KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Eleven years of international work experience in the US, Latin America and the Caribbean implementing development programs, managing teams, and working as international consultant.

Skillful program manager with experience leading complex international development projects. Strong supporter and user of DME of projects and research as fundamental tools for decision-making.

Solid technical expertise on grassroots community development; social justice; gender issues (equality and masculinities); diplomacy; elections, and politics; Latin American and the Caribbean.

Communicator for social change as writer, presenter, and TEDx talk speaker. Trained on mediation and persuasion. Experienced trainer, teacher and facilitator in multicultural settings.

Successful entrepreneur in social justice issues, created and lead Defying Gender Roles (DGR), an online advocacy initiative that challenges harmful gender roles and norms. Over 1,8K followers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Oxfam America | United States, Boston Gender Justice and Project Manager Consultant November 2015 - Present

Manage project on Gender Justice that seeks to assess changes in gender practices and behaviors in Ghana, Senegal, Cambodia and Vietnam by using the Gender Action Learning process and the most significant change (MSC) methodology. This work is performed in liaison with Gender @t Work.

Managed from inception two projects developing e-courses for worldwide staff on Gender Justice:

Gender Justice: An introduction

Managed the successful conversion of the English version into French, Spanish, and Arabic working independently in a multicultural environment and virtual teams.

“My Gender, My Power” (in alpha version)

Led the development of the first module of this course, including research and content development on how to challenge power, making visible privileges and intersectionality.

Value for Women - Oxfam America| Guatemala Gender, Social Inclusion and Masculinities Consultant December 2015 - May 2016

Provided technical advice on how to incorporate men in the implementation of the Women in Small Enterprise (WISE) program implemented by Oxfam America in rural Guatemala.

Led the development of activities for developing a toolkit on how to empower men and engage women in gender issues such as household chores, caregiving and decision-making processes.

Promundo-US | United States, Honduras and Guatemala Gender Issues and Strategy Consultant July 2015 - November 2015

Developed Promundo's strategy to work in Honduras and Guatemala. As result of this work, Promundo decided to hired staff to work directly in Central America.

Performed two field assessment to Guatemala and Honduras aiming to build critical partnerships with potential donors and partners working on gender and masculinities in Central America.

Defying Gender Roles (DGR) | Worldwide Leader September 2014 - Present

Created, launched and lead an online advocacy initiative challenging prevailing harmful gender roles and norms that limit our experience in life. Today, DGR has over 1,8k followers in Facebook.

Developed and launched the campaign “Redefining #ManUp” to spark a conversation about the harmful elements of “Man Up”. We developed a design, pictures and a t-shirt to spread the message.

Presented own research paper titled “What does it mean to be a man today?” at the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) annual conference, in Michigan University.

Guest speaker and presenter on gender issues in national and international events:

o TEDx Talk: “What it means to be a man today in the struggle for achieving gender equality” o Harvard School of Graduate Education: “Gender and education in Latin America”

Sebastián Molano Colombian national | US Resident

19 Mendum St, Boston, MA | sebastianmolano@gmail.com | (617) 272-5734

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o Oxfam America: “Gender, Manhood, and Masculinities”; “Men at the gender table?” o The Fletcher School - Gender Conference: “The role of men in gender issues” o Respect Jamaica: “Unwrapping gender” o Fundación Sánitas: presentations on “Gender 102: expression, identity, and masculinities” o Universidad Externado de Colombia: taught two-hour class on “Gender 101”

Organization of American States (OAS) | The Americas - Washington DC Department of Electoral Cooperation and Observation (DECO) October 2012 - July 2015

Electoral and Gender Specialist May 2014 - July 2015

Managed consultants and implemented projects providing technical cooperation to Board of Elections in Guatemala, Bolivia, and Argentina aiming to protect citizen’s right to vote, especially women.

Served as gender specialist in-house managing all activities related to gender mainstreaming, policy, briefs, and presentations on women’s political participation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Gender Specialist in Electoral Observation Missions October 2012 - February 2016

Provided advice on how to increase women’s political participation, in elections held in Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Jamaica.

Co-authored and presented in France working paper on how to increase women’s political participation and use political financing with a gender approach in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Presented research on political financing in the Americas at the European Conference of Elections.

