Lameese Ahmed Madi

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Entire Work History:

Professional Experience

Resident Program Officer Tunis, Tunisia
National Center for State Courts July 2023-Present

Project Program officer on a 13-million-dollar under INL (Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement) and NEAAC (Bureau of Near Eastern Affair) funded projects on Access to Justice, Anti-Corruption, and Digital management of prison records programs in Tunisia, holding supervisory and supportive role for the Director, field staff and project manager working closely with funders throughout the life of the program in the field in Arabic, French and English.
Managed international grants funded by INL and NEAAC ensuring compliance with grant agreements, regulations and financial guidelines.
Developed and implement grant management processes, including procurement procedures and reporting schedules.
Conducting risk assessment to ensure financial and operational compliance with donor requirements.
Implemented program activities, start up, close down, delivering assistance, training, interventions and coordinated data collection for M&E reporting for several events including work with the Ministry of Justice of Tunisia and youth programs with students from each of the major law faculties in Tunisia.
Event and program coordination of national and regional debate competitions with 6 law faculties
Managed, coordinated, monitored, and capacity built 5 local subgrantees in implementation of access to justice activities with citizens.
Monthly and quarterly preparations of M&E, and ad hoc reports, ensuring quality and adherence to donor regulations for three state-department funded projects under INL and NEAAC.
Tracked expenditures, procurement selection, and managed procurements and sub-awards, conducting compliance verifications for vendors and ensuring contract compliance for all three project programs.
Developed guidelines and delivered training to civil society partners, enhancing their capacity to meet sub-award requirements and ensure quality reporting in Arabic, French and English.

North and West Africa Program Associate Bethesda, MD/Cairo, Egypt
DAI Global January ’23-July ’23

Project associate on 26-million-dollar Egypt USAID funded project for Macro-Economic Stabilization and Reform (MESR) supporting project manager, field staff and chief of party working closely with USAID.
Project Management Support: Act as a liaison to the field. Independently trouble-shoot common problems and escalate more complex issues to the Project Manager and follows up until resolved.
Project Coordination- Coordinate the administrative activities of the project including mobilizing and demobilizing staff and international consultants, maintaining project files, requesting purchases for goods and services, ensuring submission of project deliverables and close-down. Perform administrative tasks for several projects including mobilization, demobilization, AP adjustments, vendor invoice review, Procure to Pay requisitions, and iExpense auditing. Conduct routine auditing of grant and operations files to ensure compliance with USAID and DAI policies and procedures.
Contract Management-Initiate requests for approvals, coordinates submissions for contract and subcontract modifications and coordinates all other requests for contract office support. Draft routine contractual documents using approved templates.
Identify and synthesize potential issues and present possible solutions to Project Manager, Contracts Administrator and Project field team.
Monitor compliance with contract and regulations and escalates as needed.
Financial Management-Responsible for ensuring processing and review of project financial transactions and monthly project invoices. Review and process invoices and audits iExpense Reports. Create and/or maintain project budget tool and coordinates data entry from field and home office into project contract budget.
Support monthly financial analysis, quarterly forecasts, and ad hoc financial reporting when requested. During realignments, identifies and trouble-shoots issues.

UNICEF Madagascar Antananarivo, Madagascar
Social Policy Internship January ’22-July ’22

Social Media dissemination for general public translating posts from French to English and vice versa of Monitoring and Evaluation findings of Let Us Learn Program and Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys on the interventions towards ending Child Poverty in Madagascar, Child and Gender Sensitivity and Planning and Budgeting and Social Protections.
Collaborating with supervision of creating a set agenda for dissemination material for general public of key findings and recommendations from Policy Briefs concerning Social Protections in French and English
Creation of Informational Note synthesized from Policy brief in English on public expenditures of primary education in Madagascar.
Creation of Information Note synthesizing the Policy Brief in English on Let Us Learn Program and public expenditures.
Monthly progress reports focusing on key areas of responsibility as described before.
Creation of Mailing-List for department
On field visits of launches of Cash-Transfer Programmes throughout different regions of Madagascar
Creating informational reports after sessions to summarize key takeaways and action plans
Collection of Human-Interest Stories during on Field Visits to be published on UN website
Creation of ICON Story published on UN website
Creation of Briefing Note concerning
Solo-Creation of Internal synthesis and evaluation of Social Policy and Best Practice 60 page dossier in French and English with presentation of findings and recommendations followed by discussion with broader team and invitation of other sections within UNICEF in French and English.

Alliance for Citizen Engagement Remote
Research Associate January ’22-Present

Led along with a co-leader Middle East Research Team in producing nonpartisan, accessible policy briefs for publication on the ACE website and in the ACE Quarterly research journal to share important policies about the MENA region for the American citizen interested in non-partisan information.
Edited and provide feedback on research projects ensure every brief is well-researched, informative, and meets ACE’s rigorous quality standards for undergraduate and graduate students.
Researched policy throughout the spring for publication about Migration and the MENA region.

Arabic Bilingual Language Assistant Middlebury, Vermont
Middlebury Summer Language Program Summer 2021

Served as primary in-language point of contact for students and faculty at the School of Arabic.Facilitated the School’s cultural program, an integral part of the immersion-based academic experience. Liaised with campus offices including but not limited to public safety, dining services, events management, media services, print shop, theater, and facilities services.
Designed, planned, and implemented complex school-wide cultural events. Designed and lead regular co-curricular activities. Developed content and disseminated publications, including calendars, posters, event programs, etc.
Communicated with students and faculty on a variety of platforms: email, website, print media, announcements.
Provided general IT support for faculty, guests, and students (on School and personal devices).

