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County Kildare, Ireland

Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

- Project Cycle Management; Oversight of the design, development and implementation of a multi-annual development programme (circa €500,000) with local NGO partners in Kenya and Uganda. Responsibility for reporting to donors.- Stakeholder Management; Coordination of local partners, presenting regular updates to donors and Aidlink’s Board of Directors Programmes sub-committee.- Fundraising and Donor Management; Responsibility for institutional fundraising and donor management. In January 2021, a successful fundraising application was developed to Irish Aid, securing €380,000 p/a over three years for an education-based project in Kenya.- Monitoring & Evaluation; Development and tracking of Results Base Frameworks to track and analyse project progress/impact.- Financial management; Responsibility for the day-to-day financial management of the organisation.

Dublin

Line-Managed two direct reporting staff based in Southern Region offices.Supported Southern Region offices to develop and implement MEL frameworks for each project.Reviewed these frameworks with the teams periodically to ensure relevance and appropriateness andworking to continuously improve and adapt to country developments.Ensured targets and timelines of these two country programmes are met and systems kept up to date withreal time information.Supported internal and external evaluations for, but not limited to, the Malawi and Zambia teams.Maintained the organisation’s digital data gathering (DDG) system, ensuring it was used by countryteams, training staff members on its use and updating as appropriateWorked closely with diverse technical advisors to develop new tools and tailor existing tools to meet theneeds of a specific technical area, e.g. gender, nutrition etc.Supported programme funding team and country teams with technical advice at proposal developmentstage.Selected for Programmes & Communications Working Group where we worked to make MEL moreaccessible and understood across the organisation and externally.Represented the organisation at external peer to peer meetings and with senior stakeholders.Attended Irish Aid meetings on reporting mechanisms as part of their operational reform work.Engaged bilateral donors to discuss the management of the monitoring and evaluation elements of a€14million project.

Dublin, Ireland

Ensuring best practice data collection and storage systems are rolled out throughout the organisation Supporting the improvement of the M&E process across the organisation and programme countriesData checking and analysis Leading the organisational M&E change from paper based data collection to digital data collectionDeveloping any supporting systems and documents needed; protocols, user guides, leasing systems etc.Providing advisory M&E support to two programmes teams; Malawi and KenyaAssisting with the development of proposals

Dublin, Ireland

Providing support to the Programme Quality Team, in particular the monitoring and evaluation advisors. Developed and in-house analysis tool for WFP's Food Consumption Score assessment tool.Completed level 1 of Individual Household Method (IHM) of data collection in Northern Province, Zambia.

Cork, Dublin

Teaching Assistant Tasks:• Ensuring the safety of children at all times from drop off to pick up• Assisting with experiments and lessonsInstructor Tasks (Spring 2013):• Develop a class plan for the duration of three days• Ensure content was to the level of ability of students & interesting• Teach students for 2.5 hours at a time• Create a friendly interactive environmentCoordinator Tasks (Summer 2013):• Responsibility for staff management issues • Ensuring a good working relationship between CTYI and UCC (building security)• Keeping head office informed of programme implementation in Cork• Liaison with parents managing complaints/ suggestions in a prompt and appropriate manner

Cork

Cork

• Facilitating SEAI energy workshops to primary school children and CPD courses to primary school teachers• Facilitating Maths-Works workshops to primary school children• Assisting with the general running of the visitor and conference centre along with coffee shop

Mwanza, Tanzania

• Assisting with development of Behavioural Change Communication strategy• Reviewing and editing documents• Assisting with preparation of community events• Development of monitoring tools• Overseeing of Community Councillor trainings

Mwanza, Tanzania

• Developing a research project – Food Security & Nutrition Linkages• Development & piloting of questionnaire• Conduction of questionnaire (30 households) and data analysis

Master'S Degree, Management (Business), Second Class Honors

Modules included: Next Generation Management (NGM), Strategy, Data Analytics, Marketing, Economics, Human Resources, Technology management

Bachelor'S Degree, International Development And Food Policy, Second Class Honors

Activities and Societies: Peer Support Leader and Student Ambassador for UCC • Representing UCC at open days and other formal occasions.

Nqai Level 5 - Fetac Certificate In Business Studies, International Aid And Development