Areas of expertise

Programme & project management

Full cycle from scoping to closure; Agile and Waterfall; risk analysis; leading cross-functional teams.

• Scoping, planning and operational management of projects and programmes.
• Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall methods as the context requires.
• Logistical, financial and operational risk analysis with mitigation plans.
• Coordination of multidisciplinary teams and consultants.

• Project cycle
• Agile
• Risk management

Strategic planning

Programme development, consolidated budgets, dashboards and decision-support reporting.

• Developing and structuring strategic programmes.
• Preparing and monitoring consolidated budgets.
• Performance dashboards and reports for senior management.

• Programme development
• Budgeting
• Decision support

Partnerships & stakeholder management

Negotiating agreements with academic institutions, building employer networks, working with donors.

• Structuring and negotiating partnership agreements.
• Monitoring the delivery of mutual commitments.
• Building a network of partner employers.
• Working with technical and financial partners.

• Negotiation
• Agreements
• Donors

Public procurement & contract management

Tender documents to national (DNCMP) and donor standards, contract monitoring, compliance.

• Preparing and revising tender documents.
• Compliance with national (DNCMP) standards and donor requirements.
• Contract execution monitoring and vendor negotiation.
• Training internal teams on best practices.

• DNCMP
• Tendering
• Contracts

Programme design

Needs assessment, instructional design, programme accreditation, incubation schemes.

• Identifying needs and skills gaps.
• Instructional design for degree and continuing education programmes.
• Programme accreditation and approval.
• Designing entrepreneurship incubation schemes.

• Instructional design
• Accreditation
• Incubation

Results-Based Management

Logical frameworks, theory of change, performance indicators, donor reporting.

• Logical and results frameworks.
• Theory of change.
• KPI and dashboard design.
• Monitoring, evaluation and donor reporting.

• RBM
• Logframe
• M&E

Education, innovation & capacity building

STEM education, Big Data and data science, career services and employability, team capacity building.

• STEM education and digital skills programmes.
• Career and mobility services.
• Internal capacity building.

• STEM
• Data science
• Employability
• Agri-entrepreneurship
• Reproductive health