CV Profile No.52352

Experience in the following industries :

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• Education, training

Professional experience

• Education Officer
• UNICEF, South Sudan
• Since 04.2017
• • Ensures successful implementation of education strategy by engaging State government in advocating for enrolment of children to school through documenting success stories and conducting radio talk shows. • Coordinates and monitors education activities to ensure the efficient qualitative implementation of the UNICEF Project in Warrap State • Coordinates and maintains a dialogue with education implementing partners and other stakeholders in Warrap State, including State Ministry of General Education and Instruction and the state education clusters and Counties education Directors. • Ensures the involvement and ownership of the state government and the implementing partners and other stakeholders in the coordination and implementation of the national activities of the project. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Successfully represented and positioned UNICEF as a well-known, trusted advocate for child’s rights during the national celebration of Girls education day in Warrap State. • Instrumental in Increasing awareness of girls’ education at the state level. • Successfully shoot a quality video of a child taking over the UNICEF program to commemorate world children day. The video was published on the South Sudan UNICEF social media page. • successfully planned, organised and coordinated the distribution of 30902 face masks to 13,581 learners in Warrap State as a means of ensuring a safe learning environment during the pandemic outbreak

• Communication for development Officer (C4D)
• UNICEF, Kenya
• 04.2016 - 04.2017
• • Accountable for county-level community engagement and participation in planning for communication for development strategy, social and community mapping. • Contributed to the development and production of communication tools such as brochures, posters and banners and training materials for communication for development training in Counties • Assisted C4D specialist in coordinating county-level assessment and study related to behavior change in Turkana, West Pokot, and Baringo in Kenya. • Provided technical review to the community engagement guidelines document for conducting community dialogue on disease outbreaks and behavior change communication strategy. • Conducted supportive supervision and evaluation of C4D Programmes in Counties and provided capacity building to the implementing partners. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Developed a guideline for identifying and writing a human-interest story, C4D field colleagues in Kenya are currently using the guidelines. • Successfully represented the UNV program by participating in a live TV talk show on KTN on 5th December 2016 on International Volunteers’ Day to enlighten millions of Kenyans on the importance of volunteerism.

• Communication for Development Officer (C4D)
• UNICEF, South Sudan
• 05.2014 - 04.2016
• • Conducted program planning and field Monitoring visits to project sites in the six Counties of Warrap State • Accountable for program deliverables on Scale-up Nutrition mass screening campaign, community sensitization on radio talk shows, and critical messaging. • Supported in the development and production of important messages for emergency disease outbreak preparedness, response, and recovery. • Conducted advocacy and social mobilization through radio talk shows and community meetings to sensitize the community on the importance of routine immunization. • Provided technical oversight and capacity building; to county-level health workers on risk communication and Polio communication strategy. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: • Successfully led the high-level visibility launching of the Back to Learn campaign in Yambio; Japanese Ambassador attended the event in South Sudan. • Successfully wrote a human interest story during the meningitis campaign, the story was published on the UNICEF website.

• Regional Freelance Correspondent
• MICT/theniles.org, Kampala
• 01.2012 - 04.2014
• • Organised and conducted investigative reporting and feature story analysis focusing on factors engineering Gender-based violence and violence against children, especially in refugees’ camps in Northern Uganda. • Conducted research and compiled feature stories on sustainable agricultural production and how human economic activities can impact climate change • Interviewed people in a wide range of circumstances such as health, economic, social and cultural issues