Strategic program management leader with over 10 years of international experience in donor-funded program implementation, cross-sector stakeholder engagement, and high-profile event coordination. Proven expertise in driving large-scale initiatives from concept to execution, building sustainable revenue-generating partnerships, and managing diverse teams and vendors. Adept in budgeting, product lifecycle oversight, and communications across global teams. Passionate about mission-driven organizations that empower communities and create lasting social impact.
• Provide strategic leadership and direction for all business operations, including production, sales, finance, and compliance, ensuring sustainable growth and profitability.
• Oversee payroll administration, employee management, and operational workflows to optimize efficiency and maintain labor law compliance.
• Lead contract negotiations and relationship management with major retail partners such as Erewhon Market and Whole Foods Market, securing favorable terms and long-term agreements.
• Manage supply chain operations, including procurement, vendor relations, order fulfillment, and logistics coordination, ensuring timely and high-quality deliveries.
• Direct financial planning, budgeting, and cash flow management, including oversight of accounts payable/receivable and vendor payments.
• Ensure adherence to organic certification standards and industry regulations across all business processes.
• Represent the company in strategic partnerships, industry events, and trade negotiations to strengthen market presence and expand client base.
• Establish a strong company culture, fostering collaboration, innovation, and high levels of employee satisfaction.
• Coordinated NEC 2024 Conference with 150+ participants from 60+ countries, including donor engagement and logistics.
• Managed communication with high-level stakeholders and donors; oversaw compliance and financial tracking using Quantum ERP.
• Produced post-event impact reports and dashboards for donor reporting and strategic planning.
• Facilitated financial reimbursements, liaised with country offices and donor representatives for program alignment.
• Liaised with UNDP country offices and donors to ensure program compliance, operational alignment, and partner engagement. Contributed to donor retention and timely disbursement of funds through effective reporting and engagement strategies.
• Maintained stakeholder engagement by liaising with donors, partners, and country offices to ensure alignment with project goals.
• Assisted in preparing and reviewing financial reports, invoices, and procurement processes, ensuring adherence to UNDP regulations.
• Liaised with OT for issuance of PO and non−PO invoices, creation of requisitions in Quantum, follow up with approvers of Requisitions, POs and invoices.
• Supported the management of the participant list, including tracking payments and confirmations, for both the main conference and the post−conference training workshops.
• Supported the completion and signature of contributions agreements, liaising with OT for the ward creation and submission to the GSSC for approval.
• Supported the dissemination of COA Authorization Letters, liaising with OT in case adjustments are needed.
• Monitored the approval of special travel entitlements, following up with the Chief of Section CD, and communicating OT for approval.
• Drafted, arranged for signature, sent, filed and responded to correspondence with participants, workshop facilitators, speakers, panelists, and other partners including invitations, registration, confirmations of attendance, logistics notes, etc.
• Assisted with any other logistics aspects of the project.
• Supported global SDG Summit donor engagement and coalition coordination with 45 UN entities and 60+ member states.
• Led donor mapping, strategic outreach, and reporting for resource mobilization.
• Developed compelling briefing materials and proposals for high-level advocacy and donor cultivation.
• Liaised with operations, procurement, and legal teams to ensure donor compliance and contracting. Contributed to donor retention and timely disbursement of funds through effective reporting and engagement strategies.
• Managed procurement and financial operations, including contract negotiations and reporting.
• Coordinated engagement with 45 UN entities, 60+ Member States, and evaluation networks to support global SDG reporting.
• Led donor mapping activities, and supported strategic planning for resource mobilization.
• Coordinated logistics, donor communication, and event execution for SDG Synthesis Coalition meetings and engagements.
• Facilitated donor reporting and financial tracking to ensure compliance with funding agreements.
• Managed virtual engagements across six continents for SDG advocacy efforts.
• Supported to the implementation of the strategy of the Coalition, providing strategic assistance to outreach activites, pipeline development and project management with compliance and quality assurance.
