Cian Prime specializes on designing and Printing flyers, posters , banners, booklets, folders and other promotional literatures for corporates. My key role is to;- Oversee fundraising, business development, and financial management - Manage project timelines and resource allocation

SokoFresh provides professional first-mile post-harvest management operations and tech-enabled market linkages, placing smallholder farmers at the center of value chain activities. SokoFresh aims to address post-harvest loss, which leads to 30-40% produce loss at the farm level, by leveraging solar-powered cold storage technology.Responsibilities:- Identifying and onboarding partners aligned with SokoFresh's mission, vision, and strategic path.- Designing partner projects, including budget planning and execution in collaboration .- Reporting to our current partners on projects progress, impact, and updates on agreed milestones.- Leading and coordinating the overall fundraising process through proposal writing, whilst utilizing input from other related Departments.- Occasionally supporting operations department on strategy, planning, recruitment, and commercial analysis.- Project designing, budgeting and developing theory of change.- Organizing and hosting field visits for donor partners across areas of our operations.Achievements:- Designed and successfully secured a €300,000 grant for the CFYE project.- Partnered with One Acre Fund to link over 500 avocado farmers to a premium export market, exporting 100+ metric tons and earning farmers a total income of Ksh. 10,000,000.- Unlocked banana ripening and market opportunities in Garissa in collaboration with the World Food Program.- Expanded operations to Tana River and Garissa Counties through the support of Concern Worldwide and WFP. 9M support in a period of 2 years.- Supported the design of a direct export strategy in collaboration with Technoserve - CASA Project - Secured € 48000 for this project.- Secured 55000 CAD support from Acumen to partner with Value for Women in developing SokoFresh gender action plan.- Secured IfDesign €2400 award for SokoFresh.- Secured € 20,000 from Shell foundation to provide cooling solutions to potato small holder farmers in Nakuru and Nyandarua counties.

Key Responsibilities: -Providing leadership to the Full-Service team, including supporting project reporting and evaluations. - Collaborating with the product and technology team to create tools and solutions that enhance operational efficiency e.g. Twende Kazi app that makes the sourcing process simple and efficient.- Overseeing all sourcing and field operations. - Mapping of high production zones in the various hubs, looking at priority value chains, production capacity, seasonality, aggregator landscape, and pricing.- Providing guidance and support to the team, as well as identifying and resolving any operational issues.- Participating in the sales and operations planning (S&OP) activities monthly, looking to optimize unit economics while driving positive business outcomes.-Designing sourcing as a service model and supporting in execution.-Aggregated and sourced 1.8 Million kilos of produce, generating a revenue of Kes.89 Million - Linked 1707 farmers to different markets and helped them earn Kes. 77Million.

My role entailed:- Operations management: I managed a team of 6 hub operators as well as managing day-to-day market linkage operations. - Trades planning: I prepared trade commercials, planned and executed trades for fresh and cereal value chains including local and cross border trades.- Budgeting: Drew trades and operational costs from S&OP, prepared annual budgets and monthly breakdowns of the same. - Recruitment: I was directly involved in identification of resource needs, attracting, assessing, and selecting qualified individuals to fill job vacancies in market linkage & operations department.I also oversaw the process of Identifying & recruiting agents, off-takers, and other actors for business operations to run smoothly- Target setting: I developed annual and monthly S&OPs for the operations team in collaboration with the Business Development team to do demand forecasting.- Expansion: Supported the team to set up operations for business concepts and pilot experiments for new regions and new value chains.- Relationships Management: Managed partners and other stakeholders projects targeting mainly Small Holder Farmers, Agents, Buyers, Government institutions and other private sector partners.Impact- Offered 8000+ small holder farmers cold storage and market linkage services that resulted to income increment by 20% in their households and reduction of food loss to below 5%.- Starting market linkage department and seeing its expansion from zero hubs to 12 hubs and crossing boarder to Uganda.- Introduced banana ripening processes using solar powered cold storages as ripening chambers. Ripened over 100 Tons of bananas in Murang'a and Garissa counties

- I was involved in building business case for market linkage operations- Tested and validated Sokofresh business model.- Developed SOPs for fresh produce sourcing.- Recruited 2000+ farmers in Murang'a, Makueni and Kiambu counties for the initial pilots.

