Our Team in Vietnam

Tran Thi Thanh Toan
Administrative Coordinator

· Budget management
· Accounting oversight
· Project and sub-project identification and design
· Weekly, monthly and quarterly activity planning
· Project, sub-project, and staff monitoring and evaluation
· Regular reports to the US Office and Vietnamese working partners
· Staff development and training identification
· Initial and mid-level project and sub-project negotiations with
Vietnamese working partners
Hosting visitors
Contact for Equipment donation

My colleagues often call me Skinny Toan. I think it is true since I am really skinny. I love this job and I am happy that I am now able to work with CPI.

Toan is the newest member of the CPI staff. She is a welcome addition and runs a tight ship!

Tran Duc
Logistics Coordinator

My job description:
· Maintain daily vehicle logs.
· Prepare logistics reports required for tracking transportation and associated costs, such as vehicle maintenance.
· Handle all vehicle related procedures, such as registration and insurance.
· Provide interface between CPI Viet Nam and contractors, such as telecom and office rental
· Driving as needed by other staff

I like this job very much, so I want to work for CPI for a long time.

Mr. Duc is the wind under all our wings here in Viet Nam: when something needs to be found and procured, some deal needs to be finagled or some bad stretch of road finessed, he gets the job done. He seems to know every cop and market woman from Dong Hoi to Da Nang, and all sorts of folks who fall in between. Generally, if he can't manage to make it happen, it's not possible.

Le Thi Yen Nhi
Office Manager

My job description:
· Oversight responsibility for coordination of office and field activities.
· Project bookeeping .
· Organization of all correspondence, agreements, and supporting documentation materials .
· Data entry for statistical projections in preparation for generation of project proposals.
· Secondary cashier
· Procurement of office supplies
· Oversight of assigned beneficiaries as necessary.

I really enjoy this job and wishing to work for CPI.

Ms. Nhi came to us recently and has proved a welcome addition to the staff here. She's a very down to earth young woman: our beneficiaries feel comfortable with her, and she for her part feels very protective of them. She is pro-active in organizing all the beneficiary documentation, as well as the letters, faxes and other bits of vital and not-so-vital information we need to reference in our day to day work.

Tran Hong Chi
Position: Program Manager
Nickname: G-Man

My job description:
· Oversight responsibility for all program activities, including but not exclusive to:
o Reconciliation of monthly and overall project expenses with Project Coordinator.
o Oversight of bookkeeping with and quarterly audits by independent accountant.
o Approval of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting to CPI US.
o Development, negotiation and implementation of Viet Nam projects with staff and local working partners in Quang Tri and other project locations.
o Staff development & training.
o Interface with other NGO's as needed to provide assistance to beneficiaries, or further other cooperative activities.
o Host foreign donor delegations to project sites.
o Provide primary interface of CPI Viet Nam with local working partners.
o Collate all materials requisite to submission of quarterly, semi-annual and annual reporting to local working partners and relevant agencies.

I enjoy what I've been doing and wish that I can contribute more to the CPI activities.

Mr. Chi has proven himself time and again with a calm, assuring manner, whether dealing with benficiaries, Party officials, working partners or staff, and is widely respected for his translation and negotiating skills. He formerly worked as Program Coordinator with UXB, our contractor on the recently finished UXO clearance project, where he shone. Now, he turns his considerable talents to managing the Accident Survivor Assistance Program and we are very pleased to have him aboard.

Phan Thi Ai Phuong
Position: Project Coordinator

My job description:
· Oversight responsibility for direct project implementation and documentation, including but not exclusive to:
o Collection of data and documentation for case studies and other relevant elements of fund-raising and presentation
o Coordination of beneficiary treatment and treatment plans
o Project cashier: disburse and reconcile funds advanced to staff for project implementation
o Daily coordination with working partners to serve benficiaries
o Coordination of Medical Liasion activities
o Responsible for primary relationship with cooperating hospitals and local working partners
o Collate and present, to both CPI US and local working partners, statistical data for generation of project proposals

I am Ms. Detail on the project and I like my job very much. I am always challenged and so always learning.

Ms. Phuong has been the backbone of the Accident Survivor Assistance Program. What she doesn't know about what we do and how to get it done isn't known yet, and I can honestly say she knows more about applied (meaning non-theoretical) UXO survivor assistance than any other person in Viet Nam. She has excelled in program development with myself and local working partners, finding the holes and plugging them, finding the openings and exploiting them. She keeps track of the million things we do, and with recent staff expansion she is able to share what has been a tremendous load.

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