Professional Experience:
- Proven leadership in organisational management and development, at both the strategic and operational level, at the national, regional and global levels.
- Extensive experience in program and project management, covering the entire project cycle from design and formulation to implementation, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment.
- Strong experience in administration, management, and the budgeting/financial control of both human and financial resources.
- Management of rural development, sustainable development and livelihoods, education, governance, youth and children, disaster preparedness and emergency, and human rights programs.
- Intercultural expertise, experience in working with Indigenous Peoples
- Strong knowledge of the political, social and economic context of Latin America and the Caribbean region, with an emphasis on the Andean and Central Amercan regions.
- Strong representational and communications skills, experience in networking and coalition building
- Fund raising, identification of funding sources, program development and negotiations with diverse donors.
- Capacity building and strengthening of civil society organisations, within framework of participatory local development and a partnership approach.
- Mainstreaming of gender perspective.
- Policy development, political analysis and advocacy work.
- Business development and entrepreneurship training skills, and microfinance