Tulaa is a marketplace for smallholder farmers, providing them inputs, credit, agronomic advice and market linkages. The company aims to help these workers make more advantageous purchases, sales and agricultural decision-making by offering them skilled brokering, advisory services, and access to information and input financing.My role entailed;- Preparing and sharing harvest schedules for Nakuru, Narok, and Nyandarua Counties.- Prepare and share harvest budgets in time.- Recruiting, training, Managing, and deploying Harvest Coordinators and providing support to them to ensure timely and efficient harvests.- Managing logistics providers during the harvest process- Ensuring100% adherence to pre-established harvest standards, operating procedures, and schedules- Providing support by collecting, relaying, and analyzing relevant information such as prevailing farm gate prices, farm-level supply dynamics, weather conditions, and product availability- Consistently training Harvest Coordinators on issues such as quality control, price negotiations, logistics, farmer aggregation, farm visits, and sampling in collaboration with the Tulaabingwas- Collaborating across the company to ensure a seamless user experience from Market Linkage through to inputs, advisory, and credit- Systematically collecting farmer feedback – through qualitative and quantitative methods – on market linkage, farm-level results, customer satisfaction, etc.

SACDEP is a development organization with a mission to facilitate and support sustainable development through sustainable agriculture for resource limited communities in Eastern Africa through practical, socio-economic, scientific linkages and partnerships in Sustainable Agriculture practices for food, nutrition, renewable energy and income security.While working at SACDEP I was able to accomplish the following;- Organized and executed dairy farmer trainings in Nyandarua county- Onboarded farmer groups in SACDEPs system.- Trained farmer groups on milk value addition - Paneer making.Impact- Introduced table banking to 3 groups which created a revolving fund of 1.2 Million shillings within 6 months.

Kenya Tomatoes Ltd is a private owned farm located in Kajiado that specializes in growing tomatoes, capsicums and corriandor in both open field and green house set ups. My role entailed;- Developing planting and Spray programs for tomatoes and capsicums.- Labor Management.- Crop rotation scheduling.- Organizing and facilitating weekly farm toursHarvesting and post harvesting Handling.

Hand in Hand Eastern Africa is a Kenyan based NGO that supports small holder farmer and entrepreneurs create income generating activites.- I worked with the BoP in the community in value Chain development and capacity building on basic entrepreneurship.- I marketed Hand in Hand programs and projects to the communities and relevant government agencies.- Developed partnerships with different stakeholders on the ground as I linked SME farmers with markets.Impact- Recruited and trained more than 800 small holder farmers and entrepreneurs, 70% being women and youths, which led to creation of more than 300 enterprises and 700 jobs.

Latia Resource Center focuses on capacity building farmers by organizing training and field days in their 60 acres model farm. My duties were;- Organizing and coordinating short courses, seminars and workshops in Latia.- Identifying and recruiting consultants to train on various courses and workshops. - Coordinating the development of training materials.- Marketing the courses and programs.- Handling farm visits and responding to clients enquiries.- Recruiting apprentices and organizing internships or jobs once they graduate.Impact- Was involved in organizing and running the apprenticeship program that saw 150 apprentices (both youth and women) graduate with farm management and agripreneurship skills.-Established a 4 acres fruit orchard for demos and revenue generation.

My key responsibilities included;- Recruiting apprentices- Training Apprentices and farmers on Agripreneurship,- Organizing Training by making sure that training materials are well prepared by every trainer, - Preparing work plans and lesson plans,

I was attached in the Centre For Entrepreneurship And Leadership Department.My role was to assist in organizing seminars and workshops and registering participants for the same.I also was responsible for writing a monthly online newsletter for CE&L.