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Senior Technical Advisor Microfinance
Company NameCatholic Relief Services (CRS)
Dates Employed2004 – Jan 2015
Employment Duration11 yrs
LocationNairobi, Kenya
CAREER INTEREST
I seek to reallocate to a country preferable within North America, Europe, Middle East, South Africa region or Asia and am open for new challenges at Executive, Director, Country Director or Chief-of-Party (CoP) level within or outside of my field of expertise (financial inclusion with specialisation in microfinance). Private sector opportunities such as Corporate Social Responsibility and/or Impact Investment could provide a nice transition to use my development skills in a private company setting. I am also interested in foundation work.
KEY SKILLS
• Strategic leadership: development of agency strategy and roll-out.
• (Executive) Management: +10 years successfully leading multicultural teams (5 team members in Lebanon, 3 Project Directors and regional staff). Attained 100% project performance with no staff attrition.
• Fundraising, promotion and public speaking, representation at all levels.
• Innovative program design, process refinement and implementation.
• Quality management and technical toolkit development.
• Resilience, flexibility, working with limited resources.
• Creating strategic and collaborative partnerships with industry leaders and respective donors, pre-positioning and capture.
• +24 years of solid development experience in the field.
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Built a portfolio of 1.2 million savings group members through 240 local partners in Africa over a period of 6 years and developed a market-based delivery channel that made CRS a market leader in the sector
• Designed, wrote and acquired funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($9.8million) and MasterCard Foundation ($12.3million)
• Created, assessed and supported 4 Microfinance Institutions in Africa
I have a strong track record of effectively and simultaneously operating at both strategic and operational levels, resulting in successful implementation of new programs in diverse and decentralized environments in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. See less |