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Khartoum, Khartoum State, Sudan

Nairobi, Kenya

Senegal

• In this role my main deliverables are as follows;
• Provide high quality management support and direction to Country Directors across the region and ensure consistency across country, regional and global programme ambition and delivery.
• Supporting the alignment of our advocacy, programming and campaigning work, and maximise the effectiveness of our advisory capacity in promoting high quality programme design and implementation.
• Play a leading role in the development, refresh and implementation of regional strategies and programme approaches.
• Ensuring that we have the financial and human resources required to deliver on our ambition.
• Leading/supporting organisational change processes as required

Dakar, Senegal

4 month interim posting during which I revised the overarching regional programme and operational strategies for West Africa, and developed plans for a 25% leaner headcount and 30% reduced budget absorption by the Regional center.

Thailand

(a) Provide high quality management support to Country Directors(b) Establish and oversee virtual networks and teams to support the implementation of a “one programme” approach, which combines humanitarian, development and advocacy based approaches.(c) Maximise the effectiveness of our advisory capacity, and develop clear and well considered Programme.

Indonesia

Led the programme through a significant step change which realigned our work with corporate goals, and saw the programme exerting significant influence both within the region and globally, whilst positioning us as a key development player within the Indonesian context.

Vanuatu

Here I built robust programes which meshed local needs with the policy and principles of key stakeholders to ensure deep and sustainable impact. My experiences at this time taught me the value of medium term strategic planning processes in making the move from shallow, low impact work towards more focused and synergistic programming. In Vanuatu our entire.

Solomon Islands

This position focused on evolving the strategic direction of our programme to ensure that it had the potential to deliver tangible changes across a well defined set of sectors. One example of this would be our work in the legal sector which focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the countries legal systems. Using long term training of.

Kenya

In this role I was responsible for working with local Kenyan partner organisations to develop roles for volunteers coming predominantly from Europe and North America. In addition to developing and recruiting to the role I was responsible for pastoral care and security management for these volunteers. I was also responsible for the development of VSO's.

Kenya

This was an interim role while the Country Director was on maternity leave.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Following a three year apprenticeship I worked as a production engineer with responsibilities for designing the processes for the manufacture of various parts for aircraft engines

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Full Time Study

I attended the Full Time Bath MBA. This course is set up to equip students with both theoretical and practical knowledge as well as the.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics And Development Studies

I studied Economics w/ Development Studies as an undergraduate at the school of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex.

Bnc, Business And Finance

Hnc Mechanical And Production Engineering, Mechanical Engineering