Ana Ciolan

✓ Fluent in Romanian, Russian and English languages and conversational level of Spanish ✓ More than ten years of experience in community development activities from working with local community' organizations, NGOs, schools and local/national authorities to improve the economic and social environment and increase public engagement as well as gender equality and social inclusion ✓ Progresive experience in capacity building and training activities - planning and organizing leadership programs, business training events, community engagement events and etc. ✓ Experience in grant management including analyzing and evaluating grant applications, proposals, budgets, field visits for monitoring and evaluation ✓ Management experience from working as Communications Director, Business Manager, Project Coordinator, Summer school director and volunteer coordinator ✓ Advanced experience in business/project proposals consultancy from delivering training, coaching and mentoring people and organizations on how to write a good grant proposal or business plan ✓ Experience in working with international development organizations like USAID, LED, UN and EU funds ✓ Advanced consecutive/simultaneous translation skills from working with international organization and communities and from studying in the States ✓ Experience in procurement, managing the grants' processes and operations-related procurement including collection and analysis of offers, bidding and acquisition as well as managing the vendor's database