Experience

Fresh Life

• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Business Development

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Fresh-Life is a founding partner of the Sanergy collaborative. A thought leader in non-sewered sanitation management in the global South. Fresh-Life is a founding partner of the Sanergy collaborative. A thought leader in non-sewered sanitation management in the global South.



BRAC International

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Business Development Manager

  • Oct 2022 - Jan 2023

  Enhancing, strengthening and deepening business development targeting operations in Africa Key responsibilities; ✔️ Strategic donor engagement this included Private, Philanthropic Public, as well as Bilateral and Multilateral donors ✔️ Institutional business development, and system & processes strengthening ✔️ Business development operations management.

• Senior Specialist - Programme Design & Grant Writing

  • Jul 2020 - Sep 2022

  Team lead, Program Design & Grant writing: Global Resource Mobilizations & Partnerships DepartmentKey responsibilities; ✔️ Design, and, Development of holistic poverty eradication programs, that respond to African needs, and are practical, scalable, and sustainable.✔️ Partnership and funder management. - Relationship & account management of BRAC International - Africa key partners. This included both philanthropic and institutional donors, as well as regional development & economic communities. ✔️ Grant writing - Writing high-quality proposals for strategic donors. Show less



Forum for African Women Educationalists - FAWE RS

• Nairobi

• Regional Resource Mobilization & Partnerships Officer

  • May 2018 - Jun 2020

  Championing African girls gender agenda in Education ✔️Developed a flexible and innovative resource mobilization strategy to ensure sustainable financing for FAWE-Africa region, that majorly linked donors, governments (Min of Education) and FAWE country offices. ✔️Developed new funding channels through donor mapping and engagements, resulting in diversified funding and strategic partnerships from multilateral donors and various governments including funding from the Dutch government totalling Euro 9M ✔️Provided technical support to 33 country offices within the FAWE network in the development and implementation of their long-term strategies for engagement with bilateral donors. ✔️Collaborated with the Regional Executive Director to expand partnerships with Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and Global Initiatives, such as the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), to sustain global and regional political momentum on the right of girls to education. Show less



Vaughan Group

• Private Sector Partnerships Coordinator

  • Sep 2015 - Aug 2018

  Securing Strategic Private sector partnerships to enhance Women Economic Empowerment ✔️Steered Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) in inclusive markets systems reaching 600+ smallholder women farmers, and 10 value-chain addition organizations into the vegetable and potato value chains. ✔️ Strengthened organizations private partnership portfolio, and expanded to include 4 international brands, and 2 value addition partners, eventually increasing market share for sweet potatoes. ✔️Identified various resource opportunities, including strategic technical partnerships, with UN bodies for building women's economic resilience. Show less



National Organization of Peer Educators

• Nairobi

• Project Manager

  • May 2011 - May 2015

  Project Manager - Structural Interventions - NPI-SHAP Program ✔️Managed the Structural Intervention section of PEPFAR CDC funded New Partners Initiative (NPI-SHAP) program that aimed at scaling up comprehensive HIV Prevention Services for Most-at-risk Populations (MARPs) supervising 15 staff directly and 83 indirectly. ✔️Assured fiscal compliance and management of donor grants amounting to USD 920,000 per annum for three years towards attainment of the section’s objective. ✔️Expanded NOPE’s corporate partnerships with government and corporate institutions with a view to increasing project beneficiaries’ opportunities for alternative livelihoods. Show less