Sangsun Kwon

Experience

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  Republic of Korea Army Special Forces

  Apr 2008 - Feb 2010

  Signaler

  • Maintained communication system, and documented voices and other signal information• Received award for excellent services

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  KOICA

  Nov 2012 - Nov 2013

  Young Professional

  • Conducted feasibility studies and mini-evaluations of small-grants public private partnership projects through documents review, site-visits and interviews with stakeholders• Produced newsletters and brochures to introduce activities of KOICA Ethiopia Office as well as a booklet of safety guidelines for staffs and volunteers as well as• Conducted media monitoring and wrote monthly reports on development trends, as well as political, economic, and social issues in Ethiopia

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  UNESCO

  Sept 2015 - Feb 2016

  Intern

  • Conducted a comparative analysis of the Palauan education system with other countries in the Pacific for ‘Education Sector Review’ on the Republic of Palau• Carried out a desk study on learners’ well-being in the Republic of Korea, including policy review, data collection and case research for ‘Happy Schools’ report• Prepared meeting reports, speeches and newsletter articles for the organization of UNESCO-KEDI (Korean Education Development Institute) Joint Seminar and Joint Seminar on Ensuring Adequate, Effective and Equitable School Finance Show less

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  고려대학교

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

  Research Assistant / Institute for International Development Cooperation

  • Prepared background information on Paraguay’s primary health care system and issues in maternal and child health care for the university’s project proposals

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  Korean National Commission for UNESCO

  Feb 2017 - Oct 2018

  Project Manager

  • Conducted technical, financial and administrative management of a non-formal education project supporting children in rural and sub-urban areas through community learning centres• Supported establishment of M&E system, carried out monitoring site visits to the project sites and regularly updated collected data for project M&E• Prepared project proposals, narrative and financial reports for donors, and visibility and communication materials in cooperation with a partner organization and stakeholders Show less

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  Database Center for North Korean Human Rights

  Apr 2020 - Jul 2020

  Intern

  • Assisted in research on the state of human rights in North Korea by conducting surveys with victims of human rights abuses, transcribing interviews, and performing media review• Created communication contents for social media and newsletters to raise awareness on a variety of issues on the human rights situation in North Korea• Translated documents and other materials essential to the work of the organization including project proposals, reports as well as testimonies of North Korean defectors Show less

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  UNDP

  Jul 2020 - Jul 2024

  • Support country office staff and national partners in programme/projects planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting by technical quality review, capacity building and advisory support• Coordinate and ensure the quality of various country office-wide planning, data collection and analysis, and reporting exercises, ensuring alignment with corporate guidance• Manage project indicator data and information, project quality assurance, social and environmental standards procedures and partnership opportunities in consultation with relevant programme units• Support planning, commissioning, managing country programme evaluations including recruitment of evaluators and coordination of evaluation reports review• Build the capacity of new and existing staff through providing trainings on project designing/planning, M&E, RBM, data and information management and results-oriented reporting Show less

  • Monitoring And Evaluation Officer

    Jul 2022 - Jul 2024

  • Monitoring And Evaluation Associate

    Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
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  IOM - UN Migration

  Nov 2024 - now

  Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Officer