Garrett F. Braswell
Country Director, International nonprofit health
Denver, CO · (303) 555 0148 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/garrettfbraswell
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Eighteen years in global health and nutrition, eleven leading country offices
INDUSTRIES
International nonprofit health, maternal and child nutrition, ministry partnership
SPECIALTIES
Country office leadership, federal award compliance, local partner transition, staff duty of care
SYSTEMS
DevResults, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Power BI
CREDENTIALS
Certified Nonprofit Professional, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance; Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute
EDUCATION
Master of public health, Colorado School of Public Health; Bachelor of arts, Colorado State University
Executive Summary
Country director for an American international nonprofit delivering maternal health and nutrition programs in Central America. Eighteen years in global health, eleven of them running country offices. Accountable for a 24 million dollar portfolio, 190 staff, two federal awards and the safety of teams working in four departments.
Signature Achievements
- Grew the country portfolio from 9 million dollars to 24 million dollars across five years with no new audit findings.
- Closed a five year cooperative agreement with zero questioned costs in the single audit and no disallowed expenditures.
- Reduced country office support cost per program dollar by nineteen percent by consolidating three field offices into two.
- Moved seventy percent of service delivery to eleven national partner organizations under fully compliant subawards.
- Lifted national staff retention from sixty four percent to eighty nine percent after rebuilding pay bands and supervision.
- Reached 410,000 women and young children with nutrition counseling in the final year of the flagship award.
Professional Experience
Country Director
Andes Health Alliance, Guatemala City, Guatemala 2019 to present
Leads a 190 person country office running maternal health and nutrition programs across four departments on a 24 million dollar annual budget.
- Owns the country strategy, annual operating plan and budget, and reports each quarter to the headquarters program committee.
- Serves as accountable officer for two federal awards and holds the office to Uniform Guidance and the standard provisions attached to each agreement.
- Represents the organization with the ministry of health, the donor mission and the national nutrition coordination group.
- Directs a senior management team of six covering programs, finance, grants, human resources, security and supply.
- Chairs the incident management team and signs every access, travel and relocation decision affecting field movement.
Deputy Country Director
Andes Health Alliance Group, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2016 to 2019
Second in charge of a sixty person office delivering community health worker programs in three departments.
- Ran program delivery, monitoring and reporting against a logical framework covering four donor agreements.
- Built the subaward manual, risk assessment tool and monitoring schedule used for fourteen local partners.
- Prepared the country contribution to the annual Internal Revenue Service Form 990 program service accomplishment statement.
- Acted as country director for two extended periods covering a leadership vacancy and a medical leave.
Program Director
Rocky Mountain Global Health Fund, Denver, CO 2012 to 2016
Managed a headquarters portfolio of five country grants worth 14 million dollars a year.
- Backstopped country teams on work planning, restricted fund tracking and donor reporting deadlines.
- Wrote the technical narrative for three winning proposals worth 21 million dollars in total award value.
- Redesigned the program theory of change with country staff and rebuilt the indicator set around it.
Senior Program Officer
Front Range Family Health Project, Denver, CO 2008 to 2012
Managed three foundation funded projects in Bolivia and Peru for a 6 million dollar nonprofit.
- Monitored restricted fund spending against grant budgets and prepared quarterly reports for four foundations.
- Supervised two program associates and coordinated field visits, translation and partner training.
- Introduced the first standard indicator reference sheets used across the organization.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Nonprofit Professional, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute
Member, Society for International Development
Education
Master of public health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado
Bachelor of arts in Spanish and international studies, Colorado State University
Core Skills
Country office leadership · Federal award compliance · Uniform Guidance · Single audit preparation · Subaward management · Logical frameworks · Theory of change · Restricted fund budgeting · Ministry relations · Staff safety and security · Spanish fluency · Board reporting