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• Planning, design, implementation, management, monitoring, and reporting of initiatives.• Budget management and execution.• Revision and approval of products and deliverables.• Oversee the work of of project staff.• Work on design processes under the concept of co-creation. • Experience working with public and private sector institutions.• Plan and oversee local institutional strengthening activities. • Familiar with monitoring, evaluation and learning practices.• Support the negotiation and design process of loan portfolio guarantees.• Participation in evaluation committees for the hiring of staff and evaluation of project proposals.

Chemonics International (USAID SME Development Program) 2012- 2016.Trade and Investment Coordinator• Responsible for the planning, coordination, development and monitoring of activities and initiatives with Program strategic partners• Monitoring and revision of consultant´s work• Familiar with USAID´s hiring and procurement processes• Creation of Memorandums of Understanding, Task Orders, Subcontracts, Terms of Reference for consultants and subcontractors, Personnel Approval Requests and contract amendments.• Responsible for the development of reports and translations

El Salvador

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 2010- 2012. Program Officer• Responsible for the design, coordination, execution and monitoring of projects and activities in the areas of economy, governance and education.• Knowledge of the communitarian policing approach. • Responsible for dialogue, negotiations and the establishment of agreements with project counterparts and suppliers• Management of project´s funds.• Responsible for project´s acquisitions, payments and hiring processes• Management of external consultants.• Responsible for the elaboration of terms of reference and contracts• Elaboration of reports• Collaboration in the development of articles for publications

San Salvador

• Management and coordination of the E-commerce Project• Responsible for the project´s administrative, commercial and financial operations• Delivered technical assistance to participating SMEs on the use of the internet as a sales platform. • Project planning and monitoring.• Assessment and coordination of training processes. • Translations.• Report elaboration

El Salvador

USAID SME Deveopment Program• Management and coordination of the E-commerce Project, which supported Salvadoran small and medium businesses (SMEs) in their exporting efforts.• Elaboration of sales strategies for international markets and improvement in the presentation of products that were to be exported.• Technical assistance on the use of the internet as a sales platform. • Budget elaboration and financial management.• Project planning and monitoring.• Assessment and coordination of training processes. • Responsible for the electronic platform´s maintenance, account management, customer service, promotion and functioning of the sales platform.

El Salvador

USAID SME Development Program• Provided technical assistance in the process of continuous improvement of products for their export and penetration of international markets.• Responsible for promoting the Program´s services, evaluating SME requests for technical assistance and monitoring its implementation• Management of monitoring and evaluation indicators and the Program´s databases • Responsible for support personnel• Creation of reports

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration With Marketing Concentration, Graduated With Magna Cum Laude

Postgraduate Studies, International Business