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OKSANA KAVTYSH
PROJECT AND PROGRAM MANAGER
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Legal status: Individual Entrepreneur, Tax Group 3 — available for contract-based/service-agreement cooperation
Languages: English B2
CORE SKILLS
• Communication skills, working with social media, writing texts of different styles
• Team management
• Analytical skills
• Work with contracts, reporting
• Project and organization development strategy management
• CSR
• Business process management
• Organization of themed events

Software: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, ActivityInfo, and other project management tools and software, Google Workspace
WORK EXPERIENCE
Project and Program Manager
Public Organization "Psychological Support and Rehabilitation ‘Vilnyy Vybir’" | 05.2025 – 07.2026
• Management and coordination of the team and donor-funded project/program implementation
• Development and management of project and program strategy, work plans and budgets
• Planning, coordination, monitoring and reporting on program activities to donors and partners
• Communication with donors, partners and stakeholders
Fundraiser
CO Mother and Child | 15.01.2025 – 04.2025
• Strategy, plans, and programs for raising funds from various sources of financing. Grant writing
Project Manager/Coordinator
Public Association "Global Compact Network in Ukraine" | 2020 – 15.01.2025
• Development and management of project strategy. Strategic project development consulting implementation
• Management of the team and business processes
• Planning, organization, control, motivation and coordination of the project team
• Contract work and work with project documentation
Researcher, Aesthetics Department
Modern Art Research Institute, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine | 01.2024 – 03.2026
• Scientific publications, organization of conferences, scientific and methodological seminars and other scientific events
• Organization of project work with national and international partners
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Entrepreneurship
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" | 2012 – 15.01.2024
Lecturer
National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" | 2005 – 2011
• Teaching for full-time and part-time students, secondary education students, postgraduate students
• Scientific publications, development of educational and methodological support for the educational process
• Organization of conferences, scientific and methodological seminars and other educational and scientific events
• Organization of project work with national and international partners
CSR Consultant
LLC "Agrotechsoyuz" | 01.09.2017 – 06.06.2018
• Development and management of CSR strategy, programs and projects implementation
• Management of the team and optimization of business processes
• Accounting work
• Communication with stakeholders
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Member, All-Ukrainian Non-Government Organization "Elite of the State" – since 2017 (Certificate No. 878 dated 30.04.2021)
• Member, Public Council under the Ministry of Social Policy, Family and Unity of Ukraine – since 2021 (Order No. 510 dated 10.09.2021)
EDUCATION
PhD in Economics
Academy of Municipal Management | 2010
• Defense of the candidate’s thesis in the specialty 08.00.03 "Economics and management of the national economy"
Postgraduate Student
National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" | 2006 – 2009
Master’s Degree (Honours), Administrative Management
National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" | 1999 – 2005
• Specialization: "Administrative management"
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION
Certificate of Competence in Content Creation for the GURT Portal
GURT Resource Centre (gurt.org.ua) | 2025
Scientific and Pedagogical Internship Program "The Power of Social Media in the Professional Development of University Representatives: Personal Brand, Tools for Educational Products, Promotion of Sustainable Development Values" (6 ECTS, 180 h.)
Zofia Zamenhof Foundation, Warsaw, Poland — Erasmus+ COMSUS Project | 2024
E-course "Sustainable SMM: Sustainable Communication in Social Media for Higher Education Institutions" (20 h.)
LusofonaX / Erasmus+ COMSUS Project | 2024
Course "Financial Management for NGOs" (30 academic h.)
Compass Group Capacity Building Academy | 2024
Online Course "Successful Grant Writer" (0.2 ECTS / 6 academic h.)
Zrozumilo! Educational Platform, Eastern Europe Foundation | 2024
Workshop "How to Teach CSR"
CSR Ukraine | 2014
Advanced Training "English for Professional Purposes" (B2-C1, 108 h.)
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute | 2016 – 2017
"European Business-Practices of CSR", joint project of KNEU, Jean Monnet Fund and Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (300 h.)
Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman | 2015 – 2016
PROJECTS
Public Organization "Psychological Support and Rehabilitation ‘Vilnyy Vybir’"
• "EMPOWER: Education, Mental Health, Protection, and Opportunities for Well-being and Enhanced Resilience" (Donor: Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe – DKH)
◦ Project resources: educational platform · training platform · guide “Among the Waves” · needs-assessment report
• Training program for employment centre specialists working with people affected by war-related trauma, in partnership with People in Need (PIN) (Donor: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation – SDC; partnership details)
LLC "Agrotechsoyuz"
• Participation of the company's staff in the Run under the chestnut trees
• "SDG in Ukraine: A Look of New Generation" – organized by Agrotechsoyuz LLC together with UN Global Compact in Ukraine, Ukrainian Association for Management Development and Business Education, Kyiv Business School, Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism
• CSR news & events – ATS
All-Ukrainian Non-Government Organization "Elite of the State"
• Participation in the organization of an open lecture by Michael Woolcock (an expert at the World Bank Development Research Group), "Building a Government Capacity: A Ukrainian Formula"
• event coverage
Public Association "Global Compact Network in Ukraine"
• IT Nation
• IT Nation 2.0
• SEED 2.0
• SEED 3.0
• €480,000 raised for 12 SMEs (EU4Business)
• globalcompact.org.ua/projects/
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
• Creation and coordination of an advisory group of students and professors to participate in the project "New Business Models for the Bio-Energy Sector in Ukraine", organized by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Dutch Sustainable Development DB and Saxion University of Applied Sciences
• Visegrad research project "Forecasting Factors Influence on Climatic Changes as a Part of Sustainable Development Goals 2030" – a research group of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute together with WSB University (Poland), University of Žilina (Slovakia), VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic), Pan-European University Prague (Czech Republic), and Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary)
◦ Project resources: event photos · monograph (PDF)