Stephanie Schmidt Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• 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.
• Provided technical and management support for 11 project-level gender analyses to help engender project designs as well as a cross-sectoral synthesis report

• 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

Arlington, VA

• 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.
• Coordinated proposals ($250,000 to $900 million IDIQ contracts)

• 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.

Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Office of Congresswoman Barbara Lee

Ma, Law And Diplomacy

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science (Honors), History