Professional Profile:

• Accomplished international development professional with field-based experience in the Middle East, Africa, South America, Central Asia, and Central Europe.
• Successful track record delivering humanitarian assistance and reconstruction and recovery programs in complex emergency, natural disasters, conflict, and post-conflict transition environments.
• Solid grasp of US foreign policy priorities and interests and international humanitarian law.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage diverse teams under difficult and sometimes dangerous living and operating conditions.
• Extensive experience representing USAID within the USG interagency, including civilian-military planning and coordination.

Key Qualifications

• 30 years of field-based experience in a broad range of conflict and post-conflict environments, including West Bank/Gaza, Colombia, Afghanistan, Georgia, Northern Uganda, Liberia, Horn of Africa, Croatia, Ethiopia, and Chad.
• Fifteen years senior management experience as a field-based Chief of Party, USAID/OFDA Regional Director for Africa, and USAID Foreign Service Officer.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage field project offices; supervise diverse staff; and oversee geographically dispersed operations.
• Experienced technical advisor on design, development and implementation of programs to improve stability, catalyze post-conflict transition, and create social, political and economic conditions conducive to long-term economic and social development.
• Proven track record of successful management of large, complex USG-funded infrastructure development, stabilization, post-conflict transition, and humanitarian response programs to save lives and mitigate impact of disasters, restore food security and livelihoods, and undertake urgent post-conflict reconstruction activities.
• Strong knowledge of key governance issues including decentralization; poverty reduction; access to and availability of essential services; civil society development; and anti-corruption programming.
• Extensive experience in development, implementation and management of USAID-funded assistance programs including small, medium and large grants management.
• Strong public diplomacy skills, including excellent written reporting and oral presentation skills.