Sara Homayounfar

Dedicated and committed policy, monitoring and evaluation specialist with nearly 10 years of working experience in public service. Proven track record of improving output rated while developing the analytical and critical thinking skills necessary to thrive. Excellent communication skills for relaying information for improvement and process changes and familiar in leadership and management positions delegating tasks to a team of employees.

A candidate that combines strong interpersonal skills with extensive production technical knowledge.

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (Policy lead)

Since August 2019, Corporate Affairs Branch, Corporation d'urgences-santé (Emergency services), Montréal, Canada

• Conduct of program evaluations and monitoring
• Policy analysis
• Internal audit specialist
• Present findings at quarterly board meeting, making recommendations for improvements and acting as an M&E consultant to executives
• Provide briefing 
• Implementation and deployment of three-year strategic planning.
• Implementation of the Code of Ethics. 
• Coordinating the release of the 2019-20 Annual Management Report
• Managing Partner Agreements 
• Report health status 
• Management of monitoring of indicators 
• Corporate-wide accountability
• Corporate case management and follow-up with TBS 

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist 

March 2017-August 2019, Corporatif Services Branch, École nationale d'administration publique, Montréal, Canada

• Conducting documentary reviews.
• Coordination and implementation of data collection and monitoring of participants.
• Facilitated focus groups and semi-facilitated interviews.
• Transcription of semi-structured interviews and focus groups.
• Oversaw special projects and assigned unique roles to best utilize staff talents.
• Processing and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data (NVivo and SPSS);
• Writing evaluation reports (Public Service Commission and Youth Secretariat/Ministry of the Executive Council) and an article (Bulletin A+ Le Carrefour des acteurs publics
• Develops and makes recommendations on strategies and policy proposals related to several issues impacting.
• Monitored all aspects of evaluation daily

Monitoring and Evaluation specialist (Research) 

March 2012 to April 2017, Transport Society of Montreal, Montréal, Canada (Total of 1272 working days)

• Evaluate the EXTRA/EXTRA program of the Department of Health and Social Services.
• Selection of candidates.
• Follow-up with data collection participants.
• Facilitation of semi-structured interviews.
• Transcript of semi-directed interviews.
• Performance analysis and development of performance indicators.
• Obtaining certifications.
• Development of management dashboards.
• Compilation and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected.
• Development of a strategic plan and a monitoring and evaluation guide.
• Participation in multi-sectoral meetings.

Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant

January 2011 to January 2012, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada 

• Conducting literature reviews and developing performance indicators.
• Writing reports and communicating results. 
• Planning and conducting key informant interviews. 
• Identification of the needs of a target population to prioritise the areas of intervention.
• Health program development and implementation.
• Participation in various stages of research projects.
• Compilation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative statistical information.
• Preparation of meetings and workshops.
• Assisted monitoring and evaluation specialist in all aspects and provided support when requested. 
• Relayed information from M&E specialist to other professionals, employees or technicians. 

Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (D.E.P.A)

2016-2018, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

• Seminars in Public Health, Multidisciplinary Methods, and Management of Health Organizations
• Federal, municipal, and regional policy management
• Organizational theory 
• Population health
• Management Research and Systems Analysis
• Evaluation of Health Interventions 
• Public Health Ethics
• Policy analysis

Master of Public Administration, Program Evaluation (M.A.P) 

2011-2013, National School of Public Administration, Montreal, Canada

• Public Program Evaluation Principles, Processes and Methods
• Principles and issues of public administration
• Law of public administration
• Public policy analysis
• Comparative analysis of administrative reforms
• Public Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis
• Organizational Research and Intervention Methodology
• Performance measurement and cost-benefit analysis
• Public Sector Governance and Policy Analysis
• Management of public organisations
• Results Based Management, Project Management and Dashboards
• Consultation and Organizational Change and Ethics and Public Management
• State and globalization

1. INTERNSHIP REPORT WITH CITATION OF EXCELLENCE
2. National School of Public Administration, Montreal, Canada, 2013. 
3. Three-year B.A. in General Social Sciences, Major in Public Administration and Minor in Psychology (BSc)
4. 2007-2010, Université Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
5.  

• Introduction to public administration 
• Introduction to Public Policy Analysis 
• Introduction to Public Management 
• Introduction to Canadian Policy 
• Introduction to Methodology in the Social Sciences 
• Fiscal policy and public finance
• Theory of public organization
• Evaluation principles, processes, and methods 
• Introduction to Applied Psychology
• Women’s psychology 
• Child psychology 

1. $2,500 EXCELLENCE AWARD
2. University of Ottawa, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ottawa, Canada, 2008.