Experience

Australia's Strongim Bisnis

• Solomon Islands
• Strategic Management Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Monitoring and Results Measurement Manager

  • Apr 2021 - Present



IESC - Improving Economies for Stronger Communities (formerly International Executive Service Corps)

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• MEL Consultant- YouLEAD

  • Sep 2020 - Apr 2021

• MEL Consultant

  • Feb 2018 - Oct 2020

  Long term technical advisor and MEL Lead for the USAID Feed the Future Tanzania Enabling Growth through Investment and Enterprise (ENGINE) program. In-country as well as remote support to program teams in Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mbeya, Morogoro and Iringa. The program works at influencing business enabling environment policy reform at the national and sub-national government authority levels, in addition to developing partnerships with financial institutions and businesses development service providers as a means of increasing MSMEs access to quality advice and financial products/services. Supported the preparation of the final close out report on the project in October, 2020.

• MEL Consultant- YOULEAD

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2020

  Short-term in-country and remote support to the USAID funded youth workforce and entrepreneurship development project. Technical support in the first years aggregation and reporting of results, successful completion of an external USAID data quality assessment exercise, as well as the revision of the program Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Plan.Final key output was coordinating research into the development of training and employment multipliers for use in reporting on key performance indicators of the project.



Coffey

• Australia
• Civil Engineering
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Advisor at Pacific RISE

  • Mar 2020 - Apr 2021



GROW Liberia

• Liberia
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Advisor - Market Systems and M&E

  • Jul 2017 - Jul 2017

  Second assignment for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) funded market development program, GROW Liberia. The program has interventions in the oil palm, rubber, vegetable, cocoa and aquaculture sectors. Key tasks the revision and update of the program log-frame indicators, update and development of projections and results chains for key interventions in each of the sectors, and led the aggregation of GROW Liberia program results for the GROW Liberia semi-annual report.



SOBA - Sierra Leone Opportunities for Business Action

• Sierra Leone
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Advisor- Market Systems and M&E

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2017

  Assignment for the DFID UK governmnent funded program, SOBA. Provided monitoring and results measurement (MRM) support to senior management, program implementation and MRM staff. Key objectives were to assist the program in finalising all program results for their closing report to DFID. Assignment for the DFID UK governmnent funded program, SOBA. Provided monitoring and results measurement (MRM) support to senior management, program implementation and MRM staff. Key objectives were to assist the program in finalising all program results for their closing report to DFID.



GROW Liberia

• Liberia
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Advisor- Market Systems and M&E

  • Mar 2017 - May 2017

  First assignment to GROW Liberia providing MRM support to senior management, program implementation and MRM staff. Key objectives were to assist the program in their transition to a new MRM system that was more compliant with DCED standard, as well as to assist in their preparations for the program mid-term review held in May 2017. The review involved a full audit of their intervention portfolio, their management and operational systems, with a special focus on their MRM measurement set-up.



Market Development Facility (MDF)

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Results Measurement Specialist- Market Development Facility

  • Jun 2013 - Feb 2017

  Long-term role with the DFAT Australian government funded Market Development Facility. Transitioned to a senior role responsible for ensuring the DCED-compliant Results Measurement system in Fiji as well as support to other country teams.

• Business Advisor

  • Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

  Was involved in the planning, development, management and monitoring of a number of private sector partnerships in the Tourism and related industries sector as well as the Horticulture Exports sector. These partnerships ranged from innovative aquaculture ventures in crab farming to chocolate processors utilizing Fijian grown cocoa. Was also involved in several large primary research studies such as a Poverty & Gender study in the Tourism, Horticulture and Urban Export processors sector, a Tourism crop demand study, as well as a Farm labor employment multiplier study. In addition to these larger cross-sectoral studies, led regular impact assessments of several mature partnerships in the Tourism and Horticulture Export sectors.



Reserve Bank of Fiji

• Economist

  • Apr 2005 - Mar 2006

  Was a member of the Policy and Research Unit (P&R) of the Economics Group at the Reserve Bank of Fiji, and reported directly to both the Senior Economist P&R Unit as well as the Chief Manager of the Economics Group. The P&R unit was primarily involved in conducting research support to the other units in the Economics Group, and during my time there we did a number of studies concerning the RBF monetary policy transmission framework, as well as looked into the development of a macro-model of the Fiji economy. In addition to ongoing research efforts, we also took the lead in developing the RBF Economic Reviews which was published monthly following approval from the Governor of the RBF. As an Economist with the Economics Group, I was also a member of the internal monthly monetary policy coordination committee meetings which involved discussions on the monetary policy stance of the RBF in the months going forward taking into account the prevailing domestic and international economic environment.