Simge Memisoglu Email & Phone Number

Poland

Warsaw, Poland

Poland

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Gaziantep, Turkey

25 Jan - 31 August 2021

Amman Governorate, Jordan

Baghdad, Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq

Istanbul, Turkey

• Managing a procurement (food and medical items) and capacity building based project, funded by US Government, that support beneficiaries.• Managing a team of five program and field staff to ensure project deliverables and outputs are met in accordance with agreed time-frames,• Developing beneficiary needs assessments and ensuring specifications for support are sufficient to meet beneficiary needs,• Developing activities and drafting activity sheets that support the operationalization of program strategy, as well as tracking activity budgets and deliverables,• Managing deliveries of procured items, ensuring donor and Creative procedures are adhered to and procured items are delivered on time and within budget, • Developing and managing implementation of training activities on time and within budget,• Working closely with the project’s procurement team to ensure procurement is completed on time and to specification,• Working closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation and Reporting Manager to ensure M&E and reporting inputs for reporting deliverables are provided by field staff in a timely manner,• Responsiveness to donor needs and requests, to include information gathering, organizing meetings and programmatic adjustments,• Organizing regular meetings with the beneficiaries and donor to facilitate program development and relationship building opportunities.

İstanbul, Türkiye

- Overseeing all aspects of program implementation, including M&E and reporting (drafting quarterly reports for BPRM and UNICEF, reviewing reports of local partners); ensuring inclusion of disability in programming,- Contributing to production of follow-on proposals or other program documentation for new projects for a range of donors, especially BPRM and UNHCR (targeting at urban refugees); the Swiss Embassy in Turkey (aiming at capacity building of civil society in Turkey); and UNICEF (focusing on nutritional and child protection activities for urban refugees),- Drafting and negotiating MoUs with partners, setting up and managing the program/operational systems, working with the relevant other staff on logistic and finance issues,- Serving as the focal person for NFI distribution, drafting/revising vulnerability checklists, setting protocol with local partners,Serving as the focal person for disability and inclusion, ensuring inclusion of PWD in all program activities and coordinating accessibility assessment of the community centres and organizing trainings on disability for the staff.- Serving as the focal person for the Izmir region, took a role in conducting initial needs assessment in Izmir and Bodrum in September 2015, and managing two small grants targeting at winterization and food distribution through a number of local partners in Izmir and Bodrum

Izmir, Turkey

Izmir, Turkey

Association for Solidarity with Refugees - LNGO Coordinating all activities of the EU funded projects named as “Civil Act for Refugee Rights Emancipation” for 14 months; as “Satellite Cities: Monitoring and Reporting” for 18 months; Organizing field researches in 12 cities of Turkey (including Gaziantep, Hatay, Mardin and Adana), conducting interviews with refugees, local NGOs and representatives of related public authorities with the aims of exploring the needs and priorities of refugees, Organizing training activities for local NGOs and local public authorities, Case management, providing social counselling ( in English, Farsi and Turkish) to refugees, developing referral paths and ensuring follow up, Ensuring coordination with UNHCR and other related actors in case of high concerns of protection, including GBV and CP, Drafting public releases and managing the social media accounts of the organization, Project implementation, developing work plans, ensuring activities are conducted in time and targets are met along with budget tracking, preparing narrative and financial report for the donor.

Ankara, Türkiye

 Supported task managers of the two sub-teams (Justice, Freedom and Security; Civil Society) in their daily activities related to project cycle management (twinning/technical assistance projects; civil society dialogue and EIDHR projects) and policy issues, Contributed to the ongoing capacity building activities of the EU Delegation and took an important role in the EC’s consultation with local NGOs in order to assess their needs and priorities; and how EU can fill the gap, Made presentations on the new EU developments e.g. Lisbon Treaty and Stockholm Programme to task managers and Head of Section, Prepared of briefing notes on various events and minutes of meetings, in particular in the area of human rights and democratization, Proofread EU documents in the field of human rights translated into Turkish.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Applied Human Rights

Activities and Societies: Specialisations: Law, Public Policy and Human Rights; Asylum, Migration and Human Trafficking Awards: Jean.

Bachelor'S Degree - Double Major, Political Science And Public Relations

Erasmus Exchange Student, International Relations

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations

Results: 3,42/ 4,00 ( 89 out of 100 ) Awards: Honour Degree -Studied in Wroclaw, Poland for a semester in 2009 as an Erasmus exchange.