Marissa Benner Email & Phone Number

Clemmons, Nc, Us

United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Supervising a Program Management team responsible for public, institutional, and corporate grant and contract management, fund management, and monitoring of strategic programs and partners. Managing a portfolio of 50 projects, ensuring successful implementation, monitoring, donor reporting, and financial reporting. Managing a corporate CSR program in child nutrition across 12 countries. Supporting our program teams with business planning, budget development, and impact monitoring. Designing projects and budgets for new proposals in partnership with business development teams.

Greater Chicago Area

Supervised a Program Management team responsible for institutional and corporate grant management, fund management and monitoring of strategic programs and partners. Managed a portfolio of 35 projects, ensuring successful implementation, monitoring donor reporting, and financial reporting. Supported program teams with business planning, budget development and monitoring. Designed projects and budgets for new proposals in partnership with business development teams.

Brunswick, Maine

Managing the Africa Growth and Innovation Initiative project funded by the MasterCard Foundation at Opportunity International's financial institutions in Ghana, Rwanda, Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania for the implementation of innovative microfinance services in agriculture, education, digital financial services and cutting edge business intelligence and data capturing tools. In addition, the role includes fund management, financial grant management, as well as program and budget monitoring and reporting.

Lilongwe, Malawi

Marissa worked closely with the five Opportunity International financial institutions in Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda participating in the project, Africa Growth & Innovations Initiative, to facilitate project set-up for the local program teams and to ensure proper and timely implementation of key deliverables under the grant. Additionally, she partnered with the program management and finance teams at Opportunity US and Opportunity Canada to support their work in donor reporting, program monitoring, evaluation & learning (MEL), funds placement and funds management.

Malawi

Seconded as Director of Projects at Opportunity Bank Malawi, Marissa oversaw development of policies and procedures related to donor funded and bank-initiated projects. She managed donor reporting, internal and external communication, monitoring & evaluation and project management controls. Managed 30 programs comprising over $16 million in donor funding with a portfolio that included grants from USAID, DFID, European Commission, UNCDF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MasterCard Foundation, IFAD, and others.

Oak Brook, Il

Managed reporting and project monitoring for institutional grants, from grantees such as USAID, UNCDF and IFAD. Managed donor funds and commitments for restricted funds in Africa & Latin America.

Oak Brook, Il

Proposal writer for Resource Development

Tacoma, Wa

In Global Risk and Compliance Departments through VOLT Workforce Solutions.

Federal Way, Wa

- Reviewed and revised field reports and checked for compliance for the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) team from USAID, Millennium Water Alliance, Hilton Foundation and other grantors.- Researched and analyzed various foundations, including their grant history, their relationships with similar organizations, and their current trends in funding (e.g. the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation)

* Established an internship grant application process for small technology companies* Developed two Keystone Innovation Grant application ($250,000 each for 2006) and maintained grant files

Harrisburg, Pa

* Wrote and developed several grant proposals ranging in award from a $2,000 grant to a $2.5 million grant/2.5 million low-interest loan.* Managed grant files, budget, invoices and reporting for KIZ grants and sub-grants* Planned and organized initiatives of the KIZ including a job and internship fair, a college business plan competition, and a science education day for high school students* Assisted small companies with state financing, tax credits, mentoring programs and business assistance

Harrisburg, Pa

Conducted market research for small businesses looking to import/export from foreign companies. Edited and reviewed business plans.

Masters Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science