Negash Shiferaw

Senior Grants Manager, West Africa at Innovations for Poverty Action

Master's DegreeUniversity of Washington

United States

Summary

A highly organized grants and projects portfolio manager possessing ample field and home office experience. Skillful in managing complex multi-year and multi-million dollar grants with superior donor and beneficiary satisfaction. Over 7 years of experience in start-to-finish grants and program management in Western Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa and Central America with projects ranging from research grants to build an evidence-base, to complex national level sectoral program implementation grants, to one time in-kind grants providing facilities and equipment for individual grantees. Project areas included agribusiness and markets development, environmental management, economic strengthening and livelihood improvement, and. Well experienced with US Government, World Bank, and private and corporate foundations' award mechanisms such as cooperative agreements, contracts and grants under contracts. Skills: Fluent in English and Amharic and possess advanced skills in; Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint; SharePoint; Salesforce; Custom organizational grant management software; SPSS (statistical analysis), and project management software such as MS Project.

Experience

  • development
  • grant management
  • climate change
  • research & development
  • agricultural financing
  • goal global
  • united states
  • ethiopia
  • Sectors
  • Funders
  • Countries

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