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Jessica Omana

Date: 08.26.2020

Professional Category: Other

Summary

EDUCATION 2014 – Bachelor of Arts, Government | Georgetown University, D.C., USA 2011 – Associate in Arts, International Relations | Miami Dade College, The Honors College, FL, USA SKILLS Languages – English (Fluent), Spanish (Native), Portuguese (Advanced) Computer – Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Windows, MacOs Software – Bloomberg, Investment Metrics, PARis, Quickbooks, Adobe Lightroom (Basic) Web Tools – Cityspan Grants Management System, Dropbox, Grant Central, Prezi, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Skype, Slack, Workday

Professional experience

The Chicago Community Trust (CCT) - 04.2018 until 08.2020 - 2 years and 4 months

THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY TRUST (CCT) – CHICAGO, IL | APRIL 2018 – AUGUST 2020 INDUSTRY: NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION GRANTS MANAGER, COMMUNITY IMPACT | JANUARY 2020 – AUGUST 2020 • Share background and lessons learned from Get IN Chicago’s work supporting acutely high-risk youth in Chicago communities. • Support the Director of Community Impact with strategic/project management needs on youth violence prevention initiative. • Facilitate co-design process with partners (grant recipients, City of Chicago, Illinois Justice Project, Chapin Hall and Chicago CRED). • Assist the Grants Management team with verification of organization’s information and providing technical assistance. • Reviewed proposals and made recommendations for the Chicago Community COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund. GRANTS MANAGER, GET IN CHICAGO | FEBRUARY 2018 – DECEMBER 2019 • Oversaw development of new grant opportunities and managed existing portfolio ($15M under advisement). • Built and maintained relationships internally and externally. • Collaborated closely with GIC’s Director of Programs on award logistics/modifications (scopes, budgets, extensions, amendments). • Managed GIC’s grants management system and provided database trainings and technical assistance to grantees. • Reviewed grantee reports and budgets for compliance and approved award payments. • Analyzed data and translated performance metrics into outcomes that were shared with our partners, board, and donors. • Developed board-meeting materials (i.e. Summative financial balances, grant-making dollars, and grants performance metrics). • Provided thought leadership and perspective around grant-making and database strategy. • Supervised interns (2-3/semester) and managed projects.

Aon Hewitt - 02.2015 until 04.2018 - 3 years and 2 months

AON HEWITT – CHICAGO, IL | FEBRUARY 2015 – APRIL 2018 INDUSTRY: GLOBAL HR & MANAGEMENT CONSULTING SENIOR INVESTMENT ANALYST, RETIREMENT & INVESTMENT CONSULTING | FEBRUARY 2017 – APRIL 2018 INVESTMENT ANALYST, RETIREMENT & INVESTMENT CONSULTING | FEBRUARY 2015 – FEBRUARY 2017 • Managed 15 corporate, public, not-for-profit, and endowment clients (totaling $9.8B under advisement). • Produced Investment Reviews by producing technical performance reconciliations and rate of return of client’s investment portfolios. • Created presentations for client meetings (total Fund performance, manager searches, annual reviews, and other analytics for ad-hoc). • Supported the Atlanta team in producing a Market Briefing (in-brief of market index data sent to the global broader firm). • Supported the Chicago Index Team with efficient and reliable flow of index data for our investment colleagues worldwide (i.e. Return variants, price, income, gross, net and index characteristics bounded by AHIC’s license subscriptions).

British-American Business Council (BABC) - 06.2013 until 08.2013 - 2 months

BRITISH-AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL (BABC) – MIAMI, FL | JUNE 2013 – AUGUST 2013 INDUSTRY: NON-PROFIT MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION INTERN • Maintained communication with business network members. • Demonstrated flexibility and ability to learn new software system. • Processed financial data entry in QuickBooks and optimized the council’s financial reconciliation reports for tax returns. • Managed research that resulted in sponsorships for a sponsored event hosted by the BABC for Art Basel Miami, December 2013.

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