Experience

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  Advisor on Planning, Managing, and Evaluating Youth Workforce Development Programs Worldwide

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • International Youth Workforce Development Consultant

    • Jan 2012 - Present
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    International and domestic non-governmental and community-based organizational (NGO/CBO) development specialist with sub specialties in life and employability skills, employment and entrepreneurship, school performance, and civic engagement for disadvantage young people, ages 16-24, recently in Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Palestine (West Bank) Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao Philippines, Syria, Tunisia, and the Ukraine .I also have extensive experience and competencies in the following areas in international development:(1) Needs assessments of vulnerable people groups, especially at-risk young people ages 18-24 (Rapid Community Appraisals) to help NGOs/CBOs prioritize service delivery options;(2) Program planning of NGOs/CBOs using the outcome logic model or logical framework;(3) Assessments of the internal institutional capacity of NGOs/CBOs to provide effective service delivery; (4) Establishment of effective management systems for NGOs/CBOs; (5) Capacity building of NGOs/CBOs, including the provision of technical support, coaching/mentoring, and training; (6) Multi-sector alliance building between NGOs, CBOs, government agencies, and the businesses; (7) Program staffing of NGOs/CBOs; (8) Resource mobilization and proposal preparation to help capitalize NGOs/CBOs; (9) Development of sustainability plans for NGOs/CBOs; (10) Performance and summative evaluations of NGOs/CBOS, program reviews, and end of project lessons learned exercises; (11) Planning and managing learning exchanges and events; and (12) Preparation of detailed implementation/work plans and evaluation plans, systems, and means for verification for NGOs/DBOs.

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  kathyshulman.com

  • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • Canvassing Coordinator

    • Jun 2021 - Jul 2022
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    Just completed serving as canvassing coordinator for my wife, Kathy Shulman's campaign to be a Maryland State Delegate for the 40th District. The 40th District include parts of Wyman Park and Hampden all the way over West to Druid Hill, Park Heights, and Towaanda Grantely neighborhoods and South down to Reservoir Hill, Mondawmin, Rosemont, and Mosher neighborhoods--about 18,000 households in some 40 neighborhoods. Canvassing is going on door-to-door up to 6 days a week. Actually knocked on some 12,500 doors. Kathy is committed to ensure that all residents of the 40th District have access to:(1) Effective and equitable public safety;(2) Jobs that pay a living wages supported by reliable public transportation and affordable childcare;(3) High quality education for all children;(4) Affordable housing for families and seniors;(5) Nutritious foods that enable young people to lead healthy lives;(6) Affordable healthcare for all.Unfortunately Kathy came in 4th in a field of 7 candidates within 5% of reaching the one ineffective incumbent who ran on name recognition only she wanted to replace.

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  Resonance

  • Workforce Development Subject Matter Expert

    • Mar 2021 - Jun 2021

    Provided analytical and evaluative services in workforce development for the mid-term performance evaluation of the USAID/Ukraine Economic Resilience Activity initiative being implemented by DAI and its partner, FHI360 in Eastern Ukraine.

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  Making Cents International

  • International Advisor

    • Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

    International Positive Youth Development Advisor to Making Cents International's Field Work Team conducting a youth assessment for USAID/Nicaragua to provide input for its country development framework and future design activities.

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  The Kaizen Company

  • Business Development Consultant

    • Dec 2020 - Dec 2020

    Provided technical assistance in Positive Youth Development in the design of its concept note for an Integrated Youth Activity to USAID/Ethiopia.

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  Making Cents International

  • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • Positive Youth Development Consultant

    • Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

    The consultancy involved preparing a briefing paper on the situation of young people in Colombia.The first part provides a summary of findings on the major factors influencing how vulnerable Colombian Youth could become more productive in their transition to adulthood, The second part provides a list of recommendations on what could be better in the provision of job training services by GOC agencies for Colombian young people.

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  Resonance Group/USAID

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Senior Consultant/Group Facilitator

    • Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Tasks involve facilitating a working group of 15 professionals and several smaller sub working groups at USAID/Washington who are developing an agency-wide Strategic Employment Framework.

