Daniela Sarzosa Castillo

Experience

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  Ministerio de Cultura

  Nov 2013 - Jul 2015

  Data Analyst

  Design practical tools to collect information on the status of Public Libraries and measure their impact (literacy rates, education) on Colombian municipalities. Coordinate the “Estrategia de Tutores” Project: Group of 30 professionals who deploy technical assistance to Public Libraries. Review and analysis of data. Write and edit analytical documents on information of Colombian Public Libraries

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  NYU Furman Center

  Nov 2015 - May 2017

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Program and analyze statistical information for a Research Paper on Housing Vouchers and Educational Outcomes. Manage databases with STATA and SAS. Program and analyze statistical information on housing and urban policies in New York City. Create maps using ArcGIS to visualize data.

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  CREA COMUNIDADES DE EMPRENDEDORES SOCIALES, A.C.

  Sept 2016 - May 2017

  Project Associate

  Serve on 3-person team consisting of NYU Wagner graduate candidates to review the organization’s services, and propose policy and program modifications that increase their training program’s completion rate. Program and analyze socioeconomic and business information on women entrepreneurs and women business owners in Mexico.

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  Laboratoria

  Jun 2017 - Jul 2021

  Data and Monitoring & Evaluation Director

  • Design Laboratoria’s methodology to collect, process and analyze data regularly. • Manipulate and analyze large datasets to distill insights from data, and convey findings to executive audiences.• Combine information from different sources/areas/teams inside Laboratoria to create analytical plans that evaluate the organization’s performance and identify potential improvement areas.• Serve as technical expert/data consultant and mentor. Act as a thought partner to design and measure the impact of surveys, experiments and interventions.• Advocate and promote the incorporation of data analytics techniques and technologies to expand and improve our data analysis methodologies. Drive long-term development of Laboratoria’s data infrastructure.• Design a data model with the power to predict future bootcamp and job performance from applicants data around their technical and socio-emotional skills. • Create effective, scalable, and easy to understand reporting solutions (e.g. dashboards).• Lead research and evaluation projects with partners such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the INSEAD Business School.• Lead the design and implementation of our monitoring and evaluation strategy. Manage and track all impact and process indicators, use them strategically to guide our program strategy and evolution. Show less

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  Global Communities

  Aug 2021 - now

  • Lead GC's MERL Tech team whose goal is to strengthen the organizational systems, processes, tools and capacity around the use of technology to enhance project -and organizational- level information systems that support monitoring, evaluation, research and learning.• Serve as an expert in the area of data management and information systems for social development and economic programs.• Lead and support the design, implementation, and utilization of high-quality project data management systems (MERL-Tech) at country and global levels to systematically advance Global Communities’ programmatic priorities and business capture capabilities.• Design and implement technical assistance and capacity building strategies that result in improved skills and capacity around data management and technology across the organization.• Develop and support activities to assess and improve quality of routine program data.• Collaborate with program and field monitoring and evaluation (M&E) teams in countries like Kosovo, Ethiopia, Zambia, and Ghana, supporting the analysis and utilization of programmatic data to assess and improve program quality and project performance. Show less

  • Advisor for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning - Technology

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Senior Specialist for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning - Technology

    Aug 2021 - Jan 2024