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Usaid -Rass Africa Program Portfolio

OverviewRASS Program and flagship USAID funded resilience investment contract implemented by DAI Global-AFRICA delivery program. The program/ contract aims to improve food security and community household recovery and resilience working along various government departments in various countries, private sector players Key Accomplishments Have developed best fit finance and operations model that brings clear operations standards that has set strong operations foundation for the… Show more OverviewRASS Program and flagship USAID funded resilience investment contract implemented by DAI Global-AFRICA delivery program. The program/ contract aims to improve food security and community household recovery and resilience working along various government departments in various countries, private sector players Key Accomplishments Have developed best fit finance and operations model that brings clear operations standards that has set strong operations foundation for the project with key focus on contracts compliance Have developed and operationalized strong finance and operations model that has helped to commence strong secure and compliant programming on the frontline Have developed strong project and compliance risk framework that has placed the project on strong foundation of secure programming Provided financial strategic stewardship working with both internal workstream leadership and external players including auditors, sub-contractors, grantees among others Instituted accountability mechanism that ensured quality work outputs and responsive to all key customers Show less

South Sudan

Overall Leadership responsibility of the country program with key focus on representation and relationship management , program service delivery , senior leadership team facilitation, operational excellence drive and stakeholders engagement.

Foundation Markets Platform/Ssd

Tanzania

Goal owner of country program financial management . Accountable for policy operationalization, leadership facilitation,reporting, grants management and overall organization risk and compliance management

Tanzania

• Plans , directs and coordinates technical and operational activities to ensure project goals are accomplished within prescribed timeframes and funding parameters and in compliance with USAID regulations and EGPAF policies• Facilitates the project technical and operations work practices to ensure to grantee project results quality, efficiency and overall programming integrity• Coordinates partnerships and relationship management with all key stakeholders that includes relevant… Show more • Plans , directs and coordinates technical and operational activities to ensure project goals are accomplished within prescribed timeframes and funding parameters and in compliance with USAID regulations and EGPAF policies• Facilitates the project technical and operations work practices to ensure to grantee project results quality, efficiency and overall programming integrity• Coordinates partnerships and relationship management with all key stakeholders that includes relevant government ministry of health and local government to ensure the project receives the needed facilitation and support on the frontline and country policy level• Provides leadership to the project team ensuring clarity over plans and priorities and through facilitating great team work• Provides accountability for monitoring and evaluation of project indicators and knowledge management activities• Provides leadership in establishing and • Serve as the primary point of contact and maintaining relationships with various project internal and external stakeholders collaboration for the team and in-country stakeholders including ministry of health and local government, USAID, SUB-guarantees and other key stakeholders Show less

Dar Es Salaam- Tanzania

Operations division team leader. Supervising 7 country portfolio departments . Reviewed and refined the country operations structures which has ensured strong operation foundation.Have successful managed and provided leadership on all aspect of awards management through professional donor engagement, relationship management , donor and corporate reporting.Have instituted and implemented comprehensive risk and compliance plan which has kept country program risk exposure below… Show more Operations division team leader. Supervising 7 country portfolio departments . Reviewed and refined the country operations structures which has ensured strong operation foundation.Have successful managed and provided leadership on all aspect of awards management through professional donor engagement, relationship management , donor and corporate reporting.Have instituted and implemented comprehensive risk and compliance plan which has kept country program risk exposure below 3%Have facilitated all the operations senior managers through coaching, mentoring and training. This has greatly improved the quality of work output.Have guided the country leadership team on all aspects of strategic management which has included but but not limited to implementing strong accountability mechanism across the entire organization.Have helped drive the culture of focusing on the customer and have helped to raise the consumer or customer voice. Show less

Africa-Nairobi Kenya

Operational leadership facilitation across projects in various countries within Africa. Led in the building of team capacity specifically in areas of operational excellence through KAIZEN methodology and ensuring to link the operations to programs service delivery areas for impactiful programming.Was primary goal owner and accountable for compliance and risk management across all the countries in the region. performance leader to all finance and operations managers in all the countries and… Show more Operational leadership facilitation across projects in various countries within Africa. Led in the building of team capacity specifically in areas of operational excellence through KAIZEN methodology and ensuring to link the operations to programs service delivery areas for impactiful programming.Was primary goal owner and accountable for compliance and risk management across all the countries in the region. performance leader to all finance and operations managers in all the countries and through this developed the management reporting based on critical KPi's across all operations function areas. Show less

Nairobi-Kenya

Overall operations team leader and member of the executive leadership team. Successfully in the integration of the country program programming and operations which led to proper integration of people, processes and structures.Managed country annual budget of $22m and supervised 7 department managers.Scaled -up the country management report and overall compliance management.Helped to improved the team spirit which in turn improved the work environment and results.

South Sudan

Overall financial functional leadership and policy engagement with donor, government and sub-grants Led the Financial policy engagement among key stakeholders like USAID, government and other strategic partners. Supported the design and implementation of the ERP system- GFAS that was able to support comprehensive IFMS including commitment accounting.

Khartoum- Sudan

• Financial and operational strategy development• Operation work process execution• Collaboration and technical assistance to the government of Sudan• Donor Reporting

Windhoek Namibia- Millennium Challenge Account

• Successfully delivered on appropriate fiscal funds managements • Coordinated collaboration and technical assistance to the government of NamibiaAchievementsLed the fiscal agency consultancy team in setting the Millennium Challenge Corporation/MCA- Namibia Country Program of $304 million five year grant program’s financial system, procedures and automation in the first two months of the assignment.• Led the development and implementation of a fiscal accountability plan that… Show more • Successfully delivered on appropriate fiscal funds managements • Coordinated collaboration and technical assistance to the government of NamibiaAchievementsLed the fiscal agency consultancy team in setting the Millennium Challenge Corporation/MCA- Namibia Country Program of $304 million five year grant program’s financial system, procedures and automation in the first two months of the assignment.• Led the development and implementation of a fiscal accountability plan that improved the project operational efficiency and formed the basis of the fiscal work processes in a time period of three months. Show less

Dar Es Salaam-Tanzania

Overall responsibility of operations management. Support the various country Red cross societies in funds monitoring and reporting.Successfully led the capacity building drive of all operations and finance staff of the societies in the region.Managed the operations relationship with host government ministries responsible for refugee and disaster management

South Sudan Program

Grants Finance Manager, World Vision International, .( Global fund for Somalia $ 135m fund of which World Vision was the principal recipient & $25m fund by DFID/ECHO through world vision Sudan to support Watsan and education

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Finance

Phd Researcher-Leadership& Governancy, Organizational Leadership

Certificate In Leadership, Organization Leadership

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting And Finance

Certified Public Accountant -Cpa, Accounting