• Lead support in CLA and adaptive management with USAID/Ethiopia throughout the program cycle, including proactive outreach and on-demand service provision• Support USAID project design and MEL planning, such as: rapid evidence synthesis, facilitating project design process, and selecting MEL and CLA approaches • Oversaw four-day training on MEL and CLA for 49 staff from implementing partners; 96% of post-training survey respondents reported positive MEL or CLA change due to training• Design and facilitate strategy and teambuilding workshops for USAID the interagency partners• Support and advise USAID/Ethiopia staff on collaboration activities for implementing partners’ Gender Champions Network and Youth Champions Network, including facilitating a kick-off event for Youth Champions Network and advising on follow-up to establish the Youth Champions Network• Provided technical and management support for 11 project-level gender analyses to help engender project designs as well as a cross-sectoral synthesis report• Created and delivered training for Ethiopian MEL service providers on USAID’s Automated Directives System, Gender in MEL, CLA, and Design and Monitoring for Evaluation

Technical • Advisor, facilitator, and manager for strategic analysis realignment services to support the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s health portfolios in two Nigerian states• Home Office Technical Advisor providing MEL support and quality assurance for USAID health governance activity in Guinea• Learning Specialist for USAID-funded project in Uganda, supporting a field team to foster data use and adaptive management among partners in the health sector• Associate Facilitator and Manager for USAID/Regional Development Mission for Asia co-design and co-creation workshop• Monitoring Expert for meta-analysis of results achievement over the life of a USAID Mission’s CDCS• Manager for Department of State training on strategy and performance management Business Development• Serve as technical lead on proposals, ensuring technical quality and compliance throughout process• Draft proposal sections on topics such as: third party monitoring; CLA; adaptive management; data quality assessment, and; performance evaluationsProject Management• Manage multiple activities concurrently within shifting portfolio, ranging from strategy and performance management course to evaluation in Afghanistan

Senior Project Coordinator (December 2016-March 2017)Project Coordinator (September 2015-December 2016)Technical Research & Writing• Deputy team leader for multi-country evaluation on innovation transfer, including qualitative research (FGDs, KIIs, site visits, document review), client management, data analysis, and report writing• Researcher in study of how to incorporate gendered impacts into cost-benefit analysis • Wrote technical approach for a data quality review proposal for ensuring M&E data quality of roads and energy projects in a low-resource environment, with additional focus on capacity building• Co-wrote proposals on multiple mixed methods evaluations; public-private partnerships (won, $35m BPA); Drafted proposal sections on gender in M&E, public financial management, governance, and other topics as necessaryBusiness Development• Coordinated proposals ($250,000 to $900 million IDIQ contracts)• Supported proposal development on a range of topics, including: investment promotion; diaspora engagement; public financial management; monitoring, evaluation, & analysis services; power & energy• Supported recruitment and cost preparation, including outreach with consultants, reviewing contractor documents, and drafting budget narrativesProject Backstopping• Managed technical quarterly reporting for largest contract, Public Financial Management IDIQ through USAID• Backstopped ongoing M&E activities in eight countries: preparing activity proposals; budget projections and management; fielding consultants; drafting and managing consultant and subcontractor contracts; orienting local administrative/logistics personnel; preparing approval requests; ensuring project deliverables and processes are compliant with client contract and regulations

• Identified common approaches to interreligious peacebuilding from academic literature and programdocuments to understand the ‘state of play’ and existing evidence base in inter-religious peacebuilding• Produced a briefing paper for the Global Advisory Council summarizing research findings

Worked with Orrick, Herrington & Sutliffe LLP as a student consultant on assignments for Lawyers for Human Rights South Africa (on corruption in the asylum system), American Bar Association's International Committee (on anti-corruption and police reform), and Transparency International (gap analysis for reducing corruption in provision of humanitarian aid). Organized through the Harvard Law and International Development Society.

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