Julia Holston Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc

• Coordinate administrative, contractual, and financial aspects of the project, ensuring that deliverables are met on-time and on-budget• Assist with recruiting, hiring, and briefing of consultants/Short-Term Technical Assistance (STTA)• Support the logistics for YSEALI Fellows including housing, transportation, and travel; review Fellows applications• Track and analyze project’s finances: obligations, projections, and expenditures• Assist other project staff with the preparation of budgets• Review and process monthly field reports (if relevant) and prepare monthly program updates and quarterly financial reports• Review and reconcile expense reports and consultant/staff travel expense reports and prepare purchase orders and reimbursement requests, consulting agreements, scopes of work and other contract and procurement documents• Coordinate with staff on administrative issues (travel, payments, reports, staffing, shipping, event planning, etc.)• Participate in business development and proposal efforts, which includes conducting research, recruiting staff, collecting cost information, developing the cost proposal, editing/formatting resumes, drafting required proposal sections

Fort Myers, Florida, United States

• Manage client’s customs brokers to ensure compliant, efficient, and cost-effective entry of goods• Ensure proper product tariff classification according to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule• Research import and export requirements such as Partner Government Agency restrictions• Develop and maintain customized compliance programs and processes specific to client needs• Generate shipping documents such as commercial invoices and coordinate timely shipment clearance• Conduct audits to assess the export/import compliance of client and supporting operating entities• Work with numerous ad hoc teams across the organization on a project-by-project basis• Continuously evaluate current processes and recommend relevant changes or improvements to increase efficiency/productivity

• Key team member for conversion of spaces for one of the largest corporate banking mergers and re-brands in U.S. history, with work spanning from Massachusetts to Key West• Responsible for daily progress reporting on the surveying of existing conditions of 363 retail branches and 124 corporate offices converting from BB&T/Sun Trust to Truist• Coordinated communication between 30 survey teams and a corporate Project Manager• Analyzed comparative data in Excel

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, International Studies

Activities and Societies: Florida Running Club, Conversation Partner at English Language Institute, ESOL Achievers, Phi Beta Kappa Honor.

Education record

Study abroad program focusing on language and cultural immersion