Allison Beaufort

Experience

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  University of Wyoming Residence Life and Dining Services

  Aug 2009 - Dec 2010

  Resident Assistant

  • Live-in staff in residence halls providing the services to incoming students and assisting with the transition to college on personal, academic, and professional levels.• Initiated relationships with residents and served as a mentor to them. Connected them to campus resources and each other while also holding residents accountable to policies.• Trained and experienced in conflict mediation and responding to emergency situations.• Created, marketed, implemented, and evaluated programming to develop floor and hall community.• Facilitated cooperative and considerate group living environments by confronting inappropriate behavior and facilitating community-building opportunities. Ensured building safety and security.• Collaborated and corresponded with fellow resident assistants, residents, university offices, and officials. Provided news and updates • Maintained confidentiality and handled time-sensitive information. Show less

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  U.S. Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service Division of International Conservation

  May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Student Temporary Employment Position - Intern

  • Contributed to portions of the 2010 USFWS Marine Turtle Conservation Fund Report to Congress.• Created and analyzed databases tracking projects over the years around the globe.• Participated in proposal analysis and grant committees• Classified and highlighted conservation projects focused on capacity building for outreach materials• Collected data on NGO funding and analyzed areas of focus area funding.

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  One Million Bones

  Oct 2011 - Aug 2012

  Wyoming Statewide Installation Coordinator

  • Led the University of Wyoming International Studies Student Club in coordinating the statewide effort to raise awareness about genocide through a national initiative to create a social arts display.• Outreach to education professionals and artists in all municipalities of Wyoming to engage communities in raising awareness and contributing to the social arts demonstration. • Arranged meetings on campus to work on art and facilitated conversations around genocide and social justice.• Created a demonstration in Cheyenne, Wyoming as one of 50 displays occurring in all state capitals in the country simultaneously.• Worked on logistics to provide Wyoming contribution to demonstration occurring on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Show less

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  Arusha Microfinance Project

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Intern

  • Worked with a startup run by a local Tanzanian to provide microfinance loans to women’s groups in the city.• Identified groups of women throughout Arusha , conducted group and personal interviews in Swahili to determine eligibility, and assisted women in the process to receive loan approval and disbursement.• Prepared and conducted business training in Swahili. • Visited groups each week for installment collections and paid visits to each woman’s business individually.• Developed systems for documentation on each women’s group and its members, cash flow databases, and resources for each of the groups. Show less

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  United Teen Equality Center (UTEC)

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

  • Program manager of Teens Leading the Way, a statewide coalition of youth across Massachusetts creating lasting change through policymaking with a focus on expungement of youth records. • Youth worker for 20+ members of the coalition, with a specific focus each month on 2-4 youth facilitators for the monthly meetings or quarterly retreats.• Coordinated the coalition, serving as the liaison for the teens across six participating cities and communicating with staff from different partner organizations about efforts and youth involvement. • Prepared youth to facilitate the coalition’s monthly meetings and quarterly retreats. Coached youth to facilitate by meeting several times throughout the month to develop the agenda, identify goals, plan campaign development work sessions, and be ready to lead the group.• Work on campaign strategy and development for the coalition’s campaign on juvenile justice reform. • Planned logistics for meetings and retreats across New England including housing, work session space, group activities, and meals.• Coordinated events, including a campaign statement to publicly unveil youth efforts. Prepared young people to speak at the event and • Wrote and published Teens Leading the Way Membership Packets, a detailed 80-page guide to running a statewide youth-led coalition.• Developed and designed the campaign’s fact sheet, logo, and outreach materials.• Assisted social justice educator to plan and facilitate social justice workshops for UTEC’s workforce development program, which helps court-involved young people earn work experience and get their GED.• Assisted local civic engagement specialist in biannual Youth-Led City Council Candidates Forum by taking on outreach team, including surveying hundreds of youth on issues pertaining to them across Lowell and connecting to local organizations and young people to ensure their presence at the event. Show less • Provided guidance and mentorship to 20 Youth Empower Corps and VISTA AmeriCorps with regard to teamwork, youth work, organizational culture, professional development, and personal development.• Developed and facilitated two weeks of orientation activities and three retreats, including creating intentional agendas to build community and support amongst members. • Built community by providing opportunities for team development internal and external to the organization. • Coordinated recruitment efforts for the following year of AmeriCorps by developing local outreach plans in neighborhoods and events, scheduled AmeriCorps to attend career fairs held at colleges across New England.• Coordinated activities for National AmeriCorps Week, which included an AmeriCorps Alumni Dinner, programming activities for young people at UTEC, community service projects across the city of Lowell, and a community meal with activities for all youth in the center. Show less

