Meghan Macbain Email & Phone Number

United States

Bangkok Thailand

• Strategic Plan Execution/Budget Management: Effectively managed all phases of 10-year, $20 million budget from initial development through full implementation; secured additional $10 million and 5-year extension.
• Change Management/Retention: Oversaw and guided national and international staff through significant transitions, including Winrock restructuring, COVID-19 impact, project modifications, and potential project closures.
• Building Shared Vision/Goal Achievement: Facilitated pause-and-reflect sessions and subsequent work planning with Winrock International teams, partners, and donors, plus development of 5-year strategic plan; fostered.
• Collaboration/Fair Labor: Led co-creation sessions with private sector companies, collaboratively identifying and developing initiatives to combat trafficking, forced labor, and child exploitation within supply chains.
• Trafficking Prevention/Diplomacy: Collaborated closely with Thai and U.S. government counterparts, aligning programs with government initiatives while addressing Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) concerns.
• Gap Analysis/Leadership Training: Identified gaps in Winrock's policies and staff support; spearheaded development of new initiatives, addressing issues; established Chief of Party Connection platform; enhanced.

Cambodia

• Financial Management/Resource Optimization: Charged with managing/rescuing BBC Media Action projects struggling with impact and funding; assessed situation, implemented strategic downsizing measures, optimized.
• Fundraising/Cost Saving: Reduced operational costs 30% through targeted downsizing; increased budget 100%+ by securing new donor contributions, revitalized project, and ensured long-term viability.
• Multimedia Platforms/Communication: Managed $5 million multi-donor portfolio and multinational 80-member team; developed multimedia projects, including TV and radio dramas, discussion-based/reality programs, social.
• Donor Expansion/Strategic Planning: Designed and implemented comprehensive 5-year strategic plan, addressing communication gaps and developmental needs among young Cambodians; launched 2 innovative multimedia programs.
• Social Change/Civic Engagement: Developed and launched Social Behavioral Change communication multimedia projects on radio, TV, and social media, targeting Cambodian youth; promoted civic engagement (Loy 9), family.

Solomon Islands

• Violence Against Women/Empowerment: Developed rights-based, holistic program empowering women and communities by strengthening protection systems and implementing long-term solutions, including economic empowerment.
• Gender-based Violence/Task Force: Created and facilitated working groups with Solomon Island (SI) government on combatting Gender-based Violence and Trafficking in Persons while participating in TIP national task.
• Gender Sensitivity Training/Safety: Designed and delivered 'Train the Trainer' program for 40 women from Solomon Islands communities with high rates of Gender-Based Violence; expanded participant understanding of.
• Pioneering Programming: Contributed to developing Oxfam International's strategic plan and ‘Ending Violence Against Women’ and ‘Transformative Women's Leadership’ guides; pioneered new direction for women's.
• Partnerships/Stakeholder Engagement: Led dissemination of best practices in Learning Working Group within Solomon Islands NGO Partnership Agreement (SINPA); collaborated with 7 organizations and Department of Foreign.

London, United Kingdom

• Global Teams/Program Management: Led team of program and technical managers from multiple disciplines and nationalities, coordinating between headquarters and 18 different countries; defined key regional and.
• Board Member/Strategic Insights/SME: Contributed critical contributions as board member of international NGO Dalit Solidarity UK by spearheading development of organizational strategies and programs informed by.
• Program Management/Compliance: Identified and addressed high-priority regional and country program needs, developing and implementing budgets and plans aligned with organizational directives; tracked and reported.
• Curriculum Development/Training: Designed and delivered comprehensive 3-day, in-person training in Albania on combating forced child begging; covered intervention strategies and prevention techniques; heightened.

Sierra Leone, West Africa

• Operations/Leadership: Led Sierra Leone Country Office, overseeing operations, including security, recruitment, training, program design, and strategic planning; managed $5 million program and team of 120 local and.
• Program Design/Execution: Designed, implemented, monitored, and evaluated Psychosocial Community-based program, targeting 54+ communities with interventions focused on creative, recreational, cultural, and educational.
• Child/Youth Projects: Initiated and supervised Local Support Partner Project; selected proposals, provided funding, and built capacity of 6 local NGOs/CBOs to implement child and youth-based projects; upgraded.

Sierra Leone

Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Philosophy

Master'S Degree, Ethnology And Conflict Resolution

Masters in Ethnology and Conflict Resolution