Alice Kostrzewa

Business Development and Partnerships Manager for West Africa
Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone

Alice is from the UK and has been in Sierra Leone since 2019, in Sierra Leone she has managed a national health project, a multidisciplinary complex project in Connaught Hospital and worked in informal settlements. Alice has have an understanding of the context and challenges of delivering programmes in West Africa; where she has successfully managed a complex multidisciplinary partnership project; a consortium project for SLURC (Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre) working in informal settlements and a national health project as part of the FCDO Saving Lives Consortium. Additionally, she has successfully delivered projects, programmes and evaluations within the NGOs, healthcare, public and education sectors in the UK, India and Zimbabwe with nearly 10 years of experience. Her academic background is a Masters in Global Development and Gender and an undergraduate degree in Architectural Studies. Her expertise in gender, project management, stakeholder engagement, partnership building and research management includeing evaluations. Along with working here in Sierra Leone Alice has fundraised and built toilets in Cockle Bay informal settlement and volunteered in Susan’s Bay fire disaster relief.