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Oasis ZimbabweCEO & Country Director
Oct. 2016 - Jan. 2023Harare, ZimbabweSpearhead economic growth projects while addressing educational, mental/physical health, and violence issues with women and children within high risk areas of underdeveloped regions.
• Enhanced programming team’s strategic capacity and contribution by 50%+ within a year as CEO.
• Implemented community sexual gender based response and referral network in high risk high density areas of Harare, trained 237 community responders to address SGBV; primarily women, created two community based places of safety, executed 150+ interventions.
• Boosted sustainability of support by over 50% through establishment of teacher mentorship network of Early Childhood Development teachers to underpin 114 Early Childhood Development Centre's built with teachers trained under Oasis Zimbabwe Programme.
• Initiated supply of mobile based support to 4000+ women and families during COVID19 pandemic.
• Vocational Skills Training: Steered Training Programme for psychosocial support, catch up education, national curriculum examinations, financial earnings, setup business, and savings/lending groups.
• Led outreach, engagement, impact, and rescue operations in collaboration with adults and children and delivered temporary place of safety for girls aged 6 – 16 with issues such as trauma, neglect, sexual violence, with health, HIV reduction, therapeutic and trauma interventions and mentorship, adherence, income generation activities, and transitional and psychosocial support services.
• Supported 4000+ women in peri-urban areas with economic support programmes; engaged Epworth, Chitungwiza, and Goromonzi in savings and lending groups, small business, and capacity building training.
• Addressed Sexual/Gender Based Violence against women and girls: Headed developing/mentoring implementation and contextual application of trauma, behavioural, and mental model awareness training and international pilots.
Red Earth Ventures LLC/Mutungagore (Pvt) LtdInternational Development Specialist, Coach and Consultant
Feb. 2009USA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global•Afreximbank African Trade Centres - Trade Services Consultant; Southern Africa Region & Global Business Plan Development
•Development, Strategic Partnerships and CBNRM; Lugenda Foundation and Lugenda Wildlife Reserve, Mozambique.
•Devised strategies for community based small business development, small scale agri-business, and education projects. Oversaw strategic development of programme involved in 72 conservation agriculture training bases across Zimbabwe while performing as strategic PM that included training and support of community-based leaders for community vision development and profit generating opportunity; Zimbabwe. •Devised strategic concept of food security blue-print for Govt. and church collaboration; Zimbabwe.
•Provided strategic consultation, drafted development proposal, and supported donor and ROI communications reporting; Zimbabwe - World Vision Zimbabwe/Canada, UNICEF, GIZ, Zimbabwe Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture, 3iE, CARIAA, Tear fund Australia/UK/Netherlands, COMESA.
•Delivered training on individual and business development and created coaching plans/model; US & Zimbabwe (Multi-Media Production Company–Strategic Concept Development, Photography and Film-Strategic Planning and Expansion Coaching, Mining/Tourism Industry–Concept Development Coaching, Beauty Industry–Business Vision and Implementation Consultation. Agri-Business Supply Chain Model)
•Served as Strategic Advisor to Individuals and Organisations, including private and public sector regarding strategy, vision, and programme development; US, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. •Executed strategy for 10K+ small scale farmers across 72 locations in rural, high density, and urban Zimbabwe for transitioning from growing food for household provision to establishing agri-business.
•Created National Food Security Blueprint for engaging Government and 80% of Zimbabwean population to collaborate mutually for increasing food security.
West Michigan TEAMVice President
Jul. 2007 - Oct. 2009Grand Rapids, Michigan, United StatesEstablished appropriate procedures to enhance human capital development and nourish local economies via holistic social, physical, psychological support and intervention for individuals in workforce by building partnerships with private, public, and non-profit organisations. Advised USDOL/ETA on successful approaches to assist “hard to serve” populations in overcoming poverty and other barriers to success. Performed scaling of employer driven work force development model and increased all stakeholder benefits; enhanced employee skills, engagement, and retention by resolving physical, social, and psychological issues of employment and promotion, boosted HR focus on nurture human capital, and formulated regional strategy for tri-sector work force development approaches.
• Operated in local regions with local employers and sector partners to underpin collaborative exploration of relevant workforce requirements, present strategy and sustainability plans, execute locally “owned” and sustained strategy.
• Directed systems approach and change efforts, including policy change and advocacy, at local, regional, state, and federal level regarding hard to serve-primarily high poverty-populations.
• Delivered training and support on Bridges out of Poverty and Hidden Rules of Poverty.
• Built public private partnerships with employers, government, multi-service providers and funders including USDOL, W K Kellogg Foundation, CS Mott Foundation, Community Foundations and private/corporate funders.
Acacia Tree LLCIndependent Consultant
Jul. 2006 - Feb. 2009Grand Rapids, Michigan, United StatesConsulted on key US DOL Workforce Development Initiative Created Multi-Sector Engagement and Innovation
Enhanced and Replicated Business Driven Approaches to Poverty and Other Barriers to Success
The Windquest GroupEA: Private Holdings Co
Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2005Grand Rapids, Michigan• Provided executive support to Philanthropist founders. • Liaised & coordinated with philanthropic family corporation and foundation.
• Planned and oversaw philanthropic fund raising and other private events.
Deptartment of Infectious Diseases, St Georges Hospital Medical SchoolAdministrator, Wellcome Trust Clinical Centre for Tropical Medicine
Jan. 1997 - Dec. 2002London, United Kingdom• Set up and provided logistical co-ordination and support of international clinical trials.
• Developed project research proposals and CRF’s, ensuring they met political, financial, confidentiality and ethical expectations of participating institutions, international government health authorities, funding bodies and collaborators.
• Coordinated transfer, storage of clinical trial samples and data, and participated in laboratory and statistical analysis of clinical trials data. • Strategically engaged with international collaborators, including those in the USA, South America, Germany, France, Thailand and Africa.
• Engaged and managed international funding from funders including the NIH, WHO, EU, MRC and Wellcome Trust.
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