Ross Mccarthy Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Sierra Leone

Working alongside colleagues from 28 other nationalities our team of more than 100 observers were deployed to all 16 districts in Sierra Leone observing opening, voting, closing, ballot counting and tabulation of election results. As a short-term observer (STO) my focus was on observing the immediate election environment, the implementation of voting and.

County Dublin, Ireland

Volunteering in Ireland: I supported the 3,000+ Dublin employees to volunteer over 300,000 hours in my six years, with a focus on high impact, skill based volunteering. I managed all major employee communications & PR on volunteering, implement our global volunteer campaigns & lead relationships with multiple national & international charities.Granting.

Dublin, Ireland

As an experienced project and change management professional working for EY’s Advisory team in Ireland I used my unique skills and experience to help government, NGOs and other organisations to communicate and manage change, as they underwent major business transformation. I also used my project management skills to ensure projects were governed and.

Sierra Leone

The United Nations Development Programme Sierra Leone is focused on supporting the national media sector to fortify the democratic process. As the ebola crisis worsened our focus shifted to improve the country’s ebola response. Ebola response1. Radio sensitisation: I produced a concept note on ebola sensitisation radio and with media partners I managed to.

London, UK

MSF is carrying out a clinical trial for drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa, Uzbekistan and Swaziland. Based in London my role was to provide an efficient and responsive communication, organisational and logistical service to the team.1. I led development of an internal communications plan for the clinical trial.2. I worked in close collaboration.

Dublin, Ireland

MSF Ireland is the Irish office of the Nobel Peace prize winning medical, humanitarian NGO. For two years I worked on communications and fundraising initiatives as part of a small 4-person office team.1. I did daily media reviews, monitored coverage & maintained accurate hard & soft copy files along with managing www.msf.ie & all our social media.

Ireland

The World’s Best News is a newspaper and campaign designed to combat the consistent negative stream of news about developing nations and instead provide a more balanced, positive view of the developing world and its citizens. Based on a successful Danish model, along with my co-founder Sean O'Connell, we established and launched the initiative in Ireland..

Ireland

Wave Change, run by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland and funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, supports young high potential social actors, social entrepreneurs and change makers to act on their vision for change for Ireland through an intensive 10 month support and investment programme. I was selected as a Wave Change Executive for 2013 for The World's Best.

Dublin

UCD Volunteers Overseas is a Dublin based charity with projects in India, Haiti, Nicaragua, Tanzania and South Africa, which works alongside local communities and NGOs in carrying out small-scale development projects, which respond to local needs. UCDVO sends over 100 volunteers overseas annually.1. With my fellow board members we decided on which projects.

Vijayawada Area, India

As Project Leader for the 2012 South India group I led a group of 19 volunteers (students and graduates) working alongside local NGOs on physiotherapy, educational and sports projects for a month, while managing a €40,000 budget.I also undertook a pre-departure planning trip in order to make the necessary arrangements for the group's arrival. In addition I.

Dublin

Dóchas is the association of Irish Non-Governmental Development Organisations. It has over 40 members which include Concern Worldwide, Oxfam Ireland and the Irish Red Cross. Dóchas provides a forum for consultation and co-operation between its members and helps them speak with a single voice on development issues.1. Coordinating the actions of over 70 NGOs.

Ireland

I produced, wrote, edited and promoted the Sean 2012 campaign which saw over 3,000 emails sent to TD's in 3 days encouraging an increase in Ireland's overseas aid budget. The video was curator's choice on Storyful.com, the most commented story on Broadsheet.ie, it was featured on the Huffington Post, there was a live radio interview on Phantom 105.2 fm and.

Somoto, Nicaragua

1. I used both Spanish and English in helping to organise and construct a classroom and other educational facilities in Nicaragua, in partnership with the Nicaraguan NGO INPRHU. 2. I personally raised over €3,000 for the charity through individual fundraising prior to departure.3. I also fundraised as part of a team that rose over €30,000 though various.

Rome Area, Italy

BBC Rome Bureau is the BBC office for Italy and other Mediterranean countries, which carries out news research and production for radio, television and internet. The bureau employs 7 people and is part of the British Broadcasting Corporation.1. I conducted radio and television interviews for BBC World Business Report in both English and Italian in Rome.

Msc Economic Development And Finance, Project Management

Subjects: Project Planning, Appraisal and Implementation Aid and Development Money, Finance and Growth Growth and Development Foreign.

Bachelor Of Commerce And Italian Studies, International Business/Trade/Commerce, 2.1 Honours Degree

Activities and Societies: Very active with UCD Volunteers Overseas. Active member of C&E and QSoc. Played Super league football in 2008.

Economics, Economics

Activities and Societies: Active Consules Member. Member of Luiss Football Team 2008-09. Achieved 2:1 Honours Degree

Education record

Head Boy & President of Student Representative Council