Brooklyn, New York, United States
Dynamic advocate and skilled team leader with over 25 years of experience in advocating and programming for vulnerable groups in Africa, Asia, and Europe, seeking a new professional challenge in service of social justice, human rights, and sustainable development. I bring sound technical expertise and valuable skills in: • Leading programs in child protection, human rights, policy advocacy, and organizational design. • Designing project planning, monitoring, and evaluation. • Facilitating consensus building using human-centered design and agile methodologies. • Raising funds and managing grants from both the public and private sectors. • Running successful peer support networks and distributed teams. • Working proficiently in English, German, and French.
Designed and facilitated a process to review organizational improvement proposals to date and recommend steps to accelerate transformative change to UNICEF's working modalities and operating culture, “Reimagining Business Models - Phase II”
Leading the governance work stream in UNICEF’s Global Insight office to help identify frontier issues and ways of working, understand their implications for children and shape global discourse
Developed and managed a project to strengthen the capacity of Country Offices to plan, monitor and adapt their policy advocacy and provided support to UNICEF’s global advocacy coordination
Provided technical support to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education in the coordination of post-earthquake recovery and rehabilitation
Redacted and edited two research reports for the OSCE Armenia Office on trafficking in human beings
Herzegovina – managed the Child Protection and Participation programme, including capacity building for Centers for Social Work, juvenile justice reform, deinstitutionalisation for children without parental care
UNICEF Operation Lifeline Sudan, Nairobi, Kenya – managed the IDP Protection and Child Protection programmes, including child soldier demobilization, reunification of abducted children, justice system capacity building; led protection cluster in the UN-NGO consortium
Officer in Charge of the Regional Emergency Support Unit; supported regional humanitarian appeals