Kelly Vaena (She / Her)

Senior Grants Administrator & Partnership Specialist

Planet Aid, Inc.

Master's DegreeJohns Hopkins University, School for Advanced International Studies

Maputo, Mozambique

Summary

Program and portfolio director, senior coordinator and partnership specialist with 20 years of experience overseeing USG-funded development programs internationally, including leadership roles ensuring the coordination, compliance, sustainability and performance of programs in Southern, East, and West Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. Currently oversees Planet Aid’s US government portfolio and leads local partnership strategies throughout Southern Africa. Previously directed Kanava’s global projects out of Geneva, Switzerland, served as in-country director of an anti-trafficking program in Solomon Islands, and as finance/operational lead for USAID health programs in Mozambique.

Experience

  • development
  • personnel / human resources
  • events / training
  • international development
  • usaid
  • united states
  • mozambique
  • solomon islands
  • switzerland
  • italy
  • Sectors
  • Funders
  • Countries

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