DIANA AGUDELO ROJAS
--Tabio, Colombia
Social impact expert
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SUMMARY
Sociologist with experience in social programs design, management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), focusing on
inclusive education, livelihoods, and regenerative agriculture projects; as well as in private social investment - CSR-.
Proficient in multi-stakeholder partnerships (private, public, third sector, and communities), international
cooperation and leading teams. With skills in strategic planning, social research, and social data analysis; and
expertise in technical tools such as the logical framework and theory of change approaches to lead donor-funded
projects and to monitor grantees’ initiatives. Well-versed in SDGs and Human Rights.
Wide experience in participative processes and negotiation with rural, urban and indigenous communities, from
different Latin-American contexts. Excellent communicative, organization, and analytic skills. Passionate for social
impact, communities’ sovereignty and for culturally diverse environments.
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Social Programs Design and
Management – Master’s degree
Consultant for social impact organizations
FLACSO - Argentina
2009 - 2010
Sociology - Bachelor degree
Universidad del Rosario - Colombia
2001 - 2007
CERTIFICATIONS
• Leadership and citizenship for Women –Uniminuto
• Designing and Implementing Monitoring and
Evaluation Systems - Aga Khan Foundation/Alison
• Power BI - Zakidata
• Leading Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations –Ashoka
• NGOs in Colombia and its special tax regime –
Javeriana University
• Development projects management - IDB
• Landscape design (agro-ecology) - Organizmo
• Entrepreneurs studies & Corporate Sustainability –
AMIA, GCBA, Accenture, PROEM
SKILLS
High-quality technical reports development.
Efficient projects’ budget management.
Building and sustaining valuable relationships.
Team work and leading teams.
Holistic perspective about organizations’
strategic actions and M&E processes.
• Social research. Power BI for data analysis.
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LANGUAGES
• Spanish
• English
• French
Different organizations | 2023 - Present | Remote
• Soydoy (COL): Institutional and international development
manager – 2023-today: international relationships development
and organizational positioning. Social projects design.
• ICAL (COL)- 2024-today: projects design for international funders.
• Abuelita-Tech (EEUU)– 2023-today: tech education research and
contents design for vulnerable communities.
• Soluna (COL) -2023: initial social analysis from indigenous group;
social intervention tools proposal for new solar energy project.
Projects lead
ICAL Foundation | 2020 - 2024 | Colombia
• Inclusive education (for deaf children) and childhood programs
design and management. Research design in education topics.
• Strategic local and international relationships development.
• International positioning of the organization: selected by
Education 4.0 Lighthouse program from the World Economic
Forum, shortlisting for the World’s Best Schools Prize 2023,
selected by HundrED Global Collection 2022 and 2023, awardee
for the Zero Project Prize 2024
Economic development manager
Soydoy Foundation | 2018 - 2019 | Colombia
• Design and management of projects about food security, family
agriculture, and livelihoods for urban, rural and indigenous
population.
• International cooperation and fundraising.
Projects professional
Gente Ecopetrol Foundation | 2015 - 2018 | Colombia
• Managing the Projects area and its budget, including the
selection process for grantees; with projects about education,
childhood, food security, sustainability, and urban and rural
agriculture for vulnerable communities.
• Restructuring the projects’ selection process of the organization.
• Relationship with different areas of the petroleum company
(Ecopetrol), and also with communities and partners (NGOs,
private, and public).
OTHER PARTICIPATIONS
• 2025- Elected as substitute member of the
Tabio’s municipality Women's Advisory Council,
for the co-design of public policy to prevent
violence against women.
• 2024 – Speaker about inclusive education at the
Zero Project Conference - UN Offices, Vienna,
Austria.
Co-founder
La Posta Eco / De Origen DS | 2014 - 2015 | Argentina & Colombia
• Own project’s construction and management.
• Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and communication consulting
for entrepreneurs and NGOs working with organic agriculture
and eco-design products in Argentina and Colombia.
• Eco-design products sales.
Projects Manager
Compromiso Foundation | 2010 - 2014 | Argentina
• 2022 - Publication: Childhood Education
Innovations (USA), "Inverse inclusion, an
educational model that transforms lives”.
• 2013 - Speaker in the VI Regional Conference
IAVE on Volunteering in Latin America
(Guayaquil, Ecuador): “Strategies for supporting
participation on Corporate Volunteering
Programs”.
• 2012 - Selected to receive the UNESCO
scholarship for the Program Gender Relations in
the Information Society.
• Technical advice about private social investment for companies
(General Motors, Zurich, Tecpetrol, Mercedes-Benz, TyC Sports,
Samsung, Nidera, Tenaris, etc.) on the design, planning,
management, and evaluation of social projects and programs for
their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies.
• Managing and monitoring of projects in environment, education
and childhood, women, community development, and corporate
volunteering.
• Mediation in multi-stakeholders’ articulation.
• Participation in the development of Sustainability reports.
Research analyst
Universidad de La Sabana / SP Consulting | 2007 - 2009 |
Colombia
VOLUNTEERING
• 2015 - 2022 - Various organizations in Colombia:
Technical advice in projects’ development and
fundraising for organizations such as El Refugio
del Alma, Centro Yamantaka, Fundación
Challenger, Distrital University – Sports
management program, Fundación Guama Tribu
Creativa, etc.
• 2012 - 2014 - Various organizations in Argentina:
Volunteers’ coordination and direct participation
in environmental activities and others with
organizations such as Pecohue, Asociación Ribera
Norte, Banco de Alimentos, Comedor Villa 21-24,
etc.
• Construction, development, monitoring, and editing of research
projects about Higher Education in Colombia.
• Research projects development for the Colombian National
Education Ministry.
Intern
Interconexión Eléctrica S. A. ISA - ESP | 2006 - 2007 | Colombia
• Design and development of a research project about socioenvironmental conflicts in Latin America, for the company's
strategic planning area.
REFERENCES
Colombia:
Argentina:
Andrea Escobar
Executive Director at Fundación Soydoy
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Cora Pesiney
Director of Volunteering and Programs Manager at
Fundación Compromiso
E-mail:-
Julián Falla Arredondo
General Director at Fundación ICAL
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