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United States

• Leads the $30 million, USAID-funded YCST program to support local-level initiatives that mitigate conflict, strengthen social cohesion, promote the peaceful resolution of differences, and, where feasible, capitalize on.
• Provides overall leadership and strategic direction for the program, working directly with the USAID Mission to ensure that project goals are achieved,, while providing strategic vision and leadership to achieve goals.
• Oversees project planning and implementation to ensure timely, high-quality submission of technical, performance, and financial reports.
• Provides oversight of the program’s financial management and procurement systems to ensure they are compliant with USAID regulations and Global Communities’ policies.
• Identifies and mitigates program risks and makes key decisions under tight deadlines while ensuring operational and programmatic integrity.
• Implements security protocols and provides leadership for any YCST security-related issues in close coordination with the Yemen Country Director.

• Managed program activities and provided technical leadership for program design, strategy, andimplementation, specifically community-based development and conflict management under the $30 million Yemen Communities.
• Led local Global Communities teams and local partners to engage communities during program implementation.
• Piloted stabilization activities and identifies effective measures to manage conflict and prevent a resurgence of violence.
• Built capacity of formal and informal local community leaders, organizations and networks to meet constituent and community needs.
• Carried out regular contextual analysis action-oriented learning across YCST interventions to support adaptive management.
• Supported strategic and operational planning and ensured project compliance with all contractual USAID and Global Communities reporting and financial requirements.

• Leverage experience and comprehensive knowledge to provide program operations consultative services, delivering multi-sector support in fragile, transitional states or crisis-affected/security-challenged environments.
• Play pivotal role in assisting USAID implementing partners to improve field policies, procedures, and systems, identifying innovative ways to achieve project efficiencies.
• Deliver technical and operational services across proposal preparation, project launches and close-downs, and all areas of international project management.

Abuja, Nigeria

• Functions Include:
• Provided effective project management in the fluid and complex Nigerian operational environment.
• Delivered program operations and technical leadership and oversight on the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) small grants program aimed to reduce violent extremism.
• Delivered technical oversight to program monitoring and evaluation (M&E) teams from grant concept to close, managing all funding levels and directly guiding procurement, grants, communication and outreach, human.

Karachi, Pakistan

• Solicited to oversee the procurement, finance, human resources, and administration departments of OTI quick impact, small grants program aimed at reducing violent extremism.
• Directed day-to-day field presence, ensuring the administration of grants and contracts adhered to USAID regulations and company policies and proceduresMAJOR BENCHMARKS:✯ Propelled increase in monthly monetary burn.

Sana'a, Yemen

Directed a complex, multi-faceted program implemented in urban and rural areas of Yemen while supervising operations of all project activities. Charged with offering effective management and administration, ensuring timely project implementation, monitoring of activities, and management of project staff and subsidiaries. Organized and led.

Kabul, Afghanistan

♜ Selected to assist Deputy Chief of Party (DCOP) in the overall management and supervision of operations, including finance; human resources; contracts, grants, and procurement. Oversaw administrative tasks including the management and supervision of staff.Selected Accomplishments:♜ Strategized and executed the audit of $500,000 grant application proposed.

Kabul, Afghanistan

The USAID-funded Regional Afghan Municipalities Program for Urban Populations, Regional Command East (RAMP UP-East) creates effective, responsive, democratic, transparent, accountable, municipal governance in the fourteen provinces that comprise the International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF’s) Regional Command East to increase the capacity of the.

Kabul, Afghanistan

The USAID-funded Initiative to Promote Afghan Civil Society (I-PACS) program, implemented by Counterpart International – Afghanistan, encourages the development and growth of a politically active civil society in Afghanistan, with an emphasis on women-focused organizations, to strengthen the role and viability of civil society in Afghanistan by providing.

ARIES was a three year $100 million program designed to support USAID’s strategic objective of promoting a thriving licit economy led by the private sector through the development of financial institutions and financial services. Launched in 2006, ARIES aims to provide expanded access to financial services in the rural regions of Afghanistan, and to create.

Responsible for monitoring the progress of USAID-funded programs and projects in the Afghanistan Operations Centre (AGOC) portfolio including the provision of operational support to Program Managers and Project Support Officers to ensure full compliance with reporting requirements to donors, including the timely submission of annual work plans, M&E plans.

Responsible for ensuring the overall operation of the Center’s portfolio of programs, projects, special activities, and business development initiatives, totaling approximately $80 million. I ensured that all Center procurements follow U.S. Government regulations (FAR, AIDAR, FAM, CFR) and AED polices and procedures. I was responsible for initiating.

Baghdad, Iraq

Under the USAID-funded Program Advisors and Oversight-Personnel Support Services Program in Baghdad, Iraq, I initially served as the Acting Executive Officer (EXO), assisting USAID/Iraq on administrative matters related to the program activities and acted as the administrative point of contact in the field. Specific areas of responsibility included.

Washington, DC

Performed a broad variety of management activities in the areas of communication, document review and budget management, as the point of coordination between client, technical staff, and internal support units. A critical part of this project support role was to monitor project in-puts and out-puts, ensuring that corporate resources were matched against.