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TETIANA CHORNA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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National Protection Manager MHPSS and GBV NCA/DCA Oct`2023 – present
Ukraine
- Implementation MHPPS and GBV of activities throughout Ukraine
- Developed and executed a series of MHPSS and GBV campaigns, enhancing community awareness and engagement
- Led case worker development through targeted coaching, performance management, and continuous feedback
- Spearheaded initiatives to strengthen protection, gender, and accountability principles, enhancing program effectiveness
- Strategized for integrated Protection, Gender, and AAP mainstreaming across program activities
- Forged operational partnerships to foster protection, inclusion, gender equality, and community accountability
- Directed comprehensive assessments and evaluations in MHPSS and GBV, informing strategic direction
- Conduct assessment missions and implement evaluation activities around MHPSS and GBV
- Crafted and implemented a Protection strategic plan, ensuring cross-sectoral coherence and efficiency
- Established interdepartmental Protection linkages, integrating public health, education, and GBV efforts
- Contributed to MHPSS and GBV proposal development and budgeting, aligning with programming goals
- Provided expert technical guidance for partner led MHPSS and GBV initiatives, promoting effective integration
- Collaborated closely with field and protection teams to pinpoint and address critical MHPSS and GBV challenges
- Taking the lead in representing the organization technically in national and sub-national protection/MHPSS
technical working groups, coordinating with protection/MHPSS technical stakeholders and donors.
Program manager MHPSS and GBV NCA/HEKS-EPER Ukraine Dec`2022- Oct`2023
- Organization of different program MHPSS and GBV events, campaigns and sensitization sessions
- Coaching, training, supervising and mentoring case workers including communicating clear expectations, setting performance
objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented
performance reviews
- Identify opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of protection, gender and AAP principles and propose effective strategies for
developing
- Contribute to planning and supporting implementation of Protection, Gender, and AAP mainstreaming through cross-cutting
activities within the programmatic
- Establish and maintain operational partnerships to identify opportunities for strengthening protection, inclusion, gender equality,
and accountability to affected
- Organize WGSS in Odesa city
- Implementing an application “Helping Hand” for youth
- Conduct assessment missions and implement evaluation activities around MHPSS and GBV
- Supporting the development and implementation of a Protection and strategic plan with cross-sectoral links
- Promoting strong linkages around Protection within units for public health, community based-protection, child protection, GBV,
education and others
- Supporting the programming exercise to draw proposals and budgets related to MHPSS and GBV
- Providing technical assistance to implementing partners within in the development, integration, and mainstreaming of
appropriate and cost-effective MHPSS and GBV activities
- Working closely with field, and protection staff to identify priority MHPSS and GBV issues, identify gaps and overlaps in
programming, address unmet needs, and orient existing activities to address priority issues

