Pamela Beecroft Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Support MENA Director in managing CIPE’s MENA team of around 40 staff across the region. Directly manage the Maghreb sub-regional team, with projects in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia that support a wide range of.
• Work with the MENA Director to shape regional strategy, analyze staffing decisions and needs and represent the team at the organizational level as needed.
• Mentor and advise junior staff on work products and professional development
• Oversee implementation of all Maghreb projects
• Engage with regional partner organizations on strategic and operational questions
• Develop and deliver training (often in French) to help local associations professionalize and increase impact. Among areas of assistance: mission development, alignment of activities with objectives, governance and.

• Provided technical assistance and implementation support to combatant demobilization and reintegration (D&R) projects in Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to the Burundi Community.
• Identified and assisted in resolution of complex technical and strategic issues hampering project implementation, including: contract and procurement issues; cost category overruns and budget reallocation.
• Reviewed reports, evaluations and other monitoring and evaluation products, and suggested means to improve their quality, content and presentation.
• Engaged in strategic and technical consultations, alone and as part of a team, with a broad range of government and international representatives concerning D&R implementation in the context of national peace and.
• Conceived new outcome indicators for PRADECS, and rationalized and redesigned its results framework and M&E plan. Designed results framework for the new Burundi D&R project.
• Participated in successful preparation of new D&R programs in Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drafted or edited project documents, commented on operations manuals, and engaged in meetings and.

Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, 2005Concentrations: International Security Studies, Negotiation and Conflict ResolutionThesis: Past and Future Models in Humanitarian-Military Coordination

• Undertook extensive analysis of development literature concerning gender, citizenship and entitlements, and produced 30-page literature review as basis for a new CRTD study. • Directed Technology Taskforce: redesigned e-brief, initiated contacts database, evaluated CRTD websites.• Created and presented “Technology in Gender and Development” workshop for.

• Taught beginning- through advanced-level English courses, four to twelve classes per week.• Designed lessons on situational English for students (business English, CV writing, etc.).

• Conceived and managed PAI’s international Day of Six Billion campaign: directed PAI staff; drafted concept papers and budgets; formulated web site structure; wrote and edited copy for campaign products; coordinated with designers and translators; presented campaign results to PAI Board and potential donors.• Participated in redesign of PAI website.

• Assisted in the preparation of grant proposals to government of The Gambia and to the Packard Foundation.
• Researched on maternal health and other requested topics.
• Edited Population Office marketing materials and other pieces.

• Researched and authored reporting and analysis cables for U.S. State Department and U.S. embassies
• Attended and reported on European Parliament meetings

Mald, International Negotiation And Conflict Resolution, Security Studies

Activities and Societies: • Student Council representative, and representative for Language and Architecture Committees • Co-editor of Al.

Intensive Arabic, Advanced Level

9-week intensive language course

Diplôme Des Etudes Universitaires Générales (Deug) - 1Ere Année, Arabic Language, Literature And Civilization

Diplôme Avancé De La Langue Française (Dalf), French Language

Ba, Anthropology, Cultural Concentration

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