Natalie Emery Email & Phone Number

Rome, It

Rome, Latium, Italy

Juba, South Sudan

• Support humanitarian partners in field locations where the World Food Programme-led Logistics Cluster does not have presence with the provision of services, assessing and reviewing current procedures to identify areas of improvement. • Act as the focal point through engagement and travel to key field sites where major activities are ongoing as well as to deep field locations. • Plan and conduct on-site visits and rapid assessments to monitor results and increase coordination, identifying and addressing gaps and challenges.• Organize and provide capacity strengthening and training for staff and partners.• Work closely with WFP units to identify expansion areas for cost-effective logistical modalities. Liaise with other functional units to detail plans and operational support.• Liaise with partners, NGO forum, UN, cluster leads, core pipelines managers, donor partners and other humanitarian bodies, representing the cluster at relevant meetings and coordination forums and ensuring a coordinated emergency response.• Advise and support the resource mobilization, including the preparation and presentation of project proposals, budgets and concepts notes.• Data analysis on information related to the emergency response, prospective and current funding streams, and technical inputs on core pipelines to guide the delivery of services and for learning of best practices. • Prepare and review special operation project documents, operational overviews, briefings and financial and narrative reports on the country-wide operation for donors, WFP and other stakeholders and/or for the implementation of the cluster activities.

South Sudan

Women from different humanitarian organizations came together to launch the Women in Logistics Network for South Sudan with the vision to empower women in South Sudan logistics & supply chain, addressing gender imbalance to enable the logistics industry to benefit from female talent. This is done by providing capacity building, mentorship, and networking opportunities, with an aim to do much more.

Juba, South Sudan

• Created and led the multi-year strategic partnerships strategy, developing and managing a focused engagement plan for key foundations and institutional donors, including subsequent engagement, relationship development and high-quality bid development. • Led the proposal design, preparation, and submission of proposals and developed multi-year budgets.• Coordinated with the various units within country and member offices globally during proposal design, bid preparation and submission of proposals. Advised on emergency response projects in accordance to donor guidelines.• Coordinated the production and clearance of supporting documents including reports, visibility materials, concept notes and advocacy briefs.• Prepared and presented project proposals and budgets.• Liaised with field offices and units in-country and global offices during proposal design, preparation and submission.• Worked with both private and institutional donors including BHA, Danida, ECHO, EU, FDCO, Sanofi, and Sida, the UNs, and USAID.• Provided capacity building and operational support to technical specialists and project managers.• Conducted ongoing assessments and reviews of existing processes to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.• Worked closely with the senior management team to prepare for scaling-up of emergency response and/or emerging needs.• Managed the business development and gender team.

Juba, South Sudan

• Supported the development of frameworks, processes and guidelines for project management, implementation, and results monitoring.• Led the resource mobilization targeting private and public donors, including proposal development, information management, donor relationship cultivation and report writing.• Created and implemented the fundraising, partnership and communication strategy.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Responsible for the creation, planning, implementation, and monitoring of the organizations’ strategy roadmap.• Co-led the organization’s change management process, which led to a shift into new modalities of operations, the launching of new projects, and an overall organization scale up to reach over 4000 children and youth annually.• Managed the development and monitoring of multiple programmes, overseeing every phase in the project cycle, from initiation to results monitoring to operational and financial closure.• Developed and implemented tools to manage workflows, deadlines and M&E.• Captured, analyzed, and shared knowledge and data to inform project strategies and actions; identified issues and risks and proposed corrective actions and solutions that led to the scale of the organization.• Provided management oversight and technical leadership and advice to 18 team members.• Prepared and conducted high level presentations of project proposals, budgets and results.• Supported the design, writing, and editing of relevant project products including financial and narrative reports, background papers, concept notes, and analytical tools and analysis documents.• Doubled the organizations’ annual income for two years in a row; identified new funding opportunities and built international and local partnerships; gave presentations at high-level meetings.• Managed key client engagement and generated new business, supporting contract negotiation, partnership creation and ongoing communication. • Conducted policy analysis and development, reviewing issues and trends on education and training, the supply and demand of digital skills, youth employment and entrepreneurship, gender equality and women’s empowerment.• Designed and implemented capacity building workshops.• Managed budgets and developed financial reports.• Launched online and offline advocacy and communications campaigns.

Sandton, Johannesburg

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Managed the launch and inception phase of CTW, including engaging key stakeholders, determining goals, obtaining funding and creating and managing a team of trainers• Assisted in creating the organizations’ systems and procedures• Managed a team to deliver on several concurrent projects.• Created and delivered a training programme for teachers in public schools • Oversaw all human resource management, administration, and finance, including recruitment, staff training, and performance management• Developed local and international partnerships with donors, government and community leaders.• Organized educational events and outings for groups of 50 to 300 orphans

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Master Of International Development Policy, Gpa: 3.93 (Academic Distinction)

Thesis: Policy proposal for UN Women on innovative educational solutions on the African continent, with a focus on the application.

Introduction To Proposal Development: From Capture To Proposal Submission

Certificate In Project Management: Teams & Fundamentals, Project Management

Bcom, Human Resources Development