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Hub Ambassador - Kampala, Uganda (Part-time)

African Leadership University (ALU), Rwanda
Sept-Dec, 2023
About ALU

ALU provides higher education for a higher purpose. ALU students declare missions, not majors, developing real-world skills to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. They take ownership of their learning from day one through peer and student-led approaches, believing in the power and agency of young people to start shaping the future right now.

In my role as a Hub Ambassador, I was entrusted with strategic engagement, spearheading initiatives to foster robust student engagement within the hubs, operational efficiency, streamlining travel logistics in close collaboration with the Community Engagement Coordinator (CEC), and more.

Skills & Achievements:

Developed strategic engagement and operational efficiency skills through initiatives and logistics management. Successfully curated and delivered tailored workshops, presentations, and activities, enhancing the hub-centric student experience and elevating the Hubs' profile and functionality through internal and external stakeholder collaboration.

Executive Assistant - Remote

Non-Profit Organization(Confidential)
June 2022–June 2023

In my role as an Executive Assistant, I provided comprehensive support to a top executive in a large-scale, not-for-profit organisation, ensuring streamlined operations and efficient management of the executive's schedule and communications,.

I was instrumental in facilitating effective communication, managing projects, organising events, and maintaining a meticulously organised document management system, among other responsibilities.

Skills & Achievements:

In my year as an Executive Assistant, I seamlessly blended administrative support with a personal approach, ensuring the executive's schedule was always optimized.
My knack for organizing, whether it was nailing down the logistics for various events or managing a sea of documents, was crucial in keeping operations smooth. Handling communications, I became a key liaison, ensuring messages were conveyed accurately and timely.
My role also had me dipping my toes into project coordination, ensuring milestones were hit on time. Above all, maintaining a vault-like security over sensitive information was paramount, ensuring confidentiality was never breached.

Public Health Intern - Remote (Internship)

Public Health en Afrique, South Africa
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
About Care Points

Public Health Afrique, a dynamic organization focused on developing public health interventions tailored to the African community, aims to consolidate public health skills and establish collaborative relationships with co-founders and fellow interns. The organization is passionate about addressing health problems unique to the African context and applying classroom knowledge to these issues.

During my three-month internship, I was committed to acquiring an understanding of health problems unique to the African context, designing and implementing impactful projects, and more.

Skills & Achievements:

Enhanced project design and public health knowledge, contributing to the development and implementation of impactful projects that supported the growth and success of Public Health Afrique.
Engaged with public health professionals and guest speakers to expand knowledge and skills in the public health sector.

Program IT Intern - Remote (Internship)

CarePoint, USA
Jan - April, 2023
About Care Points

CarePoint, a Pan-African tech-forward healthcare group, is building Africa's healthcare future using technology and innovation. Serving 1 million patients via 65+ healthcare facilities in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, CarePoint ambitiously aims to serve 100 million Africans by 2030, primarily driven by its technology platform.

I worked with the Data Abstraction Team to develop and implement a data abstraction layer, involving defining software requirements, creating technical and user documentation, and supporting project teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Skills & Achievements:

Enhanced technical writing and project management skills through hands-on experience in the software development process. Successfully supported project teams, ensuring alignment and adherence to defined software requirements, and contributed to developing and implementing a vital data abstraction layer.

Alumni Relations Coordinator - Kampala, Uganda

Fundi Bots Uganda
Jan 2019 - April, 2023
About Fundi Bots

Fundi Bots promotes improved, practical science education in African schools and communities through hands-on skills and project-based training, focusing on rural and underprivileged regions and pushing for equitable inclusion for girls. To date, Fundi Bots has trained 35,000 students, radically improving school curriculum knowledge and classroom performance, providing hands-on vocational skills and career development, and empowering students to be forces of change in their communities.

In this role, I developed and managed programs catering to the interests and needs of the alumni, pioneered the Fundi Bots Alumni community, and led all University and alumni-related activities.

Skills & Achievements:

Developed program management and community-building skills, successfully pioneering the Fundi Bots Alumni community and fostering collaboration among alumni from different universities.
Led a network of 20 university coordinators from 18 universities and organized impactful connect sessions and internship training for university students.

