Ahmad Almakky

Established and maintained relationships with community leaders and other stakeholders to fulfill successful project outcomes and significant learning opportunities.

Designed projects in-line with RFPs, ensuring that funding maximizes positive impacts on local communities and takes significant steps at managing and minimizing negative impacts.

Designed and implemented comprehensive organizational strategies to maximize understanding across cultural barriers.

Consistently and successfully pushed for greater acknowledgement of the complexity and multifaceted nature of the challenges in local communities.

Furthered the organization's understanding of what it means to be diverse, equitable, inclusive and just.

Developed organization's M&E standards as an iterative model based around impact on communities and conservation.

Reviewed and assessed project design and implementation, ensuring efforts are in-line with project objectives and costs.

Designing projects in-line with RFPs and applying for grants to a variety of international conservation opportunities.

Managing teams to carry out scientific and sociological surveys, community meetings and engagement, data management and analysis, and social media outreach.

Designing and conducting community engagement and outreach approaches.

Designed, developed and initiated projects, including responses to RFPs from international development agencies, managed costs, and monitored performance.

Identified and connected with resources for new opportunities and those required to meet current project goals and objectives.

Managed teams of artists, actors, social media specialists, writers, and logistics managers to implement projects, resolve issues and mitigate risks.

Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations.

Maintained communication and relationships with key stakeholders across the program cycle hierarchy.

Wrote scripts for communications and awareness projects relating to a variety of social and environmental challenges.

Conducted training sessions on script writing and creative writing as a tool to raise awareness about social and environmental challenges.

Implemented a variety of conservation and development projects, managing the on-ground teams, engaging community members, collecting data, managing stakeholders, spreading awareness, and carrying out wildlife conservation tasks.

Conducting rescue-and-releases for endangered green turtles sold in the local illegal wildlife trade.