Gita S.
✨ Newly AddedHead of Portfolio (Operations)
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Notable Highlight
Led portfolio-related work as Head of Portfolio at BLFF through August 31, 2026.
Experience Summary
Gita is a Bali-based sustainability and program coordinator with over five years of experience running environmental and social-impact initiatives across Indonesia, with international exposure in the United States. She held roles spanning impact accelerators, social funds, environmental foundations, and enterprise development organizations, managing programs, stakeholder relationships, reporting, and compliance. Her background includes early-career experience as an auditor at EYAKI, which established a strong foundation in data, documentation, and financial reporting. She brought a cross-sector perspective, from grassroots conservation and women's empowerment to youth entrepreneurship, policy research, and UN-aligned development programs. An accounting-trained professional who transitioned into social impact operations, Gita accumulated experience across grant funding, project management, impact measurement, stakeholder coordination, compliance, and program delivery within the Indonesian nonprofit sector. Most recently, she served as Head of Portfolio at BLFF until August 31, 2026, coordinating stakeholders and supporting program delivery across portfolio and fellowship-related activities. Gita has international and remote work experience. During a fellowship in Hawaii in spring 2024, she worked remotely across an approximately 18-hour time difference, demonstrating capability in managing significant time-zone differences. Her strongest area of relevant experience is B Corp certification. At a previous company, she facilitated B Corp certification for four enterprises as an external consultant. At a previous company, she managed the B Corp certification process internally, working across supply chain, product, and impact components. Her experience includes familiarity with certification interview cycles, revision processes, and renewal. She also has relevant experience with a coconut manufacturing company, where she trained coconut farmers and worked on supply chain certification and lifecycle assessment.
Key Achievements
- Facilitated B Corp certification for four enterprises at a previous company as an external consultant.
- Managed B Corp certification end-to-end internally at a previous company, covering supply chain, product, and impact components.
- Developed expertise in B Corp certification interview, revision, and renewal processes through direct certification experience.
- Trained coconut farmers and managed supply chain certification and lifecycle assessment activities for a coconut manufacturing company.
- Coordinated remotely across an approximately 18-hour time difference during a Hawaii-based fellowship.
- Led portfolio work as Head of Portfolio at BLFF through August 31st, 2026.
Skills
Brings hands-on experience across Sustainability program coordination, Environmental initiatives, CSR initiatives, Sustainability data monitoring and reporting, Certification and compliance support and Stakeholder engagement. Also works across:
- Project coordination
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Documentation and process management
- Impact measurement
- Grant and funding reporting
- RFP processes
- Vendor management
- Budget management
- Partner engagement
- Workshop facilitation
- Policy brief writing
- Financial auditing
- Internal controls
- Financial literacy programs
- Community development
- Nature-based Solutions
- Gender and intersectionality
- Cross-team coordination
Work Experience
Head of Portfolio
BL · Bali, Indonesia · Mar 2026 - Present
- Operate as the sole operations lead inside a four-person team, reporting directly to the Managing Director, building the due diligence and risk criteria used to vet, onboard, and derisk 25 partner organizations across a national portfolio, including a model behind a 19 percent reduction in childhood stunting across two districts, outperforming 18 of 22 comparable districts.
- Manage consolidated portfolio reporting and funder-facing communication for leadership, converting program activity into materials a Managing Director can act on without reworking them.
Research Assistant (Part-Time)
DRPILDPP · Remote · Nov 2025 - Present
- Support a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Horizon Europe-funded doctoral project on cross-sector collaboration, structuring an open-ended research question into a 116-article systematic literature review corpus (Scopus, Web of Science) against a structured, multi-dimensional analytical framework.
- Contribute to a paper accepted as a developmental paper at the British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference 2026, with further work targeted at a journal Special Issue submission.
Social Impact Manager
NSF · Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia · Jan 2025 - Mar 2026
- Report directly to the Fund's Director, building the impact-measurement framework used to standardize outcomes and reporting across a five-pillar community fund.
- Ran a competitive, evidence-based selection process for the Dana Asa Kriya initiative, structuring five community leaders' proposals into a clear comparison and narrowing funding to the two strongest, enabling the principal to hand off entirely.
Program Manager
PBF · Bali, Indonesia · Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
- Report directly to the Foundation's Director, coordinating women-led environmental programs including grassroots conservation and communal forest monitoring across Bali and Nusa Tenggara Timur.
- Manage a sustainable enterprise incubation initiative and an indigenous climate innovation program running simultaneously across multiple regencies.
Impact Lead
KI · South Sumatra, Indonesia · Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
- Led training and scholarship programs reaching 100+ coconut farmers, 50+ women, and 10+ scholarship recipients within a wider network of more than 500 coconut farmers, building the systems used to measure and report outcomes across financial literacy, sanitation, and livelihoods.
Enterprise Development Officer / Project Officer
II · Jakarta, Indonesia · Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
- Built and applied financial models to assess early-stage social enterprises competing for accelerator funding, running due diligence, Request for Proposal processes, and funder reports across several concurrent national programs, including a UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office program spanning several countries.
- Coordinated with colleagues, government counterparts, and partners across multiple countries and time zones on a daily basis.
Visiting Research Fellow
PGC · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
- Produced a policy brief and funding-proposal language for a new farm program, applying an intersectional lens to immigrant and refugee farmer needs.
Project Officer
KI · Indonesia · Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
- Supported a United Nations Development Programme and Citi Foundation youth initiative reaching more than 12,000 women running small businesses across Vietnam and Indonesia, coordinating with a fully remote, multi-country team.
Auditor / Audit Associate
EYAKI · Indonesia · Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
- Audited financial statements and internal controls for accuracy, compliance, and risk; prepared audit findings and recommendations across client engagements.