Mutangana Elysee

• Oversaw operations and provided corrective feedback to achieve daily and long-term goals.
• Spearheaded successful business development initiatives aligned with company's strategy and core competencies.
• Monitored office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
• Worked closely with organizational leadership and board of directors to guide operational strategy.
• Oversee operations in new districts, and districts with construction challenges
• Assure product and service quality throughout the country
• Oversee the activities of the departments and establish strategic goals and formulate plans to make sure those goals are met.
• Devised and implemented innovative and marketing campaigns to promote products and services.
• Led change and transformation across business areas to deliver benefits and align company resources.

• Monitored office workflow and administrative processes to keep operations running smoothly.
• Negotiated new annual contracts and service agreements with vendors to achieve prime pricing.
• Spearheaded successful business development initiatives aligned with company's strategy and core competencies.
• Led change and transformation across business areas to deliver benefits and align company resources.
• Led development of comprehensive business plan to maximize profitability and company performance.
• Piloted cross-departmental projects to achieve successful delivery of new initiatives.
• Implemented process improvement to shape organizational culture, optimize procedures for higher efficiency and help company evolve and grow.
• Interacted well with customers to build connections and nurture relationships.
• Reported issues to higher management with great detail.
• Observed each employee's individual strengths and initiated mentoring program to improve areas of weakness.

Overarching:

Providing support to districts (specifically, district construction coordinators) so that the districts can achieve excellent quality in construction.

Support to districts

• Ensuring district trainers are skilled at training masons to the correct methods and standards. Track and report on the mason workforce capacity for each district.
• Assist districts in building larger and stronger mason workforces
• Assist districts with construction planning and mason scheduling practices

Support for Research & Development

• Oversee the dissemination of new products or methods developed by the Research & Development department.
• Bridge Research & Development to field’s issues and help in the diagnosis process
• Assist in process of piloting and providing feedback

Support overall operation (Logistic & Quality Assurance)

• Working closely with Quality Assurance team to ensure compliance of construction standard across district
• Providing feedback to the inventory team on the use or misuse of tools involved in the construction process on the field.

1. Strategic Planning and Execution

• Work with Rwanda Managing Director to develop scale strategy and to set operational targets, and then manage the execution of strategy within current districts and new districts we expand to
• Manage execution and coordination of strategy across departments in the district to avoid inconsistencies or overlap in workstreams.
• Get out to customer sites to ensure adequate communication of messages and efficient operational procedures at least once a week.

2. District Management

• Manage overall administration and operations of EarthEnable in allocated districts, including ensuring that departmental targets are met for Sales, Operations, Finance, and Customer Experience
• Work closely with the Senior Manager of Government Relations to represent EarthEnable and its organizational ethic to senior district government officials and other partner organizations
• Build capacity of the district staff to lead their functions independently through active management, teaching, & support
• Report regularly to the senior management team, including participation in management meetings at the head office

3. Financial Management

• Ultimate profit and loss responsibility for the district: drive revenue to cover operational costs, working closely with the finance department to analyze budgets and actuals across various units
• Ensure fiscal responsibility in all the district’s budgets and spending, prioritizing cost-cutting and cost-saving

Piloting a "cost-cutting expansion project": one person to manage sales, operations, and inventory with the goal of saving money by using one staff member instead of three. The goal is to save $1,000 USD per month.

1. Floor Construction Management

• Overseeing mason training including supervision of one assessment and at least three spot checks of training methods and mason quality
• Auditing and approving mason scheduling
• Managing masons – ensuring quality builds on a floor
• Ensuring the right quality and quantity of materials are used in the buildings process, through quarry testing, on-site testing, or delegation

2. Management of sales and overseeing a sales team

• Coordinating marketing events and door to door pitch
• Coordinating training of the sales team
• Planning work of sales team and provide all support needed to make it implemented successful

3. Inventory Management

• Trucking the usage of the material on sites and coordinate the storage of the remaining material
• Coordinating the delivery of the material on sites
• Procuring of the tools needed on the sites
• Trucking material and tools movement from the district inventory ( in and out)

• Training masons across EarthEnable's areas of operation and support trainings as necessary
• Design a training curriculum of earthen floor construction
• Designed and implemented improvements to EarthEnable 's mason training materials
• Trained other Earthenable employees to effectively run mason training and train masons
• Spotted checks/ audits of masons training in Earthenable district offices
• Implemented mason retention tasks
• Monitored and evaluate the execution of training to decide either retraining or certifying qualified mason
• Managed and built the capacity of 12 trainers staff to execute training across the country.

• Led Research and development department activities in four districts including trials, evaluation, and implementation, at a company that installs floors that are significantly cheaper than concrete in order to upgrade unhealthy dirt floors.
• Managed pesticide delivery, inventory management, and spraying activities.
• Worked hand in hand with the admin department in providing guidance and presenting products to potential visitors: Leaders &donors, customers, etc.
• Executed different assigned projects and reported results for better planning and decision-making process.
• Maintained and calibrated various types of lab equipment.
• Conducted tests on equipment and instruments for quality.

• Working with a water purification team for Water quality analysis as well as purifying contaminated water
• Working with water supplying team for supplying water in Kigali people by gravity water flow systems
• Installation of water supply system in customer premises
• Plumbing inspections. Ensuring the provision of a safe water supply system, an adequate drainage system, and adequate and proper fixtures and equipment that do not contaminate water.

• Conducted hydro-geophysical surveys to detect potential drill sites where boreholes were to be drilled
• Drilled, installed casings, and developed new boreholes
• Installed hand pumps in the boreholes to serve people in the rural communities of Ruhango district, south province of Rwanda
• Designed and installed solar powered submersible pumps projects to serve school children in Ruhango district, south province of Rwanda
• Conducted water quality analysis in borehole water before
• Constructed gravity fed piped water systems to serve both households and schools
• Supervised masons during construction of infrastructures of piped water supply projects
• Participated in hygiene and sanitation promotion activities
• Prepared and submitted monthly and technical reports to the Program Manager