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Kibondo, Kigoma Region, Tz

Kigoma

• Led multi-sectoral programs integrating protection, livelihoods, CCCM, and environmental regeneration across refugee communities, ensuring alignment with donor and consortium partner goals.• Developed and implemented strategic operational plans that successfully guided consortiums toward achieving targeted results, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.• Coordinated midline and endline evaluations, using monitoring and evaluation insights to optimize program interventions, improving outcomes for refugee communities.• Facilitated high-level collaboration between local and international partners, ensuring strong partnerships and efficient program execution.• Oversaw financial performance management, consistently addressing variances and maintaining donor compliance across all consortium activities.• Led proposal development initiatives, expanding consortium programming and securing additional funding for future projects.• Promoted knowledge sharing, enhancing operational efficiency and building local partner capacity through best practices dissemination.• Maintained donor relations, ensuring transparent reporting, risk mitigation, and alignment of objectives with major international stakeholders.

Kibondo, Kigoma Region, Tanzania

• Technical Support and Oversight: Providing critical technical support to child protection teams, contributing to the successful implementation of activities and the effective management of project deliverables across a team of 115 full-time and volunteer staff.• Leadership and Capacity Building: Coordinating and leading child protection meetings while offering training and mentorship, resulting in enhanced staff performance and development, ultimately improving program outcomes.• Efficient Reporting and Compliance: Coordinating, compiling, reviewing, and editing all project reports, ensuring high-quality and timely submissions, aligning with donor compliance requirements, thus maintaining transparency and accountability.• Effective Stakeholder Engagement: Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders, including government agencies, UNHCR, and NGOs, fostering multi-agency and multi-sectoral cooperation and coordination, which strengthened the impact of DRC's programs.• Partnership Enhancement: Playing a significant role in strengthening DRC's partnership, collaboration, and the mainstreaming of a solutions-oriented approach within DRC's program, ensuring a more comprehensive and sustainable impact.• Community Relations and Coordination: Maintaining positive relations with persons of concern, relevant stakeholders, and humanitarian actors, facilitating the effective implementation and coordination of DRC's sector activities within the community.• Data Management and Analysis: Tracking, maintaining, updating, and analyzing data related to Children Case Management, Psycho-social Support, Community-based Child Protection, and Birth Registration, contributing to informed decision-making.• Timely Reporting: Preparing and submitting high-quality weekly, monthly, quarterly, and other donor reports in collaboration with relevant Protection Officers, ensuring transparency and accountability in Protection Project Management.

Zanzibar,Tanzania.

• Enhanced UN Staff Safety during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Played a pivotal role in ensuring the safety and security of UN personnel in Zanzibar throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Achieved this by facilitating comprehensive information sharing, timely reporting, and continuous monitoring, in addition to supplying essential preventive materials.• Activation of UN Area Security Plan: Successfully activated and executed the UN Area Security Plan by keeping wardens and relevant personnel well-informed about the whereabouts of staff members. This was vital in addressing the emerging COVID-19 cases within the local communities.• Effective Monitoring of COVID-19 Contingency and Response Plan: Diligently monitored the implementation of the UN's COVID-19 contingency and response plan, with a particular focus on Zanzibar. Provided essential support related to UN staff contact tracing, staff isolation, quarantine, and even medical evacuation as required.• Contributed to UN's COVID-19 Response Documentation: Collaborated with the UN-led working group to meticulously document the joint UN response to the COVID-19 crisis. Also, actively participated in the UN's resource mobilization efforts, facilitating a coordinated and effective response to the pandemic• Consistently prepared and methodically documented comprehensive reports on UN collaborative initiatives and interventions related to COVID-19 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at weekly, monthly, mid-year, and annual intervals

Kigoma,Kibondo,Tanzania

• Effective Stakeholder Engagement: Consistently communicated and collaborated with various stakeholders, including National Offices (Germany, Canada), Business Development Unit, and Country Office, during the development of Funding Agreement Documents, grant setup in SAP, and negotiations of project agreements.• Donor Compliance Oversight: Successfully ensured strict donor compliance in project implementation, reporting, and monitoring visits, fostering alignment and accomplishment through close collaboration with program departments.• Streamlined Proposal and Reporting Process: Initiated and coordinated high-quality proposals and reports, facilitating seamless information sharing between program departments and donors, such as UNHCR, ECHO, and UNICEF.• Government and Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitated partnerships between PLAN and local authorities, particularly the Ministry of Home Affairs, garnering support from the Government, NGOs, and community stakeholders in project implementation.• Enhanced Project Design and Delivery: Strengthened project designs and procedures, ensuring timely delivery of all activities and reports while closely collaborating with other departments.• Financial Accountability: Demonstrated commitment to the accuracy of donors' financial reports by consistently reviewing Budget-versus-Actual data and delivering financial reports promptly.• Thorough Project Planning and Oversight: Prepared detailed implementation plans and conducted pre- and post-implementation checks to ensure the project team had the necessary tools for successful project implementation.• Financial Monitoring and Corrective Action: Collaborated closely with the Finance team to track expenditures and propose corrective measures when necessary, leading to timely weekly, monthly, quarterly, and end-of-project reports.• Donor Relations and Financial Reviews: Actively participated in financial verification exercises with donor.

