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SANDRA KELLER

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OVERVIEW & KEY SKILLS: Experienced multilingual program manager and communications expert with an MBA from a top-tier program offers years of comprehensive experience managing projects throughout Latin America, South Asia and Africa.

Led operations and executed multi-million-dollar government financed projects & programs Designed and provided tailored business solutions for high-profile, international clients Created communications plans & developed content for global accounts EXPERIENCE

Management Consulting, Finance & Performance (F&P), Deloitte, Los Angeles, CA, 2022 – Present

• Hone-in on key clients’ business challenges, working to understand and assess their needs while using validating analysis to develop recommendations for tackling their respective business obstacles. Clients hail from the Pharmaceutical, IT/Technology, Hospitality, Services, Financial and Banking sectors.

• Support F&P projects and pursuits by researching and developing appropriate materials that articulated the strategy, problem-solving design and implementation approach for select Global Business Services clients.

• Lead communications & activities for integral Deloitte Initiatives (Lights Out Finance, Smart Factory, Hlx) leading communications and ideas for increasing engagement, inclusive of developing process solutions and work products.

• Strategize with Deloitte’s Communications Team on best avenues to capture, report and engage internal audience on trending Sustainability business avenues, pursuits, and topics, while coordinating with other Deloitte practice teams on formulating dedicated activities that highlight Deloitte’s Sustainability best practices. Principal, Ecometrix, Los Angeles 2021-2022

• Created a data-driven application designed to capture, process & evaluate a user’s eco behaviors and habits that would translate to an ‘eco-metric’ for each unique user that could also be tracked and used as an educational tool.

• Built key partnerships, studied evolving facets of mobile technology applications and worked to realize the product. Program Manager, The Global Infrastructure Initiative (GII), McKinsey & Company, Los Angeles, CA, 2021

• Performed research on prevalent challenges in infrastructure while simultaneously seeking out the world’s most senior leaders and experts for capturing their specialized insights for internal & external McK GII publications.

• Co-created cutting-edge GII content for a global audience, designed agendas and regional roundtable discussion points for select C-suite and McKinsey leadership participants for arriving at possible solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges in infrastructure, synthesizing resulting findings in various mediums on multiple platforms.

• Developed thematic content for upcoming GII global events and activities, tailored messaging for different mediums and channels, collaborated with McKinsey’s Communications Team for gaining optimal alignment with other internal initiatives for disseminating updates on GII’s upcoming hosted events and publications. World Bank Group (WBG) 2015 - 2020; International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington, DC, 2020

- Senior Consultant, Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) 2020

• Evaluated the IFC’s and the World Bank’s Global Value Chain (GVC)-financed projects to inform the all-encompassing WBG World Development annual report which provided an analysis of completed GVC projects to inform better practices for future Global Value Chain investment projects.

• Provided recommendations on which indices to include when arriving at an overall assessment of both private (IFC) companies and government operated (WBG) GVC projects.

- Senior Consultant, Multi-Tier Framework (MTF) under the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), 2015 - 2020

• Provided on-site and select in-country programmatic support to the MTF – an initiative designed to capture and statistically analyze countrywide level of energy access for its 17 program countries in South America, Africa and Asia.

• Operated as the WBG MTF’s communications point-person for in-house and external reporting on program activities while providing guidance to technical teams to realize MTF’s data-driven website that launched in early 2020.

• Wrote, edited and designed content including animated storyboards that conveyed the complexity of the MTF initiative to a global audience; drafted speeches and talking points that were used at widely attended international conferences.

• Engaged with country governments in support of World Bank MTF activities, which included: evaluation and hiring of firms to execute on-the-ground ESMAP-MTF activities in its 17 energy-deficit-country programs.

• Co-authored a Policy Brief that advised governments on ways to incorporate initiatives for improving their grid access.

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Senior Program Manager, Partners for Development (PFD), Silver Spring, MD, 2014 - 2015

• Served as key manager for PFD programs. Collaborated with field staff to submit external reports and assessments.

• Developed manuals and annual operating plans and budgets; created content for the PDF website for all platforms.

