Experience

CDC Group plc

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director CDC Plus

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Sarah manages a team of 8 impact professionals and an annual budget of £10m delivering a portfolio of over 60-80 projects.

• Manager

  • Mar 2018 - Oct 2019

• Executive

  • Feb 2017 - Mar 2018



TechnoServe

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

• Interim Regional Director Southern Africa

  • Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

  As Regional Director Sarah was responsible for the Southern Africa budget of $16m and a team of 180 staff. The six Country Directors in the region reported to her, as did the divisional team which provides business development and operational support to the country programmes. In this role Sarah made key business decisions including allocation of resources to projects and new business opportunities as well as interfacing between HQ and the field teams. As part of this Sarah was an active member of the Strategic Resource Committee and the Senior Management Team for TechnoServe globally.

• Director Regional Programmes

  • Mar 2015 - Jan 2016

  In this role Sarah had oversight of three regional programmes:• EUR10m, 5 year, EU funded and IFAD managed AAF TA Facility (see below for details)• $6m, 5 year Anglo American/DeBeers funded small business advisory programme in Botswana – providing advisory/mentoring services and facilitating access to finance/markets for small businesses in Gaborone and surrounding areas• $3.6m, 3 year Contract Farming R&D Coalition – working with private sector companies to rigorously evaluate the impact of innovations in contract farming schemes in Mozambique and Uganda Sarah was supervisor and coach to the three Program Directors supporting them with strategic decision making (including course correction as required), donor engagement, program budgeting and workplans, reporting and compliance, team development and timely and cost-effective delivery of results as agreed upon with donors.

• Program Director, AAF Technical Assistance Facility

  • Nov 2011 - Mar 2015

  Sarah turned the concept of a dedicated TA Facility into a reality. As Program Director she recruited the team, designed, tendered, contracted and supervised over 20 TA projects and participated in a substantive mid term evaluation as well as a robust M&E review. As a result of her work on the AAF TAF Sarah knows what it takes to make SMEs investment ready. She also understands the intersection between commercial investments and donor funded TA, the stakeholder sensitivities on both sides, the practical challenges of implementation and how to address those, and how to measure and communicate success. Through her work on the AAF TAF Sarah has been pivotal in building a strong grants management function within TechnoServe (team, templates, tender processes, portfolio management tools) that is now serving multiple programmes across the organization and around the world.

• Business Development Manager, West and Southern Africa

  • Mar 2010 - Nov 2011

  Identifying development opportunities, designing programs to capitalise on those opportunities and raising funds for TechnoServe to implement programs in West and Southern Africa

• Business Development Manager Europe

  • Mar 2009 - Mar 2010

  Wrote business plan for TechnoServe Europe; identify key relationships in UK/Europe; designed programmes for European donors; established operations for UK office.



Bain & Company

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Apr 2004 - Mar 2009