Adedeji Adekunle Email & Phone Number

Nigeria

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

I lead the Nigeria Program Of the MDIF called NAMIP. The Nigeria Media Innovation Program (NAMIP) is a 3-year initiative aimed at increasing capacity, generating sustainable and diverse revenue streams, and building audiences of independent media in Nigeria; particularly those reaching underserved communities.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● In line with the revisioning of the Centre's future, I was Named the Director of Innovation at the centre where I would be fully implementing the creation and establishment of the unique, high-value Centre projects as independent entities. This is in addition to the continuous development of Civic tools.● Attracted, motivated and retained passionate teams by mentoring and encouraging professional growth, fostering operational excellence, creativity, and a culture of continuous improvement and coaching.● Conceptualized new strategic initiatives that could be built around or benefit from corporate, foundation, government, bilateral organizations or other partnerships.● Disseminated research findings to partners to enable improved programming and to external stakeholders to build the reputation and brand of the centre as a thought leader and provider of gold-standard life skills and financial education programmes.● Monitored and advised on programme and project spending and variance report as per CJID’s process and procedures. Ensured the implementation of programmes to meet the expectations and requirements of funders and partners.● Provided leadership in the development of strategic plans and budgets for all programmes within the unit. Provided leadership for the programmes team towards achieving the objectives of CJID’s strategies.● Created systems and processes where necessary for exemplary design-intensive initiatives to launch and scale.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● Got tasked with providing general Programmatic Leadership to the Centre’s programs and projects in line with an overall revisioning of the Centre’s goals and objectives.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● Promoted to the Deputy Program Director of the centre in January 2020 while still managing the department and was responsible for incubating Data Trends and Intelligence (DTI), our data startup. In addition to other responsibilities, I supervised and provided support to other Program Managers/Departments in the Centre while deputizing for the Program Director when neccesary.● Led the research and capacity development of the centre and the data project of the centre to the building of the Dubawa Project to become the premier fact-checking and verification platform in the region.● Executed our first country expansion for any project in the centre when we opened the Dubawa office in Ghana. Expanded that reach to three other west African countries in 2021.● Created the Dubawa fellowships which have influenced newsrooms across the country. Through these projects, other newsrooms have created fact-checking desks internally.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● Trained loads of reporters on different projects in the centre. On the EU ROLAC project, I was engaged to create a curriculum to teach Evidence (DATA) based Advocacy to 100 CSO staff across the 6 zones of the country. Trained over 1000 journalists on data journalism, fact-checking journalism and accountability journalism over the past 5 years.● Carried out consequential fact-checking for both the 2020 Ghana elections and 2021 Gambian elections. Executed projects and collaborations in those countries.● Collaborated with the NCDC to help intervene during Covid-19. We were also part of a global coalition that was awarded at the Paris Peace Forum to tackle misinformation on Covid-19.● Created the Information Disorder Analysis Centre (IDAC) where I led the creation of multiple research papers on information disorder and executed two editions of a research fellowship.● Executed the Centre's first West Africa information disorder conference in November 2021, with speakers from multiple countries, reps from Meta and the IFCN as well as politicians and other experts.● Trained complete rookies, hired an expert consultant and guided them to become full blown investigative journalists who have successfully published over 250 stories covering the Agricultural Sector of Nigeria.● Led the research team in the development and dissemination of monitoring and evaluation tools and support for partners in conducting M&E on the centre’s programmes.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● Supervised a team of Data Analysts to create data-driven knowledge products.● Conducted multiple types of analysis on public open data.● Scrapped data from online sources and conducted sentiment analysis.● Built data-driven tools for civic engagement and public accountability.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● Executed the Centre’s Next Gen Program called the Campus Reporter Project where the TIM (Training, Internship, and Mentorship) framework was utilized to build the next generation of newsroom and journalism professionals and leaders. In the first two years of the project (2017&2018), I helped build a website and mobile application for the journalists while providing mentorship. Created an internship program for the bright sparks and finally executed an award ceremony in 2018. It has gone on to train in over 20 tertiary institutions while under my leadership and produce international award-winning journalists.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