International Rescue Committee Sacramento, California
Career Pathways Intern February 2021-November 2021

Facilitating professional development courses including resume building, professional writing skills and connecting jobs with high skilled refugees including doctors and engineers.
Designing Women’s Empowerment outreach campaigns for IRC and Work readiness to attain funding for career outreach.
Building and creating a curriculum and working and learning materials for women Refugees who are needing preparation before being received by service providers in the Healthcare Profession.
Creating material for Pharmacy tech in partnership with CVS to prep refugees for their pharmacy tech training.

Peace Corps Georgia Republic of Georgia
English Teacher and Co-teaching Facilitator Oct. 2019- March 2020

Partnered closely with both Kharaula School and Dandalo School’s teachers and faculty in order to improve English proficiency (reading, speaking, listening, grammar and critical thinking skills) in students ranging from grades 2 to 12 as well as the teachers themselves.
Facilitated, conducted, and coordinated cross village events such as school summer camps between 5^th to 9^th graders to create projects that promoted creativity, sport and American culture through language learning.
Attended and Participated alongside her counterparts in conferences for Project Design and Management and Teaching English as a Foreign Language Methodology.
Attended and helped conduct an imitative workshop that was funded by USAID supporting Small Projects Assistant SPA program concerning sustainability, financed, teamwork of programs that teamed with host country national and volunteers and cross NGO resource sharing.

GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) Republic of Georgia
Grant Writer and Facilitators Oct 19- March 20

Corresponded with GLOW, an all-girls summer camp, with two interns on multiple grants that funded projects the girls would apply to receive small grants to start local regional projects of their own.
Design Programming for grants to facilitate summer camps
Evaluate and Monitor programming during the entire process of opening a grant and closing it out.

Policy Center of New South Rabat, Morocco
Research and Digital Communications Intern Aug 18-Oct 18

Assisted and live tweeted during the Global Economic Governance Africa and Policy Center of the New South joint conference covering Africa’s Rising Debt: Implications for Development Finance
Liaison between communicating with administration and candidates who were interested in our Calls for Submission of policy papers for the Atlantic Dialogues Conference and coordinating in French, Arabic and English
Creating and submitting weekly newsletters that informed program wide the current policy briefs, works in progress and events that will be happening
Headed social media outreach on all social medias including LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook on event promotions, Calls for Papers and newly published Policy briefs and op-eds
Proofreading policy briefs, blogs, and research papers

Morocco World News Rabat, Morocco
Journalist/Editing Intern May 17-Aug 18

Covered and reported a workshop covering migration and children as well as a program launch of Hijra wa Himya funded and backed by UN’s GFMD through UNICEF x ENACTUS aimed towards offering resources for Migrant Children in Morocco
Interviewed Seedstar start up competition candidates and winners in Casa Blanca on programs and projects happening around the country
Photographing events that would later be reported on through a mixture of interviews and coverage of the event as well as research and interviewing in Arabic, French and English
Traveling throughout Morocco and covered events such as Gnaoua Festival, Seedstar competition in Casablanca, and UNICEF x ENACTUS conference in Agadir

Languages and Professional Skills

Native Languages: English, Libyan Arabic, Amazigh (or Berber)

Acquired Languages: Classical Arabic (Advanced), French (Advance), Georgian (Intermediate)

Professional Skills: Salesforce, Excel, Evaluation and Monitoring, Programming, Grant writing, Data Collection, Research, Digital communications, copy editing, lesson planning, website building, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Education

Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA December 2022

Master of Arts, International Policy and Development

GPA: 3.6/4.0

Awards: Paul D. Coverdell Fellowship for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (50% tuition scholarship)

Relevant Coursework: Development Economics; Policy Data & Analysis; Conflict, Security and Development; Fundraising, Methodology and strategy; North African and Sub-Saharan Development; Human Trafficking; Writing and Briefing Memos; Living Wage and Social Change; Migration and Human Security; Proposal Writing for International Development; Program Evaluations for SCOs; Org Development and Leadership; Intro to Intercultural Competence

Research Projects:

Working Paper: Moroccan Immigration and French Policy and Security Analysis
Economic Development Analysis of countries and Human Development Index
Working Paper: Immigration in Living Wage
LGBTQIA+ immigration experience in Lebanon
Synthesis of Social Policy and Best Practices at UNICEF Madagascar’s Social Policy Section
Organizational Analysis of UNICEF Madagascar
Memo Brief on Libya’s immigration issues
Open Prison: A deep Dive Policy brief on Libya and Migration Practices.
Evaluation project: Monitoring and Evaluation of small organization

Qalam Wa Lawa: Rabat, Morocco

Advanced Arabic – Jan. ‘18-Oct ‘18

Kansas State University: Manhattan, Kansas

Bachelor of Arts, Modern Language: French– Aug ’12- Dec‘17

Study Abroad: L’Institute Catholique de Paris- Summer ‘14

Leadership and Involvement

Mira MIIS Immigrant Rights Alliance                               Monterey, California President                                                                                                 Sep. 2021-Present
Communications Coordinator                                                       January 21-May 21
Arabic Language Club                                                                  Monterey, California
Co-President                                                                                          Sep. 2021-Present
Jewish Family Services                                                                San Diego, California
Language Partner Volunteer October 2020-May ’21

Lameese Madi

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+1 (913) 787-6006
lmadi@middlebury.edu
lameesemadi@gmail.com

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Lameese Madi