Experience

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  Africa Public Health Foundation

  • Kenya
  • Philanthropic Fundraising Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Resource Mobilization Lead

    • Jun 2022 - Present

    APHF exists to forge partnerships and mobilize resources to support critical public health initiatives across the continent, in service of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).Responsible for overall coordination, planning, development, and management of fundraising initiatives to mobilize resources in service of the Africa CDC. Tasks include:• Soliciting support for APHF and engaging with philanthropic and private sector donors to advance public-private cooperation to strengthen health systems.• Advising and supporting the CEO and Council on long-term strategic planning and aligning resource mobilization efforts to support the foundation’s growth plans.• Leading on the tracking of fundraising progress, prospect research, and proposal writing, as well as liaising with the Africa CDC Technical Teams to identify programme and funding priorities.• Ensuring the sustainability and longevity of APHF through setting up fundraising systems and best practices.• Successfully securing US$7.5M, with a further US$17M in the pipeline.

  • Interim Grants Management Lead

    • Jan 2023 - Aug 2023

    From January to August 2023, acting as the Interim Grants Management Lead, managed the Grants department with a +US$30M portfolio.

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  United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

  • Amman, Jordan

  • Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Specialist

    • Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
    • Amman, Jordan

    Responsible for spearheading the overall resource mobilization plan for the Jordan Country Office, which included:• Mobilizing a sustainable funding base, with a target of US$18 Million annually, for both humanitarian and development programming.• Building partnerships, in close collaboration with the Country Representative.• Leading on the drafting and quality control of donor proposals, results-based reports, presentations, briefing notes, sitreps, and others. Donors include: ECHO, Japan, Norway, Korea, US PRM, SIDA, Canada. • Working closely with the sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence programmes teams to ensure effective implementation of grants.

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  International AIDS Society

  • Geneva Area, Switzerland

  • Resource Mobilization and Development Officer

    • May 2019 - Feb 2021
    • Geneva Area, Switzerland

    • Engaged strategically with government, philanthropic and corporate donors to meet revenue targets and broaden the IAS’ base of support. Donors included the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institute of Health, USAID and the private sector (Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson, ViiV Healthcare, and more).• Led on the coordination and writing of proposals, developing budgets of up to US$1.8 Million, and negotiating with donors. • Collaborated with the programmes team to develop compelling offers and pitches related to youth engagement in the HIV response, the search for an HIV vaccine and person centred quality care, as well as international HIV-focused conferences.• Successfully acquired more than US$6 Million.

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  Oxfam

  • Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

  • Country Funding and Partnerships Lead

    • Aug 2017 - May 2019
    • Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Responsible for managing Oxfam in Tanzania’s funding department:• Growing institutional partnerships and income at country level in order to achieve country’s strategic goals.• Developing and implementing resource mobilisation strategies, including: leading on large-scale proposals for institutional donors (for both development and humanitarian programmes), donor mapping, and budgeting up to EUR5 million. Donors include DFID, ECHO, EU, NORAD, US Foundations, GAC, Irish Aid, GFO, DGD, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN Women.• Collaborating with Oxfam affiliates on multi-country opportunities.• Managing and building Oxfam’s relationships with institutional donors in order to facilitate technical programme exchanges.• Ensuring that secured donor contracts in Tanzania are managed effectively and are in line with donor contractual requirements. • Building capacity of Oxfam staff and partners in country on proposal and report writing, donor compliance, and donor relations.

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  UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Programme Development and Support Expert - Somalia

    • Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    • Drafting large-scale concept notes and project proposals on urban development, youth and livelihood issues for internal UN funding and external donors (EU, Italian Cooperation, SIDA), ranging from $800,000 to $12 million.• Successfully securing additional funding and components for existing projects, e.g. human rights mainstreaming, city extension planning, etc. within South-Central Somalia and Puntland.• Developing and managing Agreements of Cooperation with consortia and implementing partners, and monitoring implementing partners’ outputs.• Contributing to narrative and financial reporting, monitoring and evaluation, including data cleaning and analysing.

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  Human Relief Foundation

  • Bradford, United Kingdom

  • Institutional Fundraising Officer

    • Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
    • Bradford, United Kingdom

    Responsible for managing and expanding the institutional fundraising department and portfolio:• Designing, implementing and managing a comprehensive annual institutional fundraising strategy.• Conducting a donor mapping exercise for four country offices including Jordan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Kenya.• Writing effective fundraising applications to a large portfolio of donors (UNHCR, UNDP, ECHO, etc.).• Coordinating and collaborating with five country offices in order to prepare proposals and donor reports for awarded grants.• Representing the Human Relief Foundation globally at international donor meetings and conferences.

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  DEVELOPMENT Solutions Europe Ltd.

  • International Trade and Development
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Project Officer and Project Manager

    • Nov 2014 - Jun 2015

    • Managing a European Union (EU) DG Growth project on the exchange of good practice between actors involved in supporting senior entrepreneurship, as well as playing a key role in new business development.• Successfully drafting and revising tenders and proposals for EU DG Enterprise, DG Growth and EuropeAid grants. Secured a total of EUR 7.7 million in projects.• Coordinating and leading teams of up to 5 working on proposals and liaising with senior experts.

  • Project Executive

    • May 2014 - Nov 2014

    • Implementing EU funded projects to prepare European companies for market entry and engaging in business activities in Asia (China and ASEAN), with a focus on intellectual property rights.• Liaising with over 300 Member State and third country partners (SME intermediaries such as chambers of commerce) regarding cooperation and training on business support.• Coordinating, marketing and moderating online and offline events such as training and webinars. Organised 32 trainings in Europe and 10 webinars in 2014.• Preparing reports relating to project activities, including drafting and preparation of reporting for EC DG Enterprise and Industry.• Supporting the design and editing of Helpdesk materials, such as regional factsheets, guides and bulletins.• Maintenance and updating of project website content (events, newsfeed and articles).

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  Zambian Governance Foundation

  • Lusaka, Zambia

  • Programme Specialist - Capacity Development

    • May 2013 - Feb 2014
    • Lusaka, Zambia

    • Contributing to the development of the capacity development strategy, tools and approaches.• Building the organisational capacity of 30 Grant Partners (GPs) by identifying capacity development needs and jointly agreeing with GPs on actions to be taken and the strategy to be employed using a partnership approach. Tools used: Capacity Self Assessment, Joint Organisational Capacity Assessment, M&E visits, Trainings.• Reviewing, assessing and revising a total of 50 grant proposals through GP selection process.• Working collaboratively with the M&E team to collect relevant data and information relating to activity and budget performance from GPs.• Developing a set of ‘Environmental Mainstreaming’ guidelines.

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  Friedrich Ebert Foundation

  • Lusaka, Zambia

  • Intern

    • Jan 2013 - May 2013
    • Lusaka, Zambia