• Skillfully managed workplans and budgets, ensuring alignment with coalition goals and timely delivery of outputs.
• Facilitated logistical arrangements for Coalition's trainings and workshops.
• Effectively maintained records, creating a centralized repository of information that allowed easy access to relevant stakeholders, identifying problems and issues to be addressed.
• Efficiently scheduled meetings, drafted agendas for the meetings, leveraging technology and best practices for virtual collaboration.
• Sourced contact information prepared and issued invitations with precision and effectively managed all correspondence with partners to foster strong relationships.
• Oversaw donor contributions, prepared financial reports, and maintained strong donor relations.
• Led donor-funded events, including logistics, correspondence, and briefing materials.
• Authored sections of donor proposals and contributed to newsletters and knowledge products.
• Coordinated donor−funded events, including scheduling, communications, and logistics.
• Developed and managed relationships with 45+ development stakeholders, several bilateral and multilateral organizations, country offices, evaluation networks, private sector and CSOs.
• Offered research contributions to the global, regional and thematic report by conducting literature reviews, developing case studies, composing sections, and performing both quantitative and qualitative analyses as required.
• Assisted in promoting and spreading awareness, verified facts, and references.
• Provided analytical support in preparing quarterly and annual reports.
• Worked on the SDG Synthesis Coalition budget, monitoring expenditures and checking the deviation from the approved budget.
• Maintained and updated external mailling list for dissemniation of
Coalition’s newsletter and sharing Coalition’s updates, if required.
• Scheduled data collection initiatives across the evaluations, sourcing contact information, preparing and issuing invitations, managing correspondence with interviewees, setting up teleconference facilities, and maintaining records on data collection processes.
• Maintained relationships with Coalition’s partners, communicated with partners regarding their donations, developed project proposals for donors.
• Promoted synthesis of best practices and lessons learned, supporting the development of knowledge management plan and communications, publishing monthly newsletters on Mailchimp.
• Assisted Lead Evaluators in preparing documentation for contracting evaluation team members, working with the Operations Team in preparing contracts and transactions.
• Assisted the teams in the preparation of data collection missions, working with the respective UNDP Regional Bureaux/hubs and Country Offices in rendering logistic support and ensuring that they meet the performance targets.
• Supported the Lead Evaluators in monitoring the evaluation budgets and financial expenditures, timely preparing documentation for payments and advance requests, and supporting budget revisions as
needed.
• Prepared inputs for evaluation reports and annexes, legal and project documents, developing and updating the concept note, workplan, and developing limited content as relevant to data collection process and reporting.
• Provided operational support for donor−funded projects, ensuring compliance with financial and reporting requirements.
• Directed multi-donor institutional reform projects; managed financial and HR operations during COVID-19 response.
• Drafted donor proposals, managed donor communication, and coordinated virtual stakeholder consultations.
• Led cross-sector capacity-building initiatives for government institutions and CSOs.
• Drafted donor proposals, knowledge products, and results-based monitoring reports.
• Managed stakeholder engagement and virtual consultations with civil society partners.
• Worked directly with the Project Coordinator on the financial and human resource management of the Lab, making programme payments and assisting the programming during the 44−day war in Armenia with the HDP nexus approach.
• Contributed to the preparation of programme and financial reports by collecting information, preparing tables, drafting selected sections of the report etc.
• Took detailed and accurate notes for projects records.
• Assisted with programmes related procurement of services/goods, collected supporting documents, obtained price quotations, and prepared comparative tables.
• Compiled relevant background materials and prepared briefs and summaries if requested.
• Assisted in archiving, filing, and maintenance of up−to−date electronic mailing lists on programme and technical matters.
• Undertook all logistical, administrative, and financial arrangements required.
• Performed duties assigned by Enterprise Resource Planning tools, including raising Requisitions in ATLAS, receiving Purchase Orders upon acceptance of relevant goods/services in ATLAS.
