Alejandra Meglioli
Summary
Accomplished leader at Save the Children International, adept in partnership building and public speaking. Spearheaded innovative programs enhancing gender justice and racial inclusion, managing a high-performance team. Achieved a 20% budget increase at IPPF, demonstrating exceptional staff oversight and strategic donor engagement skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Director, Program Quality and Impact
Save the Children International
02.2022 - Current
- Leads LAC PQI, ensuring quality and innovative humanitarian and development programs across the region
- Leads a high-performance team of 12 Technical Experts with an integrated work approach including T4D, gender equality and racial equity and inclusion, providing support in humanitarian and development contexts
- Consolidated technical areas such as gender justice and racial inclusion programming through LAC including the hiring of the only TE on racial inclusion in the SC movement
- Accompanies Country Offices and completed the TE transformation process with high competences and according to the principles by the deadline
- Member of the SMT and RSLT participating actively in both spaces, including acting as interim regional director and attending IPSMT in Canada (September 2023
- Represented Save the Children in regional programs and international fora such as the International Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants and their Host Countries and Communities, Brussels, 2023
- Leads strategic donor engagements and actively contributed to the regional funding strategy by working closely with the Regional ResMob head, such as for the successful award of the Family Planning 2030 Hub
Interim Country Director
Save the Children International
08.2023 - 09.2023
- Led the Peru country program, which includes humanitarian and development programming and advocacy
- Strengthen the management of the Country Office while ensuring continued financial and programmatic operations
Senior Consultant for Strategic Process
IWORDS Global
05.2021 - 12.2021
- Co-led the final evaluation of the regional project “Supporting local economic development in the Gambia, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau”, funded by the OIM
- Led children and youth field consultation process in Eastern Africa and LAC to get youth inputs for Wellspring Philanthropic Fund strategy. Thematic areas included accelerating girls' education, preventing violence against children and youth, shifting gender and social norms, and fostering enabling conditions for children’s rights
- Co-led the review of the implementation of Solidaridad's East and Central Africa Multi-Annual Strategic Plan 2016- 2021 and provided recommendations to strengthen their gender approach to improve performance
Director of Advocacy, Access, and Care
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
08.2016 - 03.2021
- Led the implementation of the organization's strategic work to ensure women's and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health and rights throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Programmatic areas included comprehensive sexual and reproductive services focusing on gender-based violence, access to contraception, youth-friendly services, safe and legal abortion, and sexuality education
- Oversaw execution of the Advocacy, Access, and Care unit’s annual budget of USD 11M and managed, mentored, and supported a team comprising 15 professionals based in New York and the LAC region. Our budget increased by 20% from 2017-2020 [GA(1]
- Co-led with MEL the development of the IPPF?? gender strategy, and developed new intersectional programming and partnership lines responding to the growing inequalities rooted in gender, gender identity and expression, race and ethnicity, and disability
- Led and developed new work areas, including the humanitarian strategy to improve access to lifesaving services for crisis-affected people (e.g. Venezuelan refugees) in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador, as well as disaster preparedness and emergency response interventions in the Dominican Republic and Belize
- Partnered with governments and UN agencies to advance the SRH agenda and seek coordinated COVID responses in LAC region to support youth-friendly services and address gender-based violence
- Acted as External Reviewer for the World Health Organization’s Cervical Cancer Elimination Guidelines during 2018, 2019 and 2020
Education
Master of Arts - LAC Studies
New York University
NY, USASkills
- Skilled in partnership building etc
- Public Speaking
- Meetings and presentations
- Staff Oversight
Affiliations
- PRO MUJER, Board Member
- Feminist Humanitarian Network
- Consultative Council of CLACAI
- Women and NCD Task Force
- Latin America Consortium of Emergency Contraception (CLAE)
Additional Information
Nationality: Argentine
Gender: Female
Languages
Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Portuguese
Upper intermediate (B2)
Timeline
Interim Country Director
Save the Children International
08.2023 - 09.2023
Regional Director, Program Quality and Impact
Save the Children International
02.2022 - Current
Senior Consultant for Strategic Process
IWORDS Global
05.2021 - 12.2021
Director of Advocacy, Access, and Care
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
08.2016 - 03.2021
Master of Arts - LAC Studies
New York University
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