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  Making Cents International/Youth Power Learning/USAID Ethiopia

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Technical Writer

    • Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Prepared a summary document of findings from the USAID/Ethiopia Youth Assessment Situational Analysis conducted in the fall of 2017.

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  Making Cents International/YouthWork Learning/USAID Ethiopia

  • Ethiopia

  • Team Leader (Contractor) for conducting a Cross-Sectoral Youth Assessment in Ethiopia

    • Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
    • Ethiopia

    USAID/Ethiopia commissioned YouthPower Learning to conduct a cross-sectoral youth assessment using a Positive Youth Development lens to understand the status and aspirations of Ethiopian youth, ages 15-29 and the public/private institutions providing them youth-friendly services during a time of severe climate and societal change. Tasks included serving as team leader/writer/editor of the cross-sectoral youth assessment work plan, including (1) the design of the means for answering research questions framework and FGD and KII data collection instruments and procedures; (2) overseeing field staff conducting 24 focus group discussion sessions of youth in six regions; (3) conducting key informant interviews with 48 Government of Ethiopia institutions, USAID/Ethiopia technical offices and implementing partners, international donors, and international and domestic NGOs supporting Ethiopian young people and/or providing them services; (4) providing briefings to USAID/Ethiopia staff and U.S. Embassy staff on preliminary findings of the cross-sector youth assessment; (5) writing 31-page report outlining a menu of strategic programmatic priorities for USAID/Ethiopia; and (6) co-writing with two other colleagues the findings from the Cross-Sector Youth Assessment in an 88-page report which can be found at this link: https://static.globalinnovationexchange.org/s3fs-public/asset/document/Ethiopia%20CSYA%20Situational%20Analysis_1.5.2018v2.pdf?InToVozFHRIEv9Ob3Yl4Xf9oHq6GXCQH

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Operations Manual Editor (Contractor)

    • Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Technical writer/editing working in close coordination with senior leadership of the Inter-American Development Bank Staff Association to revise its Operating Procedures Manual for its Executive, Finance, Human Resources, Labor, Programs, Communications, Outreach, and Field Office Committees, including purpose, functions, composition of committees, and procedures for conducting meetings.

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  Catholic Relief Services

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Technical Advisor on Youth Workforce Development

    • Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Tasks included the elaboration of a concept paper giving an overview of the structure and components for establishing the CRS Applied Learning Center for Youth Livelihoods and how it could function, including its purpose anticipated outcomes, a description of the five service components; and recommendations for determining ROI.The preparation of an e-library containing evidenced-based best practices in the following areas:• Apprenticeships and internships;• Youth needs assessment reports;• Assessment tools for assessing the status and needs of young people, vocational/technical training service providers, employers, and labor markets.• Best practices in entrepreneurship training;• Best practices in job skills training;• Best practices in leadership, civic engagement, service learning;• Best practices in life and employability skills training;• Best practices in school to work transitions;• Power point presentations for workshops on best practices in youth livelihoods topics;• Special youth segments: pastoralists youth, rural youth, youth in crisis;• Technical documents such as government agency capacity building plans, recommended components of a youth livelihood skills development program for vulnerable youth, sample monitoring and evaluation questions, sample outcome logic models for livelihood skills development, etc.• Youth policies.

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  Making Cents International

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Youth Entrepreneurship Program Evaluation Design Consultant

    • Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Provided technical assistance in the design of an in-depth meta-evaluation of youth entrepreneurship training programs located in 12 countries in Central and South American and the Caribbean.

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  Catholic Relief Services

  • Baltimore

  • Senior School to Work Specialist and Youth Workforce Development Consultant

    • Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
    • Baltimore

    Assessed the resilience of at risk youth, largely semi-pastoralists ages 15-24, living the highlands and desert regions of Eastern Ethiopia affected by drought and threatened by famine, including: (1) designing the rapid needs assessment guide and focus group discussion instrument; (2) conducting master training of three team leaders of eight field focus group facilitators and recorders; (3) conducting a community assessment mapping exercise in four villages with high densities of at risk youth; (4) preparing a draft capacity building plan for Government of Ethiopia agencies to enhance their “youth friendliness” in terms of service delivery; (5) preparing a 10 component best practice model for effective youth workforce development; among numerous other tasks.

