DAGMAR HERNANDEZ THOMSEN 

Cand.Scient.Soc. in International Development & Public Administration

    PERSONALITY:

                                             

Energetic, Dynamic, Structured and Decisive. I like to Organize, Plan and Implement projects and enjoy leading these through to completion. I thrive in a fast moving political environment. 

 

   IT-SKILLS

                               

HTML-programming; MS-Office. Experience with websites and intranets incl. ‘Synkronweb’ as a super user. Different databases. ‘Navision’

   LANGUAGES 

                                      

 Fluent in:     Danish 

                        Spanish

                        Swedish 

                        Portuguese 

                        English 

Studied:         Russian & French

   

Curriculum Vitae

 

Work experience

World Food Program, UN

July 2011 -1st September 2011

Home based

 

Freelance Consultant

Program Design and Support Division, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit

·     Development of Routine Monitoring Guidance for the Program Guidance Manual including, Distribution Monitoring, Post Distribution Monitoring, Beneficiary Contact Monitoring, Market Monitoring, Retailer Monitoring and Output Monitoring.

·     Development of WFP’s self-evaluation package including different methodologies based on a menu of options model.

·     Development of indicators for WFP’s process monitoring including the finalizing of a ready to use process monitoring toolkit. 

World Food Program, UN

October 2010 – 30th June 2011

Rome, Italy

 

Program Officer (JPO)

Program Design and Support Division, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit

·     Attends the Head Quarter based Project Review Committee (PRC) with responsibilities with a main focus on design, planning and budgeting of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) – mainly in the WFP Panama region and Cairo region.

·     At PRC responsible for screening projects for technical management of Monitoring and Evaluation including WFP Strategic Objectives, mandate as well as the organization Results-Based Management approach within the framework of food security.

·     Assisting in the development of a minimum set of results-based information and analytical needs as well as standards and guidance concerning the M&E aspect of WFP’s new transfer modalities based on conditional and non-conditional cash and voucher transfers when used for fighting hunger in emergency and recovery settings.

·     Development of guidelines, standards, formats and tools for the planning and Implementation of M&E in WFP’s different operation types among others country programs, emergency operations, development programs and recovery- oriented operations.

·     Guides Regional Bureaus, Country Offices and other personnel regarding monitoring, evaluations including standards, methods, indicators, data collection as well as data management within the framework of food security and poverty reduction.

·         M&E field missions when required.

World Food Program, UN

October 2008 – September 2010

La Paz, Bolivia

 

Program Officer (JPO)

Program Division,  Monitoring and Evaluations Responsible

·      Responsible for the design and implementation of the M&E strategy for  WFP’s emergency operation in Bolivia as well as for the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation including a separate emergency component, a Mother and Child Health Component, a School Feeding Component and an Asset Creation and Training Component.

·      Responsible for designing, implementing and managing all M&E strategies for activities under the County Program including a national School Feeding Program and a Nursery Feeding Program for children under five years of age.

·      Responsible for the administration of all M&E systems including the liaising with government counterparts and partners.

·      Design of indicators, data collection, data management systems and analysis of same.

·      Responsible for the further dissemination of information to program managers, senior managers as well as external partners.

·      Reports Officer, responsible for reporting to Head Quarters and Donors including three years of data collection, reporting and narrative for SPRs.Analysis of the consequences of humanitarian disasters as well as on domestic policies in Bolivia on hunger, malnutrition, food insecurity and extreme poverty with the aim of operation and intervention design.

·      Assisted in setting up the Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS) Government counterparts and FAO.

·      PRRO Project preparation (Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation).

·      Represented WFP in the Bi- and Multilateral Agricultural Sector Coordination Group.

Professional competencies developed as part of M&E responsibilities in WFP:

·         Food Security Analysis and Hunger

·         Market Studies (cash and voucher viability studies)

·         Health and Nutrition in Children and Mothers (lactating and pregnant), Health Sector

·         Agricultural Sector Development

·         Contingency Planning, Emergency Preparedness

Danish Centre for International Studies and Human Rights

(DCISM)

January 2006 – July 2006

Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Assistant to the Director of the International Department, DIHR

Danish Institute for Human Rights, International Department

·      Financial Management of projects and project portfolio.

·      Budgeting and budget follow-up.

·      Development and updating of the DIHR project manual (vol. I & II).

·      he project manual included all guidelines concerning the project administration including different guidelines for different donors and financial modalities.

·     Aid Management Guidelines (AMG) from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

·      Design and development of the DIHR intranet.

·      Tenders and grants for different donors (EU, MoFA etc.)

·      Consecutive results management and reporting for different bi- and multilateral donors.

Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

February 2005 – December 2005

Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Student Assistant

Office for Africa

·     Primarily linked to the team responsible for the management of Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa and the African Union.

·     Assists in the management and the administration of Danish development aid to Africa including when needed assistance in the support of the ministers.

·     Provided assistance to the office work concerning Danish development assistance to Africa with a strong focus on Danish assistance to Sudan and Eritrea.

·     Finalizes and closes budgets and projects for agricultural development projects including the correspondence with African authorities and partners for this purpose.

·     Information gathering and dissemination of information among others on the webpage.

