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Delaware, United States

• Established and manage consultancy specializing in grants and business plans.• Direct all aspects of business development and client relations.• Successfully raised over $1.5 million in funding for clients.• Developed comprehensive business plans tailored to diverse industries.• Secured grants from multiple sources, enhancing client growth and sustainability.• Achieved a 90%+ success rate in grant approvals.• Increased client funding by an average of 10% per project.• Delivered over 30 successful business plans and grant applications.• Conduct detailed market research and financial analysis.• Craft compelling grant proposals and business plans.• Advise clients on strategic planning and funding opportunities.Client Impact •Enabled startups and small businesses to secure critical funding. •Provided strategic insights that drove business growth and innovation. •Enhanced client confidence and positioning within their markets.

Greater Accra, Ghana

Greater Accra, Ghana

A marketing agency with a unique brand position in music marketing. We provide all your music marketing services like tiktok management, stream increase, social media management, websites for artiste and many more. •Digital strategies to promote brands & music across music channels.• Plan & manage day-to-day activities of the agency.• Client acquistion & management.• Branding, creative directing & developing marketing strategies.• Developing marketing & career development trainings for entrepreneurs.• Train 1365 people in marketing & blogging • Handle all PR & communication duties.• Team leadership• Course development

Greater Accra, Ghana

Training the youth in both blogging & digital marketing for free. In 2020, I trained a little over 800 people during the lockdown virtually.

Ghana

Groundwork Africa Foundation is a non governmental organization that focuses on community development by providing basic needs to orphaned kids, upskilling orphaned kids and the public for the future, providing education on the sustainable development goals and combating climate change using adaptation methods.We work with orphaned kids from the ages of 6 months to 20 years and we provide them with basic needs such as food, healthcare, skill building training, guidance and counselling.We also provide resources and information to educate the public on climate change and its impact. We host workshops, seminars, and community outreach programs to spread awareness about environmental issues and sustainable solutions. We advocate for policy changes and greater public engagement with sustainability issues.We piloted our ideas under WhySDGs as a central focus for all our sustainability projects. Groundwork Africa strives to provide solutions that aid in adaptation to climate change and promote sustainable development through education, community engagement, and practical solutions. Through these efforts, we seek to foster a more informed and proactive society that can contribute to global sustainability goals and create a healthier, more resilient environment for future generations.We have implemented different kinds of projects for orphans, the general public and institutions. We have implemented projects like the Mental Health Awareness Campaign, Mental Health Awareness Conference, Climate Action Talk Series, Time with the Orphans, and many others. Time with the orphans has been one of our ongoing projects that we fundraise to support the orphaned kids throughout the year since 2019.• Plan outreach projects around SDGs• Educating people on climate change & action• Website development & management• Social media management• Partnership management• Responsible for a team of 6• Plan the roadmap of our initiatives

Ghana

Business & lifestyle blog highlighting how to take advantage of resources available to SMEs in Ghana. Restaurants & places to visit in Ghana on a budget were what the lifestyle category was about.• Managed team of 52 people• Content development • Creating digital products for download• Video editing • Podcasting• Increased subscriptions to 5000+ in a year with organic reach.• Created, planned & executed many campaigns through social media.• Organic SEO management• Writing blogposts

Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana

A freelancing web based software for people who want to work as or hire freelancers remotely across Africa called Userworkplace. During our pilot we launched straight into 120+ countries.We were named the most innovative website in Africa by WIX and came in 3rd place for most innovative website globally on WIX. We also won the WIX Velo Challenge 2020.• Develop overall marketing strategies.• Team management & leadership.• Manage all social strategies.• Provide customer care across 120 countries.• Evaluate user engagement by using analytics.• Product management & testing.We believe in reducing unemployment rates across Africa. Userlance has other interesting products which are in the pipeline to be launched soon.

Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana

Developing Radio Partners partnered with USAID to train a team of journalists to become podcasters and produce the first ever storytelling podcast in Ghana about climate change.Podcast about how climate change affects reproductive health and widens the gender inequality gaps.• Ideation• Script writing• Interviewing techniques• Field recordings across regions.• Interview sessions• Editing audio materials Discovered how humans play the role of insects in the cocoa production in Ghana. Midges are going extinct on cocoa farms and they are the insects that help pollinate the cocoa flowers. Well, humans now have to manually pollinate flowers. Climate change has displaced people all over Ghana and this has brought hardship to most people. One of the major challenges is the reproductive health of women constantly affected and sometimes are prone to rape. We produced a podcast called Ghana Ground Zero: Climate & Us.

Greater Accra, Ghana

Preymann Clothing is a male clothing brand in Ghana with a specific target of males into professional fashion pieces such as suits, shoes and belts.• Building digital strategies • Other channels of marketing • Analyze data from website• Coordinating meetings • Planning weekly sprints• Team coaching• Organize mini seminars for team• Social media consulting • E-commerce strategies My duty was to help the company make informed decisions on online visibility and help them develop personalized digital strategies to fit their brand.

Ghana

A lebanese owned beauty spa in Ghana. I worked with a team of 6 and hand in hand with the CEO. • Package development • Content creation & video editing • Design graphics for promotional activities• Digital marketing strategies • Increased lead generation by 80% using partnership marketing.• Handled all PR & communication activities.• Handled customer experience.• Created, planned & executed many campaigns through social media & direct marketing to meet brand-building objectives.• Hit over 10k impressions on google profile with one update.• Doubled their following in 3 months from 500 to 1000 followers using only organic reach.I managed partnerships deals with Stanbic Bank & Raja Phone Deals for the spa. Also handled all print material needed for promotions.

For the 70th Celebration every department was supposed to produce a video about the department and the various courses in the department. I worked with the Department of Plant & Environmental Biology to produce a video for the University board.• Shot & recorded video content creator for their 70th Anniversary for Department of Plant & Environmental Biology• Handled voiceover production & mastering. • Color grading• Video editing • Team delegations• Worked with 5 lecturers The video project got approved and is currently used by the University to educate incoming students about their department.

Worked hand in hand with Professor George Odamtten and Dr Matthew Esselfie from the Department of Plant & Environmental Biology.Responsibilities • Teaching students.• Research duties for course updates.• Team leadership.• Grading research papers.• Providing guidance to students.• Assisting with research articles• Assisting medical students with plant biology.

Ghana Cocoa Board is a leading state owned Ghanaian cocoa production and management board. I was an intern at COCOBOD.Responsibilities • Research on cocoa farmers for supervisor.• Data entry for the Research Department• Filing documents for Head of Research Dept.• Cataloguing books in the library• Errands for Research Department

Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Global Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility

Business Strategy

Bachelor'S Degree, Plant & Environmental Biology