Experience

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  Habitat for humanity

  Apr 1995 - Jun 1998

  Field manager

  Led a team of local and international volunteers to provide housing for economically disadvantaged families

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  National cooperative business association clusa international (ncba clusa) - gait program

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Program facilitator

  Worked with over 20 district-level civil society organizations in a good governance and local government accountability program.

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  Acs

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Manager

  Managed a department of over 150 employees for the Ghana site of a US data processing company.

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  Vso

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2010

  Program manager

  Led VSO's novel local volunteering program, as well as working with international volunteers to design local volunteering initiatives and raise funds to run them. Served on a committee by the Ministry of Gender & Social Protection to design policy structures for volunteering in Ghana

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  Restless development

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  Country director
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  Kpmg international development assistance services

  Mar 2011 - Apr 2012

  Manager-west africa

  Business Development and consultant on projects. Strategic partnerships and donor intelligence in West Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia)

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  Youth challenge international

  Mar 2012 - May 2016

  Country manager

  Led the Global Youth Partnership Project and EQWIP Hubs Project. Managed a team of local staff and international volunteers

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  Iesc - international executive service corps

  Jun 2016 - Oct 2018

  Project country director/cop

  Led the Improving Food Safety Systems Project (IFSSP) under the Economic Growth Portfolio of USAID Ghana. Was a member of the MOFA EU-Vegetable Taskforce (traceability lead), that worked for the lifting of the EU ban on some vegetable exports from Ghana. Led a team made up of local staff and international volunteers

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  Solidaridad west africa

  Nov 2018 - Feb 2021

  Head - training and curriculum

  Responsible for developing/maintaining the strategy and systems that make Solidaridad West Africa a leader in building capacity of smallholder farmers, artisinal miners and other stakeholders towards achieving profitable, sustainable and inclusive supply chains.

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  Lively minds ghana

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  Country director

  A member of a multi-disciplinary global senior management team implementing an award winning early childhood care and education (ECCE) program. Responsible for leading the Ghana team through a period of organizational growth and program scale up

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  Freelance

  Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

  International development consultant

  Active Citizenship strategy development (STAR Ghana)Strategic Partnership Development/Resource Mobilization (ENACTUS Ghana)Country Programme Coordination (World Child Cancer)

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  British council

  Nov 2022 - now

  Country director (ghana, sierra leone, cameroon)

  Leading about 70 staff to plan and implement programmes in Education, Arts and Culture, TVET, Digital Literacy, Alumni support for African scholars, EDI (Equality, Diversity, Inclusion) as well as providing life changing opportunities for young people to develop skills for employability and entrepreneurship and to gain access to UK qualificationsActive in policy level interventions through engagements with senior government officials from Ghana, the UK and many other countries. Responsible for operations in Cote D'Ivoire, Togo and scouting for opportunities in other neighbouring countries. Show less