Kibondo, Kigoma, Tanzania

• Mobilized Refugee Population for Child Protection: Successfully mobilized the refugee population to actively participate in child protection programming, ensuring their effective engagement in safeguarding children's rights.• Advocated for Children's Rights: Actively protected and promoted children's rights by enlightening refugee communities about relevant policies and regulations, thereby fostering a better understanding of child protection.• Enhanced Community Linkages: Promoted linkages between the Child Protection Program and various service centers, youth centers, case management services, peer educators, and other committees within the refugee camp, creating a comprehensive support network.• Community Engagement: Secured community involvement in program implementation by collaborating with zone leaders and parents during the introduction of PLAN activities, ensuring the active participation of local stakeholders.• Adherence to Child Protection Policy: Monitored and ensured adherence to the Child Protection Policy and reporting procedures, consistently compiling and sharing detailed weekly and monthly reports, including activities, indicators, case studies, and lessons learned, in accordance with agreed timelines.• Support for Child Protection Committees: Provided crucial support to Child Protection Committees in the planning, implementation, and management of routine activities, reinforcing the effectiveness of child protection efforts.• Active Representation and Engagement: Actively represented the organization in commemorating international events and participated in various high-level meetings, including host community working group meetings, camp coordination meetings, and town-hall meetings, contributing to effective collaboration and coordination.

Kibondo, Kigoma, Tanzania

• Leadership in Endline Evaluation: Successfully led the data enumerators team through the entire process, culminating in the finalization of the End of Project Evaluation Report.• Data Quality Assurance: Coordinated and ensured the availability of high-quality data by organizing and facilitating focus group discussions in the camps. Additionally, performed transcription of collected data to create a comprehensive reference dataset.• Tool Preparation and Collaboration: Actively contributed to the preparation of data collection tools under the guidance of the Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Team leader, enhancing the research process's effectiveness.• Participant Eligibility Screening: Methodically screened prospective research participants to ascertain their eligibility, adhering to established research criteria.• End of Project Report Contribution: Played an integral role in the preparation of the End of Project Evaluation Report, in strict accordance with the agreed-upon Terms of Reference.• Data Recording and Documentation Compliance: Maintained precise records and adhere to best practices in documentation. Coordinated the filing and documentation processes, ensuring regulatory compliance and facilitating the team's adherence to requirements.

Kasulu, Kigoma, Tanzania

• Youth Program Management: Effectively supported the Youth and Development Supervisor (YD-S) in the management and execution of youth-focused initiatives within the Nyarugusu refugee camp.• Livelihood Activity Supervision: Assumed responsibility for the oversight of all youth livelihood activities within the camp, ensuring their smooth operation and alignment with program goals.• Safe Space Facilitation: Played a crucial role in supporting incentive staff and community groups in the establishment and management of safe spaces for youth in the camp. These spaces provided opportunities for youth to freely express themselves and assume leadership roles.• Meetings, Training, and Awareness Campaigns: Led the planning and execution of meetings, training sessions, and awareness campaigns related to youth development activities, promoting the holistic growth of youth within the camp.• Monitoring Refugee Social Workers: Diligently monitored the activities conducted by refugee social workers in the camp, ensuring that services and support were effectively delivered to the refugee community.• Coordination and Collaboration: Successfully coordinated with other IRC sectors and NGOs operating in the camp. This collaborative effort focused on community mobilization, establishing referral systems, and creating awareness in an integrated and comprehensive manner.

Kibondo, Kigoma, Tanzania

• Comprehensive School Management: Successfully managed all aspects of school operations, overseeing the daily school schedule and ensuring the smooth execution of general school activities.• Representing the School: Acted as the representative of the school manager in various critical coordination meetings, including School Board meetings, diocesan council meetings, and external school management meetings, effectively communicating the school's interests and concerns.• Thorough Reporting and Budget Oversight: Prepared terminal, quarterly, and annual reports related to school management, ensuring that the execution of school activities aligns with the pre-planned budget, and presenting a clear financial picture to stakeholders.• Strategic Fundraising: Demonstrated proficiency in drafting and presenting school development proposals to board members and other stakeholders. This resulted in raising essential funds for school development activities, contributing to the growth and enhancement of the school development activities.

Masters Of Humanitarian Action,Cooperation And Development

1. Strategic Management of NGOs and Humanitarian Missions. 2. Crisis, Reconstruction and Development. 3. International Politics.

Mandela Washington Fellowship Program, Leadership In Civic Engagement Track

Activities and Societies: Onsite Academic Sessions and Site Visits.

Bachelor Degree, In Community Development With Bias In Project Planning And Management.

Activities and Societies: I served as the Minister for Sport, Games, and Publicity within the student organization and concurrently held.