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Utrecht, Ut, Nl

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

🐸 Facilitate the organizational growth and execution of RA's initiatives through the management and support of training initiatives, program roll-outs, and ongoing monitoring. 🐸 Supervise and administer a global learning platform (Moodle) with a user base of 30,000 learners across the globe.🐸 Coordinate and collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather information, align and develop strategies to drive the organizational mission and increase impact.🐸 Enhance overall performance by harnessing valuable training data, enhancing the user experience, and producing comprehensive reports. 🐸 Develop and execute communication strategy for the team in line with the department objectives and the wider organization's mission. This includes creating and managing content for various communication channels (website, intranet, newsletters and other relevant platforms) while ensuring clear and consistent messaging.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Ensure organisational development and implementation of RA’s programs by supporting and managing training programmes, roll-out and monitoring. Overseeing and administering global learning platform (Moodle) with 30,000 users. Improve overall performance by generating valuable training data, facilitating user experience and reporting. Perform trainer roles on various topics. Strategize and lead communication efforts for the training unit. Gaining a deeper understanding of sustainability topics, training methodologies, data and reporting and working in a matrix organisation.

WHO/HRP2022: Supporting the Gender and Human Rights Advisors in HRP governing body meetings and creating strategic plans and final meeting reports.WHO European Healthy Cities Network2021 & 2022: Drafting city application summary assessment reports that are the final documents of the designation process of members to the WHO Healthy Cities Network. They are used as a basis for discussions in the Scientific Committee of the Network, and are forwarded to the city as an annex to the formal designation letter.Gender and Human Rights Programme2020: Conducted a gender review of selected National Health Strategy documents and analyzed country recommendations based on the CEDAW review process with regards to improving countries' gender equality action for the WHO progress report on women’s and men’s health strategies.Gender, Equity and Human Rights Team (Geneva)2018-2019: Delivered a compendium of existing WHO recommendations from over 100 published guidelines and a comprehensive report with a summary of the evidence regarding discrimination in health care. I identified potential research areas where systematic reviews of evidence could be undertaken to develop evidence-informed recommendations.Gender and Human Rights Programme2017–2018: Created an overview of data availability in relation to data disaggregation and compiled an indicator table of selected frameworks for the women’s health strategy. The final product is a tool used by the WHO technical officers, an annex to the monitoring framework and a guidance document for WHO EURO member countries.2017: Developed a compendium of existing frameworks and a paper summarizing indicators, processes and initiatives relevant for monitoring women’s healths for the draft monitoring framework of the "Strategy on women’s health and well-being in the WHO European Region".2016: Developed a European case study for the Director’s General Report ”Women on the Move”.

Munich Area, Germany

I had a key role in launching and managing leadership training programs and projects from beginning to the very end. I developed design and delivery proposals and sales presentations as well as reports, managed training schedules and materials, organized training logistics and produced online trainings. Importantly, I managed many key stakeholders as well as communication to clients. I also took part in the digitalization initiative in the company while collaborating closely with the management. Finally, I took the occasional trainer role on topics such as using online platforms and was driving many initiatives to improve internal processes and ways of working.

Høje-Taastrup

I worked in a consultative and supportive manner with Key Account Managers to fulfil business needs and in developing business plans. I had the sole responsibility for preparing and analysing data on account dynamics and performances for six markets. I was responsible for internal coordination, definition, implementation and optimization of the sales strategy and for the creation and adaptation of sales and marketing material. I produced and localized various internal and external marketing assets and managed the external communications to business owners. Finally, I was active in innovating new working procedures.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

WAFA’s mission is to secure provisions of clean water and food for people most in need. Hence it creates a platform for exceptional pioneers within sustainable and innovative solutions and is supporting awardees and finalists in sharing their knowledge, scaling and replicating their initiatives including empowering local communities in creating significant impact.As a part of the communications team, I took part in activities related to research, content writing, creating social media strategy and updating WAFA's social media channels.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

EuroMed Rights brings together Northern and Southern women’s rights organizations in its Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Working Group (GWG) and during my internship I was responsible for assisting in the preparation of the regional meeting of the GWG in Tunisia and its follow-up. My tasks included administrative support, logistic organization of the event, preparing relevant documentation and folders for the meetings, budgeting, minute taking during the sessions, reporting after the event as well as assisting the Project Officers in content related tasks. The Working Group meeting was successful and provided me with great insight to meeting preparations and to the work of small and medium sized NGOs.

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

In the Division of Health Systems and Public Health, I was contributing to activities related to the implementation of European strategic directions for strengthening health workforce towards Health 2020 goals as well as achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality. My specific tasks included conducting academic research on feminization of health workforce and gender inequality in the health labour market and writing a desk literature review. As a result of good performance, I extended my stay in the organization and started working on a background report for the Gender and Human Rights Program where the technical officers were developing a new WHO Women's Strategy. The background report I wrote dealt with gender and unpaid work in the European Region. Similarly, my specific tasks included conducting desk research and writing a literature review and a report presenting the findings to support the drafting of the Women’s Health Strategy.

Odense Area, Denmark

(Earlier company name: Media Trust Online). As a translator and web content writer I was responsible for turning Danish and Swedish web marketing material into Finnish web content. I was also responsible for uploading the content and updating the company's Finnish websites. I learned a great deal about working in a highly technology-driven fintech-company, about online marketing and working with Content Management Systems (WordPress & Drupal).

Copenhagen Area, Denmark

The Danish National Centre for Social Research conducts research and carries out commissioned projects in the area of welfare state policies, and disseminates the results. Its primary task is to generate new, relevant knowledge to the society.In the department of children and family, I was contributing to a PhD project. I was responsible for performing literature search, creating a survey questionnaire and writing a complete literature review for the project in collaboration with another intern. The project had a quantitative focus, but my specific role was to add value to the study by including relevant qualitative research and use the specific knowledge from my previous studies such as gender studies. The qualitative research was crucial also in the development of the questionnaire used for data collection.

Helsinki, Finland

Customer service and promotional work

Master Of Social Sciences, Comparative Public Policy And Welfare Studies, 10/12

Bachelor Of Social Sciences, International Relations And Affairs, 5/5

Activities and Societies: Political Science Club Inter, International TutorInternational Relations

Bachelor’S Degree, Erasmus Exchange