Pascal Boctor

Salary: $67,000 USD Per Year

Hours per Week: 40

Supervisor: Rasha Abdel Latif (202-942-2166)

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Duties:

• Oversee the implementation of 4 State Department programs in the Middle East through day-to-day coordination by providing strategic direction to field teams, ensuring project KPI's are met, and identifying and analyzing areas of risk.
• Lead weekly meetings with strategic partners across the Middle East in Arabic and French.
• Draft complex project-related documents, including quarterly and final reports to donors, project workplans, monitoring and evaluation plans, and other communication materials.
• Facilitate effective communication and coordination with Department of State officials, local partners, and stakeholders through regular project check-ins, applying problem-solving skills to address challenges in program implementation.
• Coordinate with field teams to draft and edit success stories, briefs, and other project-related communications materials.
• Responsible for monitoring 4 project budgets, including realignments, cost and no cost extensions, reviewing monthly financial reports, preparing advance requests, travel authorizations and expense reports.

Key Accomplishments:

• Manage 2 State Department funded programs from end-to-end, including design, budget development, planning, execution, and reporting.
• Served as lead writer for 2 Department of State grant proposals by designing and drafting technical narratives, conducting pre-proposal intelligence and research, and drafting monitoring and evaluation and risk analysis strategies.
• Drafted 10 subcontractor procurement packages, including scopes of work, financial reports, and requests for proposals.

Salary: $19.00 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 35

Supervisor: Will Todman (202-644-5670)

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Duties:

• Conducted extensive research in Arabic, French, and English for 3 large scale projects related to the refugee crisis in the Middle East, water crisis in the Middle East, as well as strategies employed by authoritarian government's as it relates to humanitarian aid.
• Drafted 10+ briefs on strategic developments occurring in Egypt and the greater Middle East.
• Analyzed 50+ reports and papers written in Arabic, French and English; presented information to senior staff to be used for organization's policy proposals.
• Attended 5 high level diplomatic meetings with foreign government officials from the Middle East, State department officials, and leading thinkers and experts working on the Middle East and North Africa.
• Regularly prepared briefing materials, talking points, and background research for senior staff.

Key Accomplishments:

• Assisted in planning and executing 5 high profile meetings with foreign and domestic government officials and other relevant stakeholders.
• Successfully helped restructure organization communication strategy by pitching senior staff on a 2 month communication analysis I conducted.

Salary: $16.10 USD Per Hour

Hours per week: 30

Supervisor: Laura Bazzari (202-448-9500)

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Duties:

• Attended 20+ congressional hearings and federal agency meetings related to foreign policy, national security, intelligence, defense, and immigration issues.
• Tracked and analyzed federal and state legislations and informed senior decision makers on relevant policy priorities.
• Monitored local and national news outlets for developments related to immigration, border security, and terrorism related events.
• Attended meetings with members of congress and high profile clients to take notes and ensure specific client deliverables are met.
• Assisted in the implementation of several high profile events with key stakeholders, members of congress and senior government officials.

Key Accomplishments:

• Drafted 20+ policy memorandums regarding policy implications in the fields of foreign policy, national security, intelligence, defense , and immigration which were used by principals to advise clients on respective priorities.
• Produced a daily immigration newsletter for internal team and external clients to help make policy recommendations.
• Produced talking points, briefing materials and analytical papers for senior organization officials to prepare them for meetings with local and foreign governments.
• Analyzed in depth Department of Defense annual financial audit and pitched policy recommendations for clients' strategic objectives.
• Analyzed various privacy and security state legislations and assisted in recommending similar policy legislations for other state and local jurisdictions.

Salary: $40,000 USD Per Year

Hours per week: 40

Supervisor: Seth Lehr (301-565-4050)

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Duties:

• Helped draft 10+ policy and position papers for organization's policy priorities on issues related to foreign policy, defense and national security.
• Analyzed legislation and voting records in 100+ congressional districts across the nation and identified key policy priorities for targeted calls to action.
• Monitored political, economic, and military developments in the Middle East and North Africa and relayed information to organization members.
• Analyzed in depth U.S National security and counterterrorism legislation, including the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and National Strategy for Counterterrorism (NSCT) and communicated results and implications to organization members.
• Attended weekly calls with foreign and domestic counterpart organizations to exchange ideas, policy priorities, and recommended course of action.

Key Accomplishments:

• Presented at 10+ lobby meetings with members of congress and their staff to promote the organization's policy priorities regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal, Israel-Palestine conflict, Syrian Conflict, Yemen Civil War, North Korea, and defense budget.
• Personally raised $100,000 by increasing financial commitment of major donors through presenting the work and strategies of Peace Action.
• Represented Peace Action on 2 electoral campaigns and led volunteer outreach programs by managing and training 30+ volunteers to phone bank and canvas.
• Worked directly with congressional candidates and campaign managers to outline and execute fundraising strategy.
• Individually made 2,000 calls to voters and persuaded approximately 300 undecided voters to vote for endorsed congressional candidates.

Salary: $8,000 USD Student Stipend

Hours per week: 40

Supervisor: April Brady (202-828-9660)

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Duties:

• Monitored Arabic and French news across Egypt and the Middle East related to political, economic and military developments and consolidated them into summaries in English to help senior decision makers craft policy priorities.
• Analyzed effectiveness of U.S Counterterrorism objectives in the Middle East and North Africa and produced talking points and policy recommendations for senior organization officials.
• Analyzed extensively implications of U.S Sanctions legislations, including the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), and how they affect U.S.-Egypt relations
• Investigated and analyzed counterterrorism policies in Egypt and their effect on radicalization and violent extremism in Egypt and the Middle East.
• Wrote 10+ press releases and statements and pitched innovative ideas to help craft communications strategies that garnered attention for POMED policy priorities.

Key Accomplishments:

• Contributed to POMED's 2020 Annual Foreign Budget Report by analyzing the impact that U.S. Foreign Assistance has on the security, economic, and governance standards in Egypt.
• Drafted and published a weekly newsletter detailing political, economic, social, and military news in the Middle East and North Africa.
• Created and pitched a proposal for organization's communication strategy to ensure organization content reaches target audiences, which has now become standard operating procedure.

Salary: $4,000 USD Student Stipend

Hours per week: 40

Supervisor: Roberto Rizo (916-207-6210)

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Duties:

• Helped in the implementation of the first Voter's Choice Act (VCA) through analyzing voter data from various California counties.
• Monitored and tracked committee hearings and legislations critical to the ongoing projects and goals of the team.
• Worked directly under Chief Deputy Secretary of State and attended meetings with Secretary of State Alex Padilla.

Key accomplishments:

• Represented SOS Office at 10+ voter education presentations and promoted the VCA to various interest groups.
• Contributed to improving voter information guides and poll worker training manuals by analyzing large sets of quantitative and qualitative data to determine best practices.