Mary Winters Email & Phone Number

Denmark

Denmark

Iraq

• Manage and provide technical oversight of: 1. Education portfolio focused on safe access to formal and non-formal education with a strong emphasis on social emotional learning, teacher professional development, and.
• Manage team of up to 60 national staff and up to 5 international staff across 4 field sites.
• Administer multi-donor portfolio of over 8 million annually including budget creation, spending plans, and monthly reviews.
• Oversee the planning, implementation, M&E, and reporting for multiple projects, including Mosul response programming while ensuring compliance with both IRC and donor regulations.
• Ensure operational management of programming.
• Develop education sector strategy and funding strategy for Iraq, lead program design and development of education and multi-sector integrated proposals.

Berbérati, Mambéré-Kadéï, Central African Republic

• Coordinated and managed the implementation of Finn Church Aid’s (FCA) immediate emergency response and longer term education humanitarian assistance projects.
• Provided technical support to FCA staff, conducted frequent field visits to ensure projects were implemented in accordance with work plans and log frames.
• Responsible for budgets totaling 2.2 million Euro.

Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic Of The Congo

• Coordinated and managed the education response for the RRMP (Rapid Response to Movement of Population) project in North Kivu Province, consisting of $3.5 million USD funded by UNICEF.
• Planned and implemented multiple concurrent interventions, promoting cross-sectoral linkages where possible. Conducted extensive field visits to ensure efficiency and rapidity of response and alignment with global and.
• Managed two teams of 12 educational staff.
• Represented NRC externally to donors, government officials, and the cluster system.
• Hired and trained local partners for assistance with program implementation.
• Responsible for budget and financial management of education program activities. Successfully led new proposals in line with NRC global policy and NRC DRC country strategy.

New York City

• Worked on various projects to further the promotion, utilization, and institutionalization of the INEE Minimum Standards. Competed projects pertaining to knowledge management, workshops and trainings, outreach and.
• Wrote various concept notes, publication pieces, EiE advocacy pieces, contributed to contextualizations of the Minimum Standards, and constructed communication messages.
• Organized the global testing and tracking of new INEE tools and training modules for the Education in Emergencies toolkit.
• Developed “The Brightest Hope” publication, highlighting essays from an INEE essay contest.

Kolonia, Federated States Of Micronesia

• Managed 12 international volunteer teachers; facilitated initial 3 week orientation and ongoing teacher training and development involving regular classroom observations and coaching.
• Wrote comprehensive high school English curriculum guide which is now institutionalized across all WorldTeach FSM programs. Wrote additional curricular guides for high school Algebra II, Geometry, Biology, and General.
• Taught one high school senior English class at Pohnpei Island Central School.
• Liaised with diverse stakeholders including government officials and education personnel for technical and operational management of program.
• Secured new local partner and began new international volunteer summer program.
• Managed all finances of country program, wrote reports and new program literature.

Eenhana, Khomas, Namibia

• Developed curriculum and taught over 200 students two multi-level classes of grade 6 English, as well as Grade 3, 5, and 7 Art.
• Held positions as grade 7 registered class teacher, school librarian, school secretary, set exams at circuit level for 60+ schools.
• Began an after-school reading program for 150 students, pairing Lower Primary with Upper Primary learners.

Edm International Education Policy

Canadian Frank Knox Memorial Fellow

Study Abroad

Canadian Killam Fellow

Bmus, Piano