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Professional profile · Skopje, North Macedonia

Haris Mekic

Project, programme and cross-functional operations professional

I work where programmes, institutions, experts, suppliers and operational systems need to move together. My contribution is usually to maintain the full picture, turn requirements into coordinated action and keep delivery moving through careful follow-through.

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Career in one view

Responsibility developed through the work itself.

  1. Foundation

    Coordination and service delivery

    Built a practical grounding in administration, client service and the discipline of keeping day-to-day delivery reliable.

  2. EU technical assistance

    Institutional project delivery

    Coordinated the working structure around EU-funded institutional reform projects: experts, beneficiaries, project documentation, missions, study visits and reporting cycles.

  3. UN Women

    Programme and cross-functional operations

    Expanded into a broad operational role connecting procurement, suppliers, travel, events, systems, office functions and programme implementation.

  4. Management-facing work

    Judgement across functions

    Became a dependable operational resource for status, recommendations, issue escalation and implementation follow-through across multiple workstreams.

  5. Digital adoption

    Systems and process enablement

    Supported colleagues and suppliers as enterprise tools and travel workflows changed, translating procedures into practical day-to-day use.

  6. Current practice

    AI-enabled working

    Uses evidence-controlled AI workflows for research, professional reconstruction, software development, testing and bounded autonomous execution.

EU technical assistance

Working inside institutional reform

My EU-funded project experience developed in technical-assistance environments where international experts, public institutions, contracting structures and fixed reporting requirements had to remain aligned.

As Project Coordinator, I supported implementation across market surveillance, consumer protection and bankruptcy and liquidation reform. The work included expert mobilisation, Terms of Reference, timesheets, missions, study visits, project meetings, deliverable follow-up and reporting packages.

This was not generic administration. It required an understanding of where each institution, expert and project document sat in the implementation structure, and the discipline to keep those parts moving without confusing coordination with technical or policy authority.

UN Women

A role that grew across functions

At UN Women, my formal administrative role developed into cross-functional operations and programme implementation support. Procurement, supplier maintenance, travel, events, assets, ICT, HR support, finance follow-up and office operations often met in the same working day.

The position also required coordination with programme colleagues, office leadership, regional functions, government counterparts, experts and delivery partners. I supported activities ranging from routine operational continuity to senior international visits and multi-stakeholder events.

The most useful part of that experience was learning how functions connect. A programme activity is also a supplier, travel, system, documentation and timing problem. Reliable delivery depends on seeing those dependencies early and keeping responsibility clear.

I am most useful when delivery crosses functions and somebody needs to understand both the purpose of the work and the operational detail required to move it forward.

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