throughout Latin America. He brings leadership experience in leveraging private sector partnerships to design and implement community and social investment projects. He has a proven track record managing country operations and growing program portfolios through business development resulting in $60+ million in new funding. Jon has been with Global Communities since 2004. He has worked as a field director in Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Argentina and Brazil leading programming ranging from ex-combatant social and economic reintegration to municipal governance and civil society strengthening to corporate volunteerism and community engagement. As the Regional Director of the Americas, Jon managed a portfolio of $140 million in program funding across eight countries. In his current role as Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, he supports Global Programs and the connection of its business priorities to the overall organizational strategy and direction and works across departments and units to ensure strategic priorities are effectively sequenced and integrated. Throughout his tenure, Jon has played an active role in leading and supporting strategic initiatives across the organization. He has led private sector engagement work in the field by developing corporate partnerships through CSR consultancy services and collective impact funding models. Most recently he led the proposal development and rollout of the United States Growth strategic initiative.Prior to Global Communities, he worked as a management consultant for Accenture and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay. He earned a B.A. in economics from Dickinson College and an M.B.A from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.He is an avid real estate investor with a portfolio of buy-and-hold properties and private investments in the Philly metro and the Southeast. Most recently, through a business partnership, he is syndicating multifamily properties in North Carolina growth corridors.
Listed skills include International Development, Program Management, Proposal Writing, Community Development, and 32 others.