Experience

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  British Council

  • Skills and Enterprise Portfolio Lead - Education & Society Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Aug 2018 - Mar 2021

    • Leading and managing regional program development, positioning the organization work on social and impact enterprises, driving change and organizational development• Developing a multi-year strategy to steer impact enterprise and skills development programming at the regional level.• Driving high-level strategic, change at the sub-national, national, regional and international level on skills and entrepreneurship development.• Driving technical representation of the British Council and relationship management of key stakeholders across the Employability, Impact and Social Entrepreneurship sector in SSA. • Analysing business opportunities to increase volume and share, while implementing both short and long-term strategies to increase revenues.• Pursuing funding opportunities suitable for presenting to the private sector, foundations, donors. • Engaging partners, ecosystem actors and entrepreneurs to identify key opportunities for strengthening the ecosystem for impact and social enterprise development. • Team management – leading a dedicated team and technical consultants to deliver results across key countries in SSA.

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  Edukans

  • Kampala, Uganda

  • Regional Skills Specialist

    • Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
    • Kampala, Uganda

    • Driving high-level policy change at the sub-national, national, regional and international level on workforce and skills training • Preparation and implementation of advocacy strategies and quantifiable annual work plans in collaboration with country teams and project partners. • Managing and leading regional program development, positioning the organization work on skills development and empowerment of smallholder farmers.• Development of agri-market related policy intervention for smallholder farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia.• Design and development of interventions to ensure market expansion opportunities, finance and inputs for farmers in value chains in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia.• Creating policy influencing platforms to shape policy development and implementation on access to skills, access to finance, and access to inputs for smallholder farmers in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. • Building relationships with key stakeholder groups and individuals in the government, civil society and other development organization to build allies in agricultural value chain improvements.• Providing strategic direction that drives the path of growth for the organization in the region increasing the level of income streams from various donors.

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  Adam Smith International

  • Mombasa, Kenya

  • Skills and Workforce Development Manager

    • Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
    • Mombasa, Kenya

    • Business development and management of the skills development and workforce component of the project; • Systems Analysis of technical vocational educational (TVET) program; • Development of a private sector youth employment placement and linkages program strategy; • Statistical Research and Analysis of the labour force and skills development trends; • Oversight and technical coordination of business enterprise and labour market skills training for the youth of Mombasa; • Design of plans to implement labour market and training information centres for youth in Mombasa; • Partnership Management, and relationship building with Private Sector, Government, Skills Providers, and Labor Market Services;

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  Plan International Inc. Regional Office of Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Regional Employability and Governance Specialist

    • Oct 2012 - Feb 2014

    • Leading in providing strategic directions and leadership on economic security and governance programs. • Providing leadership and oversight of plans to put in place economic security and governance institutions. • Sustaining relationships and managing partnerships with the private sector, government and various partners for resource mobilization.• Sustaining relationships with Country Offices, in the region; Developing policy priorities on matters concerning economic security and governance.• Ensuring the institution's visibility in advocacy and policy-making processes; Mapping out key stakeholders and partners for Plan to engage work on youth initiatives. • Oversight and leadership in developing manuals guides with tools and materials to support employability and governance models. • Managing of consultants working at the regional level; Design and Implementation of regional level communication and advocacy strategies

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  Africa Youth Trust

  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Co-founder/Program Manager, Socio Economic and Governance

    • 2010 - 2012
    • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    • Leadership and Technical oversight in the design, implementation and advocacy of regional focused youth initiatives. • Establishing program linkages and liaising with the Africa Union.• Monitoring and Advocacy towards implementation of the Africa Youth Charter and the Decade Program of Action on Youth in Africa, Creating programmatic linkages and collaboration with Regional/Pan African Youth Institutions.• Representing Africa Youth Trust in various regional youth forums; • Managed to Scale-up Africa Youth Trust Programming to a Continental Level; Establish linkages and relations with the Africa Union, and the Pan Africa Youth Union

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  Africa Youth Trust

  • Program Manager, Governance, and Socio-Economic Development,

    • 2006 - 2010

    • Leadership, technical oversight, initiated, fundraised and implemented programs on Employability, Governance and Democracy relating to youth-led development across the continent. • Oversight on the set up of the AYT systems and structures. Designing of new projects and programs systems.• Creating linkages and partnerships with like-minded institutions. • Resource mobilization and acquisition of new projects; Donor coordination and relationship building.• Engagement with Private Sector, Government, and Civil Society Organizations; People and human resource management; Achievements• Creation and project management of 1) Youth Action Against Corruption. 2) East African Youth Human Rights Programme, 3) Youth Employment & Entrepreneurship Initiative of Nairobi 4) Developed the Equal Status of and Human Rights of Women in Eastern Africa.• Managing stakeholder collaborations with East Africa Community Secretariat, Regional and National Parliaments

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  Kenya National Council of Youth for Habitat

  • Nairobi, Kenya

  • Volunteer National Coordinator, Governance, and Socio-Economic Development,

    • 2002 - 2006
    • Nairobi, Kenya

    • Coordinated and managed the organization with its programs on youth development.• Convener, Governance and Socio-Economic, One Stop Youth Centre. Convened programs on youth inclusion and governance together with partners as well as marketing and publicizing the Centre’s operations.• Advisor to the City of Nairobi on the establishment of the Junior Council Initiative• Action Partner of Africa Youth Parliament on advocacy and advisory to New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and Africa Peer Review Mechanism Process on youth engagement• Project coordination of UNESCO Growing Up in Cities Initiative Kenya a participatory action research program for youth and children• Project Team Member – Environmental Entrepreneurship Program jointly with UN-Habitat and Environmental Youth Alliance • Nairobi Kenya, Rwanda and Vancouver Canada: Coordinate partnerships between cities (Vancouver and Nairobi) under the Global Partnership Initiative for Youth Development in Africa framework, and coordinate youth activities for the Third Session of the World Urban Forum.