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DMYTRO POLONSKYI
Kyiv, Ukraine
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2024 - 2025 EURASIA FOUNDATION, Communications Specialist, eProcurement Ecosystem,
June - January Kyiv, Ukraine.

Digital Transformation Activity (DTA) Program
- Participating in the development of communication activities to increase trust and awareness of
the opportunities that the Prozorro e-procurement system and the public procurement ecosystem
can provide to the target audience
- Creating content (news, message boxes and Q&A, social media posts, speech abstracts, success
stories, visuals and other informational materials) for the communication channels used by the
DTA project and partners to disseminate information about the results of the project and the
fulfillment of its goals and objectives
- Participation in the creation of online and offline events for Prozorro, coordination of events,
preparation of event scenarios for donors, writing speeches
- Cooperation with the mass media: generate information sources, prepare press materials
(releases, columns, interviews, special projects, quotes, etc.)
- Conducting media monitoring
- Participation in the preparation of reporting documentation for donors
- Coordination of communication activities with state bodies and other project parties
- Coordination of work with external contractors for the production of communication and
souvenir products: preparation of technical tasks, search for executors, monitoring of task
performance, collection of information
- Preparation of reports on achieved results

2024 CHEMONICS INTERNATIONAL INC, Program Development Assistant, Strategic Communications
January – April and Innovations Department. Kyiv, Ukraine.

Technical assistance project Ukraine Confidence Building Initiative (UCBI - 4)
- Assisting with the communications and digital promotion plans review and recommendations, as
well as helping with the occasional performance reviews for grantee and subcontractors
- Coordinating with other teams and grants, procurement, and operations colleagues ensuring
collaborative planning and constructive relationships
- Engaging potential assistance recipients to design and develop grant concepts and activities that
are strategically aligned with the UCBI strategic framework and priorities.
- Assisting with coordinating and maintaining relationships with external partners and stakeholders
- Advising the evolution of the local political, legal, and economic situation and on how changes
impact UCBI activities and relationships.

2020 - 2023 NGO LIFE, Advocacy center, (https://center-life.org/en/), Kyiv, Ukraine
Communications manager

Project: Reducing risk-factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Ukraine:
- Organizing community events and the CVD mass media prevention campaign
- Testimonials video production
- Developing a set of CVD risk factors prevention materials for the general public
- Forming a group of opinion leaders

Project: Advocacy for policy changes in tobacco control and ensuring a high level of compliance
to safeguard people from tobacco harm project:
- Advocacy with stakeholders for the adoption of the anti-tobacco law #1978, which came into
force in January 2022
- Implementation campaign of anti-tobacco law #1978 with the Ministry of Health, Public Health
Center and State Food and Consumer Service
- Organizing media campaigns and media events for Advocacy Center “Life”
- Influence marketing
- Conducting meetings with foreign donors
- Creating and representing reports for the donor
2022 - current FREELANCE PRODUCER, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Organizing interviews with top Ukrainian politicians for the foreign media
2019 - 2020 IDEAMEDIAGROUP, videoproduction (https://ideamediagroup.com.ua/en/) Kyiv Ukraine.
Production Director
- Production of commercial and corporate video
Among clients: IOM Ukraine, Astarta, Lasunka
2016 - 2019 ICTV TV CHANNEL, Kyiv, Ukraine
- News reporter at the news program «Fakty»
2014 - 2016 EURONEWS TV CHANNEL, Kyiv, Ukraine
- News reporter at the Kyiv bureau
2010 - 2014 UBR TV CHANNEL
- Reporter, business and economics focus areas

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- Languages: Ukrainian (native), English (fluent)
- Continuously contributing to development of public health awareness by participating in seminars as a speaker (e.g Georgia
Office of WHO, Act for Health project) and participating in the workshops on the professional topics when invited.
- 2020 – current SPUNBOND Charity Foundation (https://sbf.charity/en), Volunteer. Helping the foundation with humanitarian
and medical aid projects.
- Areas of interest and hobbies: evolution and social relations, reading, sailing.

EDUCATION & TRAININGS
KYIV NATIONAL LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY, Department of English Linguistics, Kyiv, Ukraine
Master of English Linguistics and Literature, 2010
THE CENTRE FOR CULTURAL RELATIONS: СAUCASIAN HOUSE, Batumi, Georgia
Participant for the project Annual University on Conflict and Development, 2015
KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: CENTRE FOR JOURNALISM, Kyiv, Ukraine
Training for Media Representatives from the Center for Journalism at Kyiv School of Economics, 2016
ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF POLITICAL STUDIES OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE,
Graduate. Participant of political conferences in Stockholm, Belgrade, Berlin and Strasbourg., 2017