Patrick Norrell Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC

Currently leading ACDI/VOCA's Inclusive Market Systems (IMS) division, including serving as a member of the organization's Management Forum. Guide and direct the development and promotion of ACDI/VOCA’s project implementation and business development goals as they relate to the IMS division. Provide oversight and technical support to projects across the.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided operational oversight and technical support to projects within the Inclusive Market Systems division. Worked closely with the division head to guide ACDI/VOCA’s product and business development related to inclusive market systems, agribusiness enterprise development and the supporting policy environment. Coordinated resource use, ensuring.

Burlington, Vermont Area

• Provided leadership, vision, and management for Tetra Tech’s Agriculture and Economic Growth Sector - one of five technical teams making up Tetra Tech-ARD's international development services.
• Led new business development activities in the AEG sector, including enhancing and expanding core services, managing long-term capture strategy and resource allocation, partnering, proposal management, technical design.
• Launched and led rebuilding effort of agriculture and economic growth practice, including building team from one to six full time agriculture and food security experts, while increased total sector direct billability.
• Represented the AEG sector to clients, other business units in Tetra Tech, and internally, including working with other Tetra Tech units to grow the company's overall International Development Services division.
• Led project implementation teams through two successful start-ups, two close-outs and sustained high performance, with average CPARs exceeding 4 for all contracts under sector management.

Washington, DC

• Managed new business development for CNFA headquarters and supervised HQ and Field staff on new business activities, including proposal writing, strategic partnership development, and representing CNFA. Reported.
• Led the development of 88 proposals to various donors, worth over $800 million, and succeeded in securing new funding of over $190 million.
• Undertook overseas assignments for STTA, program management and new business development throughout Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, including: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, Pakistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan.
• Served as input supply practice lead, managing and providing ongoing technical assistance to CNFA’s worldwide portfolio of input supply and farm service programs, including initiatives in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and.

Tbilisi, Georgia

• Managed a local staff of approximately 100, with oversight of four separate programs and $47 million in funding.
• Responsible for oversight of project implementation, technical assistance, impact monitoring and evaluation, public relations, program accounting and financial management, and environmental mitigation efforts.
• Represented CNFA in relations with both Georgian government (Millennium Challenge-Georgia, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Economy, Local and Regional Government) and US Government stakeholders (Millennium.
• Led program development efforts resulting in new funding of $32 million from USAID/EGAT, USAID/OFDA, USAID/Caucasus Mission and Millennium Challenge.

Washington, DC

• Responsible for home office oversight, coordination and support of an approximately $40 million portfolio of programs in the former Soviet Union, including Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan and the Republic of.
• Provided technical assistance to worldwide programs on issues of agricultural input supply, SME development, rural financial services and grant administration.
• Contributed to new business development efforts, including project design, proposal-writing, staffing and budgeting. Participated in successful initiatives targeting diverse sources of funding (Rockefeller Foundation.

Kyiv, Ukraine

• Managed the USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) for the West NIS (Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus), overseeing a multinational staff in three country offices and an annual program budget of just over $1 million.
• Designed and implemented technical assistance interventions for local farmer groups, cooperatives, value-adding enterprises, lending institutions and input suppliers, based around short-term (2-4 week) consulting.
• Led CNFA to meet its annual West NIS volunteer quota for the first time in the organization’s history of FtF implementation. Oversaw development and execution of approximately 85 volunteer assignments per year.
• Responsible for conducting an expense analysis and implementing a series of financial austerity measures, in order to reduce program costs by 25%, in conformity with reduced funding level of 2004-2007 West NIS FtF.
• Represented CNFA in Ukraine, including serving as liaison with the USAID regional mission in Kiev, pursuing new business opportunities for the organization throughout the West NIS and engaging other US implementers and.

Chisinau, Moldova; Iasi, Romania

• Coordinated all activities related to the USAID-funded Moldova Farm Store Program, a component of CNFA’s Private Farmer Commercialization Program (PFCP).
• Managed multinational team of 30 individuals, reporting to the Moldova Country Director.
• Responsible for allocation of $3 million in direct grant assistance to selected Moldovan businesses. Coordinated team effort to develop 85 individual grant projects, including business plans, project budgets, matching.
• Succeeded in creating a profitable and sustainable network of 85 stores, which averaged $2,000/week in sales and sold over $14.3 million in goods and services to more than 900,000 clients over the life of the program.
• Directed establishment and operation of Agrostoc Input Supply Cooperative, a buying cooperative founded by the farm stores to import seeds, crop protection products and fertilizer directly from the manufacturers and.
• Utilizing $3.16 million in total USAID grant funds, leveraged local partner matching investment of $7.62 million in Moldova’s rural economy, directly creating 750 new jobs in the process.

Chisinau, Moldova

• Participated in implementation of the National Land Program, a USAID-sponsored project to privatize Moldovan collective farms, settle the debts of the bankrupt collectives and facilitate the creation of new, debt-free.
• Contributed to the revision of Moldovan laws on privatization and debt restructuring and collaborated with local authorities and local program representatives to ensure compliance with and understanding of the law on.
• Assisted with the researching and writing of a successful unsolicited proposal to USAID to broaden the program’s activities. Wrote reports and provided briefings regarding the activities of the debt unit. Provided.

Cahul, Moldova

• Received training in teaching techniques, community development strategies, needs assessment, intercultural communication and Romanian language.
• Elected to Peace Corps’ Volunteer Action Committee, a representative body that helps the administration to formulate and implement policies related to volunteers. Served on Peace Corps’ public relations committee.
• Taught English to over 200 Moldovan students, using communicative methodologies, critical thinking and environmental awareness in lessons. Acted as class teacher for an 11th grade class of 22 students, including.
• Organized and advised a student council and collaborated with city youth director to create a municipal youth council for the city of Cahul.
• Assisted Contact Center, an office working with local non-governmental organizations, as well as the Soros-funded Rural Development Project, with grant writing, government registration documents and seminars for.