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Leading the team that secures strategic corporate and foundation relationships that support Plan's mission to promote children's rights and equality for girls. Work in partnership with Plan's other 80 offices around the world. Creates and implements strategies for donor cultivation and stewardship, supports program design, develops proposals, and provides reporting oversight. Manages and stewards complex, multi-level and strategic seven figure global accounts for the entire global Plan Federation. Engages in advocacy and donor education efforts. Member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Managed development opportunities for the Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership (Sabin PDP), Sabin's Vaccine Advocacy and Education programs, and Sabin general support for the prevention and treatment of infectious and neglected tropical diseases. Included managing grant applications to bilateral, multilateral, and foundation donors and creating funding appeals and sponsorship packages for individual and corporate donors. Led applications for prizes and awards.Managed external relations with governments, academic institutions, non-profit organizations, pharmaceutical corporations, and biotechnology companies to cultivate strategic partnerships for the Sabin PDP, a non-profit public private partnership (PPP) for neglected tropical diseases vaccine research and development (R&D). Conducted prospecting research. Recommended organizational outreach strategy. Developed talking points and pitches. Contributed to marketing materials.Contributed to advocacy efforts related to Sabin's work, including advocating for prioritization of financing of vaccine R&D for global health.

Managed new business opportunities in international health, democracy and governance, and natural resource management from bid decision through submission for US government and other bilateral donors, multilateral donors, corporations, and foundations. Led bid review discussions, managed proposal teams, liaised with donors, negotiated partnerships, managed consultants, facilitated design, writing, budgeting, and recruitment processes, and packaged and submits bids. Reviewed budgets and technical narrative. Led technical writing for concept notes, full proposals, and competitive range questions for international health, capacity development, and governance projects. Set up technical outlines, facilitated technical design discussions, synthesized information, and wrote and edited. Trained other staff in technical proposal writing.Advised Pact leadership as Account Manager for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM) on strategic positioning to capture GFATM funding and improve GFATM rules and regulation compliance. Managed GFATM proposal efforts and led capture planning for specific opportunities across Pact’s regional portfolios. Developed talking points and marketing materials.

Designed and managed mixed method research studies on behavioral determinants for female condom use among young adults, trained staff in qualitative research design and analysis, designed monitoring and evaluation systems, created interpersonal communication programs, and wrote new business proposals for HIV/AIDS prevention in Lesotho for USAID and corporate foundations.

Trained and mentored local staff at a rural public hospital to build capacity in HIV/AIDS and TB data collection and reporting. Led quality assurance efforts in data reporting and patient care for a hospital's HIV and TB clinics. Worked on improving data reliability for a USAID cooperative agreement.

Researched health implications of water privatization polices in sub-Saharan Africa. Editorial Assistant for the Gendered Perspectives on International Development Resource Bulletin

Researched for the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Department looking at ways to increase health professional career mobility to reduce the global health care workforce shortage.

Research assistant for professors in International Relations and Comparative Cultures and Politics. Compared effectiveness of national public health strategies to eradicate Guinea Worm Disease in Uganda and Ghana. Analyzed economic trends in industry sectors in Michigan.