Senior MHPSS Officer International Rescue Committee Ukraine Sept`2022 – Dec`2022
- Coaching, training, supervising and mentoring case workers including communicating clear expectations, setting performance
objectives, providing regular and timely positive and constructive performance feedback, and providing documented
performance reviews
- Creating weekly movement plans
- Organization of different program MH events, campaigns and sensitization sessions
- Conduct assessment missions and implement evaluation activities around MHPSS
- Supporting the development and implementation of an MHPSS strategic plan with cross-sectoral links.
- Supporting the programming exercise to draw proposals and budgets related to MHPSS
- Providing technical assistance to implementing partners within in the development, integration, and mainstreaming of
appropriate and cost-effective MHPSS activities
- Working closely with field, and protection staff to identify priority MHPSS issues, identify gaps and overlaps in programming,
 address unmet needs, and orient existing activities to address priority issues
- Developing training plans for MHPSS, organizing and acting as resource person in workshops and training both in-service and on
the job (coaching).
- Promoting strong linkages around MHPSS within units for public health, nutrition, community based-protection, child protection,
GBV, education and others
Women’s protection and empowerment case worker International Rescue Committee May`2022 – Sept`2022
- Providing psychological support to women and girls affected by GBV, case management
- Conducting individual psychological consultations with women and girls affected by GBV, domestic violence, etc.
- Opening “Community center” for psychosocial support to women and girls survivors of GBV
- Identifying and assessing the needs of women and adolescent girls; providing crisis advice and referral them to the necessary
specialists
- Development and implementation of programs that ensure the prevention GBV
- Conducting life-skills training and groups of support for women and girls to help them recreate and accrue new skills for future
life
- Cooperation with local authorities and NGOs to meet the relevant needs of women and girls
Art coordinator (junior PM) LLC “Publishing “Glowberry Books” Dec `2021 - May’2022
Ukrainian creative production - Work on an animation project “Brave Bunnies”
- Distribution of weekly, and daily tasks and downloads among the art group
- Daily control of the art group's schedule
- Maintaining organizational tools, such as Cerebro, sheets, and specific project pages
- Tracking workflow project roadmaps that highlight objectives and deadlines
- Maintenance and control of trackers for making changes to changes in art materials
- Communicating and hosting routing project meetings with key partners
- Collecting and spending Art-material to create Storyboards and Animatics
- Supporting the Animation manager, and franchise asset management in transferring/uploading files, fulfilling asset
requests on all current Animation content
Administrative manager LLC “Publishing “Glowberry Books” Feb `2021 – Dec `2021
Ukrainian creative production - Work on an animation project “Brave Bunnies”
- Overseeing general office operation
- Greeting visitors, answering a high volume of incoming phone calls and delivering world-class service to our customers
- Coordinating appointments and meetings and managing staff calendars and schedules
- Organizing company events or conferences
- Ordering stationery and furniture
- Coordinating domestic and international travel, including flight, hotel, and car rental reservations
- Producing reports, composing correspondence, and drafting new contracts
- Creating presentations and other management-level reports
CEO LLC United Center of Complex Solution for Safe production – petroleum sale Ukraine Apr`2020 – Sep`2020
- Market researchers of petroleum
- Recruiting sales managers: candidates interviewing, collaboration with recruiting platforms, managers training
- Conclusion contract with suppliers
- Conclusion of contracts with customers
- Conduction negotiations with customers
Private Psychological Practice Ukraine Oct`2017 – Present
- Personal consultation
- Group consultation
- Organize, and conduct training
Co-founder of NGO "The Box of the Good Deeds". Ukraine Sept 2017 – Dec 2020
- Engage and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders and structures for coordinating the protection of women
and girls in Zhytomyr city, including NGOs as well as government actors
- Working with the media to prevent cases of GBV;
- Conducting life-skills training and groups of support for women and girls to help them recreate and accrue new skills for future
life
- Developing programs and conducting training sessions to provide counseling and psychological assistance to victims of gender-
based violence with volunteer organizations
- Developing, and implementing a training program for partner staff, including the creation of work plans, agendas, and logistical
organization of training courses, all based on an assessment of each partner’s base knowledge of gender
- Collaborating with partners in the design and implementation of GBV services, based on needs and context
- Facilitating, co-designing training sessions with partners, other sectors, and other relevant stakeholders
 - Implementing the response strategy to identify GBV risks and needs, outlining a problem statement, response modalities,
activities and required funding
- Procurement planning and management
- Budget planning and management
- Development and monitoring of work plan
Head of the team "Polissya Football Club" of Zhytomyr City Council Ukraine Apr’2016 – Oct 2017
- Executed contracts for football players
- Provided material and technical support for the training process and team participation in the competition
- Prepared documents for the certification of the football club
- Organized team trips to the competition
- Controlled over fulfillment of financial obligations to the team
- Provided and controlled health insurance for football players
Courses: Additional education
- Studying in private psychological studios. Sept`2013 – 2017
Lawyer in Tomchuk company Ukraine Feb’2013 – Jun’2013
- Execution of contracts
- Preparation of documents for transactions
- Preparation of documents for the court
Service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Zhytomyr region (police officer) Aug’2007-Feb2013
2007 – 2010 - Psychologist in patrol service:
- Selection of candidates for service, and psychological support, provide psychosocial training.
2010 – 2013 - Assistant to the head of the Regional department of the Ministry of International Affairs of Ukraine in the
Zhytomyr region:
- complain reports;
- organization of meeting;
- organization of business trips, booking hotels, tickets.
- documents management.
Volunteering Experience
- 2016 - 2017 Marathon Volunteer Writing Letters from Amnesty International;
- 2017 - coordinator of the project "Overcoming silence";
- 2017-2018 - conducting legal education activities among students of regional educational institutions;
- 2017 - 2018 - psychological support, educational work with Basketball team "Calypso", Zhytomyr;
- 2018 - coordinator of the project "Emigrants", "Women of unusual professions".
- 2018 - Coordinator of the «Non-Weak Sex» Project (legal assistance, psychological, and advocacy work in the field of anti-
violence legislation)

EDUCATION
2002 - 2007 - Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (full-time study), master’s degree in psychology.
2003 - 2008 - Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (correspondence form), Bachelor’s degree in a law.

Training and courses

- Diploma IN COMPASSION FOCUSED THERAPY Jun`2024
Compassion mind foundation
- TOT on Protection of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse March 2024
- IOM training MHPSS and Livelihood integration April 2024
- ITI in Gender – Based Violence Case Management Feb – Mar`2024
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Self – Care training May 2023
- TOT WHO SH+ Dec` 2023
- Training Addressing the needs of male survivors in Ukraine Dec` 2023
- Gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities Oct` 2023
in emergencies
- Core concept and GBV Case management training Feb`2023

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Languages Skills:
Ukraine: Mother’s tongue
Russian: Mother’s tongue
English: Upper-intermediate
Italian: Base

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Program Design & Coordination | Strategy development & Systems Implementation | Representation & Advocacy |
Implementing
Therapeutic and Positive Mental Wellbeing Practices | Stakeholder Engagement | GBV and Protection Programming &
Analysis
I Proposal & Report Writing | Preeminent Communication & Interpersonal Skills | Analytic Problem-Solving |.