Program Officer Development Consultant

Bradley Jon Austin

202-***-****, Skype id: BAustin7417

admpa6@r.postjobfree.com

Proven foreign policy, legislative and project management professional with extensive global experience – Expert policy development, implementation, staff management, budgeting and business development - Established capacity for research, design, development and implementation including projects alignment and added value – Comprehensive legislative research, briefing, drafting, editing and communications skills in various media – Calm, collegial and focused under pressure - Understands the intrinsic value and goals of foreign policy and international development, particularly in post- conflict, transitional and fragile states - Politically astute and knowledgeable in policy, governance and diplomacy - Experienced with diverse projects, donors and agreement mechanisms. SENIOR MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

DAI, Strengthening Democratic Governance and Accountability Project Deputy Chief of Party, Colombo, Sri Lanka 40+ hrs/week - April 2019 – December 2020 Managing all administrative, financial and human resources, monitoring/evaluation and reporting, grants management concerns for the USAID-funded democracy and governance program; assisting with the technical, communications and programmatic planning, and execution of the same. Liaising with the donor, diplomatic missions, stakeholders, partners and implementers. The QED Group LLC

Senior Director, Rosslyn, VA 40+ hrs/week - October 2017 – March 2018 Directing, coordinating and integrating the various practice areas, while overseeing and leading the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning practice; leading on core donor business development, proposals and partnerships; managing staff, budgets, reporting and donor relations. Broderick Haight Consulting

Senior Consultant, Washington, DC 30 hrs/week - July - August 2017 Research and draft proposal documents for response to USAID West Africa Regional Collaborative Learning & Adapting, Countering Violent Extremism and Peace-building programs. Independent Consulting

Nairobi, Kenya 30 hrs/week - November 2016 – February 2017 Providing local and international organizations and education institutions with information and guidance on democracy and governance, election, education and development concerns. Researching, writing and editing proposals and concept papers. Coordinating implementers, donors, government and diplomatic interests.

International Republican Institute

Nairobi, Kenya

Resident Country Director, East Africa 40 hrs+/week - September 2015 - October 2016 Managed, directed and coordinated multiple programs for East Africa and Kenya including devolution, youth, gender, conflict and governance initiatives. Oversaw multiple budgets, reporting, monitoring and evaluation efforts for all programs. Responsible for program, finance, administrative and support staff. Engaged with substantive support for other Africa programs including civil society, legislative strengthening and elections programs while directing program development in Kenya and East Africa.

International Development Law Organisation

Juba, South Sudan 40 hrs+/week - September 2014 -September 2015 Country Director, South Sudan

Responsible to oversee and ensure the quality and timely implementation of IDLO’s programs in South Sudan. Directing and managing diverse, local-national and international staff to design, budget, implement, evaluate and report on the inter-related Justice Development programs with multiple partners for donor missions.

Representing IDLO to the host nation, donors, diplomatic missions and implementer community. Monitoring and mitigating security risks for all facets of the program and resources. Rome, Italy 40 hrs+/week - February 2013 – August 2014 Director, Special Programs

Managed the Special Programs portfolio for IDLO’s Dutch, INL and French-funded rule of law development programs that include capacity development, access to justice, gender-justice and legal awareness throughout Afghanistan. Supervising the 12-person staff in Rome and the three Chiefs of Party in Kabul, with 30+ international and 250+ local national staff. Provided executive oversight for program delivery, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, procurement and budgeting, finance and compliance. Overseeing and ensuring the quality and timely implementation of all IDLO projects in Afghanistan in collaboration with the Chiefs of Party. Provided donors and beneficiaries with regular updates on progress towards the achievement of project objectives. Liaise with international interests, member states and the diplomatic community concerning development, Afghanistan and justice. Coordinate security management, human resources, logistics and administration policy as it relates to the program from headquarters. Leading on program and budget amendments and proposals.

Checchi and Company Consulting Group

Kabul, Afghanistan 40 hrs+/week - November 2012 – January 2013 Sub-National Government Assessor

Subject matter expert for the assessment of the USAID sub-national government development program.

International Business and Technology Consultants Inc. Vienna, VA & Sana’a, Yemen 40 hrs+/week - April - August 2012 Senior Democracy and Governance evaluation expert

Providing expert research, analysis and reporting regarding parliament, political parties and local governance for transitional countries to best inform and direct development investments. Political Party / Parliamentary Evaluation Team Lead contract pending International Resources Group 20 hrs/week - May 2011 – June 2012 Washington, DC

GoSS Governance Program Development Consultant

Country and program expert providing analysis, strategic planning, design, writing and editing for the response to the USAID procurement request for assistance to the new government (executive, legislative, judicial, state and local) of South Sudan. Development Alternatives Incorporated 40 hrs+/week - May 2011 – August 2012 Washington, DC & Lilongwe, Malawi

Parliamentary Assessment Consultant and Proposal Analyst Lead assessor in Malawi and Washington, DC evaluating and reporting on parliamentary development efforts, the political situation and institutional capacity of the legislature, civil society and international interests.

