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Arlington, Va, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Serve as Operations Lead on a $20 million, USAID-funded trade project in Bangladesh and manage 4 additional projects across the Indo-Pacific related to economic growth. Ensure alignment of operations with technical objectives, working closely with the COP and Technical Lead and overseeing/managing contractual compliance.Manage capture and proposal efforts for new business objectives. Identify client priorities, determine opportunities and constraints, recommend consortium partners, drive proposal conceptualization, and ensure high quality proposal submissions.Serve as operations liaison to the contracts department to continually improve ops staff ability to issue, manage, and comply with contracts.Developing methodology for standardizing best practices across field offices: learning operations from the field office perspective, appraising systems across all field offices, and proposing modifications to home and field office operations to ensure more effective and efficient operations.Engage in company practice areas related to economic governance and trade.Contribute to the design and implementation of IDG's professional development initiatives for employees.Ensure direct reports and team members are successful in their work by providing guidance, support, and opportunities to achieve personal, professional, and company goals.

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Masters in International Policy & PracticeDegree focused on the tools and processes for building effective policies and programs in the international affairs space.Excelled in courses: strategy & leadership; monitoring & evaluation; negotiation; political risk analysis; international security politics; U.S. foreign policy; U.S. foreign assistance; economic tools for global policy; and cybersecurity.

Ben Lomond, Ca

Stabilized and grew a camp organization, focusing on building stakeholder trust, overhauling and implementing policies and standard protocols, and developing new programs. My personal highlight was collaboratively developing a year-round, remote educational program that helped partners accomplish their stated (pre-pandemic) needs. It required leadership through the full lifecycle of concept through implementation: building trust with regional stakeholders, mapping their goals, thinking critically about how their needs matched the camp's goals, developing a creative solution that we could implement, marketing it, and delivering a quality program. The result was a program that prompted growth in both stakeholder communities and our own.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Developed a year-long, volunteer service program site in Cambodia from scratch. Arrived with a hotel reservation and one local contact and 6 months to build a network of Cambodian service sites and homestays as well as prepare a multi-week training for incoming volunteers. Sufficiently learned the language (Khmer), history, politics, and culture of Cambodia to build trusting relationships with Cambodian leaders of local development organizations, churches, and other services. Researched and acquired safe and stable placement sites, including stipends, transportation, communication, and health care services. Conducted the training and quarterly retreats for the first group of volunteers in country.

Liberty, Missouri

Built organizational capacity for visioning, strategizing, and realizing organizational purpose and goals for a community of 200 people. Initiated and guided a volunteer task force that researched demographics, opportunities, and challenges, asset-mapped resources, and organizational strategy process. Included building partnerships with local organizations and spearheading a successful capital campaign to buy additional land.Supported, taught, and guided the community through public speaking, teaching, and writing. Gave over 150 speeches and presentations, taught over 75 classes, and wrote monthly reports and newsletters.

Madison, Wisconsin

Managed, expanded, and supported all social impact programs, including homeless support services, Bhutanese refugee resettlement, a food pantry, and a disaster relief team.Addressed a weekly audience of 25+ people, and a once per month audience of up to 1,000 people in-person plus a television audience. Taught classes and lead studies. Oral speeches, presentations, and classes total over 200.

Master Of International Policy And Practice (Mipp)

Master Of Divinity - Mdiv

Ba, Religion; International Studies, Magna Cum Laude

Summer Intensive, Spanish