Sonia Gallardo

About Sonia Gallardo

Finance professional with a track record of almost 15 years’ experience providing…

Experience

1. Director of Grants and Compliance

   Libera

   Dec 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Grants Management and Best Practices:Lead and mentor a high-performing team, promoting innovation and excellence in grants compliance and customer support.Facilitate partner engagement and grant management capacity building through tailored webinars, onboarding workshops, and policy training. Contribute to embedding trust based grant making principles and practices throughout the organization\'s programs, policies and award agreements; to align with organizations trust based values and alleviate implementation burden on grant recipients.Operational EfficiencySpearhead strategic change management initiatives and departmental goal-setting as part of the Global Operations Leadership Team.Drive operational alignment by collaborating cross-functionally to enhance systems, policies, and agile decision-making. Lead efforts to improve and enhance internal operations; strengthening systems, workflows, and use of technology; while embracing innovation in program reporting and funding approaches—to improve efficiency across key internal workflows, and decrease reporting burden on subgranteesStrategy and InnovationGuided staff in embracing trust-based grantmaking by delivering training on key principles and creating webinars to foster organization-wide alignment and integrationSpearheaded the strategic evaluation and selection of a fiscal sponsor; led negotiations to establish a values-aligned agreement with clear expectations for accountability, collaboration, and operational partnershipCollaborated in the development of a comprehensive wind-down plan that addressed funding reallocation, partner transitions, and internal communications to minimize disruption and maintain compliance.Collaborated on strategic planning of a new organizational spin-off, the transition roadmap, overseeing system and resource transfers, lead budget scenario review to determine resource allocations, staff needs, salaries, implementing a comprehensive wind-down and launch strategy.

Education

• UCLA Extension

  Award in General Business Studies with a Concentration in Finance, Business Administration and Management, General

• Universidad Católica Boliviana

  B.A, Business Administration

  1992 — 1999

• University of Santa Monica

  MA, Psychology

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Training
• Financial Planning
• Essbase
• Excel
• Microsoft Excel
• Accounting
• Leadership Development
• Nonprofits
• Microsoft Word
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Leadership
• Word
• Quickbooks
• Analysis
• Public Speaking
• Loving Life
• Hyperion Planning
• Team Building
• Management
• Budgeting
• Budgets
• Finance
• Strategic Planning