Experience

PEN International

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • Feb 2023 - Present

• • Jul 2020 - Feb 2023

  Promoting Literature, Defending Freedom of Expression


HAWAS Housing Co-operative Society Ltd
• Chairperson

  • Jul 2018 - Present

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• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Independent Consultant

  • Oct 2012 - Jul 2020


Twaweza East Africa

• Tanzania
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Country Program Manager - Kenya

  • Aug 2009 - Sep 2012

  Overall in charge of country programme development, leadership and management, negotiation and management of strategic partnerships; media and public communication, learning and innovation; external representation; advisor to the Head of the organization on Kenya strategy, hiring and supervising staff, volunteers and consultants, grant management and administration, budget preparation and oversight; regulatory and statutory compliance; and reporting to the Head office and donors. Overall in charge of country programme development, leadership and management, negotiation and management of strategic partnerships; media and public communication, learning and innovation; external representation; advisor to the Head of the organization on Kenya strategy, hiring and supervising staff, volunteers and consultants, grant management and administration, budget preparation and oversight; regulatory and statutory compliance; and reporting to the Head office and donors.



Adili Consulting Group

• Director - Institutional Development and Training

  • Sep 2007 - May 2009

  Provided strategic consulting services to clients in the nonprofit sector in the areas of strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, staff and institutional capacity building, advocacy design and training, community outreach and engagement; movement building and programme development. Provided strategic consulting services to clients in the nonprofit sector in the areas of strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation, staff and institutional capacity building, advocacy design and training, community outreach and engagement; movement building and programme development.



Oxfam Novib

• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Officer - Human Rights & Gender (Somalia Programme)

  • Sep 2004 - Jul 2007

  Responsible for program development, external representation in thematic networks and coalitions, partnership building, fundraising, coordination of grant-making, capacity building for Somali human rights organizations in the areas of Human Rights Education, monitoring, documentation and reporting human rights violations and abuses, gender justice, advocacy and institutional/organisational development Responsible for program development, external representation in thematic networks and coalitions, partnership building, fundraising, coordination of grant-making, capacity building for Somali human rights organizations in the areas of Human Rights Education, monitoring, documentation and reporting human rights violations and abuses, gender justice, advocacy and institutional/organisational development



Kenya Human Rights Commission

• Kenya
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Assistant; then Management Coordinator; and then Program Officer - Human Rights Education

  • Jan 1998 - Jun 2004

  Program support services and assistance to Program Officers; coordination (development and implementation of management systems); program leadership and management of the Human Rights Education and Outreach strategy; movement building and capacity building of grassroots activists, gender mainstreaming support, fundraising and external representation. Program support services and assistance to Program Officers; coordination (development and implementation of management systems); program leadership and management of the Human Rights Education and Outreach strategy; movement building and capacity building of grassroots activists, gender mainstreaming support, fundraising and external representation.