Gianmaria Pinto

Experience

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  Italian Embassy

  Jul 2006 - Dec 2006

  Intern
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  EU Election Observation Mission Zambia 2006 (EU EOM Zambia)

  Sept 2006 - Sept 2006

  Electoral Observer
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  BNY Mellon

  Jan 2007 - Jul 2007

  Market Expert
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  Caritas Italiana

  Aug 2007 - Aug 2008

  Project Officer
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  IFOM, the FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology

  Aug 2009 - Dec 2009

  Grants Officer
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  INTERSOS - Humanitarian Organization

  Jan 2010 - Mar 2011

  Programme Coordinator and Project Manager

  ▪ Oversaw the organization’s country strategic planning and programming to provide services to displaced people by supporting other project managers in various locations and directly leading a team of about 20 people.

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  Norwegian Refugee Council

  Apr 2011 - Aug 2012

  Project Coordinator

  ▪ Managed an NRC complex project in an insecure and volatile environment, by recruiting, training and leading a team of about 20 people and ensuring strategic direction and technical oversight.

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  Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp

  Oct 2012 - Mar 2013

  Senior Project Manager

  ▪ Managed a DRC multi-project program by overseeing a 25-people team and led the negotiation with Tunisian regional institutions for the integration of refugees into the local social and economic system.

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  Norwegian Refugee Council

  Apr 2013 - Oct 2017

  Responsible for the strategic direction and management of three sub-offices, over 150 staff and an annual budget of 20M USD and leveraged change across the organization.▪ Lead the program development and management at all phases of project cycle and provided leadership for growing engagement opportunities with International Organizations and donors.▪ Lead the organization change-management strategy’s development and implementation, based on a people-centered bottom-up approach focused on minimizing impact on individuals. Show less Ensured strategic guidance and leadership for planning, implementing, and digitally monitoring the BRCiS Consortium multi-year innovative resilience strategy in Somalia, including advising and ensuring a common approach.▪ Developed an operational approach to resilience based on participation and inclusiveness, including an emergency response tool through which about a million individuals were reached in crisis-affected areas of Somalia.▪ Developed and implemented a multi-donor resource mobilization strategy which raised over 50M USD and tripled the size of the program (from 25M to 75M USD) with multi-year, flexible funding. ▪ Lead the creation of a network of partnerships with key International Organizations and contributed to the drafting and implementation of the Somali National Development Plan.▪ Convened change management processes for advising the consortium members on how to innovate their internal structures. Show less Provided leadership to the NRC mission in Puntland to ensure appropriate humanitarian responses, disaster preparedness and durable solutions as well as alignment of project and program initiatives with the organization’s strategic objectives.▪ Oversaw over 50 staff in 5 programs and supported functions with a budget of around 10M USD.▪ Ensured the appropriate training of teams and key staff, through formal sessions and informal coaching.▪ Lead the drafting of the Puntland Region NRC strategy. Show less

  • Country Director

    Nov 2016 - Oct 2017

  • Multi-stakeholder Consortium Lead – Chief of Party

    Nov 2013 - Oct 2016

  • Area Manager

    Apr 2013 - Oct 2013
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  Grand Bargain

  Nov 2017 - Jul 2022

  Grand Bargain Secretariat Lead - Humanitarian Affairs Officer

  Supported internal and systemic change processes in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem of 63 International Organizations and Governments for enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian aid. ▪ Leveraged existing capacities in the system to promote incremental innovative tools and solutions to improve how we respond to humanitarian crisis (e.g., improvement of humanitarian reporting template).▪ Developed, implemented, and currently monitoring a change management strategy for transitioning the Grand Bargain into its 2.0 version to ensure political elevation of strategic issues and individual organizational change. Show less

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  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC

  Jul 2022 - now

  Fund Manager, National Society Investment Alliance (NSIA)

  Responsible for facilitating the work of the NSIA Steering Committee, managing the NSIA office, managing the operations of the NSIA, communications, learning and marketing and oversight of coordination of technical support.▪ Steer and contribute to the reflection in terms of sustainable income and development strategy;▪ Identify and propose new orientations and adjustments.