Shinyoung Kim
KOICA Project Manager
Kisumu,Kenya
Summary
Dynamic KOICA Project Manager with a proven track record, adept in project planning, development, and cross-cultural coordination. Excelled in stakeholder engagement and quality assurance, showcasing exceptional teamwork, leadership, and communication skills. Achieved significant advancements in disability mainstreaming and gender mainstreaming, and advocacy of rights of children and women with disabilities.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
KOICA Project Manager
Miral Welfare Foundation Kenya
Kisumu, Kenya
03.2024 - Current
- Successfully oversee and manage KOICA Project (The Social Inclusion Project for Children With Disabilities in Nyando, Kisumu, Kenya) to achieve targets to 100%, by planning and implementing activities according to urgency, resource availability, risk assessment, and alignment with project goals
- Coordinate and lead both Kenya branch and team as acting country director with high quality and frequent communication
- Liaise with multiple stakeholders and donors, from local community to KOICA, by creating and working in strong partnerships with various government officials both from sub-county and county level, and with multiple working groups and committees
- Ensure to provide quality results of project by providing constant monitoring and evaluation, applying lessons learned, and incorporating feedbacks from stakeholders
- Supervise team members and mobilize resources with its best by providing mentoring, training, and evaluation
- Provide acute and accountable financial reporting both to donor agency and to local audit, by following highly ethical safeguarding and accountability regulations of organization
- Plan, design, and wrote project proposal to KOICA with good knowledge about project development and working with donor agency, by reporting, documenting, and applying best practices, lessons, and ideas in effective ways
- Advocate rights of girls with disabilities by incorporating disability and gender mainstreaming and community-based rehabilitation approaches into project, creating awareness in various levels, and actively engaging with humanitarian cases, GBV prevention and responses, and sexual and reproductive health of girls with disabilities
M&E Officer in Charge of Nepal Projects
Miral Welfare Foundation HQ
Seoul, South Korea
02.2022 - 03.2024
- Successfully oversaw KOICA project (The Vocational Rehabilitation Project for Persons With Disabilities in Kavre, Nepal, Phase 2) and special education project for children with disabilities to achieve 100% targets, through constant monitoring and evaluation, analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data of projects, and regular reporting both for finance and results of projects
- Evaluated projects and designed Phase 3 KOICA project by incorporating Human Rights Based Approach, Gender Analysis, and Social Inclusion Assessment into projects to reduce gender inequality gap of projects
- Ensured to consider intersectional elements of disability and gender in projects by incorporating gender-disaggregated data, gender-disaggregated feedback mechanism, and gender and disability mainstreaming approach in decision making process into projects
- Created and applied gender and disability mainstreaming strategies to empower persons with disabilities of projects, both locally and nationally, by enhancing their self-help groups, strengthening linkage among OPDs and CSOs in Nepal, and forming and managing task forces to promote disability inclusion in TVET policies
- Provided constant and quality capacity building to local team members and project managers, especially about social inclusion, and gender sensitivity, with high quality communication
- Worked in great harmony and partnerships with multiple stakeholders from various levels in Nepal, from local CSOs to government bodies, such as MoE and CTEVT
- Advocated rights of women and girls with disabilities in Nepal, by actively discovering good practices and reporting to various donors, including KOICA
- Provided insights to project to protect rights of persons with disabilities in all process, by introducing organizational safeguarding policy and PSEA policy
Participating Assistant Researcher
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea
03.2018 - 08.2019
- Gathered and organized information for research purposes, by conducting thorough literature reviews and various types of interviews with youths and caregivers, while participating in four different research projects
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to conduct comprehensive studies and generate valuable insights about welfare of children, youths, and family
- Applied ethical considerations throughout all stages of research process, safeguarding participant welfare and data integrity, in engagement with various children, youths, and families in vulnerable status
- Utilized various statistical packages to analyze both quantitative and qualitative data
Education
Master of Arts - Social Welfare
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea 03.2018 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Social Welfare
Ewha Womans University
Seoul, South Korea 03.2014 - 02.2018
Skills
Decision making
Presenting & Reporting
Budgeting and forecasting
Mediating
Cultural sensitivity
Analyzing
Partnerships/Networks
Certification
1St Grade Social Worker
Timeline
KOICA Project Manager
Miral Welfare Foundation Kenya
03.2024 - Current
M&E Officer in Charge of Nepal Projects
Miral Welfare Foundation HQ
02.2022 - 03.2024
1St Grade Social Worker
03-2020
Participating Assistant Researcher
Ewha Womans University
03.2018 - 08.2019
Master of Arts - Social Welfare
Ewha Womans University
03.2018 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Arts - Social Welfare
Ewha Womans University
03.2014 - 02.2018
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