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Patricia Christian
Project Manager , International non-profit
Decatur, United States
Result-Based Project Manager with 17 years implementing holistic education intervention projects at the primary level in Northwest Haiti. Available for short-term and long-term assignments.
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Area of Expertise:
  • Administration, Management, Finance/Accounting, Procurement
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
  • Social, Education, Gender, Youth, Child
Professional Experience:
Provided technical support for country programs that turned around a primary school in Northwest Haiti. Assessed the educational challenges of vulnerable children and accomplished the following:

•Assessed children learning in Haiti that resulted in equipping children with the tools for learning that improved literacy and increased students’ subject knowledge by 50% from baseline.

•Evaluated six graders standardized test scores that resulted in implementing an after school program and 90% of six graders passing government test.

•Engaged parents in need assessments that strengthened community involvement of the project design, implementation, and evaluation.

•Evaluated student health and nutrition that resulted in implementing a food security program and WASH (water and sanitation hygiene) project that increased enrollment from 70 to 300 students.

•Built capacity of staff in Haiti by conducting ongoing staff development that resulted in better qualified teachers.

•Organized capacity building workshops for teachers in Haiti by recruiting US educators to conduct training in Haiti that increased morale and deepened commitment of national teachers.

•Monitored interventions with quarterly site visits and refined activities/benchmarks that resulted in decreasing children truancy 80%.

•Improved the program by reporting mid-term/intermediate internal evaluations to key stakeholders who adapted change for continual improvement.

•Monitored program activities and outputs ongoing that resulted in successfully achieving project goals.

•Formed and cultivated relationship with key stakeholders of influence that resulted in greater involvement and resources to help the school in Haiti.

•Fundraised with a sense of urgency after the earthquake in Haiti that resulted in securing a grant for a new primary school 8 months later.

•Coordinated humanitarian aid for vulnerable children and orphans that resulted in decreasing out of school youth by 50% in the community.

•Organized children immunization by collaborating with a US immunization program in Haiti that increased the health of vulnerable children.
Education:
Certified Development Project Manager
Expert Level
PM4DEV (Project Management for Development Organizations)
Washington, D.C.
2017

Building a Better Response Online Certificate
Humanitarian Academy at Harvard University
2016

Masters in Organizational Leadership
Southwestern Christian University
Bethany, Oklahoma
June 2004

Bachelors of Arts
Beulah Heights University
Atlanta, Georgia
1995

The following are courses that I've taught in "Intercultural Studies"

“Business As Missions”
Adjunct Professor
Point University
Atlanta, Georgia
2013 - 2014

M.O.S.T.(Missions Overseas Short-Term)
Course Facilitator
Beulah Heights University
Atlanta, Georgia
Oct 2004-Nov 2004
Team Leader and coach for students
doing short-term assignments in Haiti.

I've received the following training in Intercultural Studies:

M.O.S.T. II
(Missions Overseas Short Term)
Advance Training
Beulah Heights University
Atlanta, Georgia
Sept 2000 – Nov 2000

M.O.S.T. I
(Missions Overseas Short Term)
Beulah Heights University
Atlanta, Georgia
1996
Field Work short-term: Zonya Maya, Mexico

World Outreach Missions Training
Tucker, Georgia
1995
Field Work short-term: Cote D'Ivoire, West Africa
Affiliations and Achievements:
Affiliations and achievements

Pro Bono Committee for Nonprofits
Atlanata American Evaluation Association

ARTICLES WRITTEN:

"5 Tips to engage international stakeholders in Planning a Program Evaluation," 2015

"Developing International Relationship for International Grants" 2014




Available for:
  • Consulting assignments
  • Job opportunities

    Years of Experience:
    15-20 years
    Highest Qualification:
    Masters
    Languages:
    English, conversational creole
    Nationality:
    United States
    LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patchristian1/
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