Interested in new opportunities: Passionate to alleviate poverty & inequality, through innovative solutions & to build & strengthen capacity through local organizations, partnerships and collaboration. A catalytic, self-driven & dynamic international development specialist. A background in agribusiness, rural enterprise, tropical agriculture, entrepreneurship, education, healthcare, marketing & commercial management. Masters Degree in Applied Development Studies & certification in PRINCE2 Practitioner & in ZOPP.Key Skills:• Conceptual & strategic thinker with strong analytical skills; a dependable, creative innovator, with social & technical development skills, flexibility & perseverance• Project & programme management: design to vision, implementation, M+E both UK & overseas• Leading & supporting teams at a distance in different cultures & countries• Expertise in agricultural & rural livelihood programmes with structural, emergent & socio-political complexity• Opportunity scoping & development, sustainably linking & mobilizing stakeholder collaboration, via market, supply & value chain experience• Reporting & editing skills, to develop technical field resources & to secure financial & technical cooperation• Research proposal development; securing & managing fundingAchievements:• Decentralized UK-based country programme management to Country Managers in offices in Africa & Latin America; built local capacity to evaluate opportunities, manage risk & problem solve• Innovated & implemented inclusive community-based agricultural micro-credit/ loan scheme: achieved 100% first year repayment• Successfully established a district technical support team of government, NGOs & private sector, small & micro business & rural enterprise development partners• Re-designed a farmer cooperative, mitigated food security risk & built future resilience, through storage, cropping, supply, market chain, & nutritional support, & a programme of loans, credit & grants