● Conducted Budgetary Analysis on Nigeria’s spending and development priorities● Created Data Stories and Infographics for strategic advocacy● Provided Project support by creating research products, training curricula, and proposal drafts

Nigeria

● As the Manager of the Research and Capacity Development Unit of the CJID, and due to the multidimensional nature of the Dubawa project and its multi-country focus, I double as Dubawa's Program Manager, supervising functional teams with staff in 5 West African Countries.● I created organizational structures and roles to enable efficiency and proper delivery of objectives.● I trained, mentored, and upskilled team members on program and project management, created and maintained partnerships, and ensured compliance with the IFCN and its Code of Principles (The Industry Regulator for Fact-Checking initiatives)

Abuja, Nigeria

● Managed the organization’s partnerships and acted as a liaison to CBN, the National Assembly and many government MDAs.● Designed and ran qualitative and/or quantitative customer research projects to produce actionable insights.● Designed and ran strategic and/or tactical research to support strategic objectives.● Built and maintained collaborative relationships with stakeholders across government, including providing research advice and expertise.● Sought opportunities and implemented solutions to improve the government's capability in using user research.● Advocated for users and research insights as projects progress through the delivery process.● Ensured efficient and effective use of project resources to deliver objectives within established time-frames.

Nigeria

● Liaised with business stakeholders to understand industry trends and business objectives to design the solution that will meet their business requirements.● Defined and communicated systems requirements at the appropriate level of detail to ensure applications are flexible, open, scalable, available, testable and maintainable within a high-volume production environment.● Analyzed and conceptualized the design of the solution, working with the Systems Architects, Vendors, Software Developers and Quality Assurance/Testing, to achieve the client stakeholder objectives through effective deployment of technology.● Applied both in-depth business and technical knowledge, to successfully represent the business and technology community in arriving at technical solutions.● Proactively monitored all IT network and communications services and prompt escalation of downtime and service degradation on a need basis.● Performed regular maintenance on all network and communications services as defined on a quarterly basis.● Worked closely with our other support team/units to ensure network connectivity requirements are fulfilled in a timely manner.● Ensured internet and network, firewalls, data centre infrastructure, access points availability and stability in all business locations.

Abuja, Nigeria.

● Handled the creation of the annual procurement plan and maintained the commission's compliance with BPP standards and documentation.● Coordinated the accurate completion of purchase requisitions from user units within the Technical department and other Non-Technical functions.● Received and reviewed all requisitions for the purchase of technical and non-technical items, ensuring they are properly approved and within budget.● Sourced, processed and coordinated the analysis of valid quotations/ tenders for approved items.● Engaged in negotiations with suppliers/vendors (with the approval of the Procurement Manager or Head, Procurement) and coordinate the issuance of purchase orders, after due approvals have been obtained.● Ensured all purchase orders are authorized by management, dispatched to vendors for acknowledgement and filed with supporting documents.● Reviewed vendor invoices and ensure they are in line with PO and contract terms.

• Supervision of COLO-Rooms by ensuring all necessary environmental conditions for the operation of Network Terminals are ● Supervised the installation of new radio connections and fibre optic installations in addition to the general colocation duties in which we ran a 24-shift attending to customers and troubleshooting when necessary.● Supervised COLO-Rooms by ensuring all necessary environmental conditions for the operation of Network Terminals are maintained.● Received and assisted in resolving network access issues with clients.● Supervised ground fibre work and radio installations when the need arises.● Handled installation of Network Switches and Radio Terminals for clients.● Managed the overall maintenance and documentation of processes and activities.maintained.• Receive and assist in resolving network access issues with clients.• Supervise on ground fibre work and radio installations when the need arises.• Handle installation of Network Switches and Radio Terminals for clients.• Overall maintenance and documentation of processes and activities.

● Ran regular maintenance of local line connections for the different NNPC offices scattered across the Island. Assisted the Telecoms team to digitize the local line plans of the network using computer skills.● Provided daily updates on VSAT equipment functionality status. Supervised radio communication installation between subsidiaries.● Performed weekly maintenance of local line plans for all surrounding subsidiaries. Handled the computerization of proposed local line plan layouts.

Post Graduate Diploma, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Computer Science And Mathematics

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