Advise and contribute on Afghanistan Parliamentary development proposal. United States Agency for International Development 40 hrs+/week - February 2009 – April 2011 Kabul, Afghanistan

Legislative Strengthening Specialist – Rule of Law Advisor Managed the USAID Mission’s programs that support Afghanistan’s National Assembly, through contracts and cooperative agreements. Ensuring that the design and implementation of all USAID democracy activities are fully coordinated with international organizations, donors and the Government of Afghanistan. Also served as the Mission’s technical expert on legislative strengthening, legislative-executive relations, legislative oversight and as USAID’s liaison with the Afghanistan National Assembly, and external bodies concerning Parliament, elections, rule of law and Afghan politics. Duties and responsibilities included planning and developing new programs/activities for Mission objectives to develop the Afghanistan National Assembly by determining work priorities; identifying and resolving program issues; assuring activities are technically-sound and cost-effective; supervising Afghan staffs’ program management and supervising their performance. Preparing evaluations, assessments and/or audits of the Mission’s democracy and governance activities. Serving as the primary USAID liaison to the National Assembly. Maintaining close contact, providing technical advice and engaging in policy dialogue with staff and senior representatives of the Government of Afghanistan, the National Assembly, the U.S. Embassy Political Section, the U.S. Congress, Afghan NGOs, local and international media, Afghan political parties, development institutes, the UNDP and other foreign donors. Coordinate donors and diplomatic missions’ parliamentary assistance efforts. Additional to the above duties, managed the Anti- Corruption and Rule of Law portfolios for the mission, serving on various working groups and deputies committees pertaining to these and the elections programs. Working with the Sub-National Governance specialist providing technical support to provincial, municipal, district councils. Served as the Control Officer for visits by U.S. Congressional delegations and other high-level officials visiting Afghanistan. Assigned as Deputy Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs to manage and align multi-billion-dollar United States government development efforts, budgets and shared objectives amongst numerous agencies, including gender, anti-corruption, human rights and senior government relations. Checchi and Company Consulting Group

Kabul, Afghanistan 40 hrs+/week - November 2008 – January 2009 Team Leader, Local Government – Community Development Program assessment Lead assessor of the extensive, national program’s current projects implemented by numerous local organizations, stakeholders’ capacity, needs for future development and environment for implementation; responsible for team management, to deliver comprehensive assessment report for the donor to guide future programming, also to oversee logistics and support staff. Academy for Educational Development

Washington, DC 20 hrs/week - July – August 2008

Annual Program Solicitation, South Sudan, Concept Paper Author Headed the team researching, writing and editing the Academy’s response to USAID’s Annual Program Solicitation for South Sudan. Utilizing first-hand experience in South Sudan to develop and write the concept for a multi-faceted program to provide local-service delivery that includes civil society, business and government, considering political, social and gender influences on the program. Checchi and Company Consulting Group

Kabul, Afghanistan 40 hrs+/week - May – July 2008

Team Leader, Political Party Development Program Assessment Lead evaluator of the multi-faceted program run by multiple implementers engaged with numerous stakeholders (civil society, media, parliament), assessing the program capacity, accomplishments, future development needs and the environment to implement the programs; delivering a comprehensive report for the donor to guide future programming. The position included managing logistics and support staff.

International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) Washington, DC & Nairobi, Kenya 40 hrs+/week - March 2005 – March 2008 Development Director and Senior Program Officer for Southern & Eastern Africa Managed programs for elections, anti-corruption, civil society, local / provincial & national governance and institutional development, including program monitoring, evaluation and reporting in anglophone, lusophone and francophone Africa. Administered program budgets, contracts and grants valued several million dollars, involving foreign banking and regulation. Provided evaluation of programs, political developments and pertinent events to executives, missions/donors and partners while determining potential risks, difficulties and opportunities. Pursued and developed new elections, anti-corruption, parliamentary, governance and civil society programs throughout Africa; researched and drafted proposals for on-going and new programs; (re)introduced organization’s brand and expertise to new, current and former partners and donors; represented the organization in written and broadcast media; authored and gave presentations at conferences & meetings on various development and political topics.

Concurrently to the above responsibilities, I developed, managed, implemented and reported the programmatic, administrative and financial aspects of the various development programs in Southern and Eastern Africa. I drafted program proposals and pursued resources. In DC, I managed program staff at headquarters and the field; informed IFES Executive and donors on all aspects of the programs and events. Specific programs included: elections/governance assistance in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Angola and with the African Union; parliamentary assistance, media and anti-corruption projects in Malawi and South Africa; analysis of electoral preparedness / legislation and civil society in Sudan; local governance in Djibouti, and election observations in numerous African countries. IFES

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan 40 hrs+/week - June 2003 – March 2005 Almaty, Kazakhstan 40 hrs+ / week - January 2001 – February 2003 Chief of Party / Regional Program Coördinator

Administered numerous civic education and political party development programs, managing numerous, multi-lingual staff in several cities, + US$ millions budget, media, government and business relations. Coordinated IFES’ Central Asia Region contact with USAID and program development. Continued developing partner NGOs’, Ministries’ and education departments’ relations and scope of work. Coordinated the management of IFES’ Central Asia programs and led efforts to extend and expand programs in the region, while continuing CoP duties position as defined below. Developed and introduced a revolutionary civic education curriculum in post-Soviet Kazakhstan; edited program textbook, including translation, printing and distribution. Introduced and administered student tournaments and camps throughout Kazakhstan including all programmatic and financial facets. Registered organization, managed program and support staff; responsible for multi-million-dollar budgets, media relations, reporting, government relations, business involvement and reporting to donor agency; liaised with USAID, partner NGOs, Ministries and education departments.

