Programa Manager - PSS&SEL TA
Highest degree :
Masters
Field of study :
Counseling
Location :
Honduras
Citizenships :
Honduran
Experience :
14 Year(s)
Countries :
Honduras, Moldova
Gender :
Male
Sectors :
Educational counselor, with studies in community psychology, master's degree in education and higher education - Specialized in psychosocial support, education and socio-emotional learning.
Experience
Education Project Manager and Community Participation/ SEL TA
Honduras
Catholic Relief Services
October 2021
-August 2025
Collaboratively develop teacher training and coaching strategies with key partners and the development of learning materials aligned with the National Curriculum Base (CNB) in literacy and other educational areas. Promote contextualized pedagogical approaches that strengthen teaching practices, foster reflective learning environments, and support continuous professional development. Encourage joint planning and implementation to ensure relevance, sustainability, and impact in diverse educational settings. Budget management and coordination of MEAL tools among partners. Responsible for coordinating and supervising relationships with key actors and stakeholders at both central and local levels of the education sector. Build and maintain partnerships with government entities, municipalities, private sector actors, to advance project objectives. Leads the development of strategic plans for the education component, with a focus on supplementary activities such as the tutor program, reading clubs, SILC (Savings and Internal Lending Communities), Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), and initiatives to strengthen school enrollment and budget execution aligned with the DIP and component indicators. Additionally, oversees the implementation of activities related to the WASH–Sanitary Infrastructure component in targeted schools.
Acting Program Manager SEL-PSS
Moldova - Ukraine
Catholic Relief Services
October 2022
-November 2022
Acted as Program Manager for the Education and Psychosocial Support program providing project design, management, supervision, and partner support for the next steps of Phase 2. The key steps of the role were reviewing the design, validating it with partners, establishing sub-recipient agreements, and beginning start-up activities.
Project Manager and SEL Project Leader
Honduras - Haiti
Catholic Relief Services
December 2018
-September 2021
During the life of the project I was in charge of the technical and budgetary direction of the project for Honduras, coordination of activities with the Haiti project, supervision of MEAL components, human resource management of the project, as well as the strengthening and management of counterparts, represent the organization with donors and counterparts, implementation of activities framed in relation to the Socio-Emotional Learning project in schools, preparation of digital and face-to-face SEL material – training manuals, activity toolkit, game kit in SEL, development of teacher training in Socio-Emotional Learning and documenting lessons learned for different audiences.
School Coordinator
Honduras
Asegurando la Educación - DAI
September 2017
-December 2018
Implement prevention strategies and programs in schools, and create educational networks for the sustainability of prevention strategies: Specialist in Teacher Professional Development, responsible for designing training modules focused on the prevention of school violence. Coordinates collaborative actions with governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. Leads community-based initiatives in partnership with local leaders. Oversees project monitoring and impact evaluation. Facilitates planning, reflection, and critical dialogue spaces to support systematization processes. Documents and disseminates successful practices
Programme coordinator
Honduras
AMDA
August 2013
-September 2017
The project aimed at community and youth strengthening in the Monterrey/Alemán, Flor del Campo, and La Joya neighborhoods(2013- 2015) - II Phase of the project in the Hato de Enmedio neighborhood, Las Palmas and Kennedy. With the following functions: Coordinate actions with governmental and non-governmental counterparts, plan and execute training in social skills for students from public schools in the areas of influence, program and carry out workshops for teachers of the schools in intervention, monitoring, and impact evaluation of the project and development of training manuals on social skills, Community Training Manual and Manual of good Community Practices
Community Officer
Honduras
Honduras Convive!/CREATIVE /USAID
October 2012
-July 2013
Coordinate actions with governmental and non-governmental counterparts, development of community plans with actions aimed at recovering community spaces, community activities managed with community leaders with governmental and non-governmental actors, monitoring and impact evaluation of the project.
Education
Educational Counselor
Honduras
Universidad Pedagógica Francisco Morazán
February 2009
-December 2015
Education
Spain - virtual
Universidad Europea del Atlántico - España
February 2016
-December 2019
Languages
Skills
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