Susi has twenty-four years’ experience in the international development and humanitarian sectors, both in the non-profit and private sectors. She has specialised in strategy development, complex programme and operations management, institutional funding, financial management and team leadership.
Susi’s thematic knowledge is varied across poverty and inequality reduction. Between 2012 and 2021, she led the international programme divisions within the Senior Management Teams at Fight for Peace and Y Care International, focused on youth violence prevention and youth economic empowerment respectively. From 2009 to 2012, Susi was the Country Programme Director for HelpAge International in Colombia. She established their national programme, which focused on fulfilling the rights of older people affected by the civil conflict. Before that, Susi started her career working in various programme support and funding roles at Oxfam GB.
Since September 2024, Susi has been working as an independent consultant, supporting Social Development Direct with technical capacity in its Helpdesk programmes.
Susi formerly worked with Social Development Direct. She joined in April 2022 as the Regional Lead for the Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub for Eastern Europe (RSH EE) within the Programmes Team. Susi’s role was to lead the vision and direction of the programme whilst ensuring effective programme management and strong partnerships across a Consortium of delivery partners. Following the closure of the programme in November 2023, Susi moved to the Business Development Team to become Partnerships Lead for the global Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub programme, identifying new opportunities to expand the programme’s work, leading the development of technical proposals and supporting existing Safeguarding Hubs to become locally-led.
Susi has a Master’s degree from the University of Edinburgh in Spanish and European History.