COSV

I joined COSV in 2020 as a translator and moved into intercultural communications in 2022. Across six years and four projects, I have worked inside COSV's portfolio across Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey under EU compliance frameworks, translating legal and financial documentation while supporting operations across civil society strengthening, social entrepreneurship, urban revitalization, and community cohesion.

Day to day, the work crossed several functions. I supported implementation of more than 50 project action plans inside a portfolio worth approximately USD 14 million, with a 90 percent on-time completion rate across the portfolio. I contributed to more than 20 EU-compliant financial and narrative progress reports for donor audits. I conducted more than 100 field-based needs assessments with refugees and vulnerable communities across the region, and I sat in the middle of cross-cultural communication between affected populations, social workers, international NGO partners, and EU donors.

Intercultural facilitation was the throughline. Each project required translating not just language but expectation between four kinds of stakeholders: affected communities in Lebanon, Syria, or Turkey, frontline social workers, international NGO management based in Europe, and EU donor compliance teams reading the deliverables. Each group needed to be heard accurately by the others. Misalignment in humanitarian work has real costs: services that miss their target, or audit findings that endanger continued funding.

The COSV years inform The Architect AI's foundations more than any other engagement, even though the work was not technical. Building systems that actually serve underserved populations requires understanding the populations, the people delivering the work, and the structures funding it, then orchestrating the three. The Architect AI is a different scale and a different domain, but the operational discipline behind it traces back to the COSV portfolio.