Lauren Jencik

·        Processed the closeout and payments of terminated grants and contracts with non-profit and UN organizations totaling over $120 million, ensuring alignment with federal regulations and timely reimbursement of USAID-funded entities.

·        Designed and implemented FY 2024 and FY2025 budget planning strategies supporting more effective resource allocation, management, and financial oversight of international assistance programs totaling over $100 million.

·        Supported USAID-led Gaza and Afghanistan humanitarian response teams. Authored key messaging and talking points for senior U.S. Government officials to advocate for humanitarian priorities; developed donor engagement strategies; and represented USAID at multiple forums with donors, UN organizations, and non-profits and other actors operating in the humanitarian sector.

·        Led a cross functional team to develop inputs for annual reports, mandated by Congress, OMB, and the White House, analyzing USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance’s progress and results on qualitative and quantitative key performance indicators.

·        Conducted a comprehensive gap analysis for a federal agency’s professional development framework via stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and market research culminating in the design and launch of a leadership development pilot program for senior agency personnel.

·        Organized executive-level events for Deloitte and represented Deloitte at a national industry event, contributing to business development for a practice area and brand visibility efforts.

·        Increased a federal client’s vendor performance management process by integrating industry best practices and standards, increasing collaboration among stakeholders, and eliminating inefficiencies in process documentation.

·        Managed a non-profit and UN agency program portfolio totaling over $100 million across multiple countries in Southeast Asia and Latin America which included tracking program budgets, monitoring grant recipients for compliance with USAID and broader US Government policies, and risk monitoring.

·        Developed annual portfolio strategies and budget requests and provided regular written and oral presentations and briefings on humanitarian issues within portfolio to USAID leadership.

·        Regularly coordinated information flows on humanitarian and other geopolitical issues within portfolio with the State Department and USAID’s regional bureaus, including during Myanmar’s political and humanitarian crisis in 2021.

·        Developed an office-wide staffing and hiring strategy resulting in improvements to HR processes including talent acquisition and staff development.

·        Led and coordinated the DC responses to the Vietnam floods disaster declaration and the Australia wildfires disaster declaration in 2020.

·        Led a State Department-funded capacity development program to reform the Liberia National Police’s strategic communications office by conducting a SWOT analysis, hosting a workshop, and advising the client resulting in the launch a new communications strategy.

·        Wrote proposals that secured over $20 million in State Department funding to lead training and capacity strengthening programs for multiple countries’ public safety and law enforcement agencies.

·        Led monthly assessments of disaster risk reduction activities for a USAID-funded program to build resilience to climate-related shocks in southern Malawi.

·        Improved a data collection tool to better measure communities’ vulnerabilities to climate shocks; trained Malawi-based staff to use new tool and shared with headquarters staff.

·        Drafted a proposal for a $1 million USAID-funded emergency response program addressing Malawi’s unprecedented drought, awarded in July 2016.

·        Provided strategy and operations and change management support to a federal health agency to improve its regulatory review process to ensure generic drugs were ready for the market.

·        Prepared key materials, including key personnel as well as organizational capacity statements for proposals with various government and public sector clients.