Team Manager and International Electoral Observer October 2007 - February 2016

Managed teams of observers, and led international teams in 20 elections in Costa Rica (4), Haiti (2), El Salvador (2), Paraguay (2), Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador

Feinstein International Center (FIC) | Colombia Humanitarian Affairs Consultant August 2011 - September 2011

Wrote Colombian case study for the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) on the relationship between international and national disaster management systems in Colombia.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) | Central America Microfinance and M&E Consultant May 2011 - July 2011

Led and conducted an independent program evaluation for a regional program focused on food security, providing agricultural inputs to farmers and supporting women savings groups in rural areas.

Provided specific recommendations on how to make more efficient the delivery of agricultural inputs and foster women savings groups growth. All recommendations were integrated AOP by CRS.

Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) | Dominican Republic and Haiti Program Coordinator (IDB-MIF project) July 2009 - July 2010

Oversaw financial performance of 1,2 MM project and provided technical advice on community development, conflict mitigation, and monitoring the proposed theory of change.

Managed complex binational border project implemented in the Haitian-Dominican border overseeing 18 consultants working with 20 partners in 6 border points.

Led successfully a component of the project that brought together Haitian and Dominican ranchers and fisherman in neighboring areas to work together on improving their relations and livelihoods.

PADF Humanitarian Response | Haiti Humanitarian Worker January 2010 - April 2010

Led the creation of a humanitarian corridor between the Dominican Republic (Pedernales) and Haiti (Jacmel), successfully delivered 60 tons of aid and performed needs-based assessment in Jacmel one week after the earthquake.

Training Coordinator (USAID Funding) April 2008 - June 2009

Provided support on project design, and project proposal writing to country director.

Organized and implemented more than 20 trainings for ten Dominican grassroots organizations.

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Program Assistant (USAID Funding) February 2007- March 2008

Corficolombiana | Colombia Investment Banking Analyst August 2006- January 2007

EDUCATION

The Fletcher School - Tufts University | United States Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) September 2010- May 2012

Elected Commencement Speaker for Graduation Ceremony (May 2012)

Bosworth Scholar | Scholarship awarded to most outstanding candidates (2010-2012)

Fellow | Blakeley Foundation for International Development in Central America (Summer 2011)

Fields of specialization

Design, Monitoring, Evaluation, and NGO Management

Rights-Based Approach to Design, Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (DMEL) and design, monitoring, and evaluation of international projects (DME);

NGO Management and Ethics; Leadership, and Persuasion (Harvard Kennedy School)

Human Security and International Development

Gender, Culture and Conflict; Cultural Capital and Development; Rural Economic Development; Microfinance; the Informal Economy (Harvard Kennedy School);

Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies; Humanitarian Studies in the Field, and Humanitarian Response Intensive Course (at Harvard).

Universidad Oberta Catalunya (UOC) | Spain Postgraduate Degree in Non-Profit Management and Marketing - Distinction September 2009

Universidad Externado de Colombia | Colombia Bachelor in Finance and International Relations August 2006

2nd highest GPA in five-year college program composed by 137 students.

LANGUAGES

Fluent in Spanish and English; highly proficient in French (B2); good command of Portuguese and basic Haitian Creole.

PUBLICATIONS

Sebastián Molano, Will peace ever get a chance in Colombia?, Voice Male magaize, 2016, 12-14.

23 articles on gender issues (equality, masculinity, and peace) published in 6 outlets (2013-2016) Words in the Bucket (13), Good Men Project (GMP) (6), Género-Equidad (2), MenEngage (1), Papo de Homem (1).

Sebastián Molano, Tyler Finn, working paper on Women’s political participation in the Americas: 2011-2013, Organization of American States (OAS), 2013.

Sebastián Molano, Betting for the poor: Exploring gambling as a financial strategy for low income households in Colombia, research funded by the Feinstein International Center. Master thesis, 2011.

Molano, Walker, and Rasmussen, International Dialogue on strengthening partnership in disaster response: bridging national and international support, International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) Feinstein International Center, 2011.

Sebastián Molano, Desarrollo fronterizo: La frontera dominico-haitiana de la transición a la transformación, American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) of the Dominican Republic Magazine, Vol 2: 3; 36-38, 2010.