Nicole Helme is the Director of Adaptive Management for Acute Incite, providing technical oversight to projects in Syria and El Salvador, and global projects. Nicole has over 14 years of experience in Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). She currently serves as a technical advisor for the USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)-funded Implementer-Led Design, Evidence, Analysis and Learning (IDEAL) activity.

Ms. Helme leads CLA capacity sharing for BHA implementing partners, developing trainings, tools and resources and facilitates a vibrant peer community for CLA leads, which serves as a hub for peer sharing.

Previously, in her role as a Senior MEL Specialist for the international non-governmental organization Global Communities, Ms. Helme provided M&E and CLA technical oversight and capacity strengthening to a $70 million portfolio of five USAID-funded activities. Ms. Helme began her M&E work in Guatemala, managing an Open Society Foundation-funded project which built civil society capacity to monitor the performance of local government initiatives. Ms. Helme is a trained facilitator with experience leading large-scale workshops and trainings (in-person, virtual and hybrid), facilitating donor-implementer stakeholder consultations, and developing multi-country knowledge sharing events.

She holds a Master of Public Affairs from the University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor.