Frederic Sanchez

Oversee implementation of dynamic and innovative international cooperation programming advancing gender equality and rights of women and girls in collaboration with local partners in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Senegal, Eswatini, Tanzania and Togo.

• Manage team of program officers in Montreal and Toronto to ensure effective design, development, implementation monitoring and evaluation of robust volunteer cooperation program as well as other complementary projects.
• Responsible for program implementation, day-to-day management of program operations and quality improvement
• Oversee growing portfolio of projects and ensure outstanding grant management with support from finance department.

Achievements:

• Reviewed and adapted Crossroads’ partnership agreement with its partner organizations in Africa to improve program monitoring and compliance. Successfully signed 47 agreements during first year, exceeding target.
• Designed and developed tools and processes operational guideline (such as grant management guideline, standard project management process etc.) for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of new Volunteer Cooperation Program cycle 2020-2027.

Improve accountability of Action Against Hunger and partners towards GBV and gender equality through Management of three technical nutrition/GBV project in East Africa, West Africa and South Asia to generate evidence and learning for nutrition sector.

• Global project management and coordination, ensuring close collaboration with Action Against Hunger international and three pilot countries, national partners and other international project stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met.
• Representation and communication of project with donor, all project stakeholders and public.
  Management of international project team.
• Oversee quality, compliance and administration of project according to organizational and donor guidelines and regulations.

Achievements:

• Successfully conducted gender analysis in 3 countries of intervention to help revision and adaptation of standards and policies.
• Implemented Gender minimum standards: Supported implementation in 57 Action Against Hunger’ offices to improve employees understanding about gender and GBV and improve quality of service delivery by integrating gender lens in organization’ standards, policies and tools.
• Build capacity on gender, GBV and nutrition: Implemented successfully 38 trainings building capacity of 1160 people from 133 different organizations from 23 different countries.

Managed programs, staff and facility at Etobicoke branch of Polycultural (one of four operational offices)

• Program management and leadership: budget stewardship; adapt programs to meet changing needs; measure and evaluate outcomes and delivery of services. Supervise and coach 24 employees; conduct performance evaluations; work with team to set goals, designating and revising expectations where necessary to make goals achievable.
• Business development, reporting and proposal writing: complete monitoring reports for 5 different funders; develop new projects/programs and adapt existing ones.
• Promotion and network development: maintain consistent presence in working groups organized by partners sharing related programs; network with partners to promote programs, share ideas and strengthen partnerships.
• Facility management: manage building facility; liaise with city of Toronto to ensure that building meets all required regulations’; monitor physical structure of building.

Achievements:

• Short-term mental health counselling program: Developed and implemented new service for children, youth, and adults.
• Transition to employment program: Developed and implemented new service to support individuals, including internationally trained professionals’ and trades people in finding their pathways to employment in Canada.
• After discharge project: Developed and implemented new service to support seniors and marginalized groups after their discharge from hospital. Working as partnership model between hospital and community agency to provides continued support and promote independence and well-being of participants through connection to local community resources for physical, mental, emotional and social well-being.
• Youth Job Connection: Implemented this new program with Employment Ontario to support young people to learn about jobs and gain work experience. Program addresses gap in youth employment programming for young people who are in neither education, employment nor training.
• Facility management: Negotiated rent of another office facility and moved program's activities to temporary location until renovations’ completion.

Manage and develop portfolio of projects in context of emergencies, ensuring effective implementation of quality programming in developing countries.

• People Leadership: manages work distribution across team and assists team members to balance competing priorities. Monitors work progress and provide regular feedback to team members. Supervises, supports, coaches, mentors and develops team to attain personal and professional goals.
• Program development: ensures new growth opportunities as part of project development. Ensures positive relationship with donors and partners.
• Program Management: ensures timely and quality reporting to donors. Works with Grants Accountants to review and oversee relevant budgets, and helps prepare financial reports for donors. Helps formulate, review and revise country/ regional plans, as well as organizational/ programmatic strategies and plans.

Directed development, implementation and on-going support of large-scale international aid programs with annual operating budget of $36M CAD; Coordinated with Operation Manager to advise and supervise Country Program Directors in Haiti, Colombia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Republic of Congo / Papua New Guinea / Republic of Russia on variety of planned initiatives and sudden emergencies.

• Co-responsible with international management teams for advanced program development (construction and management of hospitals, mass vaccination and cholera interventions, sexual violence programs) within specific portfolio of countries, in preparation of anticipated crises and in line with organization’s strategic plan
• Raised visibility and credibility and encouraged donations by assuming role of spokesperson, as appropriate, during emergency relief interventions.
• Played key role in development of annual budget for worldwide initiatives for ten-fifteen programs in portfolio of countries; co-presented to management team and board; tracked and made quarterly revisions as needed; worked closely with institutional donors and governments to maintain or increase contributions as required
• Supported Fundraising Director through presentation of organization’s work to high profile private donors
• Provided support and advice in resolution of variety of staff issues (medical evacuation, conflict resolution’s
• Risk management: Analyzed field conditions to revise specific security guidelines and minimize risks to staff and patients

Achievements:

• Haiti, emergency cholera response: 160.000 people treated in 12 months, or 35% of total of patients infected by disease. Government and international community officially congratulated organization.
• Papua New Guinea: Opening of clinic treating survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. In 3 years, clinic became center of excellence recognized by government and United Nation and trained government staff before initiating similar activities to replicate model in other provinces.
• Nigeria, Lead poisoning response, first one done ever for this large scale of contaminated population: More than 1000 kids treated in 12 months. Succeeded in reducing mortality from 43% to less than 1%. Established model of care that can be replicated by other actors in collaboration with international research and CDC (Center for Disease control).
• Budget revision 2010: Following global deficit in operation department, reduction of 2 M CAD of total budget of 15 projects running in 5 countries without reducing strategic ambitions and quality of care.
• Haiti: Post earthquake, reconstruction from scratch of Emergency Obstetric Care Hospital with 120 beds performing average of 1000 deliveries per month with 300 c-sections. Managed overall construction Budget of 2 million CAD; Government and international community officially congratulated this unique facility for its performance.

Amman, Jordan (Iraq Program)

October – November 2006

Managed 40 staff providing reconstructive surgery for Iraqi patients wounded and/or severely burned during the war.

• Negotiated with Iraqi and Jordanian government to facilitate the transfer of patients to Amman
• Carried out networking development with the United Nations, international and national organization to stay up to date on critical issues and to minimize security risks

Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

April 2004 – July 2005

Managed 400 staff providing mobile clinics, medical and psychological care for rape survivors, building, and administration of 60-bed surgical hospital.

• Constantly analyzed geopolitics and security context to minimize risks to staff and patients
• Organized the closure of programs and departure of the organization

Achievement:

• Negotiated with employees committee under labors legislation and MSF internal standards and policies, benefit and professional reinsertion plan for 350 employees without strike or violence’s.

Kampala – Uganda / Dungu, Bunia - Democratic Republic of Congo

August 2002 – August 2003

Managed 60 staff providing medical support to a 50-bed hospital, operational research (Malaria, Kala-Azar and Tuberculosis) support to Dungu district hospital and needs assessment in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Constantly analyzed geopolitics and security context to minimize risks to staff and patients
• Conducted needs assessment in different conflict areas (north of Uganda and east of (DRC) that resulted in new programs development
• Managed a vaccination campaign targeting 160,000 people during a Meningitis epidemic.

Achievement:

• Negotiated successfully with Uganda Ministry of Health to initiate a pilot project to test different Malaria treatment protocols in collaboration with Epicentre (Epidemiology Centre in Paris). The government used the results at the annual international conference on Malaria, to support the decision to change the national treatment protocols.

Shimkent, Almaty, Kazakhstan

March – September 2001

Management of 30 staff providing Tuberculosis care in partnership with World Health Organisation.

• Hired specifically to resolve a serious conflict of Human Resources and reorganize the program and mission structure.
• Network development with the Ministry of Health to improve impact/efficacy of Tuberculosis treatment

Project Management Foundations course

• Humanitarian Interventions and Developing Actions

• Training certificate

• Technical Sales
• Electricity and Electronic