Lindy-ann Wright

• Pro-bono, remotely direct 501(c)(3) charitable program to enrich the lives of 53+ underprivileged students by providing opportunities for sustainable education, Kampala Uganda.
• Execute collaboratively with local staff enrichment and social services to impoverished communities.
• Develop organization's vision, strategic goals, and operations needs.
• Oversee program development, implementation and fund administration.
• Manage financial and staff resources to optimize performance and achieve goals.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with families, sponsors and community stakeholders to secure funding and support for the organization.

• Lead administrative and business department to ensure efficient functioning of graduate program consisting of 750+ online students, 22 core faculty and 75 adjunct faculty.
• Executed business priorities and goals to support education program and ensure deliverable are timely.
• Directed team operation in collaboration with program leadership, central administration, and finance teams.
• Introduced automated processing systems to enhance operational accuracy and accountability.
• Developed and maintained annual budget templates working closely with Department Chair.
• Strategized and demonstrated proactive approach to ensure financial viability for the program.
• Supported quarterly tuition revenue analyses and reconciliations, financial reporting and forecast data.
• Directed quarterly contracting and payment processing of 97 faculty and staff members.
• Oversee business logistics for 8 annual immersions of 150+ students, graduation convocations, and events.
• Skillfully negotiated agreements with vendors to decrease expenses and optimize services.
• Automated systems for creating synchronous class schedule, instructor staffing, student registrations.
• Represented senior management at interdepartmental meetings and demonstrated client-focused approach.
• Developed effective cross-functional collaborations to streamline and improve professional workflow.
• Served on senior management committees and task forces to support program mission.
• Trained and guided operations staff to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
• Managed problematic tasks to support staff and maintain excellent customer service.
• Assisted with recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
• Participated in special projects as determined by the Department Chair and program leadership.

• Responsible for financial viability of government and private sponsored international projects. Annual budget -$12M
• Developed financial policies and procedures manual for external offices.
• Traveled to international offices to manage funds for election observations, local grant training, risk management and site audits.
• Responsible for budget development, expense monitoring, forecasting, audits.
• Assisted directors with short and long-range planning throughout life of the project.
• Analyzed data and prepared detailed spreadsheets to identify trends and forecast revenue and expense.
• Presented monthly financial models, charts and reports to analyze goals and ensure viability.
• Prepared complex budget templates to determine requirements and justify funding requests to donors and executive board.
• Approved procurement requests, travel reimbursements, sub-grantee awards, international fund transfers.
• Conducted interviews for headquarter and field office staff positions.
• Performed other duties as directed by senior and executive management.

FINANCE MANAGEMENT

• Responsible for financial viability and administrative leadership of large complex clinical research site and laboratory. $49M budget/7 years
• Initiated practical operations improvements and business efforts to reduce costs, increase revenue with positive cash flows.
• Implemented automation systems to manage risks, improve accuracy of financial reports and office efficiency.
• Partnered with executive leaders and principal investigators to develop business plans with detailed benchmarks.
• Prepared and monitored annual budgets and revenue trends, presenting reports to senior management.
• Reviewed documentation, identified and reported critical financial discrepancies.
• Directed vendor setup and payment, administration of bank accounts and reconciliations.
• Trained new and existing staff in various business procedures and awards management.
• Created staff restructures within department to enhance accounting and finance functions.
• Cultivated strong relationships with local vendors, partners and stakeholders for positive negotiations.

GRANTS MANAGEMENT

• Administered NIH grants and cooperate agreements, international and private donors.
• Supervised grants team offering technical, business and administrative expertise and training.
• Assisted with establishment of local grants office at clinical site.
• Coordinated proposal submissions by meeting with research team to discuss resources, administrative components, draft budget and drive deadline achievement.
• Examined award agreements for alignment with need and suitability of terms and conditions.
• Oversaw policy formulation, interpretations and administration of awards.
• Negotiated and skillfully executed contracts to protect research interests.
• Monitored current grants and contracts to identify upcoming expirations and coordinated with stakeholders to submit renewals and negotiation for out-years.
• Strictly enforced donor policies and standards to minimize regulatory risks and liability across clinical programs and research site.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

• Built highly efficient administrative teams through ongoing coaching to strengthen capacity.
• Established workflow processes, monitored daily productivity, and implemented modifications to improve overall performance.
• Interviewed, recruited and onboarded new staff for high functioning operations teams.
• Conducted performance reviews, recommended specific staff development strategies.
• Assisted with salary deliberations.

• Business manager for National Institute of Health ( NIH) funded research projects
• Prepared budgets for proposal submissions, maintained costs within strict guidelines of the awards.
• Created and presented financial reports to assist with goal planning and donor agency progress reports.
• Processed documents for hire of faculty, student interns, volunteers and staff.
• Assisted principal investigator with salary deliberations and resolution of staff grievances.