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  IMPAQ International

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Youth Workforce Program Evaluation Consultant

    • Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Provided technical assistance in the design of an in-depth meta-evaluation of an 11-country youth workforce development program in Central and South America and the Caribbean.

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Consultant in Strategic Planning

    • Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Working with the Board and Office Staff of the Inter American Development Bank's Staff Association (SA) to conduct an in-depth service delivery/service mix review focused on identifying what is working and what could be better, as well as facilitating the development of a work plan for the Association that included outlining tasks, time frame, person(s)/committee responsible, and benchmarks/milestones to measure progress.

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  RTI International

  • Consultant on Youth Workforce Development

    • Aug 2015 - Aug 2015

    Served as a consultant at RTI International's Global Center on Youth Employment and worked with a three-person program planning team to design a comprehensive best practices youth workforce development program to help highly at-risk El Salvadoran young people get marketable skills and jobs while learning to give back to their communities through service learning projects, including becoming peer conflict mediators and first responders capable of dealing with local emergencies.

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  Southern Adventist University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Online Professor and Learning Facilitator

    • May 2015 - Jun 2015

    I served as an Online Professor and Learning Facilitator for Southern's Global Community Development MS Degree Program and taught the course, "Preparation for Global Service." Topics included:(1) The mission driven dimensions of being prepared for a wider service internationally;(2) Selected area studies and intercultural preparedness for community engagement;(3) Visa documentation, travel, safety preparedness and personal security; and(4) Cross cultural communications; culture shock; cultural faux pas; conflict avoidance, mediation, and resolution; and local language acquisition.

  • Associate Professor of History and Political Studies

    • Nov 2014 - Jun 2015

    In January 2015 I joined the faculty of the Department of History and Political Studies and taught a class on Global Politics and one on Political Economy focusing on poverty reduction during the winter semester.Global Politics focused on the 10 most significant controversies affecting international relations today:(1) Does international anarchy lead to war?(2) Are democracies more peaceful?(3) Is war a part of human nature?(4) Does free trade benefit all?(5) What are the obstacles to development?(6) Is globalization a threat to national sovereignty?(7) Are humanitarian interventions justified?(8) How dangerous is nuclear proliferation?(9) How should we respond to international terrorism?(10) Are the global commons--i.e., natural and environmental resources--in danger?The emphasis of the class, Political Economy, focused on investigating potential answers to questions regarding the complex nature of poverty, its causes, and effective approaches toward improving the quality of life of disadvantaged segments of the world's population. Key research questions were:(1) What is poverty? What are the degrees of poverty? Who are the poor? What are their characteristics? And what are the challenges they face to get ahead?(2) Who are the global players in poverty reduction? What are the roles of the IMF, World Bank, and Bilateral Aid Agencies in increasing prosperity for vulnerable people groups? What are the roles of International NGOs in reducing poverty? And how well are they performing their roles?(3) Who are the key national players, i.e., national governments, in poverty reduction? What are the key factors that can contribute toward a faired state designation? What are the roles CSOs in development? What are the roles of the private sector in reducing poverty? What is Asset-based Community Development? What are the best practices in helping out-of-school/out-of-work impoverished young people ages 18-24 get marketable skills and jobs?

  • Marketing Consultant for the Global Community Development Masters Degree Program

    • Sep 2014 - Nov 2014

    The purpose of Southern's Masters of Science in Global Community Development (MGCD) program is to provide experiential, project-based learning opportunities for graduate students as they competently facilitate transformational, results-oriented abundant life and sustainable capacity building for at-risk communities globally. The Masters degree program involves four academic rotations:Rotation 1: Online Learning (14 weeks)Rotation 2: Experiential Field Learning - Face-to-face learning (6 weeks)- Practical research and field learning (8 weeks)Rotation 3: Internship Application (32 weeks) - Place of employment and/or field assignment Rotation 4: Defense of PortfolioIt can be completed in 4 to 5 semesters and longer for those students who wish to study part-time while working full time. My responsibilities involve (1) marketing Southern Adventist University's Masters in Science Global Community Development program to international organizations providing comprehensive community development services to vulnerable populations who wish to further professionalize the skills of their home office and field staff through full or partial sponsorships; and (2) gathering perceptions regarding the relevancy and usefulness of the online, field/experiential-based individualized learning curriculum of the Masters of Science degree program.

