Hannah Swan

• Relator
• Strategic
• Arranger
• Developer
• Maximiser
• Positivity
• Futuristic
• Connectedness
• Responsibility
• Communication

• Programme Manager, Cities and Infrastructure for Growth, FCDO, Myanmar, June 2019 - June 2021, This large and complex £20m programme required a significant management overhaul when I joined the team. I worked to embed strong financial, reporting, and monitoring management with streamlined processes and led to a dynamic programme delivering strong technical solutions. Within my role I worked with our cross-cutting leads to embed good gender principles into delivery, embedded whistle-blowing and safeguarding principles across this large and diverse team.
• Senior Programme Manager, Cities and Infrastructure for Growth, DFID, Zambia, Dec 2018 - April 2019, Provided temporary senior programme management support ensuring processes and systems are efficient and effective, and supportive of the programme strategy and delivering impact. I had an active and hand’s on approach with team management, particularly in embedding the M&E and Gender and Inclusion leads inputs across the team.
• Principal Consultant, International Development Team, AECOM, UK, Jan 2018 - May 2019, At AECOM I bid managed a £22.8m DFID off-grid renewable energy programme in Mozambique (involving partner, risk and legal management, and budget development), and led on the corporate compliance to FCDO’s supplier code of conduct which included designing and embedding approaches to safeguarding and ethical behaviour. I also supported the start-up of the DFID-funded Cities and Infrastructure for Growth programme in Zambia (CIGZ) and was the Senior Programme Manager for 6 months.
• Project Coordinator & Researcher, Mid-term review of the National Development Plan 2011/15, National Planning Authority, Uganda, Mar - July 2013, A thorough thematic assessment of progress against targets, analysis on setbacks and successes, recommendations for the remainder of the period, and recommendations for the design of the next Development Plan at the institutional, implementation and policy level. I facilitated group discussions and conducted 1:1 informal interviews to better understand the Local Government’s capacity in Gulu and Amolatar, and successes and frustrations with the implementation of the NDP. Based on the field research and further investigation I developed international comparison case studies, analysing National Plans in 6 other developing countries. I also supported the Team Leader in managing a very challenging client relationship and led on all programme management. Contract value £1m.
• Project coordinator/in-country Project Manager, Establishing a HIV/AIDS Knowledge Management and Communication Capacity building initiative, DFID Uganda, Uganda, Dec 2011 - July 2013, The KMCC was a multi-disciplinary hub that collated, synthesised and communicated reliable research to inform evidence-based policy and practice and increase public knowledge of infection and treatment. I was the in-country project manager and led the programme set-up, financial forecasting, and team management. I also managed the initiative’s capacity building programme whereby interns were seconded from other institutions to develop their knowledge of how to ‘manage knowledge’, rate the quality of research, and use it to develop evidence-based policies and papers.
• Conference organiser, Improving the impact of development research, AusAID/UKCDC/DFID, UK, Nov - Dec 2010, Led the organisation of a 2-day research communication conference bringing together funders of development research, researchers and practitioners to develop a common understanding of the landscape of research communication; encourage collaboration; and to share innovative thinking on effective ways to get research into use. I owned and managed a £100k budget on behalf of DFID and led on all planning and organisation of the conference.
• Project coordination, Strategic Partnerships to Support Civil Service Reform, DFID Ethiopia, Ethiopia, 2009 - 2012, The assignment involves strategic partnerships with the UK’s National Audit Office and HM revenue and Customs, and their equivalent counterparts in Ethiopia. I supported the partnerships between UK and Ethiopian counterparts (HMRC, NAO, and NSG), in-country visit plans and reports; facilitated a strategy workshop in Addis Ababa; and developed financial monitoring systems to manage the £5m fund.

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