Upendo Kaaya

Business Success Lead at Africa Insight Advisors
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Tanzania, TZ
Languages
  • English -
  • Kiswahili -

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Credentials

  • Bachelor of Law
    University Of Iringa

Experience

    • Tanzania
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Business Success Lead
      • Sep 2022 - Present

    • Legal Advisor & Office Administrator
      • Jul 2019 - Oct 2022

      Africa Insight Advisors is a management consulting and investment facilitation firm that works across East Africa. The consulting wing is aimed to support, build and improve local companies through conducting risk assessments, change management, diversification etc., while the investment wing, works with a number of multi-national investment communities like private Equity firms, Venture Capitals and Development Financial Institutions in sourcing high quality investments in East Africa.Responsibilities- |Legal Advisor| - Providing legal advice and guidance to all legal issues and controversies - Conducting legal analysis and research on legal matters - Monitoring the implementation of legal clauses - Drafting and managing 30+ contracts within the organization - Manage and assess all legal compliances- |Research Analyst| - Analyze data and information collected per project - Conduct industry and market research analysis - Conduct competitor research and analysis - Help create & develop tools to conduct analysis e.g competitor analysis tables etc- Interim HR Admin - Help create and develop performance management tools - Develop 10+ HR policies and forms necessary for the organization - Help conduct HR compliance/audit for the organization - Conduct recruitment and selection of new hires - Help conduct the training and development of employees within the organization - Liase with 10+ third party vendors/suppliers for the organization - Manage and supervise 5+ supporting staff to the organization - Manage the Director's calendar - Co-ordinate all special projects

    • Kenya
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Alumni
      • Oct 2016 - Present

      The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) was launched by the United States government as a signature effort to invest in the next generation of African leaders.Course Attended: |Public Management|A method for empowering people to participate in transformational social change. Public leadership comprises organizing, educating, and developing the capacity of others to take meaningful action to participate in the decision-making systems that affect their quality of life and social well-being. Participants learn how to understand and analyze the theoretical basis for social transformation, varied leadership styles and strategies, the role and importance of ethical considerations in public management leadership, human rights and explore how to evaluate projects/ programs through a human rights lens, how to define the concept of power and understand the role of knowledge and societal structure in the process of empowerment

    • Volunteer
      • Sep 2015 - Present

      Tanzania Youth Vision Association [TYVA] is a youth-led, non-partisan, non-profit, and non-governmental and membership based organization focusing on youth awareness raising and empowerment. Responsibilities:-Promoting youth self awareness-Conducting youth empowerment sessions-Attending youth dialogues-Participating in policy making issues such as debating on the issues that are to be accounted for in the policies that carter for the youth's needs and trying to address them to the Government.-Educating youths on their rights towards voting and participating in the national elections as a National Election Internal Observer in 2015.-Attended short courses on leadership and received awards. Eg: Policy making on Gender Responsive at the MS TCDC Centre in Arusha, Tanzania.

    • Executive Personal Assistant | Interim Human Resource Manager
      • May 2018 - Jul 2019

      -Ensure employees are compensated and provide necessary insurance coverage.-Analyzing salary data, conducting salary surveys, preparing compensation reports.-Negotiating rewards packages with third-party vendors.-Lodging tax and proforma invoices-Customer assistance-Updating the Company's website and all it's social media accounts-Filing tax returns-Lodging government levies-Handling stocks and sales-Lodging and filing receipts-Support the marketing & sales department-Perform any other given task by the Manager

    • Intern
      • Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

      -Interviewing clients-Drafting legal documents and all necessary documents thereto-Attending court sessions -Interviewing clients-Drafting legal documents and all necessary documents thereto-Attending court sessions

Education

  • Law School of Tanzania
    Certificate of Practise, Law
    2017 - 2019
  • The Law School of Tanzania
    Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practise, Legal Practise
    2015 - 2017
  • Iringa University (Tumaini)
    Bachelors, Law
    2011 - 2014

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