SUMMARY:

• To secure a communications/administrative position.
• Fluent French, extensive translation and editorial experience, and excellent Spanish. Excellent writing, research, copyediting, social media, management and administrative skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Communications Specialist

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Provided translation and editing services in English, French and Spanish for documents, such as annual and monthly reports, technical reports; tools for principal recipient management, monitoring and evaluation, procurement and supply management, and governance and leadership; fact sheets, branding guidelines, financial reporting presentations; meeting agendas; evaluations; general correspondence
• Managed vendors and provided estimates for translation services of documents in French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Portuguese and create multilingual terminology for translators to use with their computer - aided translation tools
• Managed other vendor services: graphic artists, voice-over artists, printers, etc.
• Managed project website
• Managed project extranet
• Contributed to designing training sessions for consultants, team leaders
• Ensure compliance with USAID branding requirements
• Managed one-week consultant training workshops of approximately 70 international participants: order supplies, organize catering, hotel accommodation, and flight arrangements; manage printing and preparation of training material; facilitate various sessions
• Visited Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Macedonia to organize training workshops for the country coordinating mechanism involving various stakeholders from the public and private sector, and civil society organizations.

Research Coordinator

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Wrote technical reports using primary, secondary and tertiary research methods (please see authorship below)
• Drafted articles for weekly newsletter on developments in the communications industry of interest to utilities
• Edited, formatted, and produced final deliverable of all research reports for publication
• Posted documents on and edited legal/research sections of the UTC website
• Maintained and updated company database (NetForum)
• Managed research budget—accounts receivable and expenses
• Processed report orders
• Organized meetings and conference calls for various UTC divisions, committees, etc.
• Took minutes of UTC’s Board of Directors’ meetings and of other committees
• Responded to member queries on technical and research matters, and meetings
• Filed lobbying reports at the House of Representatives and the Senate
• Filed Notices of Proposed Rulemaking and Comments at the Federal Communications Commission

Confidential, Washington, DC

Executive Assistant to Executive VP

Responsibilities:

• Managed, developed, edited, formatted and inserted graphics into all promotional and informational materials including work plans, brochures, programmatic/technical reports, training manuals, fact sheets, trip reports, annual and quarterly reports, monthly newsletter etc. to be submitted to USAID for approval. This involved constant collaboration with technical staff and field representatives.
• Familiar with Chicago Manual of Style
• Helped develop and implement the communications strategy
• Organized Catalyst CONSORTIUM and ESD’s booths at Global Health Council conferences
• Prepared the ESD communications budget
• Managed contracted services for published materials including designers, commercial printers and translators
• Verified accuracy of French/English translations
• Drafted and translated French correspondence and press articles
• Helped non-native speakers of English to draft technical reports, correspondence, etc.
• Prepared and distributed meeting minutes on a daily basis
• Conducted research via the Internet for document verification, compilation of glossaries, and acronyms and abbreviations (in English, French and Spanish)
• Ensured documents complied with USAID branding guidelines
• Updated and edited the ESD website
• Created and maintained the ESD library (electronic and hard copies)
• Helped create the ESD electronic filing system
• Maintained communications database and oversaw shared drive’s content

Confidential, Washington, DC

Communications Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as communications Assistant for the USAID-funded CATALYST Consortium project, an NGO involved in reproductive health and family planning in South America, South Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
• I was subsequently taken on as a permanent employee with the title of Program Officer in Communications (see above).

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Managed estates and trusts, which included all accounting work, preparation of taxes, etc.

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Executive Secretary/Paralegal

Responsibilities:

• Provided litigation support for two senior project managers and one management consultant: prepared annotations of cases and public documents regarding the Clean Air Act, prepared document lists and tracking documents, coordinated the production of the final deliverable.
• Monitored environmental, energy, health, and safety policy development in the trade press; conducted market research; and maintained the client database using Access or Excel.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Bilingual Secretary

Responsibilities:

• Composed and edited correspondence, some of which were for the Ambassador’s signature; translated from French into English; organized the monthly meetings of the European Union cultural attachés and edited the minutes in English.
• Maintained the Cultural Attaché’s agenda; reorganized the filing system; did research via the Internet; and provided information to the general public (English and French speaking).