Maxine Wang

Experience

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  The Garden of Hope Foundation

  Mar 2008 - Aug 2008

  Intern of International Affairs Department

  • Tracked media coverage for writing a monitoring report to Congress to protect children in press-free society.• Assisted in organizing the foundation’s fundraising program at Soroptimist’s biennial conference-Conducted a desk research on INGOs and NGOs concerning women’s empowerment

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  FHI 360

  Sept 2014 - Jan 2015

  Intern at the Education Policy and Data Center

  • Heightened the organization’s visibility via social media and blogs• Wrote weekly blog articles on topics related to education in low-income/developing countries• Conducted data cleaning/management for data analysis by STATA

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  Innovations for Poverty Action

  Feb 2015 - Jul 2015

  Urban Sanitation Intern
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  Innovations for Poverty Action

  Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

  Data Management Consultant

  • Managed and analyzing data of large-scale surveys for Randomized Controlled Trials projects by STATA• Oversaw data collection activities and ensuring data quality and confidentiality in the field• Contributed to donor reports by drafting data summary and developing infographics and data dashboards

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  International Cooperation and Development Fund (Taiwan ICDF)

  Sept 2017 - Nov 2018

  M&E Officer

  • Led quasi-experimental research of agricultural projects in Haiti to assess project impacts and guide future aid program design• Oversaw household and enterprise surveys in rural areas of Haiti with close follow-up to assure M&E data quality • Engaged private organizations and government to provide actionable policy recommendations by disseminating the empirical research findings to facilitate sustainable agriculture in partner countries • Assured methodological soundness of impact evaluation studies and advised country teams on appropriate M&E methods tailored to projects to mainstream M&E into the organization’s operations • Managed household surveys of over 200 households in the field for an impact evaluation study of agricultural projects in rural areas of the Marshall Islands Show less

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  Innovations for Poverty Action

  Nov 2018 - Nov 2020

  Research Associate

  • Managed portfolios of empirical research projects and worked with Principal Investigators to ensure adherence to research design, power calculation, sample selection, and data management• Conducted statistical analysis with survey and admin data to measure the impacts of development programs• Designed questionnaires tailored to research questions and led survey teams to conduct 5,000 household surveys with close follow-up to assure M&E data quality • Drafted and edited of research papers, policy briefs, technical guidance, and grant proposals on topics including gender equity, land justice, food security, and microfinance. Show less

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  Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.

  Nov 2020 - Dec 2022

  Malaria Program Senior Associate

  • Coordinated research of Malaria Control Program in Papua New Guinea and Myanmar, including reviewing the literature, managing the outreach to stakeholders, overseeing the data collection and in-depth interviews in field, and writing donor reports of quantitative and qualitative analysis• Created data visualization (Tableau dashboards) for government policy-makers to show insights of routine malaria surveillance data and to advocate corrective actions toward better health care coverage in Myanmar. • Provided technical support, including data analysis and on-job training in data literacy at all levels of government administration to strengthen the government’s malaria surveillance system to capture malaria cases timely Show less