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  Impact International

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Senior Technical Advisor for Youth Workforce Development

    • Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Tasks: provided technical assistance in the design of a comprehensive evaluation system to measure the effectiveness of at-risk youth workforce development programs being implemented in 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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  Impaq International

  • School to Work Consultant

    • Apr 2014 - Apr 2014

    Providing short-term technical assistance in the design of evaluation systems to measure the effectiveness of at risk youth workforce development programs in multiple countries.

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  Inter-American Development Bank

  • Washington DC

  • Training Consultant

    • Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
    • Washington DC

    Trainer Consultant for the IADB's Social Innovators Program.Workshop Title: "Factors to Consider in Scaling Up Social Development Projects and How Strategic Alliances Can Help." In this session, participants will understand:The term “scaling up”- The key factors to consider when scaling up- How strategic alliances can serve as an effective tool to use for scaling up- Whether or not an alliance with another organization is right for an organization- The action steps needed to establish a strategic alliance with another organization

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  CPRM Consultants

  • Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Southern Philippines

  • Team Leader/Lead Writer, Performance Evaluation Team: the Literacy for Peace and Development Project

    • Aug 2013 - Sep 2013
    • Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Southern Philippines

    CPRM Consultants/Philippines. This firm was asked by the United States Agency for International Development/Philippines to contract me as the team leader of a 10 person team to conduct a performance evaluation of the Magbassa Kita Foundation Incorporated’s Literacy for Peace and Development Project in five provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindano, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, Southern Philippines.Task has been completed and a 300+ page report is now published available at USAID's DEC:Document Title: Literacy for Peace and Development (LIPAD) Project Final Performance Evaluation

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  ADRA/International; Creative Associates; IYF; and JBS/International

  • International School-to-Work/Youth Workforce Development/Organizational Capacity Building Consultant

    • Jan 2012 - 2013

    After my retirement from IYF in December 2011, I consulted with the following organizations, in addition to IYF:(1) Adventist Development and Relief Agency/ International. I served as an organizational development consultant focusing on improving ADRA/I’s operations through individualized coaching and workshops for specific units in the following areas: (a) Programmatically: improving ADRA/I’s service delivery chains and mix in areas of emergency relief and rehabilitation focusing on stabilizing internally displaced households in South Sudan, Syrians in Jordan and Lebanon, and Yemen, as well as designing a livelihood skills development model focusing on employment and entrepreneurship; (b) Technically: improving ADRA/I’s operations in its applied learning center in the revision of 20 technical curriculums offered to ADRA’s 6,000 staff; improving its program planning capacities; how to use volunteers more effectively; establishing both a long-term and short-term internship program; and creating strategic alliances with corporations and foundations, and other donor entities.(2) Creative Associates. Conducted a one-day workshop for selected members of CA staff on best practices in youth development, including life and employability skills training, effective youth workforce development models for self-employment and employment with others.(3) JBS International. I served in a “think tank” with three other professionals advising the United States Agency for International Development’s Education Unit on critical issues facing “at-risk” young people ages 15-25, such as youth in crisis/conflict environments, including conflict resolution and peer mediation, and best practices in youth workforce development in transitional environment—defining in both areas essential programmatic mixes for maximum effectiveness and short and long term outcomes and impacts. See the two documents below in which I served as a contributing writer.

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  International Youth Foundation

  • Baltimore, Maryland

  • Senior Programs Director

    • 1993 - 2011
    • Baltimore, Maryland

    During this time I performed the following tasks: (1) needs assessments (Rapid Community Appraisals); (2) assessments of internal institutional capacity to provide effective service delivery; (3) program management; (4) capacity building, technical support, coaching/mentoring, and training; (5) alliance building/maintenance; (6) program staffing; (6) program planning using the outcome logic model or logical framework; (7) fund raising, planning projects, and proposal preparation; (8) development of sustainability plans; (9) program reviews and end of project lessons learned exercises; (10) planning and managing learning exchanges and events; and (11) preparation of detailed implementation plans and evaluation plans, systems, and means for verification