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-Project Management: Ensure timely and duly coordination of the projects and implementation of all project activities in accordance with project implementation plan -Project Proposals: Design from start to finish projects proposal including timeliness, partnerships, evaluating procedures and budgets -Supervision: Guide and orient efforts and contributions of project officers, admin staff, and interns -Reports and Articles: Write articles on the latest developments in Kosovo and prepare reports for donor

-Project Management: Managed end-to-end project schedule with detailed outline implementation of project plan with careful regard to client expectations; Ensured the implementation of project milestones by timely providing inputs for compilation of reports on reaching each milestone, such as after conducting pilot surveys-Coordinated and followed up on meetings with the counterparts and project team and provided support for all; Consulted with internal team on the feasibility of operational design and timeline for moderate to complex projects; Contributed ideas for research solutions and prepared project proposals-Finalized the detailed work plan and strategy on communications and outreach components, as well as participated in monitoring and evaluating it to ensure that it reached the set goals -Synthesized and analyzed data as well as created analytical reports and presentations for client’s use

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Consulting Abroad Project in South Africa (Spring ’19):-Providing consulting advices to 16 students on how to best tackle the problems faced by clients in four different industries-Serving as a liaison between 4 companies in South Africa and 16 students in US working on tacking a variety of problems for the clients -Coordinating the in-country activitiesConsultant for Consulting Abroad Project:-Consulting: Analyzed and consulted on managing reputational risk for the one of the biggest mining companies in Peru, Minsur conducting market research on environment, social and political factors and gave recommendations -Project Research: Conducted in depth analysis through online research, interviews, and surveys regarding reputation

Consulting company focusing on business growth, strategy development, and project implementation-Project Management Support: Planned and coordinated the completion of 3 survey-gathering projects totaling more than 3,000 participants across Kosovo-Recruitment: Initiated and supported recruitment for 70 project partners, technical experts, and enumerators for a series of projects-Research reports: Prepared, researched, and authored a research report for a $5M tourism strategy project to increase Kosovo’s tourist influx by 10%-Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitored the effectiveness of projects and updated the projects’ work plans to optimally use the available resources leading to 100% completion of projects within the predicted time frame and budget-Data analysis: Conducted data analysis using MS Excel and SPSS to derive conclusions from 6 national surveys -Bid preparations: Co-wrote and prepared 6 bid preparations (totaling $2M), 50% of which were won

E-commerce and direct-to-costumer advertising company in Central and Eastern Europe-Business Development: Optimized time slots for the marketing channels to better reach customers, leading to a 20% increase in revenues for the television channel-Teamwork: Provided weekly reports to managers used in analyzing individual product sales and made suggestions on which advertisements to continue and on which marketing channels -Strategy development: Worked closely with 4 channel managers to develop strategies to better reach the monthly and quarterly targets, which were met 80% of the time

-Process Improvement: Designed a new schedule to better match students’ free time with tutors, leading to 30% more student visits-Team lead: Supervised a team of five English and Math tutors in the center to better fulfill the needs of the students and provide coordination in terms of space and schedule-Performance Increase: Tutored more than 150 students; increased student performance by an average of two letter grades