• Provided operational solutions for HQ and field offices, that ranged from managing supply chains to adopting frameworks to support more efficiently run programs, and to ensure that field programs met targeted goals. Consultant, Office of Evaluation and Oversight (OVE), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC, 2013

• Performed an audit of IDB OVE’s Second Independent Evaluation of Japanese Trust Funds’ “internal projects” in Latin American and Caribbean countries from 2006 through 2012.

• Managed data collection and analysis, research, explorative interviews, thematic categorizations and strengths/ weaknesses identification in order to write and then submit this critical segment of the report.

• Analyzed underlying reasons for program weaknesses and made recommendations for future improvements. Project Manager (MBA Internship), KPO Lab, Paris, France, 2012-2013

• In French and English, revised all communication, content and marketing plans for KPO Lab’s four venture capital projects, including a fashion line, mobile app, translation service, and B2B and B2C security technology services.

• Created accounts, marketing materials and scripted videos on crowdsourcing sites for KPO Lab projects and products.

• Studied U.S. and French markets for best entry and funding opportunities; also approached prospective investors. Program Officer, Horn and East Africa (HEA), International Rescue Committee (IRC), New York, NY, 2011-2012

• Managed programs and program activities communications in a fast-paced environment, for seven IRC Horn and East Africa (HEA) countries: South Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

• Developed multimillion-dollar contracts, budgets, grants, and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for all U.S., World Bank, Stichting Vluchteling, OFD, DFID, ECHO, USAID and United Nations-sourced (UNHCR, UNICEF) donor grants.

• Supported operations to ensure compliance with international and US regulatory requirements while providing emergency stopgap in-country support for IRC’s South Sudan and Kenya field offices and emergency relief programs.

• Liaised with European Affiliates, Technical, Development, and Business Development Units for funding HEA initiatives. Program Manager, Sustainable Immunization Financing (SIF), Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington, DC, 2010 - 2011

• Managed programs in 15 pilot countries (12 African, 3 Asian); organized regional and international meetings that brought together members of ministries of health & finance and parliamentarians for discourses on SIF.

• Carried out strategic planning and budget implementation, and produced internal and external reports on activities, for this Washington DC operations-based, $9M Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded, 6-year program.

• Organized SIF’s first international colloquium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that coincided with the program’s first evaluation to assess its impact. Its success resulted in continued funding by BMGF for another 5 years. Business Development Specialist/Proposal Manager, CAMRIS International, Bethesda, MD 2009 - 2010

• Cultivated business relationships; researched, identified, and monitored prime projects that matched each of CAMRIS’ division capabilities. Created and executed work plans to meet the needs of changing project requirements.

• Oversaw multiple government contracts, including: $5M USSTRATCOM, $20M OMNIBUS II Department of Defense

(DOD), USAID, VA $9M; and $20M USDHHS-CIMS Program (IDIQ contract). Lead Consultant, Coxswain Social Investment Plus (CSI+), Washington DC, 2008

• Developed web, marketing, conference and fundraising content/materials dedicated to raising awareness of World Health Organization’s Africa Regional Office (WHO/AFRO) inoculation programs and immunization strategies while also identifying important partnerships to achieve WHO funding goals.

• Overhauled materials on health programs, disease burden, targeted diseases, health topics and partnerships that resulted in updated data for WHO/AFRO operations that were featured on multiple media platforms. EDUCATION: International Master of Business Administration, I.E. Business School, Madrid, Spain Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Studies and Film, The New School, NY, New York, USA.\. PUBLICATIONS: World Bank Publications ‘Beyond Connections: Energy Access Diagnostic Report Based on the Multi-Tier Framework’ 2018-2019, for countries Rwanda, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Myanmar. OTHER EXPERTISE & NOTABLES: ACT, AVID, DAMS, LexisNexis, Asana, Slack, Microsoft Office Suite, & OAS experience. Co-wrote and produced a short film for the Sundance Film Channel; filmed the Nepal segment of the #loveisproject for the Seeker Network – a digital subsidiary of the Discovery Channel. Fluent in French and Spanish. U.S. Citizen.

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