Elizabeth Lizzie Pelz

About Elizabeth Lizzie Pelz

with Active Secret Clearance): Project management and operations USAID funded projects within both donor agency and implementing partner offices HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs Community-based organizations Volunteer training and management Harm reduction services targeting sex workers, drug users, and people experiencing homelessness Stakeholder management and engagement Community health programming and education PEPFAR and President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) awards Fieldwork in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Fluent in Tigrinya, intermediate fluency in Amharic:Increased the number health facility births by 156% within 2 years at Maychew Health Center after being awarded a PEPFAR grant and implementing a program improving Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV services.Trained 100+ harm reduction direct service volunteers in HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, safer sex education, and trauma-informed micro-counseling, and how to comprehensively deliver those services to sex workers and drug users via mobile outreach and hotline engagement. Streamlined operations and subaward administration with five implementing partners for Breakthrough RESEARCH, sister project of Breakthrough ACTION and a five-year cooperative agreement funded by USAID that addresses key questions related to social and behavior change programming. At the moment I\'m working towards my Masters of Public Health (MPH) while fine-tuning my data visualization skills, generating health education toolkits, and completing training to become certified in HIV testing and counseling.\'! e••••••••@gmail.comCollaborative | Harm Reductionist | Public Health Logistics Genie | Adaptable

Experience

1. Country Team System and Program Cycle Coordinator, Gh Ocs (Gs-13)

   USAID

   Jan 2022 — Present

   GHTP-Credence Management Solutions, LLC Contractor•Coordinate and support the Country Team System to ensure positions are filled, and team members understand their roles and responsibilities for over 63 global health country teams.•Collaborate with OCS to develop tools and processes to strengthen GH’s engagement in the program cycle process including country development cooperation strategy (CDCS), project and activity design, operational plan (OP) and performance review process.•Analyze and promote learning across field missions on the development of CDCSs, noting the successes and challenges, by building a database of CDCS strategies and relevant program cycle areas.•Ensure Country Teams are linked new Country Support Network (CSN) with the broader Agency engagement to support countries - monitoring that Country Team Leads are part of the new CSN, assist with tracking technical assistance requests, and support the implementation of the Technical Services Portal, and facilitate training of UTRAMS usage and reporting.•Serve as the Country Team Lead Alternate for the South Sudan Global Health Country Team and Country Assistant for the Pakistan Global Health Country Team, providing technical and programmatic support to the field health team in collaboration with Technical Liaisons and Mission health staff.•Assist with knowledge management, ensuring the Mission Resource Hub has the latest information for all Washington-based Country Teams and that timely communications takes place between headquarters and the field.

Education

• University of Houston

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  2007 — 2010

• National University of Ireland, Galway

  Summer Irish Studies Program

  2009 — 2009

• Capella University

  Masters of Public Health

  2019 — 2022