• Development of the Unit's Funding Strategy: analysis of fundraising trends, donor mapping and fundraising plan preparation. • Coordinate proposal development processes with all type of donors (institutional and private). • Analysis of portfolio and pipeline and support decision making processes.• Lead in seeking and tracking donor intelligence on prospective new opportunities or partners Humanitarian Deployments: Turkiye Earthquake Response, Gaza Conflict Response

• In charge of proposal development and monitoring of projects, mainly is Asia (Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar) and East Africa (Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya). • Carrying out of training for field offices on donor related issues and topics (donor engagement, compliance, project management). • Support and monitoring activities with Save the Children International Country Offices- donor compliance, reporting, development of monitoring and needs assessment tools, and risk and mitigation analysis. • Experience with institutional donors: EU (ECHO/INTPA), UNICEF, UNESCO, IOM, Start Network, BHA, SIDA.• Great knowledge of Education in Emergencies and Child protection related topics in humanitarian settings. • Humanitarian deployments: ETA/IOTA Response in Central America (2020) as Proposal Coordinator and in Haiti Earthquake Response (2021) and in Ukraine Conflict Response (2022) as New Business Development Manager. Work with BHA/USAID, SIDA, GAC, DANIDA, NMFA and others.

• Part of the International Donors Unit, with special focus on EU Donors (ECHO and INTPA) and UNICEF.• Support with all international donors’ proposal writing, project management and reporting. • Carrying out of training for field offices on donor related issues and topics (donor engagement, compliance, project management). • Development of tools and manuals for better knowledge sharing, analysis and collaboration between HQ and field staff. o Gender mainstreaming in ECHO Actions• In charge of all coordination and collaboration mechanisms between Save the Children members related to account management. • Special interest in gender-related issues, focus on gender-mainstreaming tools in EU proposals and needs assessments. • Great knowledge in child-centred project development and implementation. • Resolved cultural, staffing & business integration issues associated with a Chinese acquisition involving a multi-month Beijing assignment.• Responsible for global organization with 14 facilities in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Malaysia & China.• Established an outsourcing program resulting in 75%+ reduction in cost and delivery of prototypes.• Established an internal professional "social network" to enable sharing of expertise, best practices, production methodologies, testing procedures & product/module designs.• Established a diviision-wide database for publications, standards methodologies and designs, assuring common processes, & eliminating duplicate activities across geographically-dispersed locations.• Implemented an organization-wide efficiency improvement program, reducing the number of unique design & NPI tools by over 40% while maintaining schedules.• Established standards for solder mask colors for state of PCBAs (POC, Prototype, Pilot, LPA, & Production), preventing accidental release of non-compliant product into a customer environment while providing clear indication of state of product development.

• Responsible for the implementation of international development projects, funded by diverse donors, mainly the European Commission (DEVAID and ECHO). • Monitoring of missions, reports and other deliverables to be presented to the donor. Quality and Compliance review of all reports. • Administrative and Financial control: follow-up on contractual issues, budget control and possible amendments. • Logistics and Stakeholders coordination: management of the experts’ team, coordination of traveling and possible workshops, coordination of communication between EC/Beneficiary and experts. • Backstopping: implementation of the planned methodology, problem-solving and monitoring of activities. • Great knowledge of European Commission, donor requirements and standards.• Led protfolio analysis leading to the creation new divisional structure.• Combined two under-performing business areas into single division, & led it to become the most profitable division, growing revenue 23% to $53 M, & operating profit to 15%.• Developed business plans with focus in Asia & Latin America, negotiated & closed volume sales agreements yielding annualized revenue of $4.6 M, & grew market share from 24% to 29%.• Launched the CM601 product line to address emerging market for low cost high quality satellite modems.• Created a unique product development partnership to replace problematic supplier, resulting in a $400K bottom line improvement.• Created a dial-out sales function to mine existing customer base combined with a legay product refurbishment program resulting in a $500K bottom line improvement.

• Editing and writing of project proposals for international and national donors (AECID, ECHO, USAID, SIDA).• Monitoring of implementation of projects and daily communication with missions (Latin America and Philippines). • Creation and update of Logframes and project database management.• Development of Gender-sensitive tools for missions.• Training on Nutrition and Livelihood in emergency settings.