Roskilde University Centre

October 2004 - February 2005

Roskilde, Denmark

 

Student Assistant

International Basic Studies in Social Sciences, House 22.1

Work connected to the Administration of House 22.1

EX Libris, Book Store & Language School

September 2003 – October 2004

 

Employee

Book Store and Language School

 

Education

 

Cand.Scient.Soc.

2005-2007

 

Master of Science, International Development Studies and Public Administration

Roskilde University Centre

 

 

Courses: ”Speciale seminarer på Udviklingsstudiet samt på Forvaltningsstudiet”

 

 

Master’s Thesis:

Study of state development and economic development in Central Asia within the framework of natural resource abundant states. Comparative analysis of state types, economic and institutional structures, public sector reforms, as well as geo-political and geo-economic relations with the aim of explaining diverging effects of natural resource endowments including economic development opportunities. Finally, the master thesis analyzes how management of natural resources can affect opportunities based on Central Asian case studies for comparison purposes.

Thesis was selected for competing for ‘Roskilde University best thesis 2007’

Masters Module

2004-2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public Administration, Department for Society and Globalization

Roskilde University Centre

Courses: Public Economy and Regulation; International Economic Policy; International and Public law; Public Organizations and Steering.

Projects:  

·         Analysis of Foreign Investments in the Kazakh energy sector with the aim of studying oil and gas sector spillover effects. Analysis of the countries’ economic structures and strategies that oil and gas sector companies implement in the difficult investment climates in Central Asia. Study of the dynamics between investing companies and government structures defining contractual agreements and investor requirements affecting spillover opportunities. Field work and data collection in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

·         Digital Administration – Organizational Change in the Public Sector.

Bachelor

2002-2003

 

 

 

 

 

International Development Studies

Roskilde University Centre

Courses: Globalization, Economy and the Productive sector; State and Politics; Political Reforms and Administrative Development in Africa; Development Techniques; Development Aid; Theory and Development; Development, Society and Culture.

Projects:

  • Public Sector Reform and Poverty reduction in Mozambique.

  • Colonization strategies and the effects on Development potentials in Africa and Asia.

Basic Studies in Social Sciences

2000-2002

 

 

Undergraduate in Social Sciences

Roskilde University Centre

Courses: International Economic Policy; Advanced Economics; State, International Institutions and Economics; Theoretical Statistics; Scientific Methodology; Sociology; Politics; Economy; Planning, Space and Resources; Planning in Geographical Space and Historical Resource flows; Qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Projects: 

·            Empowerment evaluation of a branch of the Danish NGO – ‘Hjerneskadeforeningen’.

The organization required the evaluation from the science shop at RUC. The project included an analysis of existing quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods with the aim of designing an evaluation methodology that worked in the particular context. Further the ToR included the undertaking of the evaluation, the presentation of findings to the organization and finally the implementation of continues auto-evaluation tools.

·           New Economics Institutional study of the Russian transformation process.

·           Structure and Stabilization programs in Tanzania. Study of Political & Economic Reforms.

Personal skills and competences

 

Languages

 

 

 

Spoken

Understanding

Written

Danish

Mother tongue

 

 

Spanish

Mother tongue

 

 

Swedish

Fluent

Fluent

Good

Portuguese

Fluent

Fluent

Good

English

Fluent

Fluent

Fluent

French

Acceptable

Good

-

Russian

Acceptable

Acceptable

-

 

 

Organizational skills

and competences

 

Member of the Danish Society for Central Asia

·       Knowledge-sharing about Central Asia. Networking with other interested professionals.

 

 

‘Activities responsible’ at and active member of the United Nations Association (UNA)

·      Member of the Human Rights Group with responsibility for planning and organizing of different debates including debate series on women’s rights and seminars on ’human trafficking’.

·      ‘Activities responsible’ in KIFFU’s coordination group, UNA’s youth group.

 

 

Volunteer at the Red Crescent office in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

·      Activities for and vulnerable young people and homeless children primarily in orphanages and hospitals.

 

 

Member of the Executive Committee and active in the Society ‘Future of Bosnia’

·      Planning, organization and implementation of different funding activities and seminars.

·      Planning of exchange visits between Danish and Bosnian high schools.

 

Trainings

 

 

·         ‘Nutrition and Sicknesses Prevalent in Childhood (AIEPI-Nut), GoB, Chuquisaca, Bolivia

·         ’Conducting Market Studies and Analysis in practice’, WFP, La Paz, Bolivia.

·         ’Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation’; IMA International, Cape Town.

·         DevInfo’ (database management), UNICEF and DevInfo, La Paz, Bolivia.

·         ’Protection in Humanitarian Operations’, La Paz, Bolivia.

·         ’Advanced Security in The Field’, United Nations Safety and Security Organization.

·         ’Basic Security in The Field’, United Nations Safety and Security Organization.

·         ’International Public Sector Accounting Standards’ (IPSAS), La Paz, Bolivia.

·         ’New Business Model’, WINGS/SAP user training, La Paz, Bolivia.

·         Russian (90 hrs.), Institute for Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg, Russia.

·         Russian (218 hrs), Private Linguist, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Technical skills

and competences

 

 

·         HTML-programming and websites, acquired through private teacher.

·         DevInfo’ Database software as a super user and administrator, acquired through WFP.

·         Synkronweb’ as super-user, acquired and used at DIHR.

·         ’Navision’ for financial management, acquired and used in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

·         Database design and web-interfaces, acquired at WFP while designing several databases.