Sarah Avendaño (She/Her) Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

I find leaders for mission-driven clients; I have expertise in global searches. Representative clients include: Together Rising; Amnesty International USA; International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region; the Equality Fund; Heising-Simons Foundation; Surdna Foundation; Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF); Co-Impact; World Animal Protection; Center for Victims of Torture, BRAC International; Water For People; Prime Coalition; Equal Access; Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA); Junior Achievement Africa; and Americares.

Managed the initiation and completion of all academic programming for small student body population. Spearheaded mentorship initiatives for practical life extracurricular activities. Advised on partnerships with Zoom, YouTube, and Google.

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

Recruitment:Responsible for all aspects of the recruitment process, including writing job posts, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding for contract market research analysts across the Americas. Track and analyze data related to recruitment needs throughout the Americas.Contract Analyst Management:Supported period of change management for global move to contract analyst platform, Kalo, including training of internal and external stakeholders, troubleshooting, communications, and creating best practices for strong contract market research analyst profiles.Serve as consultant to project managers.Manage and improve pool of 250+ contract market research analysts across the Americas and foster and maintain excellent relationships to ensure productive and long-lasting collaboration.Spearhead incentive initiatives and contract analyst feedback surveys. Project Staffing:Staffed 700+ project requisitions annually in 30+ countries in the Americas and advised project managers on the best fit contractor for any given project, based on skills, project needs, geography and/or language ability. Training and Process Improvement:Coordinate and facilitate live weekly training for contract analysts in the Americas, EMEAI, APAC, and China, including developing training syllabus and assigning trainers. Train newly hired employees on guidelines for contractor management and best practices and procedures for contract analyst requisition, invoicing, and payment.Partner with managers and senior leadership globally to improve processes for recruitment and staffing.Communication:Served as editor in chief for quarterly global team newsletter.Wrote professional bios for senior-level staff and developed bio template used globally.Spearheaded the corporate partnership between Euromonitor and Upwardly Global to support CSR initiatives.

Greater Chicago Area

As of March 2020, I am no longer freelancing. Thank you for the referrals and the opportunities over many years. Feel free to contact me if you need a referral.

San Francisco, California

Recruitment: Recruited experts for more than 10 successful international donor funded proposals for Tetra Tech's international development division (formerly DPK Consulting), including in the following countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Mexico, Nepal, Paraguay, Romania, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and West Bank.Traveled to Haiti, Kosovo, and South Africa to assist with project start-up activities and had full responsibility for all recruiting needs including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding.Collaborated with project managers and other internal stakeholders and managed ongoing recruitment and staffing needs for large portfolio of active contracts, including short term and long term (1 year or more) projects.Proposal Writing: Wrote the personnel sections of technical proposals for all proposed staff that met and exceeded the RFP requirements for USAID, INL, and World Bank funded proposals. Relationship Management:Identified and maintained relationships with industry specialists in business areas such as anticorruption, gender justice, legal reform, court management, legal aid, access to justice, crime and violence prevention, and monitoring and evaluation.Maintained and managed a robust database of global consultants.Recruited, interviewed, trained, and managed legal interns from Bay Area law schools.

San Francisco, California

Boston, Massachusetts

St. Louis, Missouri