Experience

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  Africa Public Health Foundation

  • Nairobi County, Kenya

  • Resource Mobilization

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • Nairobi County, Kenya

    •Development of Partnership frameworks between APHF & Private sector outlining roles responsibilities and benefits to both organizations for long term collaboration •Collaboration with communication colleagues to refine the APHF value proposition, aligning it with the goals to resource for Africa CDC and priorities of potential private sector partners. •Developing private sector funding, building up life sciences collective to bring on board companies operating in the research, development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biomedical technologies to contribute to the public health priorities across Africa.

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  Diakonia

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Resource Mobilization Advisor-Africa

    • Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    • Lead in funding analysis intelligence, and potential partnerships to expand Diakonia portfolio• Supporting countries deliver high quality response to calls for proposal and tenders • Collaborating across the countries and regional functions to design compelling development programs.

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  World Wide Fund For Nature-Kenya

  • Fundraising Manager

    • Aug 2019 - Feb 2021

    • Lead in the identification of funding opportunities from various technological portals, donor and partner Intel as well as coordinate the wider WWF funding support to the Kenya program.• Coordinate technical teams engagement with thematic leads in donor agencies to position WWF as go to conservation authority and intel gathering for upcoming opportunities.• Structure and update the funding pipeline, propose partnerships and lead soliciting partnerships and setting up the funding and program arrangements, this includes carrying out due-diligence, providing competition scenarios and potential outcomes.• Consolidate and cascade funding opportunities to conservation team, coordinate finance, conservation and M&E personnel to pull together applications and deliver funding proposals• In close collaboration with the communication team develop appropriate collateral for private sector and institutional funding audiencesKey achievements:• Collaboration with private sector donor to set up business network for CEOs engagement with WWF on business contribution to natural resource management in Kenya• Successfully coordinated proposal to European Commission (EC) for Euro 1Million, full application has been accepted and estimated to begin in March 2020. Raised additional Euro 400,000/- to cover co-financing requirements of the EC.• Restructured pipeline to provide linkages between opportunities, task and alignment to WWF thematic teams, potential partners and opportunities to leverage on wider network.

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  WaterAid

  • Kigali, Rwanda

  • Regional Funding Manager, East Africa

    • Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
    • Kigali, Rwanda

    • Part of the regional management team providing restricted income leadership to the Region and Country Programs (Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda) efforts towards the delivery for Water Aid Global strategy.• Lead and coordinate program teams, finance colleagues and country teams in external engagement strategy around ‘influencing’ and ‘creating’ restricted funding opportunities• Work with the country programs to ensure a strong pipeline of relevant funding opportunities are identified • Provide WaterAid Country staff/programmes with up-to-date intelligence on priority donors, funding opportunities and donor Terms and Conditions• Provide leadership and guidance around the effective formation of efficient consortiums around funding opportunities• Provide standardised WaterAid policies, tools and templates for business development• Provide standardised policy, tools, processes and templates for contracting and donor compliance • Provide advice to programme staff on managing donor compliance and donor relationship management issues

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  Action Aid International

  • International Partnership Development Regional Coordinator Action Aid International

    • Feb 2012 - Jun 2017

    • Serve as Country Director for AA Somaliland to key external stakeholders including donors and development partners based in Nairobi.• Lead and coordinate program teams, finance colleagues and country teams to develop applications• Support 8 Action Aid Country Programs in East and Southern Africa to develop competence in accessing and managing institutional donor funds particularly from European Commission, DFID, Swiss Development Cooperation and SIDA.• Support the countries with project inception workshops to ensure comprehension of the donor contracts.• Provide donor compliance and technical input to proposal applications.• Supervise country level partner selection and teaming agreements, ensure capacity development plans have been incorporated into the agreements, this ensures plan are in place to close financial risk gaps.• Develop mechanisms to oversee donor contracts; financial plans, budget review processes, develop risk matrix and red flag mechanisms.• Support the countries with interim and final reporting; review and redrafting and ensure timely submission to donors.

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  IFRC-East Africa Regional Representation

  • Disaster Risk Reduction Senior Program Officer

    • Apr 2010 - Jan 2012

    Duties and Responsibilities;Managerial♣ Managed Regional Disaster Risk Reduction activities and provided technical and managerial support to the five National Societies in East Africa, thus, ensured accountability to beneficiaries and donors for resources invested.♣ Lead the development of Risk Reduction guidelines for use at community level; tools utilized in training and supporting community resilience activities with the Red Cross in East Africa♣ Represented the IFRC as Vice-chair of the Regional Inter-Agency Working group on DisasterRisk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation.♣ Collated best practice and contribute to the East Africa Community Disaster Risk Reduction and management strategy. Operational♣ Worked closely with the finance department to ensure the effective financial management of allprogrammes.♣ Reviewed and updated budgets on regular basis with finance and resource mobilization officers.♣ Worked closely with Resource Mobilization officer and National Society counter parts to refine concept notes and proposals. ♣ Supported Red Cross Colleagues in the 5 countries to build collaborative relationships with governments, that ensured disaster preparedness and risk reduction received the due attention and budget support.

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  The Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in the Great Lakes & Horn of Africa (FECCLAHA).

  • Nairobi Kenya

  • Human Security Program Coordinator;

    • Nov 2007 - Aug 2009
    • Nairobi Kenya

    Duties and Responsibilities;Managerial♣ Developed and maintained strategic alliances with, civil society involved in the small arms processes (International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA), East Africa Action Network on Small Arms (EAANSA), Regional Centre on Small Arms (RECSA), United Nations Office on Disarmament (UNREC)♣ Developed and implemented guidelines and tools on the prevention and response to sexual and domestic gender-based violence♣ Conducted numerous awareness raising campaigns and training workshops on Sexual Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the FECCLAHA’s constituencyOperational♣ Co-ordinated efforts towards the reduction of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. (SALW)♣ Directly participated in the launch and monitoring of Sexual and Domestic Violence response mechanisms for members in Uganda, Burundi, DR Congo and Tanzania♣ Compiled and mapped Sexual Gender Based Violence response initiatives.♣ Trained and improved existing gender training materials; worked on “redemptive Masculinity”training tool focused on non-violent forms of masculinity

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  The Kenya Red Cross Society

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • National Tracing Coordinator

    • Jan 2002 - Dec 2006
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    Duties and Responsibilities;Managerial♣ Established an inter-country forum amongst the Ethiopian & Kenya Red Cross, The Sudanese Red Crescent & Somalia Red Crescent Societies that allowed the officers in charge to deliberate on best practices in the Tracing program.♣ Developed program plans for the Tracing program and the overall Disaster Preparedness & Response Department, ensuring that the plans are formatted to suit donor requirements.♣ Supervision of 13 staff based in Kakuma & Daadab Refugee camps. Training and coaching field staff on tracing tools, keeping them up to date with communication modalities.♣ Represented the Kenya Red Cross in external meetings with UNHCR, Danish Refugee Services and other actors supporting refugees in the country.Operational♣ Produced monthly, quarterly and annual narrative and financial reports for senior management and donors.♣ Updated the tracing data base and follow-up of pending case files.