Position: Program Specialist/Associate
Category: Other
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 5

My main accomplishments:
- Research: during my work as Senior research and countering disinformation assistant at National Democratic Institute (NDI) (December 2017 - June 2020), I coordinated and supported projects (qualitative and quantitative research for political, gender, countering disinformation, public consultation, and civic programming), drafted questionnaires, conducted/monitored fieldwork and drafted reports in cooperation with clients (external and internal), stakeholders and vendors.
- Training and Capacity Building: during my work as Senior finance/administrative assistant, Finance/administrative assistant (April 2014 - December 2017) at NDI, I participated in the organization’s internal training program (conducted procurement and finance training for staff; this included developing training materials and delivering presentations) and co-trained in deliberative polling sessions for research activities. While working as Senior research and countering disinformation assistant, I initiated and conducted quality control training for research vendors.
- Donor Relations: during my work as Project Associate at CRDF Global (September 2022 - November 2022), Senior research and countering disinformation assistant at NDI (December 2017 - June 2020), and Senior finance/administrative assistant, Finance/administrative assistant (April 2014 - December 2017) at NDI, I contributed to providing regular updates on projects or programs (took part in regular meetings with the donor, provided updates, contributed to reports and organized visits).
- Interdepartmental Collaboration: I worked closely with different departments within the organizations, such as programs, finance, etc., to ensure alignment and effective collaboration on project objectives or initiatives involving various stakeholders.
Project coordination - outreached subject matter international experts for cybersecurity and cyber hygiene project, supported research, planning, and execution for cybersecurity, CBRNE, and Critical Infrastructure Protection projects, and communicated with vendors and stakeholders, including subject matter experts and international partners in academia, public and private sectors to coordinate activities.
Procurement - developed RFQ/RFP/IFB, market research, bidding, negotiated with vendors, drafted contracts, approved with headquarters, and monitored contracts’ execution.
Research - coordinated projects (qualitative and quantitative research for political, gender, countering disinformation, public consultation, and civic programming), drafted questionnaires, conducted/monitored field work in cooperation with stakeholders and vendors, checked field research results (datasets, scripts), prepared data for analysis and analyzed findings, produced visuals for quantitative and qualitative research.
Coordinated security and logistics for high-level events, delegations, and field missions (pre-elections, elections).
Software used: MS Office 365, Deltek Costpoint/Talent management, Salesforce, Google tools, STATA, QGIS.

I am currently open to new opportunities in IT (non-IT jobs), International Development, International Technical Assistance, Humanitarian, and International NGO sectors in the fields of Operations, Program/Project Support, Research, and Procurement.
I am not interested in Finance roles.