  • AmeriCorps Volunteer: Statewide Civic Engagement Specialist

    Aug 2013 - Aug 2015

  • AmeriCorps Crew Leader

    Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
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  FINCA International

  Sept 2015 - Dec 2015

  New Business Development Special Projects Research Volunteer

  Conduct in-depth research into new business opportunities.Summarize findings and apply them to proof of concept, proposals and funding qualifications leveraging the Raisers Edge Database, SmartSheets, and other platforms.Support the new business team with opportunity prospecting.Evaluate current and prospective donor performance and potential.Provide project management oversight and support for special projects including client protection certification and social performance business modelling. Show less

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  U.S. Department of State

  May 2016 - May 2019

  Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Global Programming Office (DRL-GP) - contractor for Kenjya-Trusant Group.• At time of hiring, expected to create and maintain tracking systems and monitoring of grants equaling $10 million – expanded systems and developed Standard Operating Procedures to encompass more than $250 million of grants• Liaise with and outreach to U.S. embassies, foreign governments, domestic non-governmental organizations, and international civil society organizations regarding opportunities for emergency assistance, response to human rights crises and opportunities, and monitoring of projects • Coordinate in-person and virtual review panels of applications and provide expertise in guiding awards through the grant cycle• Draft internal memorandums for clearances and approvals and resolve differences among internal stakeholders• Manage individual flexible funding mechanism projects and a regional portfolio of emergency assistance funds• Adapt to changing political and programmatic environment by providing administrative backup support to additional teams Show less Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Office of African Affairs (DRL-AF)• Reporting: researches, drafts, and edits portions of DRL Bureau reports• Policy formation: monitors human rights developments and analyzed implications for US policy• Intra-bureau collaboration: coordinates work products with other offices/bureaus• Representation and public outreach: represents bureau in department and ngo meetings and reports on meeting outcomes• Focus on human rights abuses in West Africa, particularly Mauritania and The Gambia, as well as Central African Republic Show less

  • Program Specialist

    Sept 2016 - May 2019

  • Intern

    May 2016 - Aug 2016
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  Massachusetts Attorney General's Office

  May 2019 - now

  • Managed a $1,335,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance (DOJ) grant and subaward implemented over four years to provide three violence and suicide prevention trainings to middle and high school students across the state of Massachusetts • Recruited 54 school districts comprising 210 schools and over 130,000 students from all regions of the state to receive violence and suicide prevention trainings• Collaborated with subgrantee and districts to develop new implementation methods following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that schools continued to have access to lifesaving trainings while maintaining safety of participants• Conceptualized, researched, wrote, vetted, and published 96-page “Mental Health and Gender-Affirming Care Resource Guide for Massachusetts LGBTQ2IA+ Young and their Trusted Adults” with a focus on intersectionality and accessibility• Wrote and submitted grant adjustment modifications four separate times over the course of the grant to account for shifts to the project scope, including no-cost extensions, adaptations made to implementation in response to the pandemic, and compliance • Guided response to discovery of compliance issue and led the way to a positive resolution; praised by Department of Justice as “model grant recipient”• Collected data from all participating schools following training delivery, submitted semiannual reports to DOJ, and liaised with school districts to address needs and ensure smooth implementation Show less

  • Grants Program Manager

    May 2023 - now

  • Project Manager

    May 2019 - May 2023