Julie Petrie

Experience

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  United Methodist Cooperative Ministries

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1997

  Refugee Support Associate, Southeast Asian Ministries
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  The Amity Foundation Teachers Project

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  University English Language Teacher, Jiangxi Province, China
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  Church World Service

  Jan 2000 - Dec 2000

  Amity Foundation Teachers Project Coordinator
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  Intercommunity Center for Justice and Peace

  Jan 2002 - Aug 2003

  Special Projects Coordinator
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  Preventine Medicine Institute/Strang Cancer Prevention Center

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  Program Manager, Healthy Children Healthy Futures
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  The Village Vine

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  Procurement Manager
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  Episcopal Relief & Development

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2010

  Program Officer for Asia

  Disaster Relief, Disaster Recovery, and Long-term International Development Programs• Responsible for grants administration for long term community development and disaster recovery programs in Asia. Project areas included agriculture, livelihoods, microcredit, environmental restoration, water and sanitation, community health, alternative energy, and climate change adaptation. Major projects included oversight of multi-million dollar programs for tsunami disaster recovery programming in South and Southeast Asia. • Collaborated with grantee partners in Asia through the program life cycle – initiated programs through community asset and needs based assessments, developed budgets, finalized partner contracts, handled disbursements, ensured program efficiency, monitored program compliance with agency reporting and audit requirements, and executed project monitoring and evaluation protocols. • Responsible for field visits and direct oversight of programs in India, Philippines, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand/Burma border refugee camps, and Indonesia. Partnership oversight and report monitoring for programs implemented in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, and Sri Lanka. Show less

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  Episcopal Migration Ministries

  Jan 2011 - Oct 2016

  Program Manager

  Domestic Refugee Resettlement Services, Program Management, Monitoring & Evaluation• Responsible for ongoing management of relationships with national network of 30 affiliate refugee resettlement service agencies, including provision of technical assistance and training in budgeting, planning, and program implementation to affiliate staff.• Experienced in monitoring local resettlement service agencies for compliance with federal grants – the Department of State Resettlement & Placement program; Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Matching Grant and Preferred Communities programs. • Served as program director for the Office of Refugee Resettlement Preferred Communities program, responsible for innovative program design, proposal development, overall implementation, staff oversight, and outcomes reporting on intensive case management services for vulnerable refugee populations.• Conceptualized, designed, and oversaw development of a web-based service and outcomes data reporting system for Preferred Communities program sites; responsible for ongoing system updates and monitoring of affiliate staff usage and reporting content. • Responsible for program design, successful proposal development, and implementation of federal program under the Corporation for National and Community Service (AmeriCorps) for volunteer management at refugee resettlement agencies. • Lead in program team for agency monitoring and evaluation planning and oversight. Show less

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  Cornell University

  Sept 2017 - Dec 2018

  Executive Director, Meridian 180

  MERIDIAN 180 is a multilingual forum for transformative leadership. Its global membership of 1000+ thought leaders in academia, government, and business work together to generate ideas and guidance on the most important problems of our time. Collaborative work takes place in English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese languages on a digital platform and through live meetings and multidisciplinary working groups. Born out of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, MERIDIAN 180 continues to expand its role in anticipating and responding to emerging crises. Areas of focus include global financial governance, gender justice, environmental governance, and data governance. Meridian 180 has operated as a partnership of Cornell University's Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture at Cornell Law School, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell, Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, the Institute for Social Science at the University of Tokyo, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Show less

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  Northwestern University

  Jan 2019 - Sept 2020

  Director, Global Collaboration, Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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  U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)

  Oct 2020 - Dec 2021

  Senior Director of Field Offices