- 26 years’ experience with international NGOs in various management, coordination and advisory positions in Uganda, Tanzania and Belgium.
- Strong commitment and passionate to contribute to sustainable self-development by coaching people to grow from their potential.
Practical skills and experience in:
-program development and management (including financial)
- strategic planning
- organizational/institutional development and capacity building (through advice, training and coaching) with rural (member-based) agricultural organizations (governmental and non-Governmental) and micro-finance institutions
- proposal writing, reporting to various international donors and grant management
- workshop and process facilitation
- training and coaching in leadership
- developing, organizing and conducting agro-enterprise/value chain development trainings for small scale farmers and their trainers; manual and tool development
- maintaining and creating (donor) relationships (including private sector donors)
- monitoring and evaluation
- office management with a variety of project staff (local, expatriate, technical and program staff)
- Strong team worker, excellent communication skills, innovator and initiator
- Able to work independently against tight deadlines