ruth orbach

monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning techincal lead

About

Experienced international development specialist in East, West, and Southern Africa, with a focus on monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Strong skill set in working with cutting edge learning and data analysis, designing, developing and managing participatory, mixed method learning systems around financial inclusion, food security, and saving groups. Focus on youth, economic, and community development in French, English, kiSwahili, isiZulu and Italian. Interested in humanitarian response, disaster risk reduction, access to education and financial services.

Country

united kingdom

City

london

Industry

non-profit organization management

Skill

foreign languages, progress monitoring, program evaluation, project management, project planning, project coordination, report writing, database administration, databases, teaching english as a second language, microsoft office, leadership, research, nonprofits, analysis, policy analysis, fundraising

Experience

monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning techincal lead

save the children international

2018-5 - Present · 8 yrs 5 mos

monitoring, evaluation, and learning manager

african leadership academy

2013-2 - 2014-6 · 1 yr 5 mos

* Design and develop long term impact tracking systems to understand and report on organizational impact * Data collection and analysis to interrogate impact of development investment and entrepreneurship curriculum * Focus on youth, economic, community development, project management

monitoring and evaluation consultant

emzingo group

2013-2 - 2013-4 · 3 mos

* Designed and developed organizational objectives, key performance indicators, and overall logframe to prove project impact * Developed scalable, feasible, and sustainable methodology for data collection * Developed social enterprise sustainability ranking and cataloguing tool

monitoring and evaluation manager

enke: make your mark

2011-7 - 2012-8 · 1 yr 2 mos

* enke:Make Your Mark is a youth entrepreneurship and community development organization working with youth across South Africa. * Designed and developed impact tracking system recording organizational effectiveness for 460 participants over 3 years * Conducted study on the effects of increased social capital on social mobility among South African youth * Developed complete organizational database using GIS mapping technology * Developed ongoing support structures for participants to increase their secondary impact * Supported and monitored 70 community development projects implemented by beneficiaries

project manager

enke: make your mark

2011-2 - 2011-7 · 6 mos

* Created strategy to facilitate the organization expanding to include a Cape Town program in addition to Johannesburg * Organized, coordinated, and implemented 3 nation-wide residential leadership and youth development events in Johannesburg involving over 300 people * Assisted with the authorship of a rigorous youth and community development curriculum to be delivered to both university students and grade-11 students

parliamentary intern

house of commons

2009-5 - 2009-8 · 4 mos

* Researched topics and subjects of debate for questions posed to the Prime Minister and committee meetings attended by the Members of Parliament for Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalist party) * Attended high level committee meetings and proceedings, including the sports, media and culture committee and Prime Minister’s Questions, as well as debates in chamber * Assisted the Members of Parliament of Plaid Cymru with speech preparation and question formation for chamber debates

research assistant

office of global affairs, a subsidiary of brandeis university

2008-10 - 2009-5 · 8 mos

* Researched various topics for investigative journalism articles that are submitted to magazines and newspapers such as the Boston Globe and Foreign Policy * Assisted with updating and writing news summaries for the Institute’s website * Translated foreign policy from French to English to help with article research