Jan Schollaert

Background

About Jan Schollaert

Successful Country Representative of large development organizations. Proven program, finance, and administrative skills. Strategic planning, operations management, marketing and public relations. Efficient, analytical, and creative strategic thinker with sound cross-cultural, interpersonal, networking and strategic alliance skills. Multilingual executive manager with development management experience in governmental and multilateral agencies, international and local NGOs, in Central and South America, Asia, West and East Africa in all development and relief program sectors. Effectively managed programs and organizational change in politically sensitive and conflictive contexts. Successful contract management with financing from more than 40 public and private development organizations: a.o. UN, WFP, UNHCR, EU, Development Cooperation Agencies of the Governments of Australia, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, USA, Japan, Austria, Germany, Luxemburg, Norway, France, Switzerland, Korea, and private foundations. Most programs were financed through competitive financing processes. Experienced and accredited partnership broker with government, civil society, and private sector. Excellent negotiator. Well-rounded human resource management and staff development experience with diverse multicultural and multisector workforces (20 to 2,100 employees). Flexible, energetic team worker.