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Rwanda, Drc, Kenya, Mozambique & Bangladesh

Key Deliverables:- Provide managerial leadership to the risk monitoring and investigations team of 50+ staff across multiple countries, including high-potential staff recruitment, professional development, and motivation.- Oversee risk monitoring work plans, goals, KPIs, and the design of high-level fraud and violation investigations, engaging with stakeholders across a portfolio of 20+ projects.Key Outcomes:- Successfully set up and scaled teams in DR Congo, Rwanda, and Bangladesh, with 5+ staff advancing into managerial roles in DR Congo, Kenya, and Rwanda.- Led multiple high-level fraud investigations involving both staff and community perpetrators, preventing losses of over $500,000 across various countries.- Designed and facilitated in-country safeguarding training for staff and project partners, resulting in a significant reduction in safeguarding violation cases across GiveDirectly programs.- Utilized new technologies to enhance team productivity and mitigate fraud and adverse event risks, such as using historical internal audit data to create predictive fraud models.

Nairobi, Kenya

Provide managerial leadership to the risk monitoring and investigations team of 15-20 staff across various programs in Kenya, focusing on mentoring direct reports, team welfare, and acting as the focal point for project risk monitoring and investigations in Kenya.Key outcomes:- Scaled program risk monitoring for the Kenya COVID response projects, transitioning from 100% field-based investigations to over 95% remote, while remotely hiring and onboarding 20+ risk monitoring staff.- Led the delivery of high-quality risk monitoring for COVID response projects, including conducting partner data due diligence before enrollment, collaborating with local authorities, and preventing potential cash losses and beneficiary violations.- Trained cross-country managers on Salesforce Einstein Analytics for tracking productivity, and served as the Africa focal point for managing access permissions on the Taroworks survey platform for all field teams.

Nairobi, Kenya

Provide junior managerial leadership to the risk monitoring and investigations team of approximately 5 staff across two programs in Kenya. Responsible for implementing and tracking deliverables, including KPIs, work plans, and team goals, while offering significant support in team welfare management.Key outcomes:- Developed and implemented strategies to recover beneficiary lost cash as part of fraud investigations, resulting in the recovery of at least 30% of lost funds by the end of 2018.- Coordinated internal program risk monitoring for Kenya's rural projects, uncovering at least 10 fraudulent staff members, and led efforts to improve project design for enhanced country-wide program delivery.

Kisumu, Kisumu County, Kenya

- Scaled monthly research/data collection survey numbers from less than 25 per field officer (FO) per month to more than 50 research surveys per FO per month, and with a field budget of $4000 per month managed with a clean bill of health from the finance auditors. - Maintained a forefront position in community mobilization and maintained a clean database of research respondents, community research stakeholders and local government officials.

Kisumu, Kenya

- Gained first hand user proficiency of Survey CTO and ODK for field data collection. - Initiated and led in peer professional development sessions focusing on field productivity improvements.

Msc, Project Management

Basic French

Certificate, Advanced Data Analysis Using Excel

Bsc, Environmental Studies & Community Development

O Level, High School/Secondary Certificate, A

Certified Forensic Fraud Investigations Certification