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East Sussex, England, United Kingdom

Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom

• Oversaw the day-to-day management of the successful 2024 General Election campaign for Josh Babarinde MP, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Eastbourne, identifying key performance indicators and utilising campaign data to inform campaign strategy, achieving a swing of 15.5 percentage points with a majority of over 12.000 votes.• Planned and project managed a rigorous schedule of campaign activity, organising volunteer-led doorstep canvassing sessions that resulted in over 21,000 conversations with voters.• Developed data gathering methods, managed the central voter information database, and analysed large datasets of voter information to inform data-driven campaign strategies and target campaign activities.• Produced effective and targeted campaign communications, across leaflets, letters, and press releases, adapted to different stakeholders and drawing on data to ensure that appropriate messages were targeted to, and connected with the intended audiences, reaching over 75,000 voters.• Built strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, recruiting and training new volunteers, and supervising volunteers to advance the campaign.

Ghana, Guatemala, Laos, New York

• Designed and oversaw the development of a fully-operational digital reading app for Android, with remote syncing and offline functionalities.• Developed a digital reading program in Ghana, to be conducted in 2 pilot schools, utilising the digital reading app, alongside overseeing the development of 100+ contextualised reading titles for students.• Designed and oversaw the rollout of a new tablet reading program in Guatemala in 2018, providing 800 tablets to 2,000 students in 20 schools. Developed a full program guide which enabled the in-country team to take full ownership of the program and required only remote consulting for the expansion of the program in 2019 to a further 1,300 students and 12 schools.• Developed a bulk SMS program to send weekly+ messaging related to COVID, WASH, and teacher coaching, to all program schools in Ghana – 900+ teachers across 85+ schools. Research and built relationships with partners, and developed program structure.• Managed the creation of a barcode inventory tracking system, linked with Salesforce, to enable materials deployed at schools across PoP’s countries to be tracked and monitored at all levels of the organisation. Designed the procedures, oversaw the creation of the back-end processes, and managed the implementation of the rollout of the program in Ghana and Guatemala, covering 8,000+ devices across 100+ schools.• Created logistical and management processes for the Ghana E-reader program, enabling the team to manage the termly and annual deployment, usage and collection of over 8,000 e-readers across over 70 schools. Continue to consult and assist the team in the use of the processes, as well as in the identification and implementation of solutions to new and ongoing challenges• Identifying, with the assistance of Country Directors, in-country organisational inefficiencies to be improved upon, and creating and documenting processes to streamline operations.

Liberia

• Responsible for all aspects of the Computer Reading Program within the Bridge Partnership Schools for Liberia schools network• Drew up the initial parameters of the program alongside Bridge PSL and the PoP leadership, and assisted in the design of the program• Pinpointed operational challenges, including charging, storage and safety, identified solutions, and managed the implementation of the results• Managed the rollout of the program to 51 schools and over 8,000 students, across 10 counties• Engaged and trained 51 schools and over 300 teachers in the operations and management of the program, the use of devices, and the pedagogy involved in the program• Revamped, iterated and tested the lesson curriculum and structure to improve students’ independent reading time, resulting in a 76% increase, from an average of 42.8% per lesson to over 75.2%, through structural changes and improved scripting for teachers• Tested and synced 210 reading titles to specific grade reading levels, and incorporated into a fully-integrated lesson guide• Carried out monitoring and evaluation processes on the program• Successfully transitioned the ownership of the program across to Bridge PSL in 2018, through a combination of carefully prepared handover documents and in-person trainings

Ghana

• Managed all Marketing and Development processes in-country, working closely with New York, and coordinated all collection of various media and materials around tight deadlines. • Provided administrative, logistical and operational support to all in-country teams and the Country Director.• Played a leading part in building out the organizational processes of the e-reader program, and overseeing the distribution of 3200 e-readers to 28 schools. • Oversaw the Ghana Salesforce database, liaising with all members of the team to access and collect required data, and managing the inputting of all information.• Refined and streamlined M&E processes alongside the rest of the team.• Coordinated the technical capacity building of local staff and new hires, overseeing training in various ICT and Tech programs. Also provided office-wide IT support and training.• Organized and oversaw logistics and purchasing for various M&E observation and testing exercises.• Oversaw, planned and orchestrated Teacher and WASH observations at 13 schools over 5 days.• Facilitated and attended meetings with local government and partners.

Uganda

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of 14 local staff, and up to 50 volunteers at a time.• Controlled the Ugandan finance account, with responsibility for all finances in-country. Directed the varied lodge requisitions and organized lodge and vehicle repairs and maintenance. • Created and implemented tight budgets of up to 220m Ugandan Shillings ($85,000) and oversaw a period of major upgrades to the company vehicles, totaling over 35m Ugandan Shillings.• Coordinated the supply-chain of various articles, from food and drink to first aid supplies, following the pipeline from initial negotiation with suppliers through to delivery and storage.• Oversaw all vehicle logistics for staff and volunteers working in a variety of locations.

United Kingdom

• Managed major customer accounts, including Nando’s and J D Wetherspoon, to ensure a fast and efficient response as part of the after-sales commitment of Rational UK. Coordinated over 60 individual engineers, serving dozens of emergency calls on a daily basis.• Organized oven installations in both new-build sites and oven swap-outs for new and existing sites.• Oversaw and coordinated the warehouse and logistics of supply-only orders, controlling supply-chain negotiation and stock maintenance. Refined the delivery system to cut down on customer waiting time, as well as improving company profits.

United Kingdom

• Based in the packing department, worked on the line packing ready-meals into boxes ready for shipping. Before leaving, had begun training for a Line Manager role.

United Kingdom

• Managed deliveries, maintenance and updating of stock through the computerized system, and allocation of units in the stockroom. Also providing the full range of services to customers at front-of-store.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Public Administration

Postgraduate Diploma, Supply Chain Management And Logistics

Bachelor'S Degree, Illustration And Graphic Design, Upper-Second Class

Btec National Diploma, Graphic Design, Ddm