Programs Manager - Remote

Tilt Consultancy, United States
June 2021 - Mar 2022
About Tilt Consultancy

Tilt Consultancy, rooted in Ashoka’s Tilt Camp 2021, is a web of young changemakers driven to bring agency, engagement, and change in different areas of society under the direction of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These agents of change, dedicated to improving our world one project at a time, make for the perfect consultants to businesses looking to implement social impact into their business models.
I spearheaded program planning and coordination, ensuring meticulous implementation and progress tracking against Year 1 Goals and more.

Skills & Achievements:

Enhanced program management and team coordination skills, successfully spearheading program planning and coordination, ensuring meticulous implementation and progress tracking against Year 1 Goals. Fostered positive internal and external relations, facilitated seamless communication, and ensured team alignment with project objectives.

Country Ambassador - (Volunteer)

Peace First, United States
Dec 2020 - April 2023
About Peace First

Peace First, founded at Harvard University in 1991, has supported thousands of young people worldwide to address issues in their community, from poverty and violence to gender inequality and climate change, investing millions of dollars in their ideas for social change. Serving young people in over 140 countries,
Peace First emphasizes youth-led social action as a powerful solution to the world’s most entrenched problems.

As a country ambassador, my main role involved community building, organizing events for young people, “PeaceMakers,” and recruiting young people to Peace First to access resources.

Skills & Achievements:

Honed community building and event organization skills, successfully organizing the first Peace First Post Mini Grant workshop in Uganda, which convened 70 peacemakers from Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria.
Mentored peacemakers from the Sub-Saharan region, fostering skill development and collaborative initiatives.

Global Ambassador - Remote (Volunteer)

The Changemaker Project, United States
May - Dec 2021
About ChangeMaker Project

The Changemaker Project, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering and cultivating the next generation of changemakers, offers an online course to teach youth about social and environmental justice issues and helps them build innovative solutions to real-world problems.
Students worldwide join the program annually and compete to win funding for their projects at the Global Pitch event.
As a global ambassador, I participated in the recruitment of changemakers from African countries.

Skills & Achievements:

Developed recruitment and youth engagement skills, successfully participating in the recruitment of changemakers from various African countries and contributing to the global network of young social innovators.

Virtual Judge and Mentor - Remote (Volunteer)

Diamond Challenge, United States
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
About Diamond Challenge

The Diamond Challenge, the world’s top-rated high school entrepreneurship competition, opens doors for student change-makers by connecting them to international relationships, resources, and feedback needed to push their ideas forward.
Over the past three years, I coached over 50 teams of high school students from around the globe using evidence-based entrepreneurship methodologies.

Skills & Achievements:

Developed mentoring and coaching skills, guiding over 50 teams of high school students using evidence-based entrepreneurship methodologies. Contributed to the entrepreneurial ventures of high school students in the world’s top-rated entrepreneurship competition.

Mari Test

During my internship in 2021, I almost lost my life to malaria because I couldn’t access the diagnosis and treatment on time.
As I recuperated from this life-threatening illness, I got much more interest in knowing more about Malaria, i.e., how we can end Malaria.
My research unraveled that annually, Malaria infects approximately 240 million people worldwide, making it one of the most infectious diseases that has existed over decades.

Despite being 100% curable, In 2020, Malaria accounted for an estimated 627,000 deaths worldwide. 96% of these deaths happened in Africa, of which 80% were children below the age of 5 years, according to the World Health Organisation 2020 report on Malaria.

This motivated me to leverage my technical skills and together with my colleagues we founded Mari Test.

Our Mission: To Leverage the power of technology to accelerate the eradication of malaria in low-income communities.

Aid You

At 16 years, I co-founded "AidYou," a cross-continental community initiative in collaboration with a colleague in Italy. This venture was not merely an initiative but a learning journey where I acquired pivotal skills in CPR and Basic Life Support.

My commitment saw me dedicating weekends and school holidays to traverse schools, raising awareness about heat-related illnesses, and imparting life-saving skills to students.
The ripple effect of this project was profound, training over 2,000 students.