Rossella Bottone

• Directly manage Human Resources (400+ staff), Finance and administration Departments
• Direct supervision of 8 field offices in Colombia
• Strategic Management of WFP team in Colombia in coordination with Country Director
• Lead the Vulnerability analysis and Research team
• Raised 100+ Million USD yearly from various donors
• Successfully delivered on tasks within tight deadlines.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Analysed operational data, identifying areas of improvement.
• Managed complex operations to enhance efficiency within the organisation.
• Fostered relationships with key stakeholders to ensure continued business collaboration.
• Promoted unity among staff members through effective and consistent communication of vision and values.

• Support WFP management decision making processes with sound analytical tools
• Implementation of food security and monitoring assessments in the region
• Technical support for VAM (Vulnerability analysis) teams in WFP Country offices
• Oversight of WFP monitoring teams
• Enhance data literary among WFP teams
• Promote the implementation of innovative data collection and analysis tools (remote surveys, chatbot)
• Conduct pioneering research with external teams (Migration policy Institute, MIT Civic Data design lab).
• Streamlined communication processes, improving team coordination.
• Established strong relationships with different stakeholders for improved partnerships.

• Supported decision making in humanitarian action by conducting regular fields assessments.
• Provided advice to senior management regarding appropriate policy solutions.
• Constructed detailed action plans, achieving streamlined implementation of new procedures.
• Team Leader for Household food security Analysis (quantitative and qualitative data) for Emergency Food Security Assessments (EFSA) and Joint Assessment Missions (JAM). Field support for food security assessments (ToRs, preparation of tools, data analysis and report preparation).
• Capacity building of Government staff (food security assessments and analysis).Project planning and review (food security
  analysis and justification of interventions).
• Provide technical advice on a wide range of programme and policy issues including assessment and analysis, the choice of objectives, activities and transfer modalities the deployment and testing of innovative approaches and the development of strategies to support government efforts to reduce hunger and malnutrition.
• Support in the research and testing phase on improved indicators for food security measurements and analysis.
• Conducted training on staff of assessment methodologies and data analysis

Overall management of Jacmel Suboffice and WFP operations in South East region of Haiti. Supervise Sub office staff. Liaise with partners at field level to identify projects where food aid can be employed.
Assist the Country Office in identifying fields of development where food aid can be usefully employed and give assistance in planning, formulating, and targeting recipients for new requests for WFP aid. Assess the need for food in emergency situations, draw up plans for its timely arrival in coordination with government and partners, and monitor the implementation of these plans.

Food security assessments /emergency assessments in the Kivu region.
Develop specific needs assessment tools in order to organize regular assessment in IDPs and refugee sites;
Assist the sub-office in identifying fields of development where food aid can be usefully employed and give assistance in planning and formulating new requests for WFP aid;
Help strengthen programme staff capacities in analysing assessment information and providing clear programme recommendations;
Organize, facilitate and provide regular inputs to the WFP programming unit on the food security situation of beneficiaries.

Management of the post Stan emergency operation.

WFP trainer in EFSA methodology (Emergency Food Security Assessment) within WFP LAC region Food security assessments /emergency assessments/Vulnerability analysis and mapping (VAM surveys).

Monitoring and evaluation of ongoing operations.

Design, implement, monitor, redesign and evaluate projects.