Kara Uhl Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Africa Health Team

Seattle, Washington, United States

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WSH) Team

Seattle, Washington, United States

Deputy Director of Splash's $45 million Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone). Responsible for developing and managing global Project workplans across three offices (Addis Ababa, Kolkata, Seattle); tracking and managing towards all grant timelines and deliverables within Project; budget tracking for global project; managing Project Coordinator and Program Managers and supporting and liaising closely with country-based Project Directors and their teams. Supervised global Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation team responsible for designing and implementing Splash's global measurement strategies.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Developed and led global Program Quality team at Splash, focusing on 1) program management; 2) program quality assurance; 3) monitoring, learning, and evaluation; and 4) grants and business development support. Supported global program design and partnership development for greater water, sanitation, and hygiene scale and impact in 6 countries in Asia and Africa. Established new global MLE framework and designed roll-out plan. Managed strategic and tactical relationships and communication with a variety of grant donors. Supervised Program Coordinator, MLE Manager, and global MLE team.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Collaborated across departments, teams, and country programs to increase Splash's transparency and accountability measures through improved compliance, grant management, institutional business development, and programmatic measurement and tracking norms and protocols. Synthesized strategy and developed funding proposals and grant reports for a variety of donors.

Dakar, Senegal

Led the management and growth of CRS Senegal and Mauritania programming portfolios.Supervised four senior program staff and oversaw technical implementation of health (community health, malaria, TB, nutrition), microfinance, agriculture, and emergency response projects managed out of six offices in two countries.Ensured programmatic, budgetary, and operational compliance of all grants and approved the release of resources.Served as Acting Country Representative as needed, including during CRS org-wide annual planning process (responsible for coordinating all inputs for country program).

Dakar, Senegal

Led staff and local NGO partners in the design of high quality emergency response, health, agriculture, and microfinance projects in Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau, and The Gambia.Produced technical content (lead writer) and managed the development and submission of full proposals (including budgets) to a variety of donors including USG, corporations, and foundations.Managed ICT4D and mHealth initiatives, including a project integrating mobile phones into community health worker case management; delivered presentations on behalf of CRS at international M4D conferences and events.Coordinated CRS pre-positioning activities, including intelligence gathering and capture planning; created marketing materials; cultivated and maintained relationships with high level donors and partners.Developed and implemented trainings and capacity building initiatives for CRS/West Africa staff on relevant aspects of the business development cycle and key industry program management and compliance tools.Contributed to program quality assurance and learning measures through participation in needs assessments, routine project monitoring, final evaluations, and after action reviews; supported program and partner staff in ensuring that effective monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) systems were in place for each project.

Niamey, Niger

Supported the design, implementation, management, and marketing of CRS emergency response, health, agriculture, peace building, governance, education, microfinance, and WASH projects in Niger.

Greater Boston Area

Supported strategic efforts to secure funding for Perkins’ international development programs in 65 countries that strengthen educational opportunities for children with disabilities, empower parent groups and stakeholders, advocate for improved policies, and promote access to technology and braille; Cultivated and maintained relationships with high level corporate and foundation donors and partners; Served as lead technical writer and managed the development and submission of full proposals (including budgets) to a variety of donors, public and private; Researched and tracked USG procurement opportunities; Promoted Perkins International as a thought leader in the field of international education development.

Managed technical and operational support for public health projects (HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, MNCH, FP/RH) in Liberia, Uganda, Kenya, Brazil, Egypt, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan (budget ceilings up to $90 million dollars).Planned and facilitated strategy workshops with Ministries of Health, international and local partners, donors, stakeholders and technical experts to develop integrated approaches to project implementation and evaluation.Conducted organizational capacity assessments for NGOs implementing global HIV/AIDS services.Traveled to international offices in Uganda, Kenya, Liberia, Egypt, Nepal and Vietnam (35% time) to provide programmatic and operational management and support.Managed start-up in Monrovia, Liberia for the 5-year USAID Rebuilding Basic Health Services in Liberia Project.Negotiated and managed international subcontracts, grants, and performance based contracts up to $10 million dollars.Served as primary liaison to global donors for financial, administrative, and technical project matters.Developed and monitored program budgets and workplans; tracked expenditures in conjunction with technical staff.Coordinated over 30 technical and cost proposals for projects and initiatives valued up to $500 million dollars.Participated in ongoing JSI International Division business development strategic planning processes.Facilitated strategic planning workshops and provided targeted technical assistance in the areas of resource mobilization and proposal development to international development and disaster relief organizations.

Uganda

Managed financial and administrative operations for $18 million dollar USAID/PEPFAR HIV/AIDS capacity building program in Kampala, Uganda; Oversaw approval of all project expenditures and participated in annual work planning process.Established project satellite office in Nairobi, Kenya; Developed operational manuals and procedures; Trained financial manager on compliance measures and established monthly deliverables schedule.

Designed and coordinated arrangements with host community contacts for eight international trips.Helped Director plan and facilitate meetings, retreats, fundraising, and education initiatives for trip participants.Served as staff leader and advisor for social justice service/immersion trip to Belize.

Ma, Theology (Ethics)

Concentrations in Bioethics and International Justice

Ba, Political Science, Theology, Philosophy