Mshai Mkoji Email & Phone Number

• Lead in the development, implementation, coordination, and review of ACF’s regional advocacy strategy on climate and development that supports the achievement of ACF’s goals.
• Support ACF to deliver regional impact through relevant influencing and advocacy work, public engagement, and programming.
• Strengthen, influence, and mainstream advocacy and climate change actions in ACF’s work. This includes promoting the integration of climate justice, gender and youth in ACF’s work across levels.
• Build, nurture and maintain key relationships between stakeholders to explore approaches that seek to position and support ACF in translating its work to action and support its key priorities across levels.

Remote

• Coordinate and manage ACF’s relationships, and collaborative planning around COP27
• Identify, through research, analysis and engagements key issues, campaigns, partners and sites for engagement to: o Elevate the prominence of climate change, and Africa’s climate change agenda nationally and regionally.
• Monitor political developments on the continent and internationally, and their implications for climate change diplomacy
• Develop and foster relationships with African governments, regional institutions, policy makers, donors and other relevant stakeholders
• Be the point of contact with the COP27 Presidency and other key governments.

Home -Based

• Supported on the planning and coordination of multi-country project teams across five countries reporting to the international project management team and donor, thus ensure timely report reviews and submissions.
• Supported the MEL Coordinator and Communication specialist to ensure project evidence and key learnings are captured and will be useful after the end of the project. This included the successful development and.
• Supported finance, HR and procurement teams in the procurement process and contract management for service providers and consultants including raising payment requests, invoices and payments as well as.
• Led the review of progress against the project closure plans by supporting the project country teams to coordinate and complete specific project closure activities including proper project documentation and archiving.
• Managed, liaised, and directed multi-country teams to ensure project closure compliance requirements set by the donors were met. This contributed to the reduction of risk and adverse impacts on the delivery of the.
• Supported the international project manager with planning and coordinating for all internal and external meetings across the different levels. This included scheduling meetings and calls, logistics and events.

Zambia

• Supported ActionAid Zambia in resource mobilization for an emergency rapid response on drought in the Western province. This included support in the proposal writing as well as technical support in designing and.
• Represented AAZ in national technical working groups as well as interagency cluster meetings (food security and livelihoods, protection and PSEA) thus facilitated stakeholder information sharing and promoted synergy.
• Actively engaged in local partners and community capacity-building to amplify the voices of women, girls and youth thereby result in an increased involvement and leadership of women and youth in local humanitarian.
• Knowledge management and skills transfer through delivery of multiple trainings to strengthen the capacity of key individuals and local partners on Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS), humanitarian action, women rights.
• Co-led in the development and localization of ActionAid global One Campaign launch on Unpaid care work and Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in Zambia thus contributed to its successful launch in August 2019.
• Increased AA’s fundraising initiatives and portfolio through development of over 8 concept notes and proposals over a 1-year period

• Enabled successful process consolidation effort from Oxfam International (Affiliates and Country Offices), Development Finance International and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of the.
• Successfully managed and monitored the CRI 2018 budget to ensure efficient use of the limited resources available through working collaboratively with the project finance staff to provide frequent budget oversight..
• Supported the West Africa Platform to successfully develop and launch the first regional Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index report through coordinating the West Africa (WAF) delivery project team, with regular.
• Led intra-organizational coordination initiatives across the federation thus ensured workplans are developed and adhered to, workstreams are established and responsibilities shared across teams, and program reports.

• Managed all external engagements for the Executive Director, Oxfam International ( then Ms. Winnie Byanyima) therefore advancing the ED’s efficiency and effectiveness to ensure increased high-level influencing.
• Managed the day to day logistical and administrative operations of the executive director in the absence of the executive coordinator and executive assistant.
• Played a critical role in ensuring that the Executive Office team functioned as an integrated team by successfully coordinating and facilitating all internal communications, information flows and strategic meetings.
• Managed and developed systems and processes to ensure transparency and information flow within and between affiliate ED offices thus contribute to the successful implementation of the high-level external representation.
• Supported the Advocacy and Campaigns governance boards (Influencing Platform and Executive Board Influencing Committee) by developing and circulating committee agendas, facilitating scheduling, taking, and distributing.

• Provided technical support on capacity-building and policy advocacy/ analysis initiatives on ending violence against children at the national and regional level as part of the multi-sectoral stakeholders’ engagement in.
• Led in development and implementation of county-level advocacy strategies specific to FGM/C, Early Marriages, and Education within target counties.
• Led research initiatives including undertaking qualitative and quantitative research, stakeholder mapping, power analysis, assessment exercises like baselines, end line evaluations to generate and use research-based.
• Assisted in the formation and maintaining of strategic alliances (old and new) with implementing partners, government institutions, donor institutions, private sector, research institutions and other stakeholders.
• Preparation and successful submission of narrative project reports to donors, EACHRights management and board. This included submission of five quarterly reports and one final annual submission.
• Led the engagement between donor and the three project partners including coordinating country visits, field visits, presentations on project strategic priorities, annual and quarterly review meetings, and ad-hoc donor.

Nairobi, Kenya

• To serve as a Global Champions to empower women worldwide with a special focus on East Africa to achieve their full economic potential, and connect women and men globally to take action for women’s economic rights and.
• To team up with fellow Global Champions and UN Women staff to coordinate and implement initiatives, campaigns, and activities pertaining to women's economic empowerment; both online and offline
• To advocate for women’s economic empowerment and promote Empower Women’s advocacy activities through media outreach, debates, awareness raising and advocacy campaigns and social media community (Facebook, Twitter.

Nairobi

• Led the organizations induction program to orient the new employees which recorded a 100% success rate
• Managed day-to-day administrative activities of the CEO’s office by setting and monitoring schedules, organizing the incoming flow of work and following-up to ensure timely responses.
• Successful delivery and execution of all work events including workshops,training and team building activities

Nairobi

My role involved community empowerment and mobilization to promote access to land, shelter and basic services to the urban poor through community meetings, workshops and seminars. This involved a lot of fieldwork & community meetings in Mathare, Huruma, Mukuru & Kibera slums in Nairobi.I participated in a 2 week “change by design: Building Communities.

Genderpro Capacity Building Course

Ma Development Studies;Major In Social Policy For Development

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)