María José Cortés Batson Email & Phone Number

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

Planear, organizar, coordinar, controlar, liderar y desarrollar todas las actividades regionales interinstitucionales e interagenciales del Programa Integrando Horizontes Sostenibles bajo el acuerdo de cooperación entre la Oficina Población, Refugiados y Migraciones – PRM - y FUPAD; cuyo objeto es proporcionar a la población atendida un mejor medio ambiente para la protección, asistencia directa y soluciones duraderas a familiar migrantes provenientes de Venezuela mediante la inclusión socioeconómica y cultural en Cali.

Cali

• Guide and support the base team assigned to the project. • Monitoring of project goals and result indicators. • Provide training and methodological guidelines to 12 business advisors. • Review and adaptation of business training materials, booklets, and methodological guides • Create and present the project status reports to the stakeholders. • Project budget management: $113.863 USDAchievements:• 105 small businesses and 51 companies strengthened in management skills.

Cali

• Facilitate the development of skills, competencies, and business habits in the participants. • Provide training and personalized support and promote the generation of sustainable income.Achievements:• 90% of entrepreneurs appropriated at least 3 of the habits 100% (registration in the daily book, business promotion, sales planning).• Increase in sales (5%-15% on average) despite the crisis resulting from the pandemic.• Increase registration and renewal of the RUT (business registration) and mercantile registry from 49% to 92%, with more than 100 ventures formalized during the process.

Cali

I• Follow-up on the appropriation and implementation of the proposed tools and, to the business situation. • Gathering and compilation of the strategic information required to evaluate the impact of the program the • Support the project leader in implementing intervention strategies.• preparation of progress reports.

Cali

• Management of the necessary documents to carry out the negotiation and acquisition of the properties for the construction of the Boga to Buenaventura road, according to the requirements of the contracting Consortiums and Achievements:• Efficient fulfillment of the assigned requirements made by the Consortiums allowing timely property management.• Approval by the interested parties and the beginning of the negotiation process of the properties.

Colombia

• Management the project execution based on the critical analysis of their administrative, technical, financial and social components. • Project budget management: US $120.000 - US$200.000• Leadership, inter-institutional coordination, and multidisciplinary work teams. • Preparation of periodic reports. • Identify opportunities for intervention and support in structuring and formulating comprehensive social intervention programs with a Logical Framework approach.Achievements:• Delivery of food rations to more than 5,000 vulnerable people in Valle del Cauca after receiving training in entrepreneurship and nutrition skills; to enable them to restore their livelihoods by focusing on the prevention and treatment of malnutrition.• Training in business issues to improve the capacities of more than 150 productive projects of vulnerable families.

Cali

• Identification of purchasing needs by analyzing the volume of demand for the products.• Creation and follow-up of the purchase order.• Negotiation of prices and conditions with suppliers.• Close communication with stakeholders to ensure quality and punctuality in deliveries.• Effective distribution of the products to guarantee their stocks with a minimum inventory.• Budget management: US $1.370.572 per monthAchievements:• Obtaining savings of more than US $ 21.086

Colombia

• Identification of purchasing needs by analyzing the volume of demand for the products.• Creation and follow-up of the purchase order.• Negotiation of prices and conditions with suppliers.• Close communication with stakeholders to ensure quality and punctuality in deliveries.• Effective distribution of the products to guarantee their stocks with a minimum inventory.• Budget management: US $1.370.572 per monthAchievements:• Purification and consolidation of the product portfolio.• Reduction of supply costs thanks to the management and correct adjustment of the quota purchased from suppliers.• Reduction of inventory breaks at drug stores.

Gestión De Proyectos Con Enfoque En Desarrollo Territorial, Political Science And Government

Máster En Dirección De Proyectos, Programas Y Carteras, Project Management

Diplomado En Microfinanzas

Diplomado En Gerencia Financiera, Finance, General

Profesional En Economía Y Negocios Internacionales, Economía Y Negocios Internacionales