Gillian Valentine

Experience

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  Karen Office of Relief and Development

  Mar 2011 - Feb 2012

  Development Assistant

  KORD was formed in 1993 as a community-led organisation to deliver emergency relief assistance and facilitate participation in planning processes amongst internally displaced Karen/Kayin communities in Karen/Kayin State, northern Mon State and Bago Region.

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  Thabyay Education Foundation

  Aug 2012 - Apr 2013

  Project Manager, Myanmar Community Academies Programme

  MCAP is made up of two layers - MCAP Central Program, which is located in Yangon, and a network of three, community-based academies in Hpa-an, Loikaw and Myitkyina. MCAP Central Program supports partner academies to implement values-based education programs in their local communities. It provides capacity building and technical support across a range of areas, such as visioning, curriculum, training, monitoring and evaluation.

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  UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

  Dec 2014 - May 2015

  Admin/Finance
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  World Food Programme

  Jun 2015 - May 2016

  Partnerships Assistant
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  UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

  May 2016 - Apr 2018

  Programme Associate
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  WaterAid

  Apr 2018 - Sept 2019

  Project Officer, International Programmes
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  International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

  Jan 2021 - Sept 2021

  Senior Project Coordinator (Human Settlements Group)
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  Save the Children International

  Sept 2021 - now

  As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 1.6 billion children have seen a suspension to their learning.​​​ Tens of millions of these children are not expected to return.​​ An additional 260 million children who were not benefitting from educational services prior to the pandemic now face additional barriers to access their right to an education. Save the Children’s Safe Back to School (SB2S) initiative kicked off in 2020 in response to Covid-19 and its detrimental impact on education, protection, health, and wellbeing - threatening development gains of recent decades. SB2S aims to harness SC’s organisational capacity and expertise to support the return of over 150 million of the most marginalised children safely back into learning through holistic programming, national-level advocacy, and support towards inter-agency coordination. Show less

  • Senior Specialist, Movement Development & Quality Standards (secondment)

    Aug 2024 - now

  • Global Innovation Programme Manager, Safe Back to School and Learning

    Aug 2022 - Oct 2024

  • Project Manager, Safe Back to School

    Sept 2021 - Aug 2022