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EIDUHead of Grant Origination
Apr. 2023 - May. 2025Nairobi, KenyaRaising grant financing to support scale. If you're a grant funder who works in education / tech and are looking to grow your portfolio with a scalable, proven, market-disrupting technology - get in touch with them! [email protected]
M-KOPAImpact, ESG + Partnerships Manager
Apr. 2022 - Mar. 2023Nairobi, KenyaMy role has two parts: 1/ leading the company's ESG and impact measurement, management and reporting to our investors and the wider world, and 2/ building grant partnerships to test M-KOPA's asset financing model on more products and services that have the potential to create progress in people’s lives.
M-KOPAPartnerships Manager
Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2022Nairobi, KenyaBuilding and managing research and development partnerships with grant funders to test M-KOPA’s asset financing model on more products and services that can spur progress in our customers’ lives. $2m raised through new business development over this period from bilateral governments and private foundations.
60 DecibelsManager
Mar. 2020 - Nov. 2020Nairobi, KenyaManager responsible for end-to-end market survey + analysis work for social enterprises in Africa at 60 Decibels, a tech-enabled start-up working to bring standardisation and comparability to social impact measurement.
KPMGActing Head, Impact Unit
Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2020Nairobi, KenyaDeveloped and delivered KPMG's work in monitoring, evaluation and learning in the international development sector.
KPMGProgramme Manager, Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity
Sep. 2016 - Jan. 2020Nairobi, KenyaDelivery of the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity (www.frp.org), a $50m grant funding facility to catalyze financial inclusion in Africa. I managed a portfolio of agribusiness and financial technology projects in East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda), and worked directly with the Foundation on programmme analysis, reporting and strategy.
KPMGProject Manager, Social Return on Investment Analysis of the Wings to Fly Programme
Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2016Nairobi, KenyaSocial Return on Investment analysis on the Wings to Fly scholarship programme on behalf of the Equity Group Foundation.
KPMGMonitoring and Evaluation Manager, The Global Resilience Partnership
Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2016Nairobi, KenyaWorking within the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team for The Global Resilience Partnership (www.globalresiliencepartnrship.org) to design, operationalize and implement an M&E system for the programme. The Partnership is designed to help millions of people in Africa and Asia build more resilient futures through a challenge fund mechanism. The Partnership is sponsored by USAID, The Rockefeller Foundation and Sida.
KPMGMonitoring and Evaluation Manager, Mastercard Foundation Fund for Rural Prosperity
Sep. 2014 - Jan. 2020Nairobi, KenyaWorking within the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) team for the Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP) to design, operationalize and implement an MEL system for the programme. The FRP is a challenge fund designed to improve financial access for over one million people living in rural and agricultural areas in sub-Saharan Africa (www.frp.org).
KPMGSenior Associate, Business Development and Knowledge Management
Jun. 2011 - Aug. 2014Nairobi, KenyaSupported establishment and running of an Africa-wide knowledge management and business development unit within KPMG’s international development advisory business which contributed to double digit turnover growth for 5 consecutive years.
Cabinet OfficeFacilitator, Civil Service Capability Building Programme
Nov. 2010 - Apr. 2011London, United KingdomWorking with the Civil Service Capability Building Programme, which brought together people from across government to solve "wicked problems" - like how to design and operationalise Universal Credit, the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition (2010-15) government’s plan to roll all government benefits into a single, seamless system.
The National School of Government International (NSGI)Researcher, Strategy in Government Programme
Oct. 2009 - Apr. 2011London, United KingdomMember of a five-person team on ‘Strategy in Government’, a research programme which aimed to develop and disseminate tools to help public servants approach their work using a long term, systems thinking lens. The programme involved taught courses and publications including a book (Rethinking Public Strategy, Lusk and Birks, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
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