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Nairobi County, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Supporting 13 Countries across Asia, South America and Africa: Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Philippines, Colombia, Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Somalia and Kenya.Key Contributions:🖋️Oversees the design and implementation of high-quality programs across 13 countries in Asia and Africa, ensuring alignment with BRAC International's global standards and objectives.🖋️Provides expert guidance on program frameworks, monitoring and evaluation strategies, and the consistent application of best practices across all regions, driving impactful and innovative interventions.🖋️Leads and supports country teams in the development and execution of locally tailored programmes, addressing unique challenges and needs within each country.🖋️Spearheads fundraising efforts, engaging with key stakeholders and donors to secure resources and support, aligning project goals with funding priorities.🖋️Cultivates robust partnerships with donors and stakeholders, driving sustainable development outcomes and fostering long-term collaboration.

Nairobi, Kenya

🖋️Led strategic initiatives, translating institutional vision into actionable program strategies, and ensured alignment between program plans and organizational objectives.🖋️Supervised country programs, offering pivotal support in strategy development, budgeting, work plans, and reporting.🖋️Pioneered a systems thinking approach for enhanced efficiency in AVF's work across Africa, integrating diverse best practices.🖋️Monitored program/project delivery, provided inputs for adaptive planning, and supported synergy among country programs.🖋️Contributed insights to AVF’s program implementation strategy and resource allocation based on consolidated inputs.🖋️Provided crucial inputs to citizen engagement, research, policy, and fundraising priorities.🖋️Collaborated with senior management in business development, created impactful partnerships, and identified opportunities.🖋️Supported partner capacity development and oversaw relationships for strategic partnerships.🖋️Demonstrated effective networking and communication in representing and promoting AVF.🖋️Strategically planned team expansion as AVF grew in Africa, facilitating skill transfer among teams.🖋️Managed multi-disciplinary staff, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, budgets, and donor requirements.Key achievements included:⭐Translated institutional vision into concrete strategies.⭐Aligned efforts with organizational goals.⭐Successfully led team expansion in line with AVF's growth strategy.

Nairobi, Kenya

Key Contributions:🖋️Implemented the development projects according to scope, budget, time, and quality.🖋️Developed a stakeholders’ engagement matrix and plans that were used as a guide in identifying key partners for the success of projects and independence.🖋️Co-created sessions with project partners and target communities and other stakeholders to better understand the stated strategic priorities and align on the interventions.🖋️Designed critical processes and tools for implementation, such as MEL tools.🖋️Consolidated, synthesized, and developed project designs and implementation plans.🖋️Provided stakeholder engagement support and partnership brokering with key partners.🖋️Supported MEL activities to support continuous testing, iteration, and refinement of the implementation plan and the strategy of the projects.

Kenya

Worked with a team of other public engagement and participation experts across the globe to develop and review a guiding document for the World health Organization on implementing citizen engagement within evidence-informed policy-making.

Nairobi, Kenya

Key Contributions:🖋️Managed of community engagements by mapping out community stakeholders including local community members and their leaders, County Government officials, Kenya Power & Lighting Company, Rural Electrification & Renewable Energy Corporation to ensure stakeholder involvement and buy-in. 🖋️ Managed successful negotiations to partner with multiple stakeholders to devise and launch a novel approach to providing affordable electricity and connectivity to underserved communities at scale, resulting to development of mini-grids powering up to 800 homes, local trading centers, schools and churches.🖋️Built and managed successful partnerships, securing support from key public and commercial development partners. These included Power Africa, Unilever, Microsoft, Amber Energy, Indigo and Safaricom, to aid in setting up the pilot project in Tharaka Nithi County.🖋️Recruited, trained and managed a team of 18 project staff to deliver ongoing solar-mini grid projects. 🖋️Developed project work plans and budgets and managed project implementation ensuring compliance, effective budget utilization, achievement of intended outcomes and impact. 🖋️Managed numerous bid submissions by setting up a business development team in charge of business development and tenders across verticals.Key Achievements: ⭐Successfully set up Ubuntu Power Kenya operations. Collaborated with other professionals to recruit and on boarded the Kenyan team, vetted and identified a solar minigrid site, negotiated with national and county government agencies and the wider community and deployed a solar mini-grid project that connected 250 homes, 1 market, 2 schools and 5 churches to power and internet in Tharaka Nithi County, in Kenya

Nairobi

Key Contributions:🖋️Provided effective technical support to project teams on carbon project design and project cycle management – while supporting the carbon management cycle in collaboration with field project teams.🖋️Provided effective technical support to the project team on the integration of carbon-related components in landscape restoration projects.🖋️Led multi-disciplinary teams to implement programme activities ensuring integrating of climate change component including; carbon feasibility studies, project design document development, and Greenhouse Gas and carbon certification technical assistance.🖋️Managed project team activities including the preparation of project work plans, schedules, budgets, technical activities, and coordination of technical staff and sub-consultants to ensure efficient climate change and carbon programming. 🖋️Developed an internal capacity building plan and support capacity building of relevant departments and staff on carbon programming.🖋️Strengthened research, learning, documentation and dissemination while standardizing monitoring tools for tracking carbon project result indicators.Key Achievements: ⭐Designed and successfully rolled out a community engagement strategy for Carbon Zero. And led a team of 18 members of staff to distribute over 85,000 improved cook stoves, identified and repaired 1200 damaged water boreholes across various counties in Kenya hence cutting down on deforestation for wood fuel. This was a huge contribution to the global efforts to fight climate change.

Nairobi

Key Contributions:🖋️Developed and managed budgets for each project working with program manager. Manage and facilitate flow of essential information among company team members.🖋️Conducted regular visits to project sites to monitor the implementation of activities, gathered feedback from beneficiaries and submitted detailed reports about the activities and findings.🖋️Assisted to develop and strengthen local projects networks.🖋️Collected data on project indicators and maintained an updated database on project progress🖋️Supported the Project Manager to prepare periodic project reports based on accurate and evidence-based data/information.🖋️Identified and documented human interest stories and case studies based on the successes of implemented projects.

Nairobi

Key Contributions:🖋️Conducted literature reviews, maintained accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary🖋️Managed and responded to project related emails, attended project meeting, seminars and trainings🖋️Prepared progress reports, articles, presentations, developed and monitored the project budgets🖋️Travelled to field sites to collect and record data and/or samples as appropriate to the specific objectives of the study🖋️Developed interview schedules; contacted potential subjects to introduce and explain study objectives and protocol and to arrange interviews, either in person or by telephone

Nairobi

Key Contributions🖋️Provided logistical support for project meetings, workshops and other meetings as tasked by the project manager;🖋️Processed project-related travel arrangements;🖋️Supported the development of project work plans, procurement plans🖋️Supported the timely preparation and submission of progress reports to donors

Masters Degree, Development Studies, Ongoing

The masters degree is not about gaining the theoretical knowledge but through rigorous research it exposes me to the real issues.

Post Graduate Diploma, Project Management

The PGD course in Project management at KIM helped me gain the relevant skills on how to plan and organize, communicate with team members.

Bachelors Degree, Environmental Studies (Community Development)

The bachelors degree served as an eye opener to me leading me to the professional world, it taught me how to network and work in a team.