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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Tanzania

Leading impactful initiatives focusing on empowering young women in agribusiness and improving adolescent nutrition across East Africa. Managing the ILRI and Nutrition International programs by overseeing community engagement events, media campaigns, and strategic partnerships to challenge restrictive gender norms, promote sustainable agricultural practices, and foster positive health outcomes. Creating lasting change by collaborating with local communities, influencers, and stakeholders to drive meaningful social transformation.

My focus is on media communications and experiential marketing; targeting the youth in Africa.- conceptualization- content creation- brand development- project management- strategy creation - project/campaign execution

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Elevating the narrative of young minds and hearts, Tai Tanzania stands at the vanguard of youth-led innovation in Dar es Salaam. Tai is not just an organization; it's a movement, a revolution of social and behavioral transformation ignited by the power of storytelling. Through the lens of 3D animations, radio dramas, and comics, Tai rewrites the societal script, broadcasting messages of vital importance to our communities. Tai's focus is on the adolescents of Tanzania, empowering them through narratives that resonate deeply with their realities.With his fiery passion for youth empowerment and profound expertise in social and behavioral change communication, Lucky was a natural fit for Tai's board. An invitation to join this groundbreaking storytelling venture in Africa was extended, and it was an opportunity he simply couldn't turn down.Our relentless pursuit of excellence has earned Tai Tanzania recognition on the global stage. We are proud recipients of numerous prestigious awards for our captivating animation films, standing tall at various international film festivals. Join us as we continue to inspire, influence, and ignite change, one story at a time.

Nairobi, Kenya

Lucky's primary responsibility with Skills Lab was to manage the brand - as a new peer-to-peer learning venture within the organization designed to connect young Africans to the skills and support they need to succeed in a fast-changing world. Carrying 50% of the venture's activities (with his creative and content creation background), he scouted and managed content creators and producers, ensuring the skilling content was created through a customized production process that delivered the curriculum to the intended audience engagingly and creatively. He also supported the creation of B2C touchpoints and successfully worked with consultants to develop learning curriculums for micro-entrepreneurs and the learner journey.Lucky also supported Shujaaz Inc strategically with the Tanzania business development.Notable achievements under this role:- Produced from scratch and directed 82 3-minute skilling videos for young people and their social extracts (both reels and Facebook format videos) for digital media and the physical learning hubs.- Despite capacity challenges (only two core members of the venture), the Skill Lab brand achieved over 80% of its commitments to partners - UAP Old Mutual, Mawingu Networks, STRIVE, Caribou Digital, CFYE, Transform, and GIZ.

Nairobi, Kenya

In this role, Lucky was responsible for ensuring Shujaaz Inc's health, governance, and financial fitness programs were well implemented as planned and managing partner relationships. This involved contracting, program understanding, team setup, briefing, training, coaching, overseeing program implementation (within the organization and keeping tabs with other implementing partners, content creation and dissemination on the Shujaaz media), funding partner relationship management, program M&E, troubleshooting, and timely reporting. Lucky also played a considerable role in supporting fundraising activities through concept note writing, budgeting, and looking out for new businesses under health, governance, and financial fitness thematic areas.Lucky was also an overall Tanzania team leader, supporting admin, operations, and human resource functions and supporting the organization with its new business function.Notable achievements in this role:- Five of eight partner relationships were renewed, despite COVID-19-related challenges; the other three paused the programs due to strategy change and COVID-related challenges. - Created a last-mile partnership with local organizations, civil society organizations, and youth groups on the ground (Kenya) under the governance pillar.

Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania.

In this role, Lucky led the creative team to produce multimedia content for Shujaaz social and behavior change campaigns under health, financial fitness, and governance pillars. The campaigns ran traditional (radio and print - comic magazine) and digital, with a monthly engagement of over 5 million young people.As a part of many talents Lucky has, he used his voice as the voice of the fictional character, DJ Tee, on radio and all audio and video materials that required the voice of the DJ.Lucky also was a key contact person for Shujaaz Tanzania between January and June 2020 in the absence of a Country Manager, a role he managed successfully. Additionally, he was always a crucial member of the leadership team, assisting the organization with leadership and decision-making processes and supporting its new business function.More achievements under this role:- Scouted, recruited, and managed a diverse group of creatives, content creators, videographers, illustrators, and producers for print (comic magazine), radio, digital media, & events.- Produced multimedia SBCC content (comic – over 9 million comic books distributed nationwide, radio – 112 1-hour radio programs produced and aired, and digital media – with 1.8 million youngpeople following).- Responsible for the strategy design, implementation, and MEL of the health, financial fitness, and governance media SBCC campaigns.

