Committed to ensuring that every young person in Bexar County is ready for their future. Designing a digital badging platform to support data-informed community action networks in creating an ecosystem dedicated to youth success.

• Coordinate and manage departmental program and budget implementation and monitoring.• Lead a team of 3 coordinators and 7 programmatic staff along with 10-15 interns. • Develop and facilitate departmental strategic planning processes to align with overarching agency mission and goals. • Collaborate with Leadership to strengthen organizational management systems, including human resources management, administrative protocols and procedures, and financial management. • Develop and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, partners, and funders.

We envision San Antonio as the top city in the country for youth. By 2024, we will ensure every young person has access to the programs they need to learn, grow, and thrive.

• Facilitate strategic planning processes and development.• Facilitate country teams’ planning, budgeting, monitoring, and development of strategic programming, implementation and monitoring plans.• Develop and strengthen organizational management systems, including human resources management, administrative protocols and procedures, and material and financial management. • Supervise and build capacity of 30 administrative and program staff, and 3 capacity building fellows.• Develop and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, partners, and funders.

* Provide technical support for start up, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Economic and Social Empowerment (EASE) Programming to country programs implementing EASE model* Develop and conduct Training of Trainers (TOT) in community mobilization, Village Savings and Loans Associations, Cross-Gender Discussion Series, and Community Based Economies, and Business Skills* Monitor on-going program implementation and develop action plans to address challenges and concerns* Support country teams in planning, budgeting, monitoring, and development of strategic programming, implementation and monitoring plans* Support country teams to develop and implement reporting schedules

•Supervise 30 staff in three districts; manage 3 multi year grants with combined budget over $5.000,000; designed, organized, managed, monitored and evaluated program design and implementation •Develop grant concepts and write proposals, resulting in award of three new grants totaling over $1,000,000•Piloted several new programs including modified women’s centered Village Savings and Loans Associations, Community Legal Based Education integrating gender focus into mobile legal clinics, and design and implementation of Sierra Leone context specific male engagement behavior and attitude change models.•Restructured transparent and inclusive organizational approach to partnership at local and government levels•Collaborated with government partners to implement new gender focused policies including amendments to Gender Justice Laws and Strategic Roll Out Plan for the Gender Acts along with development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures for the Sierra Leone Police, National Action Plan for Sierra Leone on Gender Based Violence initiatives, and National Health Guidelines for the Treatment of Gender Based Violence Survivors•Built the capacity of 30 staff along with over 200 government and community-based partners resulting in the increase in survivor access to quality response services.

•Prepared and supervised trainers; designed, organized, managed and evaluated trainings related to pre-service, in-service, HIV/AIDS, Project Design and Management, Life Skills and Malaria.•Managed and produced HIV/AIDS documentary fighting stigmatization and discrimination. •Reviewed and approved USAID Small Project Assistance and Peace Corps Partnership grant applications as a member of the Small Grants Committee.•Provided technical and moral assistance to 100 volunteers in the field.•Collaborated with and built the capacity of government and community-based partners resulting in the design, publication and distribution of AICHA, a girls’ for girls magazine.

- Elaborated project outlines, budgets and budget modifications, progress reports, data collection, data entry, output delivery reports and completion reports - Facilitated meetings and dialogues between primary and secondary school and district administrators- Managed several projects (Life Skills, Scholarship Programs, Magazine Planète Jeune/Enfant distribution, Youth groups) which had a combined total budget of over $150,000.- Organized and supervised community, provincial and regional conferences and events.- Trained communities, teachers, and parents' associations on topics related to education.- Distributed and evaluated the magazine « Planète enfants/Planète jeune », school supplies, and books in primary and secondary schools.- Distributed student scholarships, measured and evaluated scholarship student success, and monitored the levels of girls’ enrollment and success.- Conducted all meetings and trainings in French or local language.

- Designed and implemented regular trainings for parent’s associations and community members on gender equity, birth registration procedures, methods of educational support, nutrition, appropriate technology, and income-generating activities. - Provided support for 13 micro-credit women’s groups, all of which successfully completed savings and credit activities.- Established, trained, and supported women’s groups and associations, student clubs, and girls’ clubs.- Organized and facilitated a 1 week girls’ camp for 19 adolescent girls.- Developed and conducted awareness-raising campaigns on mother and children’s health, HIV/AIDs, and the importance of literacy and education. - Designed and conducted an awareness-raising workshop with teachers on gender equity in the classroom. - Established and taught study, art, theatre, and soccer groups. Efforts resulted in successful examination for 100% of 6th grade students.- Conducted all activities in French or local language

- Established lesson plans for and taught high school English classes of up to 30 students each. Taught All classes in French.- Supervised a weeklong international field trip of 30 students to Spain.