Experience

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  Catholic Relief Services

  • Département de l'Ouest, Haiti

  • Technical Advisor- Gender, Youth & Social Dynamics Lead a.i (Short-term assignment)

    • Apr 2024 - Present
    • Département de l'Ouest, Haiti

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  RH Consulting

  • Independent Consultant

    • Jul 2023 - Apr 2024

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  Catholic Relief Services

  • United States
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Technical Advisor-Gender, Youth and Social Dynamics Lead

    • Jan 2022 - Jul 2023

    • Design and manage the project gender and youth social dynamics strategy, system and tools with a focus on promoting knowledge acquisition, management, documentation and dissemination. Help ensure a cross-sectoral approach integrating gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.• Provide technical solutions to the food security program on-site, for strategic planning and how to best apply program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and monitoring and evaluation, ensuring high-quality implementation.• Lead the development and implementation of the DFSA Gender, Youth and Social Dynamics strategy, which supports gender- transformative and youth-responsive approaches that are context appropriate and reflected at every phase of the project• Contribute to capacity strengthening, mentoring and coaching of project staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and curricula that ensure gender and youth integration and empowerment. • Contribute to knowledge management and learning through collecting and analyzing program data and support the incorporation of gender, youth and social dynamics issues in project MEAL systems. Contribute to design and implementation of participatory and inclusive monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning processes.• Establish and maintain relationships with donors, peer organizations, research and other institutions. Participate in gender and youth forums to collect and share best practices and promote CRS’ work.• Review project reports and ensure they capture required disaggregated data and gender, youth and social dynamics learning. Track changes in gender and youth dynamics over time, including unanticipated outcomes. • Assist the project team in ensuring that CRS and partners comply with gender, youth and social dynamics related USAID/FFP requirements.

  • Acting Head of Programs (Intermittent)

    • Jul 2019 - Jul 2023

    -In collaboration with the Country Representative (CR) provide strategic direction for the design of the CP strategic frameworks and plans, including the development of resource mobilization strategies to optimize the impact of programming interventions in line with regional and agency strategic priorities.-Lead high-quality project design incorporating project management standards and MEAL methods, appropriate to scope, context and technical requirements of projects. Coordinate planning of activities across various projects from different sectors to ensure integration of program interventions and efficiency in implementation.-Effectively manage talent and supervise. Manage team dynamics and staff well-being. Provide coaching, strategically tailor individual development plans, and complete performance assessment for direct reports. Contribute to developing staffing plans for projects and to the recruitment process of senior project staff.-Create and maintain proper conditions for learning. Establish a safe environment for sharing of ideas, solutions, and difficulties and the capacity to detect, analyze and respond quickly to deficiencies. Promote accountability, learning and knowledge management overseeing implementation of the MEAL policy, as well as cross-sectoral and cross-department learning.

  • Social Cohesion Advisor (Temporary Duty Assignment )

    • Jan 2022 - Feb 2022

  • Head of Youth

    • Sep 2017 - Dec 2021

    ✓ Manage the project budget for EU and Private Funded Youth Project (Urbayiti Pap Pi Prop)✓ Develop training materiels✓ Ensure the youth training on Entrepreneurship and lifeskills✓ Develop all the technical documents for the Youth Sector (Strategic plan, operational plan, concept note)✓ Serve as focal point to maintain relationship with the Mayor✓ Ensure efficient follow-up with relevant CRS departmentsfor administrative and financial documentation✓ Supervise three CLOs and two senior Engineers✓ Develop the administrative documents such as contracts, market study report and Donors reports✓ Manage the Red Rose System

  • Community Engagement Manager

    • Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

    ✓ Ensure the development of Community Engagement for Reading Plan;✓ Develop good relationship with the prime as well as the MENFP technical structures and networkpartners;✓ Engage in CRS’ Performance Management Process including performance planning, coaching, professional development, and appraisals and support project managers to do the same of their team members.✓ Serve as Budget Manager for the project. Ensure adherence to the approved budget for each fiscal year, notifying the Program Director of any significant under / overspending in a timely manner. Conduct proper tracking of expenditures, prepare forecast and perform budget maintenance as necessary.✓ Provide oversight to supervisees to ensure timely compliance with CRS Financial Policies. This includes adherence to policies on procurement, vendor payments, and advances and liquidations of CRS staff and partners, and ensuring adherence to CRS’ sub-recipient financial management policy.

  • Livelihoods and Solid Waste Program Manager

    • Nov 2014 - Sep 2016

  • Livelihoods Program Manager

    • Oct 2013 - Oct 2014

  • Livelihoods Project Officer

    • Feb 2013 - Sep 2013

  • Livelihoods Field Animator

    • Jan 2011 - Jan 2013