Roy Rukundo Email and Phone Number

Managed a team of media personnel in up to fifteen organisation planned activities from 2021 to 2023 which has contributed to the publicising of the work and mandate of the ministry.Key Contributions: • Designing and dissemination of calendars, banners, among other branded items.• Drafting and organizing planned communications for departments such as Urban Water Supply & Sewerage, Water Resource Management, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation.• Arranging five radio and television talk shows in the South Western Regional Office.• Organised the Uganda Water & Environment Week 2022 pre-event activities in Kabale Municipality.• Compiling information for approximately ten press briefs for regional and national release.• Management of Twitter and Facebook accounts for the Ministry of Water & Environment since 2022. • Community and stakeholder engagement during ministry organised meetings such as Barazas and Design Meetings.• Took lead in managing ministry’s internal communications by utilising channels and platforms such as Ministry intranet, WhatsApp groups and Memos.• Contributed to news pieces for the ministry’ website.• Spearheaded the creation of the ministry newsletter for sharing with ministry partners and stakeholders.• Rapporteur for the 2023 Uganda Annual Water & Environment Week main event.

Contributed to the development of a unique Private- Public- Producer Model to support farmers in the oil palm production chain as part of the Communications and Knowledge Management Department that collaborated with private sector entities and individual farmers.Key Contributions: • Managed the social media communication pages for the project in 2018 to 2021.• Designed and disseminated digital graphics work for the organisation.• Took lead in the design, coordination and distribution of the three editions of the National Oil Palm Project.• Trusted with managing the resource centre that held most of the organization’s information.• Media management, including working with media reporters and houses in order to cover events or run organisation related articles.• Managed the branding of the organisation’s premises.• Contributed to the design process of the 2020 National Oil Palm Project communication strategy.• Spearheaded photography and videography tasks with an aim of covering the aspect of experience capitalisation with the beneficiaries of the project.• Led data management by recording multimedia data to disseminate in form of documentaries or for other media.• In charge of organizing and disseminating information/data to the relevant publics through fliers, newspapers and media houses.• Contributed to the development of the knowledge management tool to be utilized by the project.

Led the content creation and package creation for public sharing as well as participating in the client engagement during trips and tour exercises.Key Contributions: • Responsible for coordinating preparation and dissemination of the company related literature to clients.• In charge of information dissemination by handling the sensitization of the public and interested parties on the services of the company as well as any other relevant information.• Managed the running and monitoring the social media accounts for the company.

Key Contributions: • Recorded in-studio live shows for the station.• Covered live events and prepared field news reports.• Contributed to voice over sessions for news and adverts running on the station.• Took lead in content creation, management and monitoring for the organisation’s social media pages across different platforms.• Supported the development and implementation of the organisation’s media strategy in order to reach all the desired audience.

Wrote a news article published on URA Bridge (URA intranet) and Web Portal during a meeting between the Commissioner General of URA and the delegates from International Monetary Fund.Key Contributions: • Contributed to the organising of meetings including writing reports and attendance during briefs.• Supported photographing at events such as the Stress Bust in the URA Nakawa East office and press brief in the Customs offices.• Wrote two articles with the media team that were published with the Daily Monitor and Business Weekly.• Supported in organising the tax clinics and other URA launches as a member of the Public and Corporate Affairs team.• Supported in preparing and coordination of URA’s events such as Stakeholder engagement, Half Year Report Sharing.