Stephen M.

Experience

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  Infotrak research and consulting

  Jan 2012 - Dec 2014

  Research Assistant

  My role mostly involved data collection and analysis.

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  I Choose Life - Africa

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

  Associate Project

  Supported in the implementation of a program focused on providing sexual reproductive health services and education to young people in Kisii county. The program also pioneered economic empowerment and civic engagement initiatives. My role included: -Administration -Grassroots mobilization -Fundraising -Data collection and analysis -Training

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  Pulse Experiential Ltd

  Jan 2016 - Nov 2016

  Regional Manager

  Responsible for [below-the-line] marketing strategy for reproductive health products in low-income communities. My role included: -Managing and coordinating a team of 10 nurses from rural Kenya; working in 45+ hospitals-Managing distribution channels-Budgeting and expense reporting -CRM Management -Communication management

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  Educate!

  Feb 2017 - Feb 2018

  Innovations Officer

  Educate! works to transform education in Africa to teach youth the skills to solve poverty. We directly implement our model in schools and partner with governments for education reforms, reaching more than 14,000 students intensively across 500 schools in Uganda and Rwanda, and more than 240,000 students more broadly. Our model was proven to have massive impact in a randomized controlled trial with graduates earning DOUBLE the income of a control group and seeing a 64% increase in business creation.Educate! has received global acclaim, including the 2015 WISE award, recognition as one of 14 global case studies on scaling education by the Brookings Institution, and fellowships from Echoing Green, Ashoka, and the Mulago Foundation. We’ve been funded by Global Innovation Fund, MasterCard Foundation, Barclays, Big Bang Philanthropy and many others. Our vision is to reach one million students annually across 10 countries in Africa by 2024.​'' Show less

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  Educate!

  Oct 2018 - May 2019

  Innovations and Monitoring Coordinator
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  IDEO.org

  Jun 2019 - Jan 2021

  Program Manager

  • Implemented the nurturing care project from designing the project, planning the activities, training the field officers and finally monitoring and evaluating the input, outputs, outcomes and impact of the project in the community;• Designed the field operation systems and procedures that would enable the field team to implement the project in order to achieve the project objectives and goals;• Managed different stakeholders including the Siaya County Government and other partners such as Path, Child Fund, CRS and KMET to successfully implement the nurturing care project;• Recruited, trained and assigned project volunteers to their various workstations to reach out to the general public in Siaya County;• Coordinated the development of the project prototypes and the project experiments in Siaya County and compiling lessons learnt for the design team. Show less

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  TransPerfect

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  Freelance Project Manager
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  Allan and Gill Gray Philanthropies

  Jun 2021 - Feb 2023

  School Liaison

  • Managing the Implementation and Scale-up of Wavumbuzi Entrepreneurship Challenge Program in over 500 Secondary Schools in 2022 from the initial 100 schools in 2019 in Kenya reaching 10,000 learners with entrepreneurship content to prepare them for life after secondary school;• Designing the program implementation strategies and process to ensure effective implementation and wide reach of the program across the country. On joining the program, I quickly managed to do a program post-mortem to learn the programs strength and weaknesses and innovate around the processes to improve the process of implementation. This ensured that all the external factors were factored in the new design of the program;• Designed the training framework for over 1200 teachers across the country to ensure effective implementation of the program by the teachers in their respective schools. I have organized and conducted the training for over 1200 teachers;• Introduced and implemented the learning and innovation department and framework to improve the different program components and enhance the outcome of the project implementation while minimizing costs.• Creating, Building and Managing the various partnerships within the entrepreneurship and Education ecosystem to ensure Allan and Gill Gray is known within the ecosystem and keep up with the trends and anything going on in the ecosystem.• Built a robust and effective team of 12 volunteers across the country in an administrative segment to try and increase the outcome of the program within the country.• Expanded the program reach from 15 counties to 42 counties across the country. Show less

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  Malengo

  Feb 2023 - now

  Senior Program Manager, Africa

  Malengo is a non-profit organization that aims to facilitate international educational migration.