[SIMONE CARTER]

I am a seasoned humanitarian aid worker who has been working in conflict and emergency situations for 8+ years. I have had extensive experience implementing and evaluating public health and sanitation programs in North, Central, and East Africa; Haiti; Asia; and the Middle East. I produce results in low-resource, high-conflict situations. I have extensive experience with community engagement and facilitation, as well as qualitative and quantitative research. 

Skill Set Summary

Global response team, Public Health Promotion- Community Engagement

Oxfam Great Britain, Worldwide              

May 2015- Present

Deployments: 
Yemen,  WaSH Coordinator

• Responsible for the development and implementation of Oxfam’s WaSH strategy ( £11 million per year)

• Support WaSH teams in 4 country offices on their programme development based on context

• Ensure WaSH capacity building plans are in place and implemented with national teams and partners 

• Coordinate with WaSH actors and government bodies through partnerships, clusters and technical working groups

• Develop Urban WaSH Scoping Study (UNICEF) to identify public private partnership opportunities in crisis

Nepal PHP Coordinator & WaSH roving capacity builder 

• Lead rapid scale up of emergency response programme, across 5 districts reaching 400,000 beneficiaries and $56 million budget (3 years)

• Capacity build national teams on innovative community-based interventions for WaSH progamming 

• Develop menstrual hygiene management strategy for mainstreaming across all WASH interventions

• Design and implement a national staff and partner capacity building strategy 

• Ensure strong Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning approaches that influence WaSH programmes

 

Qualitative Research lead, Public Health Promotion 
Oxfam Great Britain, Sierra Leone/Oxford                

January 2015-April 2015

• Develop action-research study to identify barriers and enablers to treatment seeking in Ebola

• Train and support national research teams on qualitative data collection and analysis for study 

• Analyse data and develop key intervention recommendations for Oxfam community outreach teams

• Develop Community Outreach guidance notes for Oxfam and other agency teams based on key findings

• Author 2 academic research papers from results to influence Community Outreach programming in Ebola

 

Humanitarian Desk Officer, Key countries - Oxfam Great Britain, Oxford                 

October 2014- May 2015​

• Facilitate feedback and support provided by technical teams  to country programmes 

• Provide a forum for discussion and planning aimed at improving headquarters support to country teams

• Develop ToR, Humanitarian Implementation Plans and Contract agreements between headquarters, region and countries on integrated and interdisciplinary support provided to countries 

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Head of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene 
Oxfam Intermón, Spain (worldwide)                             Sept 2013-October 2014

• Define, implement and manage global WaSH Strategy for 2013-17, including research agenda

• Ensure coordination and planning with other departments (EFSL, MEAL, Gender & Protection, Funding)

• Oversee harmonization of Oxfam WaSH programme tools and approaches across regions

• Manage WaSH regional and rapid response teams

• Support Humanitarian Innovation Fund Research study with the University of Barcelona on HEP E

• Coordinate research project on WaSH and Malnutrition with Tufts University and Oxfam affiliates

• Participate in Oxfam Real Time Evaluation in Central African Republic  (August 2014)

 

Humanitarian WaSH Support (secondment) 

Oxfam Italy, Bosnia                                           

May 2014​

• Provide humanitarian support and capacity building on conducting interdisciplinary needs assessment

• Train and facilitate capacities of national staff to proposal development for donors 

• Conduct preliminary analysis of field assessments and provide recommendations to support proposal writing

Humanitarian Coordinator
Oxfam Intermón, Haiti                        

Jan 2013-June 2013

• Manage 3 field programme teams programme development (WaSH and EFSL)

• Oversee field base closure (2 programs, 2 areas of intervention, 70 staff,  €3 million)

• Coordinate all project proposals, reporting and donor compliance, including for portfolio growth

• In the absence of a Country Director, provided overall strategic leadership to the response to ensure teams are well supported to achieve program aims and objectives

• Represent Oxfam in country, with government bodies, national and international partners and donors

• Develop and implement Oxfam’s Humanitarian Strategy in country

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Global response team, Public Health Promotion- Community Engagement  

Oxfam Intermón, worldwide                                           June 2011- Jan 2013 & June -Sept 2013
80% field based, 20% headquarters
Headquarters responsibilities:

• Research & document best practices to build up institutional learning on emergencies

• Develop Monitoring,  Evaluation Learning and Accountability toolkit for WaSH teams (global)

• Design Public Health practical ‘how to guide’ for easy field use, including toolkit and trainings 

• Create a Cholera Toolkit including all activities and tools for field teams

Related Field deployments:
Burundi: Exploratory mission of returnees from Tanzania and define WaSH contingency Plan, December 2012
Paraguay: Define WaSH Strategy 2013-15,  Sept-October 2012
Train and support national staff in conducting participatory community assessments
Develop WaSH strategy based on context analysis and participatory approaches 

 

Additional experience in Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Chad, and Haiti. 

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HIV/AIDS & STIs Peer-to Peer Trainer

Youth Challenge International (YCI)

Koforidua & Accra, Ghana                                     

Jan-March 2010

• YCI supported a countrywide mandate to provide HIV, AIDS & STI training to teachers & secondary students. The team worked, together with local NGOs & government, to provide advanced HIV, AIDS & STI training to 1600 community members. 

• Assess current teaching gaps in HIV and STI knowledge & resources 

• Conduct daily program evaluations, assessing teacher learning & making appropriate changes as needed to better address community needs 

• Complete a practical guide on integrating STI/HIV into curriculum, including activities and images 

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Principal Research Investigator, Study ‘Investigating Barriers to Access & Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy’ 

University of British Columbia & Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda                                           July 2008-Jan 2009

• Design and manage research study investigating the barriers young PLWHA face in their attempts to access and adhere to HIV care while living in a peri-urban trucking centre in south western Uganda

• Develop study protocol and tools and trained research team on appropriate research techniques

• Build relationships with local government and NGOs working side by side with community members, creating a community driven and participatory based project 

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