Belen Mesfin

Background

About Belen Mesfin

Strong analytical, conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and technical skills. Expertise in leadership development, change management, program implementation, training, and evaluation. Experience working in government and non-governmental organizations (NGO). Reputation for developing teams, writing winning proposals for federal contracts, and improving overall efficiency of operations. Key Accomplishments: • “Go-to” person for high-profile and complex projects; employs waterfall and agile project management methodologies. • Analyzed data and produce statistical reports on over applicants since 2016-20 program cycle. • Managed $10 million dollar contract for major federal fellowship program (over applicants per year). • Oversaw hardware and software improvements for transcript scanning processes, reducing need for reprocessing by 60% in one year. • Promptly provided statistical information, score data, and other requested information during selection of 100 additional fellowship awardees. • Sent notifications to fellowship applicants and ensured bounced awardees and honorable mentions received manually re-sent notifications. • Worked with IT to develop a manual work-around that allowed the appropriate algorithm constraints for awardees. • Wrote technical proposals resulting in successful bids on 2 federal contracts worth $35 million. • Developed procedures based on lessons learned upon completion of each project to bring about continuous improvements in processes.