With 20 years of experience in the international development, emergency relief, recovery, refugee relocation and construction sectors, my career has seen me working as a Chartered Building Surveyor MRICS and Project Manager in London, Europe and the Middle East, before changing track to use my managerial and construction skill-sets in the humanitarian and now international development sectors. In the humanitarian sector my roles included Head of Mission, Country Representative, Programme Coordinator and Shelter Advisor in Haiti (after 2010 earthquake), Jordan (assisting Syrian refugees), Iraq (meeting Yazidi IDPs' immediate needs), Nepal (after 2014 earthquakes), Israel (refugee relocation work) and Greece (the current refugee crisis). I have more recently moved into international development where my work has included research on south-south innovation transfer, the environmental effects of farming practices and project managing programmes across a range of thematic areas in Africa.As a highly motivated senior manager, experienced in developing and running projects (PRINCE2 qualified) up to £8.2million, I demonstrate strong coordination skills throughout the full project management life cycle. I am a visionary leader of over 60 staff, known for the ability to develop and maintain key relationships, lead proposal, strategy and donor reports, and for an effective consultative leadership approach. I am additionally an experienced CRM coordinator - with experience of implementing a new customer relationship management (CRM) software package; Microsoft Dynamics.With a keen focus on security, I have held the position of Security Focal Point in-country in Haiti, Jordan, Iraq and Greece, and remotely in Nigeria, Niger and Mali. Finally, I have led teams in English, French/Creole and Hebrew.I hold an MSc Population and Development from LSE, for which I received a full scholarship from the ESRC/PIC Masters Studentship in Population Studies. I was additionally recently nominated by my undergraduate university for their 2017 Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Alumni Awards.
Listed skills include Project Management, Management, Proposal Writing, Strategic Planning, and 42 others.
