Daniela Durnea

Background

About Daniela Durnea

Passionate and driven professional with extensive experience in recruitment, communication, and project management in the international development sector. Documented success in delivering project activities ensuring that outlined plans are effectively executed in a timely and efficient manner. Valuable track record of developing and sustaining relationships with the community, initiating and maintaining strategic partnerships with international organizations, including private, NGOs and international donors, EU, ETF, USAID, etc. An accomplished communicator with strong people management skills having worked with people from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds and informal settlements settings always showing sensitivity for gender and respect for diversity. Core Skills and Qualifications: • Proven record of excellent management, strong administrative and organizational skills, strategic thinking and decision-making, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; • A self-driven individual with international experience in the recruitment of experts for various sectors, including child protection, education, social inclusion, GBV, finance, health, environment, WASH, conflict prevention, etc; • Well-versed in recruitment for EU, ETF, and USAID donor-funded projects, with great project management skills, the ability to foster good working relationships and building partnerships with clients and experts from the NGO, private and public sectors all over the globe; • Demonstrated ability to manage the full cycle of the recruiting process to meet various staffing goals: sourcing (database, LinkedIn), screening, interviewing, and negotiation; • Remarkable negotiation and communication skills with great success in recruiting the best professionals for programs and positions in the international development sector. Worked on more than 40 projects and programmes in the international development sector; • Experienced in the preparation of the project’s report, data collection and introduction of data in the internal database; • Great computer skills, with experience using Microsoft Office, internet browsers, e-mail, internal and external databases, etc; • Fluent in English and Romanian, intermediate level of Russian and beginner in French and Spanish.