International City/County Management Association

Central Asia 40 hrs+/week - March – May 2003

Lead Technical Consultant

Conducted regional research into local government development capacity and potential in Central Asia, ascertained needs for the same, developing partnerships with international and indigenous organizations and produced proposal for an Indefinite Quotient Contract / Request for Proposals from the United States Agency for International Development. Independent Political Consulting

London, England & Washington, DC 30 hrs/week - August 1999 – January 2001 Principle

Created trans-Atlantic relations for burgeoning Internet consulting businesses; advised and assisted businesses, development institutions and civic education organizations with projects, conferences, media, political campaigns and information technology. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs Lilongwe, Malawi 40 hrs+/week - November 1996 – August 1999 Parliamentary Programme Officer

Implemented a thorough program for the Malawi Parliament, delivering responsive, independent oversight Committees, a more professional Clerk’s Office, a functional legislative library and better constituency outreach capacity for individual members. Ancillary program accomplishments introduced gender awareness and assistance for civil society, political parties, non-governmental organizations, student groups and news media. Participated in elections, oversight, budgeting, constituency outreach and parliamentary development projects throughout Southern Africa incorporating governmental relations, staff coordination and multi- cultural communications. Coordinated donor assistance for Parliament.

GOVERNANCE

United States Senate Democratic Policy Committee

Washington, DC 40 hrs+/week - February 1991 – November 1996 Executive Assistant to the US Senate Leader's Floor Staff Aided the Leader with legislation; maintained notification of Senators' interest in legislation and helped apprise staff of its impending consideration; worked with Senators' and Committees’ staff on deliberation, legislative procedure and amendments; helped facilitate compromise of problems; policy research, legislative history, votes and "Congressional Record" statements; managed Legislative Directors issues meetings and briefings; received and answered external enquiries. 25 hrs+/week - July 1989 – February 1991

Press Assistant to Senate Majority Leader

Provided the morning news brief and summaries; monitored news broadcasts; handled press inquiries; assisted in office functions and supported of the Majority Leader's staff. POLITICAL, CAMPAIGN AND ELECTORAL

2012 Obama Re-Election Campaign, GOTV phone-bank captain, Richmond, VA 2008 Obama for President, National Campaign Foreign Policy Working Group & NOVA Precinct Captain

2007 Kenyan Presidential & Parliamentary Elections, Nairobi, Kenya 2005 Kenya Constitutional Referendum, Nairobi, Kenya 2005 Ugandan Political System National Referendum, IDP Camps, Gulu, Uganda 2004 Mozambique, Presidential – Parliamentary National Elections, Gaza District, Mozambique 2003 Kyrgyzstan Local Government Elections, Khojand, Kyrgyzstan 2001 Robert Atkinson Campaign, Kensington – Chelsea Parliamentary by-election, London, UK 1999 Malawi Presidential – Parliamentary National Elections, Lilongwe – Dedza – Salima, Malawi 1988, 1992, 2000 presidential campaigns and staff at national party conventions MEDIA

Freelance journalism, online content provider for AlterNet.com Press Liaison, Centre for the Policy Alternatives/Smith Institute Conference on Women in the New Economy, #11 Downing Street, London, England

National Journalism Center, Washington, DC

Red & Black, independent student newspaper & 90.5 WUOG FM, University of Georgia, 1989 & 1990 Associated Press Awards for Radio Broadcast Excellence in Public Affairs RETAIL & SERVICE

Washington Nationals MLB, Washington DC 2019

Shinola, Washington, DC 2018 - 2019

Reunions, Antiques and Gift, Shirlington, VA 1989 - 1996 Abercrombie & Fitch, Pentagon City, Arlington, VA 1989 - 1991 George Gibson’s Menswear, Athens GA 1985 - 1989

Cherokee Town & Country Club, Dunwoody, GA 1982 - 1987 EDUCATION

Graduate studies: Emerging African Markets, Fordham University, New York City 2011 Constitutional Law and Russian, Washington, DC 1994- 1996 Bachelor's degree, University of Georgia, Athens Georgia, Political Science and Journalism, 1989 REFERENCES

Margie Cook, Team Leader / Project Manager, DAI Kenya, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com Earl Gast, Senior International Advisor for Africa, Covington & Burling LLP, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com E. Anthony Wayne, Ambassador (ret), Woodrow Wilson Center scholar, Tanel Sepp, Estonian Senior Foreign Service, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com Peter Wiebler, Mission Director– USAID, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com Chris Krafchak, RLA - USAID, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com

Chris Hennemeyer, 301-***-****, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com Brett O’Brien, the Glover Park Group: 202-***-****, admpa6@r.postjobfree.com Writing samples, program details and salary history available on request

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