Randy Willard

Background

About Randy Willard

Significant experience in international development with abundant success in project management in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Technical expertise in financial management, reporting, systems design, compliance training, coaching and mentoring. Experienced Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party, and Project Director on USAID funded contracts and cooperative agreements. Long-term experience in high security risk environments. Professional Certification in Management Accounting (CMA). Long-term management experience on projects ranging from $15M to $500M in funding. Prior experience working with refugees, emergency settings, and disadvantaged groups. Financial Expert, Operations, and Grants and Contracts Management: International development financial management experience on donor funded projects including accounting software conversions, financial systems set-up, elaboration of compliant and efficient policies and procedures, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, variance/burn-rate analysis, and oversight of external audits. Design and implementation of international sub-grants and sub-contracts programs with large and small organizations/companies with documented success in compliant use of funding, timely reporting, and impact. Designed/implemented complete grants programs for international organizations in numerous countries. Examples include Johns Hopkins University ($560M international health/worldwide, Haiti), RTI International (Madagascar), Tetra Tech (marine plastics pollution reduction/SE Asia and Caribbean), AMIDEAST (Beirut, Lebanon), Chemonics (Warsaw, Poland), World Learning (Africa/worldwide), USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (Afghanistan), World Bank/SDF (Bucharest, Romania), IRC/International Rescue Committee (Sudan/Ethiopia). Project Management, Operations, Administration, Logistics, and Mentoring and Capacity Building Expertise: Save the Children, Egypt/USAID’s NGO Service Center designed and implemented tools to assess and build capacity of NGOs. In Uganda success in training led to trainees’ employment in the banking and private sector. In Madagascar led team in intensive customized coaching and capacity building services with awardees. In Sudan, famine relief/public health services with the International Rescue Committee. Develop and oversee admin and operational functions including procurement, HR, Info Tech, M&E and Learning, logistics, inventory systems, vehicle fleet management, safety and security. Former Department of State Top Secret Security Clearance.