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Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Lead reporting for USAID global Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Systems (MTaPS) program. Write technical briefs. Provide quality assurance for multiple project publications.

Kyiv, Ukraine; Yerevan, Armenia; Split, Croatia (Present)

• Client: Management Sciences for Health (MSH)/ The Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program. (December 2022-present). As part of the MERL team, write technical documentation and serve as senior reporting advisor, leading production of contractual reporting for global USAID pharmaceuticals systems strengthening project. Liaise with country staff in select Asian and African countries and the US home office. • Client: Abt Associates, Inc. (Multiple contracts from January 2018-present). Collected and analyzed information to prepare technical input for proposals, reports and other documents. Worked in collaboration with multi-country team including high level government officials to design and lead a 10-country training workshop on provider payment for tuberculosis; Carried out stakeholder interviews in Ukraine; worked with remote teams to produce success stories, quarterly and annual reports, talking points, scene setters, conference abstracts, briefers and other technical documents on tuberculosis and health systems in Central Asia. Collaborated with teams across North America, Europe, and Asia.• Client: The World Bank (July 2021-February 2022). Provided communications support for World Bank environmental portfolio in Europe and Eurasia. Produced talking points, wrote technical briefers, synthesized reports, and prepared other communications materials. Coordinated with staff across Washington, DC, Europe and Eurasia.• Client: Project Hope (multiple contracts from March-August 2019) Spearheaded last mile effort to convert and synthesize raw technical materials into understandable outward-facing publication portraying the US government’s two decades of work on tuberculosis in Central Asia. Led production of final report for three-country, five-year development project.

Bethesda, Md

Managed implementation of development and training projects in international health. Provided support for field offices and global technical assistance. Significant project management and new business development contributions.

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Manage intercultural country team of 25 staff plus consultants. Oversee work planning, reporting, budgeting and project implementation for the Kyrgyzstan piece of a USAID-funded five-year multi-sectoral flagship health project.

Tbilisi, Georgia

Developed academic writing program for new, international-caliber Masters in Economics degree program at Tbilisi State University. Developed curriculum, taught classes, hired and supervised instructors, provided advisory services to students seeking further education abroad. Contributed to development of degree program policies. Participated in financial aid committee and admissions committee.

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Provided project management, especially focused on project communications and outreach and population education. Support regional chief of party in implementing highly successful, five-country ZdravPlus and ZdravPlus II Central Asian health care reform projects. Engage with multicultural, multinational staff in five country offices and with USAID client to ensure high-quality project implementation.

Baku, Azerbaijan

Hired, trained, and developed staff and program for community civic education. Worked closely with project director and full project team to implement systems for effective project implementation.

Baku, Azerbaijan

Led a team of seven technical specialists in developing and implementing activities to strengthen local non-profit organizations in Azerbaijan. Implementation included educational programs for journalists and students, grant-writing support for local grassroots organizations, and provision of information resources.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Development In Transition Economies

Master Of Arts - Ma, Russian And East European Studies

Bs, Russian

Certificate, Career Development And Academic Advising