Experience

Moyo Health & Community Services

• Canada
• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Apr 2023 - Present



University of Waterloo

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Health Promotion and Evaluation Specialist

  • Aug 2021 - Apr 2023

  • Program planning, implementation, and delivery of health promotion initiatives that enhance student wellness. • Employ project planning and project management skills to develop workplans that include goals, objectives, outputs, and outcomes. Ensure project deliverables are completed within timeline and budget. • Utilize evidence-informed planning to assess relevant data and literature to identify priorities. Apply appropriate health promotion strategies such as health education, health communications, community capacity-building, developing supportive environments and healthy public policy. • As part of the health planning process, consider underlying social determinants of health and develop appropriate strategies that work to address them. Assess health inequities and work with stakeholders to propose solutions to reduce these inequities. • Facilitate and lead campus committees and groups of stakeholders who are working towards a common vision of student health and wellness. Employ stakeholder engagement strategies and shared knowledge, tools, and expertise in health promotion to build capacity for health promotion across campus. Show less



ARCH - HIV/AIDS Resources & Community Health

• Canada
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Executive Director

  • Oct 2019 - Jan 2021

  The Interim Executive Director is responsible for the overall leadership and management of ARCH, including the development, delivery and evaluation of all aspects of the agency’s programs and services. • Managed the agency in accordance with all legal and statutory requirements and agency bylaws, policies and procedures.• Lead the program management team in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the agency’s programs and services.• Identified critical issues which may affect the agency’s plans; developed and implemented appropriate strategies in response.• Reviewed, developed, implemented and evaluated organizational structures and procedures required for effective program delivery.• Responsible for overall management of the agency’s assets and financial transactions.• Ensured the planning and implementation of short and long term funding strategies for the agency.• Negotiated funding from government sources, and other sources by writing grant proposals.• Responsible for the recruitment, hiring and termination of staff.• Set annual performance goals and conducts annual performance appraisals.• Identified, developed, and maintained collaborative, cooperative and effective partnerships with external community agencies in support of the mission and the strategic priorities of ARCH.• Represented and promoted the agency to the community, media, funders, donors, and others. Show less

• Manager of Programs and Services

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2019



HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, NY State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

• New York, NY

• Project Director

  • 2016 - 2019

  The Project Director role was at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Division of Gender, Sexuality and Health. I was responsible for directing a large randomized control trial focused on testing an intervention aimed at prevention of HIV/STIs and substance abuse among young people in the criminal justice system in Brooklyn, New York, USA. • Directed the day-to-day operations of the project: (1) hiring, training, and supervising our team of 29 staff; (2) overseeing participant recruitment (450 young adults age 18-24 in the criminal justice system) and retention; (3) overseeing intervention implementation; (4) overseeing quantitative and qualitative data collection; and (5) assuring compliance with all data collection standards. • Contributed to the development of the intervention, including adapting educational materials using a Critical Consciousness framework to address the impact of oppression on healthy and unhealthy decision making among young adults in the criminal justice system. • Developed HR protocols, hired, trained and supervised all research staff and volunteers, creating and monitoring personnel effort and assignments. • Managed project budgets, tracked expenditures, made hiring and purchasing decisions, fulfilled reporting requirements. • Developed new skills as needed to meet project demands. • Oversaw the weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual project deliverables as required. • Prepared for presentations and contributed to publication drafts. • Worked closely with the Principle Investigator, co-investigations, and statisticians to ensure quality assurance and aid in processing of study data. • Coordinated professional meetings and events, corresponded with other investigators and collaborators. • Assisted with grant and manuscript writing, contributed to multiple successful awards including over 7 million in new project funds. Show less



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Health Services Research Consultant

  • 2009 - 2015

  The Balance of Care Research Group is a health services consulting group based out of the University of Toronto, Canada. The group primarily focuses on research supporting the delivery of public health care to older adults. • Design & implement qualitative & quantitative research projects from start to finish • Facilitate qualitative research, including in depth interviews, focus groups, community programs • Quantitative & qualitative research analysis • Collaborate with health services consultants, researchers, and health care professionals Show less