Nairobi, Kenya

In this role, Lucky was responsible for the launch of the Shujaaz multimedia platform in Tanzania, with support from the Kenya team, as well as ensuring the production of multimedia content for Tanzanian youth aged 15 - 24 (radio programs, comic magazines, and social media content). As a creative person, he played a significant role in building a team of creatives, strategizing on effective ways of reaching the youth, creating content that interested them, and ensuring partner campaigns were implemented on time.As a part of many talents Lucky has, he used his voice as the voice of the fictional character, DJ Tee, on radio and all audio and video materials that required the voice of the DJ.He was also a crucial member of the leadership team.More achievements under this role:- Scouted, recruited, and managed a diverse group of creatives, content creators, videographers, illustrators, and producers for comic, radio, digital media, & events.- Produced multimedia SBCC content for the Tanzania audience (comic – over 16 million comic books distributed, radio – 208 1-hour radio programs produced and aired, and digital media – with over 800K young people following).- Responsible for the strategy implementation of Tanzania's health, financial fitness, and governance media SBCC campaigns.

Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

JSI works with the Government of Tanzania and other partners to accelerate progress on the country’s health and development priorities.As a consultant, Lucky helped transcribe and translate over 400 minutes of audio and video content for the Community Health and Social Welfare Systems Strengthening Program.

Tanzania

MeTL is Tanzania's largest home-grown company, worth more than $1 billion, with a presence in 11 countries in Africa, i.e., Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, DR Congo, and Tanzania.In this role, Lucky supported the company's social media presence, revived its appeal to the audience, and boosted its engagement level to about 25%. Lucky also acted as a social media assistant to the CEO and managed all CEO's social media accounts. Note that at the time, the MeTL CEO was a member of parliament and one of the prominent figures in the country. He is also the Forbes youngest billionaire in Africa.Lucky also supported the establishment and running of the MoBlog, one of MeTL's CEO ventures. MoBlog was a media platform dealing with news and entertainment. In his tenure as a support person, Lucky helped the blog team with marketing strategies, content ideation, and interface design.

Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania

EATV (Channel 5) is the first and only free-to-air television station uniting Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda that targets the vibrant and growing youth market of the 18 to 35 age group.Emerging from the famous 2008 Planet Bongo presenter search, Lucky got a chance to come up with a super cool show that had never been on Television before. With massive support from the creative team, he came up with SKONGA - a high school television sensation that showcased high scholars' academic and other natural talents. The show was arguably the number one edutainment program for high schools in East Africa between 2009 and 2014.In this role, Lucky also supported the creation and production of other Television and radio programs with East Africa Radio and hosted several live, semi-live, and recorded television and radio programs.With his Computer Science knowledge, Lucky supported the overall IT department, the construction of the EATV & EA Radio websites, and the launching and running of EATV & EA Radio's social media presence.Notable achievements under this role:- Successful ideation, launching and running of the number-one high-school Television program impacted how the government, teachers, parents, and students think about education vs. natural talents. The show shaped many perspectives and changed a lot of educational approaches for all stakeholders.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Fresh from University with a passion for media and entertainment, Lucky joined EATV Ltd following a successful presenter search audition in August 2008. Despite not winning the audition, Lucky had other essential skills needed by EATV and was challenged to join its IT & New Media department as an intern/assistant.In this role, Lucky learned a lot about media production and programming and second-screen interactivity activities (new media), where he got an opportunity to run the famous on-screen chat show Text Live as a moderator. With this opportunity, Lucky learned about interactivity programs on screen and the science, creativity, and work behind them, which include UI and graphic designs.

Dar-Es-Salaam

ICL is a one-stop Below The Line (BTL) solution services company that offers various customer and consumer-oriented services to meet and exceed expectations.Lucky joined this company after high school, where he got to learn and practice experiential marketing strategies. In this role, Lucky traveled a lot across Tanzania, marketing different brands, including Whitedent, where he ran a school dental check-up program; Safari Lager, which he ran the first-ever Pool Shootout competition, Coca-Cola, where he participated in promoting the Olympic Torch Relay in Tanzania, Tusker Lager, which he participated in promoting the Tusker Project Fame, Celtel which he participated in promoting the East African University Challenge, Whitedent, which he participated fully in running the national Primary School challenge namely Whitedent School Quiz Competition, among many other experiential marketing and promotion projects.Lucky learned project management, event management, experiential marketing skills, customer care, and client management in this role. He also practiced his PR and presenting skills as an MC at many events.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba

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Advanced Diploma