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Accra, Greater Accra Region, Gh

Accra, Ghana

Training of Trainers for Youth Programs: Trained over 1000 trainers across Ghana using the International Youth Foundation’s Passport to Success and Aflatoun Curricula, enhancing their capacity to deliver high-quality training participants.Coordination of Youth Engagement Summit: Coordinated a week-long hybrid summit with over 600 participants from 40 countries, ensuring smooth logistics and impactful sessions, fostering global youth engagement and collaboration.Implementation of Youth Projects in Construction and Hospitality: Implemented a 3.5 million Euro BMZ-funded project and a 5 million Dollar USDOL-funded project with CARE International, providing vocational training and employment opportunities for marginalized youth.Management of Africa Youth Partnership Program: Managed the Ford Foundation-funded program in partnership with Restless Development across 10 African countries, overseeing implementation and achieving program goals, enhancing youth development initiatives continent-wide.Securing and Managing Youth on Board Project: Secured and managed a 2 million Krona CISU-funded project in partnership with 100% for the Children, supporting youth empowerment initiatives through effective grant management.Development of Soft Skills and Technical Curricula: Developed six curricula, including a leadership curriculum for the Youth Leadership for Social Change project, resulting in a 96% increase in post-project feedback ratings for over 500 students in three Ghanaian universities.Curriculum Development with Princes Trust International: Reviewed and developed leadership and soft-skills courses for WhatsApp training, reaching over 1,000 students across three Ghanaian universities, enhancing accessibility and student learning.Co-Facilitation of Skills Hub Development: Co-facilitated the development of the Skills Hub, providing diverse skills development opportunities, and successfully establishing the hub, enhancing youth training across various sectors.

Malawi

Strategic leadership: I was the liaison person between D-tree to senior government officials/personnel and with NGO partners. I established strategic alliances and explore areas for collaboration and expanding and strengthening program impact. I oversaw the securing of funds from UNICEF for a project with vulnerable women and girls. Strategic Management: Managed all country office staff including oversight of country office finance, administration and human resources. I provided coaching and results-oriented leadership of the country staff. Developing and adjusting project strategies and work plans to ensure project success

Malawi

Strategic Leadership: Provided strong and effective leadership to the organization, supporting with the development of a £3 million Girls Education project for our Education Programme. Networking with other relevant organizations to advocate for marginalized groups.Strategic Management: Managed all departmental heads and supporting them to achieve organizational targets. Set up a sustainable economic empowerment scheme for sex workersFinancial Management: Ensured stricter controls over the financial transaction and supporting the implementation of systems to absorb expansion of programmes. Managed a portfolio of over 1 million GBP per anum.

Malawi

Malawi

I successfully managed TfaC’s relationship with the Malawi Ministry of Education and the Department of HIV and AIDS.I was overall responsible for quality assurance of programmes, especially the Education Programme (the biggest programme within the organization), formulating programme strategies with clear monitoring, evaluation and learning plans and coordinating evaluations. All programmes successfully achieved its outcomes and overachieved on its outputs.I maintained staff attrition to less than 5% in 3 years in a highly volatile HR environment.

Malawi

Administration and HR management• Managed 12 programme staff and recruited and trained new staff and volunteers for various projects. Project Planning and Execution• Responsible for project planning and execution cycle and ensuring targets are achieved on a project with pre-service teachers in the all Teacher Training Colleges and over 200 primary schools in Malawi. Project Monitoring and Evaluation• Responsible for the development of logframe with clear outcomes and indicates, supervised baseline and endline assessments with programme that had huge impact on the lives of pre-service teachers, building their confidence and assertive skills to negotiate safer sexual relationships.Managing Open College Network Accreditation• Developed a system for running the accreditation of Diploma course with St. Mary’s University and successfully managed Open College Network London Region (OCNLR) accreditation course in association with St. Mary’s University College

Theatre for a change - ghana

Malawi And Ghana

• Successfully run a behaviour change project with Physically challenged Liberian refugees in Ghana• Successfully set up a drama troupe of physically challenged refugees in Ghana• Built funding partnership between UNFPA and Theatre for a Change in Ghana • Established monitoring framework for Teacher Training Project in Ghana• Effectively run interactive and forum theatre workshops in The British Museum, UK; School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; Oxford, Whitney; UK; Kensington and Chelsea College, UK. • Run a Diploma certificate course in workshop leadership and facilitation from Open College Network London Region accreditation in association with St. Mary’s University College, UK for 20 Malawian graduates.• Trained over 600 Ghanaian teachers and youth as facilitators of Interactive Theatre• Trained 40 Malawian youth in facilitation Interactive Theatre workshops• Jointly set up a sex work project at Mchesi – a suburb of Lilongwe, Malawi

Master'S Degree, Strategic Management, Master Of Science Distinction In Strategic Management

Activities and Societies: University Of Derby AluminiBest Student of Master's Class

Bachelor’S Degree, Bsc Biochemistry, Second Class

Activities and Societies: Student Hall leadershipFirst degree

Waec Certificate; Distinction, Biological Science, Distinction

Activities and Societies: SU leadershipHigh School