• Translated and drafted letters and other programme's documents.
• Performed other duties as assigned.
• Business development, acquisition of new partnerships for the preparation and submission of bid proposals for DFID, EC, USAID tenders.
• Provided policy context analysis of tenders, identification of pipeline opportunities and project acquisition.
• In−depth knowledge of the EU's institutional framework, enabling to provide targeted and effective evaluations.
• Full cycle of bid proposal coordination from receipt of RFPs to the submission of the proposals, including methodology drafting, technical and financial proposals in line with the given guidelines; proposal preparation for multimillion framework contracts.
• Resourcing of the expert teams for EC, DFID, USAID funded projects, understanding client's needs and expectations, building expert network, and maintaining day to day communication both with Client (EUDs, Local authorities) and the teams.
• Management of awarded projects, including overall supervision, financial management and stakeholder management; revision and quality assurance of the final outputs provided by the consultant teams, coordination and follow up of the activities of the project, as well as constant communication with EU and other donor organizations. Contractual procedures with experts, partners, and international donor organizations.
• Database/MIS management.
• Designed and implemented Monitoring and Evaluation plans and frameworks for projects.
• Designed tools and strategies for data collection, analysis and production of reports.
• Produced monthly reports using advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
• Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
• Did quantitative and qualitative analysis as needed.
• Checked the compliance of rule of law in the medical center.
• Conducted all the legal responsibilities.
• Found donors for the necessary medical equipment (found a donor company in the US that donated medical equipment for the company that cost around 400,000 dollars).
• Initiated operational and functional responsibilities for real estate valuation and brokerage service areas.
• Negotiated contracts and agreements with vendors.
• Acted as a liaison between the employees and upper management when it came to financial and administrative issues.
• Assisted in executive−level management of resources.
• Did strategic planning to increase efficiency in the workplace.
• Worked on the development of policies and procedures.
• Generated annual workflow finances.
• Increased the number of partnering companies (three more banks started to cooperate with the real estate agency in the sphere of valuation).
• Provided programmatic and policy approaches particularly related to reproductive health, women’s labor, decent and dignified work, and structural gender−based violence. Led the family planning and reproductive health program.
• Coordinated services for survivors of domestic violence, including shelter and hotline services.
• Produced donor reports, composed funding proposals, and maintained relations with regional and international partners.
• Advocated for gender-based violence awareness and collaborated with stakeholders to implement rights-based services.
• Built and managed relationships with key staff across different regions of Armenia and international counterparts to ensure that women’s rights and feminist alternatives worked coordinated, documented, and supported.
• Efficiently coordinated a 24−hour hotline and a shelter in Yerevan for women and children exposed to domestic violence to stay safe, organizing group sessions and workshops to learn about domestic violence and safety planning.
• Compiled strategic thematic content for use in internal meetings, the organizational website etc.
• Reviewed country plans, assessed internal progress and learning needs and coordinated communication on these with relevant women’s rights focal points.
• Supported with the contracting of consultants/procurement where needed.
• Monitored potential risks that arose from programme and policy approaches.
• Worked with the national and international counterparts to identify and resolve any conflicts that might arise on strategy,
positions, tactics, decision−making, and resourcing to achieve agreed objectives.
• Travelled around Armenian regions to get acquainted with the situation on women exposed to domestic violence.
• Wrote monthly reports, composed proposals.
• Drafted media releases.
• Developed promotional communication materials.
• Initiated and planned media promotion of UNDP.
• Supported the formulation and implementation of communications and advocacy strategies to increase the standing and awareness of UNDP with partners, the media and the public.
• Administrated UNDP and UN websites and social media.
• Developed weekly plans for online communications and oversaw their implementation.
Editing Skills
Negotiation Skills
Problem Solving
Website Content Management
Operations management
Problem-solving
Financial reporting
Logistics management
Analytical thinking