Heather Joffe

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About Heather Joffe

Mission-driven manager with 20 years of experience implementing grants, contracts, and projects to stimulate private investment and scale solutions in economic growth, digital development, agriculture, and access to finance, with a focus on empowering youth and women. Writes winning proposals for donor funding, including the $27 million Colombia Rural Finance Initiative, which Ms. Joffe managed for 6 years. The Initiative stimulated more than $1 billion in commercial loans for 1 million rural Colombians - half of them women - exceeding goals. Expertise in grants and contracts management, compliance, risk management, negotiations, project design, partnerships, strategic planning, operations, finance, personnel, and monitoring. Expertise in federal regulations (FAR, CFR Uniform Guidance) and award mechanisms (CPFF, T&M, IDIQ, task orders, cooperative agreements). Manages and builds capacity of multidisciplinary, cross-cultural teams to deliver results, in the U.S. and Latin America. Bilingual in Spanish and English.